My portable world of mixed farmers

Chapter 548

"Long time no see, Comrade Hu." After Dong Shanhe got out of the car, he saw Hu Yunbo waiting for him at the gate.

"Xiao Dong, you haven't seen me for a long time. I happened to have a new idea for a while, so I called you to come over and try it." Hu Yunbo was still as energetic as ever, and his granddaughter Hu Dezheng was standing beside him.

Dong Shanhe nodded to her, but did not speak, "Let's go, go in, I'm almost done, I still have two soups." Hu Yunbo called Dong Shanhe and Liu Miaomiao to come in together.

After all, it is winter, and the snow only fell two days ago. As the saying goes, the snow does not cool the snow. In the evening, the cold wind is blowing, so don't freeze the children.

In the private restaurant, there were only Dong Shanhe and his group, and no one else, "Why didn't it open today, did you encounter any difficulties?" Dong Shanhe asked curiously.

"No, it's just today's meal that I would like to quietly invite you and your husband to have a good taste." I have to say that Lao Hu's repeated words made everyone feel confused, but they also aroused curiosity.

What is it that makes Lao Hu take it so seriously, "I have to taste it."

In the main hall, there were several plates filled with lids, and the temperature in the room was very high. When Hu Yunbo lifted the lid, it was still steaming.

"What is this?" Dong Shanhe looked at the piles of dishes, really confused, "Come, come, sit down and talk." Hu Yunbo beckoned the two to sit down, and Hu Dezheng was sitting beside him.

Four people, plus a little guy, happened to be sitting at a small square table. It was said to be a small square table, but it was actually not small. The side length of the table was at least 1.2 meters long.

"For the dishes on this table, I have worked hard for half my life." Lao Hu first opened a bottle of rice wine and filled a glass for himself.

"I won't say hello to you two, Xiaozheng doesn't know how to drink, and my old man has a drink alone." Dong Shanhe didn't stop him, his granddaughter didn't say anything, and he couldn't exceed his authority either.

"Grandpa, just tell me, I'm confused." Seeing what Lao Hu did, Dong Shanhe was almost confused, what the hell did you do?

"Xiao Dong, have you heard of Dream of the Red Chamber?" Old Hu asked after filling a glass of wine, putting down the bottle in his hand.

"I have heard of it, but I have never read the book, and I watched the old version of the TV series when I was a child." Dong Shanhe told the truth that he had never read the book of Dream of the Red Chamber, but only watched the old version of the TV series, which is nothing to be ashamed of .

"It's a pity that you haven't read the book Dream of Red Mansions. After all, it is a literary masterpiece. Compared with the other three of the four major masterpieces, this book has the highest literary value. Of course, you young people probably don't A few people can sit down quietly and read the book carefully, just like Xiaozheng, he hasn't read it either." Lao Hu seemed to remember something, talking in a rambling manner.

"However, this old version of Dream of Red Mansions is really good, especially the experts of the advisory group, who are all top experts, such as Zhou Ruchang, Qi Gong and others have passed away now, and even Zhou Ling has become a generation of scholars of Dream of Red Mansions Already." Lao Hu said with great emotion.

In fact, he also contributed to the TV drama "Dream of Red Mansions" back then. Comrade Hu still has a profound knowledge of the folk customs in Dream of Red Mansions, especially the study of diet.

But no one knows all this, Dong Shanhe doesn't know, even Lao Hu's granddaughter Hu Dezheng doesn't know, because he didn't appear in the list of the TV series' advisory group after all, but this doesn't prevent Dong Shanhe and Hu Dezheng from believing in him.

The old man is almost eighty this year, and there is no need to tell such a lie, and he has no good plans. He wants money, money, and fame. Lao Hu is also the vice president of the Huaxia Food Culture Research Association, but just this name Take it out, and be a consultant in various ancient film and television dramas, which can only be invited by burning incense.

"I didn't expect the old man to have such a wonderful past, it's amazing, it should be clear!" Dong Shanhe said impassionedly.

"Yes, Dangfu is a big white!" Lao Hu picked up his wine glass and drank it down, causing both Liu Miaomiao and Hu Dezheng to give Dong Shanhe a pair of supercilious eyes.

If you don't drink, there is no one who persuades you to drink like this. This is simply playing hooligans, and it is more shameless than those who drink water and toast.

"Speaking of which, this Cao Xueqin is really a strange person of a generation. Although the environment of his book is small, the structure is not small, especially the ups and downs of the times are really vividly described." After drinking, Lao Hu began to praise From Cao Xueqin.

"According to statistics, there are as many as 186 kinds of food in Dream of the Red Chamber. All of these include nine categories of staple food, snacks, dishes, condiments, beverages, fruits, supplements, foreign foods, and toiletries. Among them, there are 11 kinds of staple food raw materials and 10 kinds of foods. , 17 kinds of snacks, 31 kinds of dish ingredients, 38 kinds of foods, 8 kinds of condiments, 23 kinds of beverages, 30 kinds of fruits, 10 kinds of supplements, 7 kinds of foreign foods, and 4 kinds of toiletries.” Just writing about food.

