The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 47 The First Jianghu Cooking Exchange Competition

Originally, Cuihua thought it would be a simple gathering of peers to exchange technology, but Gu Dashao turned it into a pier prosperity, and gave each of these cooks a tent with a temporary kitchen built for them.

The competition rules are as follows: Based on 2 hours, chefs can cook according to their own specialty dishes, and the dishes are tasted by diners and chefs.In the end, diners can vote for the top three dishes, and the prizes are: 100 taels for the top dish, 80 taels for the second dish, and 50 taels for Tanhuacai.Chefs are free to choose which dishes they want to swap, as long as they agree.

As long as the craftsmanship is excellent, one dish can be exchanged for multiple dishes!
In just half a day, the pier was almost packed.This Young Master Gu is really, he loves to join in the fun and is greedy!

The idler Cuihua has no objection, there are too many channels for modern people to learn, especially in the era of self-media, any secret system can be cracked for you, she has to think carefully about what to cook.

People in this dynasty regard mutton as their beauty, so she has to work hard on common ingredients, and finally draws up the menu as follows:
Mild taste, sweet and sour appetizing sugar garlic: Peeled and washed new garlic, marinate in salt water according to the proportion for one day to kill the spicy taste, boil the appropriate proportion of vinegar, sugar, pepper, fennel (star anise) seasoning water, cool it, pour it into a jar and seal it.

Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, salty and delicious braised fish: carp or grass carp remove the fishy line, change the knife, marinate for a quarter of an hour, then deep-fry in oil pan, sauté the onion, ginger and garlic until fragrant, add sweet and sour sauce, add water and boil The fish is stewed in a pot.

Steamed elbows that are soft and not greasy, and the soup is fresh and sweet: After marinating the whole elbow, boil it for half an hour, remove it, pierce it, color it with soy sauce, fry it golden on both sides, put dried vegetables and kombu shreds on it, season a salty soup, Put the salty soup into a pot, add ginger slices, steam on high heat for 2-3 hours, and sprinkle chopped green onion.

The staple food is glutinous rice balls with mustard greens: the fresh and tender shepherd’s purse is made into stuffing and wrapped in glutinous rice balls, as big as a child’s fist, one bowl per bowl.After eating the big meat, each person comes with a stuffed glutinous rice ball, which has a delicate taste, full of fragrance, and helps digestion and removes greasiness.

The sugar and garlic are ready-made, soaked in a 2-jin small wine jar, and the most labor-intensive part is the elbow. She can take the fried elbow to the scene and directly steam it.

The fish can be made quickly on-site, and the glutinous rice balls can also be prepared in advance. Anyway, the ingredients are brought with you, so there is no requirement that all of them must be made on-site, right?The point is that the final product is recognized!

All the ingredients cost only two taels of silver, purchased by Mr. Li.

On the day of the competition, those lucky enough to be judges didn't have breakfast.

The main judges are several merchant ship owners or principals sponsored by bonuses.

At the opening of the competition, Gu Dashao even pretended to post a few opening remarks, and then quickly announced the start of the competition!
Cuihua is in the temporary kitchen, laughing half to death. This grass-roots team is set up just to satisfy the appetite.

How could she have imagined that after this competition, things got out of control, and it became an annual prosperity of the Great Yellow River Merchant Ships. develop.

The number of diners who came this time was strictly controlled. Except for the judges, there were 100 diners, mainly because they were afraid that the ingredients would not be enough, and each person would have one chopstick, so they would not be able to taste the taste.There are thousands of spectators around, and this is what they come to smell.

In less than two hours, Cuihua's dishes were already on the table. 2 catties of sugar and garlic are broken into pieces, which is also a big plate, ten pieces of braised carp, ten pieces of steamed elbows, and more than 2 fist-sized glutinous rice balls, one in a bowl.

Sure enough, there is no shortage of lamb scorpion and steamed lamb, as well as lion head with crab powder, bad fish, salted duck, crystal meat, etc. Most chefs are meat and vegetarian. I didn't expect this foreign woman to cook 4 of them. Don't underestimate other people's sugar garlic, it tastes amazing.

