Shangshi female official

Chapter 132 Braised Roast Lamb 2
After the envoys from various countries settled down, they had to enter the palace to meet the emperor one by one. After a simple luncheon was held in the palace at noon, some envoys asked to make a stewed roast mutton offering in the imperial dining room, and the emperor agreed.

When the foreign cooks entered the imperial dining room, the female historians temporarily left their work in their hands and came out to watch the fun. Wang Yifu and Mo Xizhan hid in the last row together, just wanting to see how this foreigner cooks their dishes.

Five cooks pulled a trailer into the small flat in front of the Queen's Dining Room, each of them had a big beard and a thick round hat with the brim as if it were rolled up with strips of cloth.

Their eyes were deep and round, and their mouths were babbling in words they could not understand.

There was a small earthen castle half a person's height on the cart, which was covered with a black iron lid. They carried a stick, and one person in front of the other lifted the earthen castle down, and then lifted down a large wooden barrel with a cover on the cart.

The wooden barrel is full of mutton soaked in water, the water is not clear, it should be marinated mutton sprinkled with a lot of seasoning.

When it’s time to roast, first grab some water and shake it inside the bunker, then burn charcoal inside, and when the charcoal is done, those foreign cooks hang the mutton on the iron rack and put it inside the bunker.

Another cook put the remaining lamb chops together with diced red and yellow radishes, potatoes, onions and green peppers on an iron plate, and sprinkled more than a dozen kinds of seasonings on the plate.

They put a plate of mutton chops in, and then covered the black iron lid. They thought it was over, but they didn't expect that those people mixed a pot of soft mud, wiped it on the edge of the lid, and sealed all the gaps.

While roasting, the foreign cooks started to play around. One was holding a huqin, the other was beating a drum, and sang a cheerful song on the spot. The remaining three danced along with the song, so happy.

Although they couldn't talk to each other, the maids watched them dancing with shaking eyebrows, turning their hands, and twisting their necks. They all laughed cheerfully. Facing the laughter, they danced more happily. After the dance was over, everyone applauded.

"The Imperial Palace, how can you allow yourself to be presumptuous?"

I don't know who reprimanded them, and the female historians hurriedly dispersed, bowed their heads and stood aside, giving way to the high-ranking and powerful people, only to see Gong Zheng and Qiu Shangshi standing at the entrance, with angry faces.

Gong Zheng stared at the maids on the left, and then on the maids on the right, his gaze alone was enough to send chills down the spine.

"Are you all free to do? Are the masters' meals ready? A few outsiders are here to be lazy and slack, do you think Gong Zhengsi's board is not painful enough?"

The maids were afraid to speak, and the foreign cooks probably thought that something was wrong when they saw this situation, and they didn't dare to sing or dance anymore.

"Why don't you hurry up and prepare meals, why are you standing here in a daze?"

As soon as these words were said, the court ladies all fled in all directions as if they had received an amnesty. It was a blessing that they were not punished, and Wang Yifu and Mo Xi also went back to the dining room to be busy.

Fortunately, Wang Yifu was in the empress's dining room, so she was very close, so she looked at the cooks from time to time, hoping to see what other special operations they had.

But although those few people no longer played around, they just sat in the corner and slept with their hats covering their eyes.

Near noon, I saw them scrape away the soil on the lid and open the lid with an iron hook. A burst of white steam flew out of the bunker, bringing a strong aroma.

The aroma was not purely of mutton, but mixed with a peculiar aroma of ingredients, which overwhelmed the aroma of the dishes prepared in their dining room.

They divided into two people and stood on the chairs, and pulled out the iron plate that had been put in earlier. The lamb chops on it had been roasted purple, the vegetables were slightly browned, and there was a layer of oily soup floating on the bottom of the plate, which landed firmly on the table.

The two people at the table put this dish in a white porcelain bowl supported by a golden tray, and then poured a layer of original soup.The racks of mutton hanging in the small bunker were also taken down and put into the second plate, sprinkled with three kinds of flour and sesame seeds.

The eunuch carrying meals came over and carried the stewed mutton prepared by the foreign envoy cook to the banquet, and Wang Yifu seized the opportunity to send over the snack box she had prepared.

The blue-eyed cook who directed the people to clean up the small bunker saw Wang Yifu delivering things, opened his eyes wide, pointed at himself, and Wang Yifu nodded.

He cheered happily, and called his companions to taste the Dengying Beef and Flower Cake in the snack box together. He nodded with an "um~" and said something Wang Efu couldn't understand, and then gave Wang Efu a thumbs up.

Wang Yifu smiled, and then they put some leftover mutton on a plate. There were two pieces of rack meat, two pieces of lamb chops and vegetables roasted with the lamb chops, and gave them to her.

Wang Yifu lowered her head slightly to express her gratitude, and then ran to look for Mo Xi with a plate in her hand. Mo Xi was surprised when she saw her and said, "What magical powers did you use? How can you get everything made by foreign cooks."

"Don't worry about how I got it, come and taste what it tastes like."

The two of them walked under the jujube tree outside the dining room of Empress Depin, and sat on the stone pier to share the meat.

The two of them tasted the rack meat first. This rack meat was spread with a layer of paste and then roasted. There was a lot of spices on the skin.

Although the skin is not crispy, this layer of skin just keeps the gravy of the mutton. The mutton has been roasted for a long time. It tastes salty, fresh and tender, softer than roasted meat, and chewier than stewed meat.

Mo Xi sighed: "It's really rare for roasted meat to have such a taste."

"Their small bunker stove seems to have something in it."

"Let's try this lamb chop again."

The meat of this lamb chop is a little bit thicker than the meat on the shelf. The meat is charred on the outside and tender on the inside. If you bite the meat and pull it, the lamb will fall off the bone easily.

This mutton chop is much more fragrant than the meat on the shelf. It not only has spices, but also the aroma of vegetables. It is even more amazing to eat the accompanying radish. Baked in mutton fat, the radish is very sweet inside.

"The lamb chops are not simple, and the potatoes and radishes are so delicious. They are simply cut into old pieces and thrown in for roasting. How can they be so tender?"

"Is it because of the way they bake it? I saw that they burned the charcoal, and the whole stove was sealed and never touched."

"There are so many ways to cook meat in this world, we still have to learn."

"But we don't have a small earthen castle like theirs, so we have to ask the housekeeper to make one."

"Then I'm afraid no one will agree. Hu Feng can learn from it. If he wants to do the same, the royal family will not agree."

After they finished eating the meat, Wang Yifu walked back, and happened to see two women who were dressed similarly to them walking towards them.

The two women had a small flower plate on their heads, two red masters hung from both sides of the small flower plate, and they were tied with braids on the back of their necks. Ruan Sishan was leading them.

Wang Yifu saluted slightly and passed them by.

(End of this chapter)