Hu Dezheng echoed from the side, "As expected of the successor of the food empire, he knows how to eat." Unexpectedly, Hu Dezheng's muttering was heard by Lao Hu.

"Nonsense, what are you doing if you don't eat? If you don't eat, you will starve to death? So eating is definitely the biggest thing for a nation. Don't think that I haven't gone to school when I am old. Didn't you learn from that who, Ma with a big beard? , The first responsibility of human beings is to survive and reproduce, how to survive, we must eat." Dong Shanhe never thought that this old man would say the same thing.

"Actually, there are all kinds of dishes specific to the book A Dream of Red Mansions. This is not my first creation, and many of these dishes have been created by me before." Lao Hu said shyly.

"I have a lot of dishes here. Take a look. They are very good. These are my painstaking efforts over the past few decades." Lao Hu pointed to the table full of dishes and introduced them to Dong Shanhe.

"These dishes you are looking at are from the eighth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions. This is bad goose palm, and this is buns with tofu skin." Lao Hu first introduced two dishes to Dong Shanhe
I have to say that Comrade Hu's dishes are very good. I don't know if I don't know, Dong Shanhe really didn't associate them with the dishes in the book "Dream of Red Mansions".

"Grandpa, just talk about it in detail. I will try it when I go back." Dong Shanhe of course attached great importance to this kind of dish with a very strong style, and immediately asked Comrade Hu for the recipe.

Fortunately, Comrade Hu did not hide his secrets, so he directly told Dong Shanhe about various practices.

"The main ingredients for this bad goose palm are a catty of goose feet, not too old but not too tender. The remaining cucumbers, half a catty of fragrant grains, three green onions, half a catty of rice wine, and a dozen or so cherries. The characteristic of bad goose palm is that the goose palm is cool, fresh, crisp and tender, and has a strong bad smell, but you may not be used to it." Dong Shanhe knows a thing or two about bad drunk food, he knows that people in Shanghai prefer to eat it Such a drunken thing.

"The method of bad goose palm is very simple, as soon as I say you will, first scrape and clean the goose feet, cut off the tip of the claw, cut open the upper side of the metacarpal bone with a knife, cut off the callus on the bottom of the palm, and choose the skin of the cucumber; Heat the pot, add half of the water, blanch the goose feet thoroughly and rinse them with cold water, put the goose feet in the pot, add a little cooking wine, scallion, ginger slices and a little water, put them in the basket and steam them over medium heat for about an hour, When the goose feet are steamed until they are soft, let them cool down slightly, and cut off the joints on the goose feet along the slit of the knife; in the third clean pot, add chicken clear soup, boil it and let it cool, add half a catty of rice wine and fragrant grains, stir well, put Cut goose feet into slightly thicker shreds, put them neatly in a tureen, and then cover with gauze, put the stirred lees into the gauze in the tureen, spread it out and then cover it, let it leach for about 3 hours, and remove the gauze Take out the goose feet and put them on a plate, cut the cucumber skin into 8 autumn leaves, cut the cherries in half, and decorate around the goose feet.” The old man said very quickly, and all the processes were completed in one minute I've finished talking, but Dong Shanhe couldn't hear it. This is still called simple. If it is simple, then what is difficult?
Dong Shanhe really wanted to complain, but after taking a sip, he didn't say anything. This bad goose palm is really delicious, even though Dong Shanhe has never eaten bad goose palm, but the taste Dong Shanhe didn't dislike it at all, and fell in love with this dish after two bites.

"Husband, this dish smells like alcohol, can you still drive later?" Just as Dong Shanhe continued to eat the second one, Liu Miaomiao suddenly asked.

Dong Shanhe was taken aback, "It's all right, you know me." Dong Shanhe blinked at Liu Miaomiao, it wasn't drinking, he just ate some dishes made of rice wine, it was nothing, even if it tasted like wine It doesn't have any influence on Dong Shanhe, he can completely vaporize the truth by himself.

"Xiao Dong, let's take a look at this steamed stuffed bun with tofu skin again. The bean curd skin wraps the stuffing heart, like four folds of a paper bag, into a square bag, seals it with egg white paste, and steams it in a basket; the second is to cut the tofu skin into small pieces, wrap the stuffing into a pocket, close the mouth with twine, and steam it into shape. Then go to the hemp thread. Of course, you can also chop up tofu, mix it with condiments, wrap it in dough, and steam it. It’s called tofu skin buns. Of course, it’s the first way. The Qing Dynasty was a royal banquet in the imperial palace, and there is this item in the archives of the imperial banquet in the Qing Palace." Hu Yunbo first bragged about this dish for a long time, and he couldn't do it without bragging, otherwise how could he show his dignity, could it be said that he was a beggar Eat it while begging on the street?
This is like the group of so-called Hanfu circles that Dong Shanhe knew. The Hanfu worn by all the people were the costumes of the ancient dignitaries, and no one wore the clothes of the poor peasants in the ancient times. Could it be that the clothes of those poor people were not Hanfu?Dong Shanhe lashed out twice before when he was free, and when he got the space, he no longer had time to talk to those people.

