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Chapter 595 Delicious lamb stew, enjoyable!How to mix the dough with 90% water content? 【Subscribe】

In the morning, Lin Xu came downstairs after washing up, ready to make breakfast.

Last night, he brought some mutton soup and some cooked mutton from the store, and he was going to make a mutton stew for breakfast.

Stewed mutton is a delicacy in the Central Plains. It is the same as stewed noodles. The only difference is that instead of braised noodles, mutton, vermicelli, shredded tofu and other ingredients are stewed in mutton soup.

Drizzle with chili oil when eating, and then serve with freshly made shortbread. In the words of the Central Plains:
"Excellent!"

When he came downstairs, Lin Xu mixed some noodles for pastry pancakes.

This kind of noodles should be slightly softer, so that the biscuits are delicious. When making the dough, put some baking powder in it to accelerate the expansion of the dough.

Add flour, salt, baking powder, baking powder and form a dough, put it in the oven, turn on the fermentation function, and put a bowl of warm water at the bottom of the oven.

The dough rises quickly.

Taking advantage of this time, Lin Xu added some flour, salt, and pepper noodles to the bowl, and after stirring evenly, he poured some hot oil in a wok, and then stirred it into a paste while it was still hot.

In this way, it is the essential pastry in pastry.

After adding the pastry, the biscuits are crispy and slag-free, delicious and delicious.

Then Lin Xu soaked the vermicelli that he brought from the store yesterday, fried the shredded tofu in warm oil, then took it out and soaked it in water.

Fried shredded tofu can effectively remove the beany smell, and at the same time make the taste soft and crispy, making it very comfortable to chew.

It stands to reason that ingredients such as shredded squid should be prepared to increase the umami taste.

But this is not a regular ingredient in the store, and I am too lazy to buy it again, so I am going to use vermicelli and shredded tofu to make do.

But as long as there is more mutton, it doesn't matter what the side dishes are.

He sliced ​​the cooked mutton he brought and placed it in a bowl, washed some chopped green onion and coriander, and took out two ends of the candied garlic from the jar to eat with it.

Everything is ready, and the noodles have swelled up.

Take the basin out of the oven, spread a layer of grease on the chopping board, and grease the hands and rolling pin to prevent the dough from sticking to your hands.

Roll out the dough slightly without kneading to keep the biscuits as soft as possible.

After rolling out, pour all the fried pastry on the dough, pick up a ball of dough with pastry from the side, first wrap the pastry with soft dough, then put it on the chopping board, and press it with the mouth of the left hand Dough, fold the flattened dough with the right hand, ready to turn in circles.

After pressing it in this way, stick white sesame seeds on it, put it on the chopping board again, and roll it into a cake with a rolling pin.

Put the finished cake in the baking tray, and then start to make the next one.

There are not many noodles today, Lin Xu made a total of six sesame seed cakes, which happened to be placed on a small baking tray.

After placing it, put the baking tray into the preheated oven and start baking.

To make biscuits, it is actually better to make biscuits made in a biscuit oven, but now the conditions do not allow, so we can only make do with the oven.

However, as long as there is a lot of pastry and the dough is soft enough, the shortbread made in the oven is still delicious.

After the biscuits were baked, Lin Xu set up the frying pan, poured the mutton soup he brought into the pan, brought it to a boil, and then added cooked mutton, shredded tofu and freshly soaked vermicelli.

There are no day lily, kelp, shredded squid and other ingredients that are common in braised noodles, but because there is enough mutton and the soup is fresh enough, it smells very good.

While it was cooking, he opened the oven, took out the baking tray inside, turned over the swelled and slightly browned biscuits, and put them back into the oven.

At this moment, the mutton in the pot is almost done.

He put salt and pepper into it for seasoning, then took the pot and poured the stewed mutton into two large bowls.

Shen Jiayue also finished washing and went downstairs.

Seeing two bowls full of broth exuding fresh fragrance, he asked curiously:

"What is this? Steamed mutton?"

Lin Xu smiled and shook his head:
"The stewed mutton from my hometown is eaten with sesame seed cakes. You can try it later if you like it."

"I like it, of course I like it!"

Shen Jiayue said that it must be delicious without even trying it.

After all, it is the food of Xu Bao's hometown, so how could it be unpalatable.

Bring two bowls of stewed mutton to the dining table, and put on a small plate with chopped coriander, chopped chives, mutton oil, chili, and sugared garlic, and other side dishes. The biscuits in the oven have also been baked.

