delicious little cook

Chapter 114 Someone dares to ignore the new rules
It was just right time to return to Wenling Courtyard, the girls didn't need to go to the ice cellar, three bags of ice were taken to the upper room and poured into the ice tray, and the remaining bag was placed in the small kitchen for cold drinks and salads.

Bai Kou washed her hands and face, put on the mask, scarf, and smock, and started kneading the dough in the kitchen to make shredded biscuits.

When Gu Yun arrived home, the dough in the kitchen had just been made, but it didn't take much time afterwards. The third young master was in the house washing his face, wiping his body, changing clothes, drinking tea and resting. Put it in the oven.

Because there is going to be a dish test tomorrow, after serving the third young master's supper, Bai Kou practiced two pages of copybooks and went to bed early. The next morning, everyone sent the third young master out. She changed her clothes and went to the ice cellar to meet the eight daughters-in-law The children arrived early, and Mrs. Shui was explaining the new rules of the ice cellar to them. When she saw Bai Kou coming, she immediately told her that the East Kitchen had already taken the pork belly away.

Bai Kou hurried to the East Kitchen, and saw that everyone had put the pork belly into the small steamer according to the plan in Zeng Zhu's hand and was steaming on high fire. Handle the ingredients for the trial dishes, and prepare a batch of lunch ingredients for the ladies and aunts at home as usual.

Today's dish test is only done for one table, so there is plenty of time. The male chefs are watching from the sidelines. Zeng Zhu is holding a paper in his hand and dispatching people to make various preparations. Bai Kou promised Huang Haihai and Cui Lin to be in charge. As long as the menu is determined not to be changed, she will make a copy and send it to the West Kitchen for them.

The original plan was to let Lu Meihua guard the kitchen and oven of the white case, but she was suspended, Zeng Zhu had to focus on the white case, and Bai Kou was in charge of the red case kitchen.

So today I will go through the plan as planned, and make improvements in time if there are any omissions. The two male stewards are also whispering to each other, discussing whether the person who looks after the oven should let the West Kitchen directly when cooking in the West Kitchen. The cooks are in charge.

Around noon, the maids who delivered the dishes came over, and the first food box containing cold dishes was taken to Rong En Tang, and at the same time, a stick of incense was lit, and the second round of dishes was served under Bai Kou's loud command , doing the finishing work in an orderly manner. When half a stick of incense was burned, the girl went out with the food box containing the soup. When the incense was burned out, the first four meat dishes went out.

The cold dishes and soup bowls that were sent out in the previous two rounds were brought back now, and half of them were still left. It was a pity to see that the soup had been simmering on the stove since breakfast time.

The Eight Immortals table is just that big, with four people at a table. In order to show the grandeur of a first-class prince, although the filial piety banquets are often simple and simple, they all have big fish, big meat, whole chicken, whole ducks, delicacies from mountains and seas, but the number of dishes is less. There are a total of fourteen dishes of soup and cold dishes. The only ones who can clean the dishes are those who are short of oil and water on weekdays, and they will be uncomfortable, because fewer dishes does not mean less dishes.

After all the dishes for tasting were finished, Bai Kou took off his mask and went under the tree to enjoy the shade, waiting for the maids of Rong En Hall to bring back the leftover food, and listened to the views of the old lady and his wives on the dishes.

The cooks were busy trying to test the dishes, and it fell to the male cook to prepare lunch for the ladies and aunts. At this moment, they took all the food. The cooks and the cooks cleaned up the kitchen and greeted everyone to eat. Bai Kou was tired. She was sweating all over and had no appetite for food, so she said hello to Zeng Zhu and went back to Wenling Courtyard, and asked the little girl to cook a bowl of rice noodles for her, mix it with scallion oil and pour two spoonfuls of chili oil, and eat like that.

In the afternoon, there was no news from Jicheng Hall, and Bai Kou didn't inquire about it. Zeng Zhu was the acting manager. It was reasonable for the eldest lady to convey any conclusions to the East Kitchen directly.

It was estimated that before the third young master arrived home, he would have to go to the ice cellar to get ice as usual. After a trip, the little girl brought back yesterday's small urn containing sour plum soup, and also brought Bai Kou a message from Mistress Shui.

