Villager of Daming

Chapter 1013: Talking about food is always a matter of civil affairs

The cold noodles can be served with or without meat, but with half a boiled egg and shredded cucumber, it's already good. With the addition of side dishes, it can be eaten comfortably.

There are a lot of coriander and green onions in season, so whoever wants to eat them can put them in.

There is soy sauce, vinegar, and dogwood sauce. No sugar is given. Sugar is too expensive, so keep what the team brings.

In order to speed up the dissolution of the fruit flavor into the water, the cold noodle soup is boiled first, and a lot of fruits are put in. After cooking, the fruits are taken out, and the raw fruits are put in and soaked with well water.

The fished-out fruits are given to the elderly, children, and pregnant women without any wastage.

Some people eat soy beef, beef tendon, tripe, and other offal, and cowhide can be eaten, but no one is willing to eat it. They either use it as leather or as medicinal materials.

The beef bones are first boiled into soup, which contains a lot of oil, and then the big bones are cut with an angle grinder to obtain the marrow, which can be eaten by the elderly, babies, and pregnant women.

Generally speaking, the elderly will refuse. They can eat boiled fruits, but they know that bone marrow is precious and are reluctant to eat it.

"Everyone, try this water-fried belly. Brother Hanhan made it himself. It's tender and crispy.

"Your Highness, how do you eat beef offal?" Liu Yunli, the magistrate of Quyang County, wanted to change the topic. Who can tell whether there is bezoar by just looking at a cow?

Did you say before that you need to dig a pond to store water and grow lotus roots? Hurry up while it's summer. In winter, the lotus roots won't go bad as long as you soak them in water.

In addition, we need to strengthen education on breeding. Cows are those that have died of illness. They are old, sick, and getting thinner. People from the yamen went to see them and asked them to be killed.

Zhu Fan introduced Shui Bao Du, emphasizing the knowledge of raising livestock. Why was the bezoar not discovered? To look at the condition of a cow, you must first consider the bezoar.

Speaking of starch, wheat can make it, and water chestnuts are also fine. However, Taiyuan Prefecture is not suitable for growing water chestnuts or water caltrops.

As a result, we bought a whole cow, which contained bezoar. Although it was a little smaller, it was worth the price of half a cow. "

When frying beef, first marinate it with salt, starch, and rice wine, and then slide it in the oil pan to make the beef look bigger and tender.

It’s cold in Taiyuan Prefecture in winter and the water freezes! Lotus root diggers have to work hard and wear cowhide or sheepskin overalls to keep out the cold water. "

People do not have the ability to open ponds on their own, so the government can only organize it. Then the water in the pond can be used for emergencies, and a cement reservoir can be added to solve the problem of lack of rain in drought-stricken areas every year.

The team buys cows by the head. Does the seller mean to kill them first to see if there are any bezoars? Is cow blood collected?
Before his brother could say anything, Zhu Xi, who had been listening, said, "I'm going to make beef noodle casserole with beef noodle soup. I'll just put the cow's blood in it. I'll go around tomorrow to see if there are any more cows for sale.

officers:"……"

They were speechless. The princes were so lucky that they could always buy a cow with a bezoar. They had bought a cow before and got a bezoar of that size.

As Zhu Xi talked, he talked about the lotus root.

It’s also good to drink lotus root starch with water. You can make a big ball of it, like making stuffed rice. It can thicken vegetables and is a kind of cornstarch.

There is no problem with the lotus root. The lotus root tastes better after being simmered for a while, and the noodles are no longer crispy.

It is not the most delicious cooking method, but it is most suitable for small restaurants. Large restaurants must use fresh meat to stir-fry directly without burning.

There will be loaches and eels in the pond. They don’t have to be dug out to be eaten in the winter. When someone gets sick and needs to be eaten, we can arrange for someone to dig them alive for medicinal purposes.

Lotus root also belongs to medicine, including the lotus seeds and lotus leaves on it. The lotus leaves are also good as a wrapping tool for selling vegetables. For example, when buying tofu, you cannot tie it with a hemp rope and carry it away. How many strands of rope do you need?