Lin Xu turned on the oven, and Shen Jiayue immediately smelled a pleasant noodle fragrance.

The baking tray was pulled out, and the biscuits inside were browned and browned, with a layer of cracked burnt shell on the surface, and some crumbs were scattered on the baking tray.

Although it was not made with a sesame seed oven, a qualified slag-removing sesame seed cake was still made.

"Wow, this biscuit looks delicious!"

Lin Xu thought that this girl was going to post on Moments, but she used a paper towel as a cushion, picked up one and ate it in small bites, saving the step of disinfecting the phone.

"Huh? Why don't you take photos and send them to Moments?"

"I'm worried that Yan Bao will come over to eat...she's so greedy, and she's arguing to lose weight every day. If I don't intervene, she will definitely lose more and more fat."

Lin Xu couldn't help laughing. Are you worried that she won't have enough to eat?

Sit down and spoon a piece out of the bowl of suet chili into the bowl.

These fats, which are usually in a solidified state, immediately turned red when they were put into the bowl, and the unique spicy taste of mutton oil and chili also wafted out.

As far as the appearance is concerned, the appearance, without two or three biscuits, can't stop the car at all.

Shen Jiayue put down the biscuits, put some mutton oil chili into her bowl, and stirred the bowl with a spoon. Seeing that it was full of meat, she asked curiously:
"Xu Bao, how much does this bowl of stewed mutton cost in my hometown?"

Lin Xu said:

"Ordinary stewed mutton costs around 40 yuan, but this bowl like mine doesn't sell for [-] yuan."

There is a lot of meat, and it is all leg of lamb, so the price will naturally be higher.

He picked up the shredded tofu inside with chopsticks and tasted it, um, the texture was soft and crispy, and it was delicious to chew.

It is said that some exquisite stores will specially fry it with sheep fat, so that when mixed with stewed lamb or lamb stewed noodles, the fresh fragrance will be more intense and the taste will be more delicious.

But today it's just for breakfast, so it doesn't need to be so troublesome.

The cooked mutton is simmered in mutton soup. It has a strong aroma, coupled with flexible shredded tofu and smooth vermicelli, it is very enjoyable to eat.

After eating a few bites of mutton and sesame seed cakes, Lin Xu peeled off the sugar and garlic, and started to eat them together.

A bowl of mutton and two biscuits make you feel full.

Shen Jiayue ate slowly, she took a sip of mutton soup with a large bowl, looked at Lin Xu and asked:

"Xubao, is this biscuit good to make? Can I learn it?"

"It's not very difficult, but it needs to be mixed with soft dough, that is, the kind of dough with a slightly higher water content. This is a little more difficult, so don't try it."

There are hard noodles, soft noodles, and normal noodles, and the water content of each noodle is different.

For example, the hard noodles for knife-shaved noodles have very low water content, so they can be cut with a knife, and they are very resistant to cooking, and the taste is smooth and firm.

Relatively speaking, the water content of the noodles used to make sesame seed cakes is more.

But it is precisely in this way that the biscuits will be soft and slag-free, and they will be delicious.

If hard noodles are used to make biscuits, they will not be soft and soft, but will become Baiji buns used in mutton steamed buns, or baked naan in Northwest China, which are completely two kinds of food with biscuits.

When Shen Jiayue heard that it was difficult, she gave up her years of study.

She just wanted to show off in front of her cousin, if it would cause batter everywhere, then forget it.

Lin Xu cleaned up the kitchen, went upstairs to change his clothes, then put on Dundun's little bow tie, and went downstairs to the parking lot with Shen Jiayue.

The two drove away separately.

Lin Xu went to Qiu Yaozu's house, planning to trick the old man into joining the crew of "State Banquet".

And Shen Jiayue took Dundun and continued to go to Deng Lisong's house to make jade carvings.

It is not appropriate to go to someone's house empty-handed. Passing by the import and export fruit shop, Lin Xu parked his car in a parking space on the side of the road and went in to buy some imported fruits.

Go to Qiu Yaozu's house for things like netted melon, Qingwang grape and white strawberry.

When he arrived, he was about to get out of the car when a white Alpha commercial vehicle stopped in front, the driver got out of the car, and opened the electric door by the way.

Then he helped an old man with almost white hair out of the car.

Lin Xu took a look, ho, this is Mr. He.

Brother asked me to come early, and I thought why the old man had breakfast here.

He opened the door and got out of the car, greeted He Guangchang and said:

"Hi Uncle He, are you here to see Uncle Qiu?"

