Shangshi female official

Seeing the rewards Wang Yifu received, the dining room girls worked harder, and of course the rewards came quickly.

After lunch, Empress De Concubine gave each of them a golden melon seed. Their whole dining room was noisy, and people around couldn't help but ran to see what happened.

In the blink of an eye in the excitement, it was fifteen.

The entire Imperial Dining Room has to make Lantern Festival three or four days in advance, and there are also small glutinous rice dumplings, with black sesame fillings, bean paste fillings, and flower sauce fillings.

The reunion in the fifteenth month of the first lunar month is another day of palace banquet.

On this day, the emperor will have a banquet in the palace for confidential ministers at noon, and a reunion banquet for the entire palace in the evening. The princes and daughters, married princesses and concubines will all enter the palace for the banquet.

The five-color rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival brought Moxie as a meal, and the Empress personally passed Moxie on for the second time, asking if she could make some colorful Lantern Festivals to add some new ideas.

Mo Xi responded to the queen's request, and tried all kinds of ingredients that can be dyed, and finally decided to use carrots, tomatoes, spinach, purple potatoes, cuttlefish juice, red yeast rice, and white original flavors to make colorful Lantern Festival.

In the first three days of the fifteenth day, the entire imperial dining room specially arranged for fourteen court ladies to cook Lantern Festival from morning to night. Mo Xi not only supervised the meals of the concubines, but also supervised them and checked the finished Lantern Festival.

In fact, the maids and eunuchs in the palace have been eating Lantern Festival since the ninth day of the lunar new year, but the masters prefer to serve the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day, which suits the master's wishes.

The courtiers who could come from the entire capital attended the banquet in front of the Qianqing Palace. Except for the Lantern Festival, most of the meals for the tables were jointly handled by the monks and food supervisors of Guanglu Temple. Only the meals for the emperor and important ministers were prepared by the Imperial Dining Room.

Moxi took the lead in making the most important Lantern Festival, so she needed to see the reactions of the diners. She took Wang Yifu to stand among the female officials and watched the expressions of the people around them towards the colorful Lantern Festival.

Wang Yifu took the opportunity to take a look at the food served by the Shangshijian. They all seemed to be cooked, they were soft, the meat was the color of soy sauce, and the vegetables were left as they wished for a day. A little yellow, the Lantern Festival only has small glutinous rice dumplings without fillings.

No wonder the folklore says that the four major dishes in Beijing are unreliable, and "Food from Guanglu Temple" is one of them.

When the Lantern Festival was served on the emperor's table, the emperor deliberately picked it up and looked at it, and then scooped out the colors one by one with a spoon to have a look, and said with a smile: "Today, the Shangshi Bureau has made something new?"

Qiu Xing bowed and smiled at the side: "Back to the emperor, but some simple dyeing techniques, just like the colorful noodles, there is nothing new."

"There are seven Lantern Festivals in this bowl, seven colors. With your elm head, you can't think of such a new idea."

"The little ones are stupid, the Holy One has a delicate heart, and see what the little ones can't see."

The emperor picked up a pink Lantern Festival, took a bite, and the black sesame seeds inside flowed out. The aroma and sweetness of the sesame seeds flowed into his mouth, mixed with the sticky skin, and he immediately smiled.

"Give some to the Hou Menjue's Mansion, the three lords and the three orphans, and the people from the six cabinet departments."

"Yes, my little one will arrange it immediately."

When Mo Xi heard from Qiu Xing that the emperor gave the Lantern Festival to the important ministers, she felt relieved that this colorful Lantern Festival was safe.

Guan Bangyan was one of the ministers at the noon banquet. He was in a position close to the emperor, and he didn't move the meal in front of him. Only when the Lantern Festival was served, he picked up a spoon and tasted it.

After the luncheon was over, Qiu Xing bowed to Guan Bangyan and said a few words. Guan Bangyan remained expressionless, and followed Qiu Xing behind the emperor's guard of honor to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Wang Yifu asked curiously: "Sister Moxi, the luncheon is over, what is the emperor taking his son-in-law to the Hall of Mental Cultivation?"

"At this time in previous years, the son-in-law and son-in-law are all waiting together, and the emperor wants to enjoy calligraphy and paintings with them and talk about state affairs."

"That was really enjoyable."

"The royal family is happy, and the common people can be more peaceful. If the royal family quarrels, the common people will suffer."

"It's Sister Mo Xi who is more thoughtful."

"Let's go back quickly, the dinner party has to be busy enough."

In the evening, the palace banquet is another series of big dishes. In addition to the game such as bear's paw and velvet antler that needs to be supported by the palace banquet, the cold dishes of the fifteenth day also include marinated seven treasures, fish jelly, and fresh vegetables mixed with sweet and sour.

Hot dishes include cherry meat, ham with honey sauce, sea cucumber with scallions, chicken with abalone, chrysanthemum fish, blood glutinous rice balls, tofu in pot, and desserts include noodles with cabbage, tofu with almonds, and walnut and peanut cheese.

Wang Yifu wants to cook chicken with abalone and chrysanthemum fish, but she is more curious about money ham in honey sauce. Although there are many ingredients in the imperial dining room, she has not made money ham yet.

The ham has been marinated for at least three years, and only the piece between the thigh and the vertical hoof is taken. After simmering, the bones are removed and cut into thick slices. The broth used for stewing the ham is seasoned with honey, and the harvested honey juice is poured over the ham. superior.

The ham made looks like money, the juice is like bright oil, the tendons are more fat and the meat is less, the wrapped lean meat is tender and salty, and there are rubbery shells in the mouth, the stalks of the tendons, and the softness of lean meat. Rotten, sweet, savory, and delicious.

The chicken with abalone should be stewed slowly, and the time to fry the chrysanthemum fish is still early, so she smelled the smell and looked for Qianqian ham. The Queen's Dining Room is working.

The empress's dining room occupied three rooms, and opposite the door and facing the windows were all stoves, and a row of maids were pouring onion and ginger ingredients to deodorize the ingredients.

There are three steps up and down on the right hand side, and dozens of jars in three rows up and down. The lids of the jars are all sprayed with white gas.

The person who took care of these pots was a secretary from the clothes. I remember that on the first morning she entered the palace, Ruan Sishan said that the Shangshi Bureau was too busy to touch the ground, and she had to rely on herself to recognize people. This is true.

She has been in the Shangshi Bureau for almost a year, and she didn't take care of all the caterers. Every day from Yin hour to night, there is very little time to rest. This is true for her, and it is even more so for all the cooks, Dianshan, and Zhangshan.

The cook opened a jar, picked out the money legs from inside, looked around, put it back and covered it, and turned to supervise the other female historians who were cooking.

Taking advantage of the time when a court lady came out to pour water, Wang Yifu stopped her and asked, "This female historian, who is the cook who looks at the money leg during the queen's meal?"

"It's You Sishan, who takes care of your mother's diet."

Nu Shi was busy going back to process the ingredients, and left after speaking, Wang Yifu continued to look inside, this Si Shan was a bit older, definitely older than Ruan Si Shan and Mo Xi, but he was not at the age of Qiu Shangshi .

She walked back and forth from time to time, looking at the things made by her subordinates, and then went back to the jar to smell the smell. After a while, You Sifan took out a ham from the jar and recruited several maids to surround it look.