Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 857 Happy to Be a Godfather

When Tan Yuanqing saw the egg-filled biscuit, he thought it was an ordinary biscuit at first, but after Chen Nian explained it, he realized that it was a breakfast brought for him on the road, and there were vegetables and Meat.

"Master, you can take this and eat it on the road. If you are afraid of having a taste in your mouth after eating, we also prepared mint slices. You can chew it to remove the taste."

Tan Yuanqing nodded without refusing, took the egg-filled pancakes, got into the carriage, and headed towards the palace gate.

After the carriage moved, he closed his eyes and rested for a while before preparing to eat egg-filled pancakes, when a familiar voice came from outside the carriage.

"Master Tan, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you on the road."

After hearing this voice, Tan Yuanqing had no choice but to put down the egg-filled biscuits for the time being, and opened the curtain next to him: "It's a coincidence, did Mr. Zhou eat breakfast?"

"I didn't eat. I ate late for dinner yesterday. I didn't feel very hungry when I got up in the morning, so I didn't eat."

When Tan Yuanqing heard that the other party was not hungry, he felt relieved: "Oh, I have always had the habit of having breakfast, but I got up a little late today, so I didn't care about eating at home, but the cook at home made me a breakfast." Cake, let me deal with two bites on the way first."

Master Zhou in the carriage next to him was a little puzzled when he heard this: "Master Tan, your family is famous for its gourmet food, why did the chef in your family make you a cake to eat?"

Tan Yuanqing picked up the egg-filled biscuit in his hand and showed it: "This should not be an ordinary biscuit, they said there is something inside."

While speaking, Tan Yuanqing opened the greased paper on it, and then bit into it.

The moment he bit it down, Tan Yuanqing's eyes lit up.

"crispy!"

This cake feels a little hot, but not completely hot. The outer layer is crispy, but the inside is soft.

He also tasted like eggs.

But if it's just that, it's not worth his expression, mainly because of the layer of sauce inside and the combination of vegetable leaves and pork tenderloin.

Obviously they are very common ingredients, but it is really delicious after a bite!
His body, which was still a little tired and sleepy, was completely awakened at this moment, and the pulse returned.

Then he ate like this mouthful. Since everyone is good friends, and they all know the nature of the people who came out of the Tan family, so they have long been familiar with it.

It's just that Mr. Zhou, who just said that he was not hungry, saw him eating so deliciously, and suddenly felt a little hungry in his stomach.

Saliva was constantly secreting from his mouth, but he opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. He couldn't let others eat most of the cake for himself, right?
That would be too bad.

So he could only watch Tan Yuanqing finish eating the egg-filled biscuit.

"Master Tan, your cake looks delicious, what kind of cake is it?"

"What kind of pancake? This is the first time I have eaten it. It seems that they call this pancake filled with eggs. It does taste like eggs. It's not bad."

Tan Yuanqing folded the oil paper in his hand and put it aside and said.

"Egg-filled pie?"

Master Zhou felt that the food was quite ordinary, but how could such ordinary food make Master Tan so delicious?

So he feels that this is just a simple name.

Afterwards, he kept asking Tan Yuanqing about egg-filled biscuits, and Tan Yuanqing also answered them one by one, but the more they chatted with Mr. Zhou, the hungrier he felt.

Taking advantage of the gap when Tan Yuanqing lowered the curtain, he even asked his driver if he had heard of this kind of food.

As a result, the driver also shook his head and said he hadn't heard of it.

He knows both eggs and pancakes, but he doesn't know how to fill pancakes with eggs.

"That...Master Tan, the egg-filled biscuits you ate just now are really so delicious?"

"Really, although it's not particularly delicious, but eating such an egg-filled biscuit in the morning makes me feel different."

"Is that so..."

Tan Yuanqing looked at the other party's hesitant expression, and also guessed the other party's thoughts: "Master Zhou, to be honest, although this cake was made by the cook of my family, strictly speaking, he is not my family's chef. Your cook, Song Qingzhou, you know, right?"

"I know, the royal chef of the palace. The envoy of the Great Food Kingdom came to visit a few days ago. I have eaten dishes made by him in the palace. Could it be that he made this cake?"

Tan Yuanqing nodded: "Well, but he didn't figure out how to make this cake. It's one of his disciples who is also working as an imperial cook in the palace. That friend of Lusi Qing Fu Xin."