In terms of age, Lin Xu should call Qiu Yaozu, He Guangchang and others Grandpa, but because these people are of the same generation as Master, they can only call Uncle like senior brothers.

He Guangchang turned his face away, saw that it was Lin Xu, and immediately asked with a smile:
"Xiao Xu, are you also looking for Lao Qiu?"

Lin Xu took the fruit he just bought out of the car, pressed the car key, and locked the car door, then said:
"Not only looking for Uncle Qiu, but also something to tell you. If my brother hadn't said that you were coming back today, I would probably be on my way to your house."

He walked over, and He Guangchang said to the driver beside him:

"You go back, at eleven o'clock... pick me up at two o'clock in the afternoon. I didn't eat here today, but since Xiao Xu is here, I, an elder, can't leave early."

The driver agreed and drove away.

Lin Xu walked to the door of Qiu Yaozu's house and was about to ring the doorbell, but the door opened early.

Qiu Yaozu came out on crutches, looked at He Guangchang who was empty-handed, and muttered in dissatisfaction:
"You are so old, but you came here empty-handed. Look at Xiao Xu, are you blushing?"

He Guangchang chuckled:
"It's fine if you don't leave empty-handed. I heard that a new batch of pre-rain tea has arrived at your house. I'm about to make some tea eggs. It's just in time for me."

Lin Xu on the side was dumbfounded when he heard this, he used Yuqian tea to make a tea egg, what price would this egg have to sell for?
A rich old man will enjoy it.

"Fuck off, why do you learn from Lao Gao for all your strange problems?"

Qiu Yaozu muttered in dissatisfaction, then looked at Lin Xu and smiled:
"Zhenhua came over two days ago and said that you wanted to find me for something. Why did you make a special trip to the store? Did someone go to the store to make things difficult? If you want such a thing, just speak up. Before leaving, Lao Gao said, you will suffer If he was wronged, he would pay it back to me ten times..."

Lin Xu was a little dumbfounded.

Even if I am wronged, it has nothing to do with Mr. Qiu, Master really knows how to pick soft persimmons.

He smiled and said:

"No, I just want to invite a few of you to participate in the filming of a program."

Upon hearing this, Qiu Yaozu lost interest.

Even He Guangchang next to him sighed slightly.

I thought that when I met someone who didn't have a good eye, I needed old guys to help out, but it turned out that I was just filming a show.

As early as 20 years ago, even CCTV went to Diaoyutai for interviews, and they had to make time for them. These old guys have long been tired of filming programs.

Lin Xu followed the two old men into the yard, and then said:

"This time the program is different. Our company did not do it ourselves, but cooperated with CCTV to reproduce the state banquets over the years. Without your guidance, we dare not do it rashly."

Dealing with the elderly has to make them feel that they are important and that they can't do anything without it.

Otherwise, they will only feel that they are dragging young people down, and they are unwilling to do things together.

Qiu Yaozu and He Guangchang looked at each other, glanced at the plum blossoms in the yard, and said with emotion:
"The first banquet of the founding of the country used Huaiyang cuisine. At that time, my grandfather was transferred there just after his fiftieth birthday and became a member of the state banquet planning committee... This is something our Qiu family has always been proud of. glory."

At that time, Qiu Yaozu was less than two years old, so he didn't know these things, but when he was a little older, he kept listening to the elders talking about it, and his father was transferred early to work in the Foreign Affairs and Hospitality Bureau under the name of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. profound.

When Qiu Yaozu was in his teens, he began to practice the basic skills of cooking.

In addition, you need to study cultural courses and some foreign languages, so that you can better connect with foreign dignitaries.

In fact, the master craftsmen of Diaoyutai more or less know some foreign languages.

The reason why Uncle Gao always went to dance with foreigners and even fascinated Aunt Lucy was because of his fluent foreign language.

Although the foreign language level of Qiu Yaozu and others is not as good as that of Uncle Gao, they can communicate in daily life without any problem.

They even understand some popular seasonings and ingredients abroad than young people.

Lin Xu heard Qiu Yaozu's emotion, and immediately said:
"Then you have to join, because we don't know the situation at that time, just to show the background and strength of our Diaoyutai."

He Guangchang is a kind-hearted person, upon hearing this, he said:

"Okay, we will join young people if they need it, it's all for the inheritance... Does Lao Qiu have any ideas?"

What Qiu Yaozu was thinking at the moment was still Huaiyang cuisine.

He looked at Lin Xu and asked:

"Who have you invited? How many people are needed? Can we all participate?"