The first Young Master Gu ate was Cuihua’s dishes. Starting from Tangsuan, he didn’t say a word. He grabbed a bowl for himself for each dish, and he also wanted one for fish and one for elbow. He didn’t want to share it with others. , Provoked public outrage!There are so many people watching!The appearance of eating is too ugly!After the scolder took a bite, I, I want a bowl too!
Seeing that the judges were messed up, the chefs came over to serve Cuihua’s dishes. Several people shared a portion, and the diners were going to scold their mothers. With so many dishes, can we still have one chopstick for each person?
This is a contest of victory, a contest of chaos, and a contest of disputes between diners!

Cuihua's Braised Fish and Steamed Knuckle won the No. [-] and No. [-] awards, and Chef Yang Xiezi won the No. [-] prize.During the exchange of cooking skills, everyone didn't even let the sugar and garlic go, and they were willing to exchange crab noodles with lion heads. The appetizers were overbearing!

Anyway, there is enough time, anyone who wants to change it will come. These chefs also privately report the names of dishes to Cuihua. You can choose whichever you like, as long as you are willing to change your dish with us.

Mr. Gu was very patient, and he waited for Cuihua to study for seven full days before sailing.The only requirement is to ask Cuihua to practice the newly learned dishes every day, and to order dishes every now and then, or to ask Cuihua to cook Bi-style dishes again.

Ertou finally found someone who is as greedy as him, and this is an adult who is so appreciative of his mother's food, so he can be a friend.He actively and enthusiastically dealt with others, and even gave them a lot of preserved meat from his own family.

"Brother Gu, let me tell you, my mother doesn't know how to cook too many dishes, and the craftsmanship of sausage and bacon can be sold for money!" The little man danced and gestured to others.

"When I was in my hometown, the most delicious dish my mother cooked was roasted bamboo mice with bamboo shoots. This is not an ordinary mouse. It grows on bamboo shoots, but it is clean. Its meat is more fragrant than chicken, especially Thigh meat!" Sucking while recalling.

"While on the way, she also learned a time-honored brand of roast chicken. Although my mother just made it, we ate it every day, and we were tired of eating it. I will eat it again occasionally, and I have to get it. The chicken is delicious. It’s so soft and boneless, it’s delicious even chewing on the bones”

I have never seen such a show-off kid!Mr. Gu is very willing to be an audience. Look at him:

"Wow, it sounds delicious. Is there any more? Ertou, you are so lucky. Brother Gu has never eaten what you said!"

In order to eat these special dishes, Gu Dashao waved his hand and waived the travel expenses for this passerby. The ingredients are provided every day, just to make a living.

Hearing that Ertou talked in detail about how they taught people how to make preserved meat in Nanzhou, they sincerely expressed their desire to learn!
The rest of the dishes that Cuihua can cook are the same price if they are willing to teach, 100 taels a dish!That's what rich people do!

The chef is also very willing to learn, the master pays, and he learns the craft by himself!

In this way, a Buddhist teacher and a hard-working student, when she arrived in Ningjiang Mansion, she not only didn't pay one tael for travel expenses and food, but also earned Gu Dashao 1000 taels of silver.

There is no harm if there is no comparison. My sister earns money easily and takes the servant girl to the capital. Her dear brother will be miserable.

Hu Daniu, his wife Sanniang and his daughter Xiaohua were carried by the tub to a mountain depression on the north bank, between the capital city and Hejian Mansion.The couple decided to go to the capital first, but they encountered a kidnapper on the way.

Xiao Hua was almost abducted, and Zhao Sanniang was so frightened that her face turned pale. In such a blink of an eye, she ate noodles in a noodle shop in a town.The kidnapper who cheated the child with candied haws was almost beaten into a concussion by Hu Daniu.

Afraid of being retaliated by others, he didn't dare to stay, and ran away as if fleeing for his life with the child on his back and his daughter-in-law.

Hu Daniu: Leaving my sister, not only did I not make any money, but I almost lost my child. Why is life so difficult?Crying!

(End of this chapter)