"He researched it?"

"Well, they only rested for two days this time. Song Qingzhou brought Chen Nian back to meet my father and pay homage to his teacher. They will go back to the palace the next day."

"pity……"

Tan Yuanqing smiled: "Master Zhou, what's the pity?"

"I...I just regret that Mr. Tan won't be able to eat this egg-filled biscuit often in the future."

In fact, what he wanted to say was that he wanted to eat it too, but as a literati, he couldn't say that.

"Master Zhou's words are wrong, but if I want to eat them, why don't I ask Chen Nian to save the recipe for making egg-filled pancakes? If Master Zhou wants to eat them too, I'll ask the other cooks in the house to make more pancakes tomorrow morning." Make one."

"Then thank you, Master Tan!"

This official surnamed Zhou is not hypocritical, what if he is more polite and people don't take it?
In this way, the carriage gradually came to a place a few hundred meters away from the imperial palace. After getting off the carriage, the two of them merged into the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

At the moment, Song Qingzhou and Chen Nian, who were in the Tan Mansion, had already started preparing breakfast for the others.

On weekdays, there are chefs in the Tan Mansion who cook breakfast, but seeing Song Qingzhou, the master and apprentice, come back, they are naturally happy to have a rest and rest.

I just slapped hands next to me to help with some ingredients.

After breakfast, Song Qingzhou looked at Chen Nian and said: "Apprentice, there is nothing else to do here, you can go home and have a look, otherwise it will take two months to come out next time."

"Master, I can help you cook here."

"No, there's no need to help. There are so many people in the kitchen who are not bad for you. Hurry up, your sister must miss you too. It's not easy for you two to live together, and it's not unreasonable to be a teacher." people."

"Okay, master, I will go back first, but how do we go tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow we have to leave early, at least go back to the palace before the lords of the imperial court enter the palace, you and I only have two days off for holidays, then you will wait for me in front of a shop selling rouge and gouache on Suzaku Avenue , I'll pass by there."

Chen Nian knew this shop sold rouge and gouache, so he nodded.

"it is good."

Then he packed up his things and went home.

After he went back, his cousin was selling dim sum here, and there was a special chef behind him.

These people were all sent by Fu Xin, and they were considered his own, so Lu Ke also taught them some of the dim sum making methods.

Of course, she still keeps some of the best dim sum recipes in her own hands.

These include the production methods of some egg tarts and cakes left over from the old age.

But after making these snacks, she is mainly responsible for selling things outside.

"sister."

When he came to the door, Chen Nian saw his cousin at a glance, so he called out.

And Lu Ke also showed surprise after seeing Chen Nian: "Chen Nian? You're back? But haven't you just entered the palace not long ago? Why are you back?"

"Sister, after I entered the palace, I paid homage to an imperial cook as my teacher. These two days are his rest days, so he took me out. Yesterday I went to the Tan Mansion to worship the patriarch, and then stayed for a day. Today Come back here to live for another day, and go back to the palace before dawn tomorrow."

"Oh, time is so tight, but you actually worshiped the imperial chef as your teacher?"

"Yes, Master Song values ​​me a lot, and he has taught me a lot during this time."

"I didn't expect Chen Nian to be quite powerful, come here, come in quickly."

After entering the dim sum shop, Chen Nian looked around, and the surrounding facilities did not change.

"Sister, what else can I do in the shop now?"

"It's nothing, you can rest, come back after a long time, how can I ask you to work?"

"If you're really bored, tell my sister about your affairs in the palace, pick up what you can say, and don't talk about what you can't."

Chen Nian nodded. In fact, there is nothing that cannot be said about these things. The most taboo thing in this era is rebellion. As long as you don't talk about it, it's fine.

So Chen Nian told his sister about his daily work process in the palace, what rare ingredients he came into contact with, and also talked about the dim sum he made was loved by His Majesty and the ladies of the palace, and now it is fixed every day Make them a snack at noon.

"Well, that means people can't buy saltpeter without permission. Otherwise, I'll teach my sister how to make ice cream and those snacks, so that we can also sell them in our shop."

"It's okay, the business in our shop is also very good now, there is an endless stream of customers every day, and no one dares to trouble us."

"That's good."