Unless it's winter, when the tofu freezes hard and looks like bricks, it's easy to hold. But when you eat it at home, it doesn't have the same texture and taste as normal tofu. It's only suitable for soups, stews, and hot pot. Officials are worried because they are talking about food during meals, but as long as they start a conversation, they will inevitably talk about people's livelihood.

Fortunately, there was singing and dancing by the palace maids, which made it less embarrassing.

The only drawback is that the palace ladies do not provide additional services, and it is impossible to find local hook-up girls.

The government officials, people from Xie Cheng's house, and local sergeants who didn't go home during their shifts ate cold noodles for the first time, and they all enjoyed it.

Because the weather is hot, the soup of the cold noodles is made with well water. The cold noodles themselves are not that bad and chewy when eaten.

They ate slowly, taking a bite of side dishes, then a mouthful of cold noodles, and a mouthful of cold noodle soup. They found that this was a great enjoyment in life. After finishing one bowl, they asked for another bowl.

The cold noodles don't taste good after being soaked in the soup for a long time. They are all in small portions and you can refill the bowl until you are full.

Xie Cheng drank and ate. He wanted to know the taste of cold noodles in advance, so he ordered a small cup.

"Your Highness, the noodles made from buckwheat are delicious, and there are no other expensive things. The fruits are ready-made, and the well water is free. Cucumbers are in season, green onions are not good, but coriander is fine.

I thought it was sweet after eating it, so I added vinegar. Buckwheat is good for planting. After harvesting winter wheat, if you plant buckwheat, you will definitely get a harvest of mature buckwheat.

If you replace it with soybeans or sorghum, you may not be able to harvest mature ones, and you will have to use them to feed livestock and poultry.

The cold noodles are delicious, and the people grow a variety of buckwheat. Part of the land is used to grow soybeans and sorghum to feed livestock. The soybeans can also be eaten as edamame. "

Xie Cheng discovered the benefits. Buckwheat is not delicious. It is usually steamed or made into fried noodles, neither of which tastes good.

Now I have discovered that the cold noodles feel better than the normal shaved noodles, which is amazing!
Zhu Fan smiled and nodded: "Actually, the most important thing is mechanized peeling, grinding, and pressing of noodles. The noodles made from buckwheat noodles are not bad when they are dry. When you eat them, you can put them in the pot and cook them for a while. , you can also eat it hot.”

"Your Highness, do we have enough machinery?" Xie Cheng realized that the team's speed in making cold noodles lies in the equipment.

After harvesting a large amount of buckwheat, it is directly peeled, ground, fermented and pressed.

Instead of manually grinding and pounding the food bit by bit, if you want to eat it, you have to wait until tomorrow morning and everyone will do it together.

With good equipment, only a few people are responsible for serving cold noodles to everyone.

"It's being built. After the craftsmen helped build and excavate a batch, we happened to go to Beiping Province. There is no place in the Ming Dynasty that does not require equipment. Our Taiyuan Prefecture is our fiefdom."

Zhu Fan nodded, yes, one county has five sets of peeling and grinding equipment, which is enough. Two sets are used, two sets are rotated when the front machinery is too hot, and one set is spare.

You don’t need good machinery to make cold noodles, labor is no problem. We designed a lever-operated noodle press to find people to work every day and provide jobs.

How about putting it by the river, using water power in the summer, not animal power, and making food? What if it gets polluted?
The officials listened helplessly and carefully, fearing that they might not remember anything.

Knew it! It's a punishment to eat with me. I just thanked the commander and said it was delicious! In the blink of an eye, I returned to people's livelihood without missing a thing.

Zhu Di discovered the situation: "What are your expressions? Do you really think that I will accompany you to drink and have fun? Isn't it better for me to go back to Nanjing than here?"
It’s hard for the team from Xiaqiu Village to figure it out again! My father promised to be very anxious in Nanjing, and we took out the backbone of Xiaqiu Village.

Remember, you are the best officials. If you don’t reflect on three things, you will never do it again! "

(End of this chapter)