"The recipe of this bean curd bun is also very simple." As soon as Comrade Hu finished speaking, Dong Shanhe listened carefully. As long as the old man said it was very simple, it was definitely very complicated, extremely complicated.

"Firstly, wrap the tofu with golden needles, fungus, green vegetables, shiitake mushrooms, or pork, chicken, and shrimp, add oil, salt, shredded ginger, sugar, and sesame oil to make vegetarian buns and steam them. How about this simple method? "This time Comrade Hu didn't even use half a minute. Dong Shanhe just put his ears back and it's over, it's over!" ! !

"Grandpa, you also said it was very simple last time, but you said so much. Now you say it is very simple, but it turns out to be very simple. What is your standard for simplicity?" Dong Shanhe complained weakly.

"Don't worry, there are still many difficulties ahead, don't worry, you will know after a while." Seeing the old man speaking calmly, Dong Shanhe suddenly had a bad feeling.

Immediately afterwards, the old man introduced all the dishes to Dong Shanhe.

"This is the stewed elbow with ham in No.16. It is definitely a famous dish in the Qing Dynasty. There is still this dish in southern Jiangsu Province. This is a firework dish. The taste should be crispy. The method is also very simple. Stew it with fresh meat and knuckles, add salt, sugar and wine, and stew until it is crispy." The old man seemed to say it lightly, but Dong Shanhe knew it was definitely not that simple.

"Do you know what this dish is called?" Finally, Mr. Hu asked, pointing to a dish.

"This dish is very, very famous in Dream of Red Mansions. If it weren't for the advanced science and technology, I really wouldn't be able to make it." Mr. Hu was very emotional about this dish.

"I don't know, old man, what is this dish?" Looking at the dish in front of him, Dong Shanhe still couldn't figure out what it was called.

"It's called Chihuahua, have you heard of it?" The old man asked immediately, and Dong Shanhe nodded.

This dish is so famous that even though Dong Shanhe didn't read the book, he knew about this dish. In fact, Dong Shanhe only knew about it when he listened to Zhou Ling's lecture.

"It's very complicated to make eggplant. This time it's really complicated. I'm not lying to you. It needs one catty of eggplant and two liang of turtledove meat. The ingredients are [-] yuan for peach kernels, [-] yuan for almonds, [-] yuan for cashew nuts, and [-] yuan for hazelnuts. Pine nuts, terminal kernels, peanuts, lotus seeds, chestnuts, spiced tofu, fresh mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, red and green peppers, and eggs.

Two taels of seasoning peanut oil, one tael of bad wine, half tael of chicken oil, one tael of soy sauce, one tael of salt and sugar, one tael of rice wine, one tael of water starch, two taels of clear soup, onion, ginger and garlic are all prepared. "Pfft, hearing Mr. Hu's big list of ingredients, Dong Shanhe just got a headache, it's too much.

"If you want to make this dish well, you have to make sufficient preparations like making Buddha jumping over the wall. First, you need to peel and slice the eggplant, cut the eggplant slices into squares with a knife, and then cut them into even small dice. You can't be sloppy, and you can't change your appearance." Mr. Hu said to Dong Shanhe with a straight face.

Dong Shanhe nodded immediately, he knew that the old man must attach great importance to this dish.

"Then wash the turtledove meat with water, drain the water, pat it lightly with a knife, put a flower knife on it, and then cut it into small dice. Fresh mushrooms, dried tofu, and red and green peppers are also cut into small dice. These are all preparations before cooking. If you are alone, it will take at least an hour to prepare."

"Then it's time to start cooking. Put the pot on high heat and put in chicken oil. Remember, you must use chicken oil, not salad oil or olive oil. Fry the diced eggplant until golden yellow and remove the oil. ;Leave a little base oil in the pot, add green onion and ginger slices and stir-fry to release the fragrance, add diced eggplant, lees, soy sauce, salt, sugar, vinegar, clear soup, simmer the diced eggplant to taste, add a little gorgon powder, take out a spoon and pour in In the pot, this time will take about half an hour; take another pot and put peanut oil in and cook until it is half-ripe, pour in the turtledove diced, and then pour in fresh mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, dried tofu, red and green green peppers and various dried nuts, After clearing and removing the oil, leave a little base oil in the pot, stir the onion and ginger slices to release their fragrance, pour them into the prepared ingredients, cook them quickly, mix them with salt, distilled spirits, sugar, chicken essence, clear soup, and water starch. Bowl of juice, stir-fry a few times, take out a spoon and cover the diced eggplant and serve.”

What the old man said was simple, but Dong Shanhe could imagine the complexity.

"Xiao Dong, just be content. There are far more complicated dishes in Dream of the Red Chamber than his. I will teach you when I have a chance."

(End of this chapter)