"However, His Majesty loves the food you cook, which is quite beyond my expectation. Since you have this opportunity, then show it more in the future.

Although our ancestors never had any officials, but you are an official now, and you may be promoted to a higher level in the future. "

"Hahaha, sister, I haven't thought about this, I just thought that I can learn more dishes."

"It's definitely possible. You are so smart and your master is a nice person. He will definitely be willing to teach you things."

Although Lu Ke was talking about letting Chen Nian take a good rest after he came back, gradually as the guests came to the door, Chen Nian still helped them get busy. Lu Ke usually did the work of weighing and collecting money, but After Chen Nian came back, Lu Ke's job was to collect money.

The siblings cooperated in this way, and soon sold out almost all the snacks they made in the morning.

So the pastry chefs behind started to make the second wave.

When it was almost noon, Chen Nian went out to buy some vegetables, cut some meat, and came back to cook for himself.

The pastry chefs were all very happy. They had known for a long time that the younger brother of Lu Wanxing's dim sum shop's female shopkeeper was very good at cooking, and from the perspective of the relationship between superiors and subordinates, Chen Nian could be regarded as the second shopkeeper of the dim sum shop.

When Chen Nian was here before, they had eaten the dishes made by Chen Nian, but this time Chen Nian came back with the identity of the imperial chef, this feeling is different.

What could it be if it wasn't an honor to eat the dishes made by the chef who cooked for the emperor?
After eating, they rushed to wash the dishes and clean up the kitchen.

And Chen Nian can finally take a nice nap.

In fact, as early as in the old days, I didn’t have the habit of taking a nap. From birth until I went to college, I only went to bed at noon after staying up late, and I didn’t sleep at noon when I was in school.

When I was in college, I developed a good habit of taking a nap with a roommate from Shanxi.

Every day after eating at noon, I start to feel sleepy, but as long as I can sleep for half an hour, I can be very energetic in the afternoon.

But in the afternoon, servants from Fu Xin's family came to invite Chen Nian, saying that their master Fu Xin had said that he wanted to invite Chen Nian to have dinner with him tonight.

Chen Nian naturally agreed to attend the appointment.

So in the afternoon, Chen Nian came to Fu Xin's house after helping out in the shop again.

At this time, Fu Xin had just returned from Honglu Temple.

"Hahaha, brother Chen came just in time, and I just came back, let's go in and have some tea first, and today I will let you taste the cooking skills of my family."

"Okay, but it's rare that you treat me so well that you don't need me to cook."

"Look at the brother Chen you mentioned, I have always respected you very much. There was no way to do it before. There are only two of us in the room. I can do it, but it's just the taste of making it. Compared with you, Brother Chen It's far from it."

"Okay, okay, I don't know you yet?"

The two entered the courtyard talking and laughing.

Now everyone in Fu's mansion knows that apart from Mrs. Madam and his maid Xiaolu, the highest status in Fu's mansion is not the butler, but Chen Nian, the master's friend.

Regardless of whether it was the old age as a commoner in the past or the old age as an imperial cook now, they must treat him with the same attitude as a master when they arrive at Fu's residence.

Because I heard that if there is no old age, there will be no master's later champion, and if there is no old age, there will be no current wife.

And the chefs in Fu's mansion heard that Chen Nian is coming, and they tried their best to cook something delicious, because now they are not only the best friend of the master, but also the royal chef in the palace. No, that would make the old man lose face.

And when Chen Nian came, Fu Xin also called his wife, Xiaolu and his son.

"Brother Chen, I am also a father."

"Congratulations, brother Fu, you are blessed with a son." Chen Nian looked at Fu Xin's son. Nian stretched out his arms for a hug.

Fu Xin said in his heart that brother Chen is indeed the God of Cookery in the sky, and his affinity is unmatched by others. A few days ago, other people came to the house as guests, but after seeing them, no matter how much his son teased him, he showed no expression on his face. Needless to say, I took the initiative to ask for a hug.

But as soon as Chen Nian came, his son made such a picture.

"Brother Chen, my son likes you so much, how about you make him a godfather?"

"Okay, but what's the name of this young man?"

"Fu Hao, I don't expect him to be as dazzling as the scorching sun, but I only hope that he can be as innocent and pure as the bright moon."

(End of this chapter)