The story of the peasant girl who is reborn

Chapter 31: The Invention of Tofu
Making tofu is actually not difficult.

The process is very simple.

After picking your beans, it's time to soak them.

Under Yun Jing's command, Shi Hao soaked all the beans.

A full ten catties of beans, if there is no major problem, can produce sixty to seventy catties of tofu.Yun Jing didn't intend to make money from these tofu, she planned to try them for free at the town's market.

The smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, this tofu is a new thing, it is delicious, but it has to be eaten by someone.

In fact, Yun Jing didn't intend to hide the method of making tofu, but to share it.

After all, she is going to make tofu with local methods, and what she makes is only the most basic tofu, commonly known as old tofu.There are various types of tofu.

There are firm tofu and naturally there are soft tofu.

Moreover, there are rice tofu, egg tofu, etc...

The Mo family had never heard of tofu, but seeing Yun Jing's serious appearance, they just let it go.After all, the things Yun Jing did before are all vivid, and they can be exchanged for money.

Because of the tofu, the Mo family didn't sleep well that night.

At dawn, Yun Jing got up to check the degree of soaking of the beans, and then called Shi Hao up.

Soaked beans must be washed with water to wash off the soaked bean skins and the sour water.This step is very important, it is related to the quality of tofu.

"Daughter-in-law, is this alright?"

As expected of a strong laborer, Shi Hao quickly completed Yun Jing's instructions and washed the soaked beans thoroughly.

"Okay, the next step is to grind the pulp!"

Yun Jing asked Shi Hao to lift all the beans to the edge of the stone mill, ready to grind the beans into a pulp.

At the same time, in the kitchen, brothers Mo Keng and Mo Qiang were already boiling water.

Refining is usually done twice. In the first pass, add water while feeding. The worn soy milk should be diluted with hot water at about [-] degrees quickly, so as to control the decomposition of protein and the reproduction of bacteria, so that the protein can be dissolved in the water. , which facilitates extraction.In order to reduce the foam, a little vegetable oil has to be added during this process.

Yun Jing is like the commander-in-chief, the people who direct the Mo family are carrying out various tasks in an orderly manner.

After refining, it is separated to separate the soymilk and okara.This process requires the use of sieves and fine gauze, these things, Luo Shi had prepared them last night.

Then there is boiled pulp, stewed, pressed tofu...

The last three links are much easier.

Of course, pressing tofu is a laborious task, so it is naturally handed over to Father Mo and Shi Hao.

After a quarter of an hour, the tofu is in pieces.Yun Jing immediately made a few dishes with tofu as the main ingredient.

Tofu mixed with shallots, twice-cooked tofu, homemade tofu, mapo tofu, fried tofu...

"Fragrant! Really fragrant!"

Just the smell of tofu makes the whole family salivate.

It's just that it takes some time to make all ten catties of beans into tofu.The big guy can only quickly eat two chopsticks between work.

"Sister-in-law, this food is really delicious, especially this one, it's spicy and numbing, very fragrant!"

Mo Qiang is delicious and heavy-tasting.

Mo's father and Luo's favorite twice-cooked tofu.

Only Shi Hao stared at the fried tofu cubes, his chopsticks flying like flying.

After all the tofu is done, the family begins to divide the labor.

Shi Hao and Yun Jing carried the burden, went straight to the search envoy, and presented the tofu to the search envoy sent by the imperial court to Lianshan County.But Father Mo took the tofu to the patriarch Mo Laishun's house. He wanted to give the tofu to the county magistrate, but it was not possible for Father Mo to go alone.

Luo Shi took brothers Mo Keng, Mo Qiang, Mo Xiaosi and Mo Xiaowu to push the cart and deliver the tofu to the market in the town.

Multi-pronged approach!

This is a kind of self-preservation, so as not to cause any disaster because of this way of making tofu.

The Lianshan County Search Envoy is located in the downtown area of ​​the county, and there are many restaurants and restaurants around it.

The top is good, the bottom is effective.

The benefits brought by the name given by a royal chef are not only about finding a backer, but the key is being famous.Just imagine, your own dishes, but even the unparalleled cooking concubine Huan agrees, His Majesty the emperor bestowed the title of "Royal Chef", can the dishes here be worse?
This is a great thing to gain both fame and fortune!

It's a pity that in this Dayin Dynasty, there are too few people who can make Concubine Huan say good things about cooking.

The royal chef's family has not yet flooded.

Shi Hao and Yun Jing went to the town with their burdens, first met Yun Fusheng and his wife, and gave them two pieces of tofu to taste.When Yun Fusheng heard that the two were going to the county town to meet the visiting envoy, without further ado, he asked someone to hitch a carriage and take them to the county town.

Yun Fusheng is a wealthy family in the town, but he usually uses ox carts for everything he does, occasionally donkey carts, and generally does not use horse carts.It can be seen that he is also very concerned about this matter.

Yun Jing is his adopted daughter, if Yun Jing can get the name from the royal chef family, even he will be honored.

Therefore, for this matter, Yun Fusheng raised his hands in favor and strongly supported it.

Lianshan County is looking for envoys.

Zhao Kuan's life was very boring. Although he ate well, dressed well, and had a leisurely life, he just didn't feel good.As an eunuch, if you don't stay in the court, but go to this remote and remote village, when will you be a head?
When the porter of the visiting envoy reported that someone was offering delicacies, Zhao Kuan jumped up.

He has been in Lianshan County for almost a year now, he is already tired of it, and he has long wanted to find a chance to return to Beijing.

"God bless!"

When he hurriedly went to see Yun Jing and Shi Hao, Zhao Kuan was still praying to God in his heart.

It is no wonder that Zhao Kuan has no strength in this job of searching and visiting.Before he was sent down, he was the one who walked in front of the emperor, but he was sent down just because he made a small mistake.

"This thing is called tofu!"

Yun Jing saw Zhao Kuan, looked at the kind-hearted eunuch, and felt that he was quite easy to get along with, so she leisurely explained how to make and eat tofu, and then cooked a few dishes in the kitchen of the envoy.

"Little girl, you are really my lucky star!"

After tasting the tofu, Zhao Kuan burst into tears.

The eunuchs in the palace were easily forgotten if they did not show their faces in front of the emperor frequently.He has been sent down for a year, and it is estimated that the emperor has almost forgotten his name.

But now, tofu was born, and he knew that his credit came!

At the moment, Zhao Kuan kept Shi Hao and Yun Jing for dinner, and asked people to choose soybeans.The method of making tofu must be learned by the people below before he can return to Beijing.And this thing, as long as you learn it once, there is basically no difference.

Yun Jing and Shi Hao could only stay in the search envoy, while Yun Fusheng took the initiative to say that he would go to Mo's house for interrogation.

On the other side, with the help of Mo Laishun, Mo's father successfully met the county magistrate and offered tofu.The chef at the county magistrate's house is pretty good. According to the recipe given by Yun Jing, he really made delicious twice-cooked tofu.

"Reward!"

Jia Zhang, the county magistrate, had eaten twice-cooked tofu, and his eyes of bastard mung beans lit up.

(End of this chapter)