Eighteen old buddies are in the same spirit. If some people participate, but others cannot, it will easily make everyone feel bad, so you have to ask clearly in advance, so that you can decide whether to participate or not.

Lin Xu said:

"At least [-] masters who have participated in the state banquet are needed. The more the dishes of the year can be restored, the better the effect of the program will be. After watching these video programs, future generations can have a clearer understanding of the state banquet of that year."

When he heard that so many people were needed, Qiu Yaozu was obviously relieved.

He was afraid that only two or three would be needed, and everyone might give in to each other, or even draw lots in turn when Cheng Jianshe was apprenticed.

Since there are so many people, then join in.

What Xiaoxu said is right, it can just show the heritage and style of Diaoyutai, and by the way, add some presence of Huaiyang cuisine.

Thinking of this, he said to himself:
"Since we need so many masters, let He Jiashun also participate. Since we are one of our own, we should give as much opportunity as possible to show our faces."

Although it was out of selfishness to let Huaiyangcai show his face, letting He Jiashun participate was really a clever move.

It is not easy to make such a large-scale documentary. Those who hear the news will definitely ask each other to show their faces. For example, Meng Dexing, who is notorious in the circle, should not miss this opportunity.

But if He Jiashun joins, he will definitely not jump up and down.

The two brothers were originally turned over. He Jiashun's cooking skills are average, and there are no bright spots in management. It can be said that he is a mediocre little old man.

And Meng Dexing is the retired head chef of Yanjing Hotel, a group of apprentices are on TV all day long, and his son is only one step away from the position of head chef.

If it wasn't for greed, he should still be a well-known state banquet master now.

Now, He Jiashun has joined Huaiyang Cuisine, and is about to appear on TV to participate in the shooting of a large-scale documentary, and has also become the chairman of the Chinese Cuisine Association.

Such a situation really corresponds to the old saying "good and evil will be rewarded in the end".

Lin Xu had a good feeling for He Jiashun, he said with a smile:

"Okay, He Bo also participated in the production of many state banquets when he was young, so he should participate."

Walking into the living room, the nanny brought this year's pre-rain tea, and after drinking the refreshing tea, my whole body became refreshed.

Qiu Yaozu planned to invite the masters. In this way, Lin Xu basically didn't have to worry about it, because the group of old men from the Chinese Cuisine Association would treat them as benefits and distribute them to everyone.

After talking about this matter, Qiu Yaozu looked at Lin Xu and asked:

"During the Chinese New Year, Xiao Xu hasn't lost his basic skills, right?"

"No, I have to stay in the kitchen for more than half a day every day. As a chef, I can't leave the stove."

"Yes, Lao He and I have nothing to do today. If there is anything you want to learn, we can teach you."

I'm so sleepy, I'm giving you a pillow, and I'm worrying about how to bring the mille-feuille oil cake. Since you asked, I'm not going to be polite.

Lin Xu said:

"Coincidentally, I just want to learn the thousand-layer oil cake from you. Can Uncle Qiu teach me? Lin remembers Jade Shaomai, which is very popular, so I also want to make the thousand-layer oil cake."

Originally, Lin Xu thought that the thousand-layer oil cake was just a steamed cake made of folded dough, and there should be no difficulty, but He Guangchang on the side first showed a surprised look:

"Hey, this is a very difficult dim sum. Xiao Xu learned such a difficult dim sum when he came up. He deserves to be a young man, and he is full of vigor."

Qiu Yaozu also looked at Lin Xu with approval:

"Ambition, just like when I was young."

Lin Xu asked curiously:
"The recipe of thousand-layer oil cake...isn't that difficult?"

He Guangchang smiled:

"It's not too difficult, that is, using flour and water, and a dough with a water content of more than 90.00% to roll it thin. The difficulty is relatively not particularly great."

Isn't this hand-rolled noodles?

Lin Xu breathed a sigh of relief, but then his mind was filled with exclamation points.

Moisture content over 90.00%?

Is this still dough?

This is exactly a pot of batter for pancakes, right?
Depend on!
No wonder the expressions of these two old people, it seems that this thousand-layer oil cake is really difficult.

But if it’s difficult, you have to learn what you should learn. After all, my daughter-in-law is waiting to eat, and the cooking learning cards accumulated in my hands should be used!
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I caught a cold this morning, and I took a piece of ibuprofen to get over it. At noon, my wife went to buy food for me. I thought the fried small river prawns were good. I bought some for me, but I was allergic. I took a tablet of loratadine, and now it is finally relieved. February started badly, and I hope this month will be smoother.

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