"Miss Shui said that from yesterday afternoon to now, the young masters and ladies of the third room have taken away a total of seventeen ice bags, but the bag of the seventh young master has never been returned."

"How many ice packs did Seventh Young Master take?"

"Four, two at a time, none of them came back. When I went to get the ice, his girl was arguing with Mrs. Shui. She came to get the ice for the third time with empty hands, saying that the seventh young master is fat and afraid of the heat."

"It's not that I won't give you ice, and the little straw bag can't be eaten, so why don't you keep it?"

"The straw bag is brand new. It has only been filled with ice. Maybe it was meant to be dried to store things. The third house has a large population, and the third master's official career is not as smooth as the two elder brothers above him. His official position is not high, and his salary is not much. With his little money, he can't afford to support his wife, children, concubines, and a group of servants. Most of the family's expenses are supported by the monthly appropriation from the public office. The appropriation is based on the number of people. It's a rough day." Aunt Su went into the kitchen to get some drinks, and interrupted when she heard them talking.

Bai Kou rolled her eyes and asked the little girl.

"When you came back, did Mrs. Shui give him an ice pack?"

"Yes, otherwise the quarrel will be too ugly. The young masters will all come home from school one after another, and the yard will be full of girls who come to get ice packs."

"That is to say, all the girls onlookers know that the Seventh Young Master took the straw bag from the ice cellar and didn't return it?"

"Pfft! The third room is lively again!" The little girl shrugged her shoulders and laughed.

"What's so exciting about this excitement? It's true that the servants around the Seventh Young Master used the straw bags in the ice cellar for other purposes. Even the third lady will be ridiculed." Boiled milk sauce, this is for the sixth young master to make milk sugar.

"Hey, the face of the third lady has long been lost." Aunt Su opened the pantry and took out the large teapot containing herbal tea.

"The resentment accumulated by the third wife for several years will explode sooner or later. Be careful and keep a distance from the people in the third room, lest one day you will be affected by the fish in the pond." Bai Kou patiently stirred the sauce that was getting thicker and thicker in the pot , indicating to the little girl to prepare the container for the sauce.

Spread oil paper in the copper bowl, pour the milk sauce into it, cover it with clean gauze and put it in a ventilated place, and put it in the ice cellar after it cools down.

The leftover milk used for the milk sauce is not wasted. Melt the butter in heat-insulating water, add fine sugar and stir well, then add milk and stir well, then add sifted flour and stir well, and finally add flaxseed and stir until final of batter.In this era, there is no high-temperature oil paper that can be put into the oven, so it can only be oiled on the baking pan, and the batter is spread on the baking pan. The back of the copper spoon is dipped in water to spread the batter as thinly as possible, and then put it in the oven In the middle, the flax is crispy after roasting, and if it is replaced with sesame, it is called sesame crispy.

Bai Kou just stirs the batter, and leaves the bakery to the little girls. After so many days of training, they already have some experience with the oven.

The girls carried the batter to the oven room next door, and Bai Kou brought a pot of puff pastry from the stove next to the stove, folded and rolled it repeatedly until it was folded in half like a quilt for the last time, cut into thin slices and placed in the oven. In the baking tray, sprinkle sugar and send it to the oven room to wait for baking.

Today's snacks are all sweet, Bai Kou can imagine what kind of stinky face the third young master will have, so she took a little chicken from the dinner ingredients to make fried chicken skewers with seasonal vegetables, this one has no marinated meat Time, the diced chicken only needs to be mixed in the marinade, and then put on the bamboo sticks scalded with boiling water together with the vegetables, put the oil in the pan and fry slowly on a low heat, brush the seasoning sauce before leaving the pan, and then fry After a while, you can sprinkle white sesame seeds on the plate.

While frying the chicken skewers, the third young master arrived home.

The chicken skewers that were originally intended to coax the mouths of the third young masters became the snacks that the two brothers scrambled for. Bai Kou had to temporarily change the dinner menu and take out all the chicken to make chicken skewers, which made the two young masters enjoy eating.

(End of this chapter)