delicious little cook

Chapter 118

Early the next morning, the people in the warehouse brought the fresh ingredients to Wenling Courtyard. Bai Kou asked them to bring the list and letter to Uncle Yan. In megacities, there are shops for daily life in each square, which are opened on the central cross street connecting four gates. In addition, in the streets and alleys of large and small houses, only shopkeepers are allowed to sell along the street. The big market is more like a comprehensive large-scale wholesale market.

The beans need to be soaked first, and the bean paste can be made tomorrow at the earliest. Bai Kou asks people to put the things away, and then goes about her daily routine.

In the afternoon, the little girl went to the ice cellar to get ice, and the third wife and daughters-in-law of Shui complained one after another. The three days stipulated by Bai Kou had come, and none of the straw bags taken by the seventh young master's girl had returned, and the amount of ice used by the fat young master was The biggest one, the girl came to pick up several times a day, two bags of ice at a time, exactly twenty straw bags disappeared under his name.

The manual cost of twenty straw bags is twenty Wen. In the capital, labor is not worth much, but the price is expensive. One meat bun costs two Wen. This is ten meat buns.

Bai Kou silently wrote two notes, one for Yan Bo and one for the third young master to pass to the eldest lady.

Because strictly speaking, Uncle Yan is only the steward of the kitchen warehouse, and his superior is the chief steward who manages all the warehouses in the mansion. When he reports to the higher level, it's better for Bai Kou to tell the third young master directly.

The third young master didn't even run errands to deliver the letter by himself, the sixth young master did it for him. Gu Yun just got a reply from his parents when he routinely said good night after dinner.

The sixth young master delivered the letter early, so before dinner, when the old lady and the old lady met in the old lady's room, the eldest lady talked with the third lady in private. Remember, the next month will be directly deducted from the appropriation to Sanfang.

The third lady was distraught when she heard about the incident in the rich aunt's courtyard, and she was too lazy to argue with her servants for a few pennies, so she readily agreed with the eldest lady to deal with it in this way. See who is shamelessly saying that there is less money.

With Da Furen's arrangement, Bai Kou knew it well, and ordered the maids to soak the red beans in water, and then wrote a note to Yan Bo in the room, telling him that the matter was settled and that they would come to the warehouse to deliver it the next morning. Ask them to deliver the ingredients.

After sending the third young master off, the kitchen got busy. A big fire was lit under the stove, a large pot was set up, and the red beans soaked overnight were poured into the pot along with water and boiled.

This is a very time-consuming and patient manual work. First, it needs to be boiled for a long time, stirring constantly, and the floating bean skins are removed at any time. After cooking for an hour or two, the bean skins are also removed. Prepare a large Cover the basin with two layers of gauze, pour the soup and beans on the gauze, squeeze and filter until a ball of red bean paste remains on the gauze, and then change the wok to fry the remaining water in the bean paste.

This is the first time to make red bean paste in the small kitchen. In order to make good red bean paste at one time, Bai Kou and Zeng Zhu asked for leave and stayed in the small kitchen from morning to afternoon, without even taking a nap. The good bean paste is reserved for today’s snacks, and the rest are stored in clean small cans and stored in the ice cellar.

Red bean paste was originally a widely used ingredient for pastry, but the third young master didn't eat desserts, and Bai Kou never made any homemade red bean paste for backup. Now that the second lady is in need, she happens to make more for her group of people to make snacks.

In fact, the red bean paste can be obtained directly from the East Kitchen, just like the red case kitchen cooks broth and skin jelly every day, and the white case kitchen has to concentrate its staff to make several pots of red and white bean paste for backup every few days.

Bai Kou was sweating profusely and did it by herself, in order to teach the girls the complete steps, especially the four sisters who were about to be released. If they learned it, they would earn money.

After ordering the maids to knead the dough, Bai Kou found a basket, filled it with a few jars of red bean paste that were no longer hot, and took it to the ice cellar.

Bai Kou went out early, and when she arrived at the small courtyard, the girls who brought the ice packs for the young masters hadn't come yet. The third woman Shui and the daughters-in-law saw her coming, and hurried up to greet her, preparing lanterns to accompany her down.

This is a new rule of the ice cellar, no matter who is going to put something in the ice cellar, the wife must send it in and out with a lantern. At the same time, it is also a supervisor, so as not to have people messing with other people's things.

Bai Kou put away the bean paste, took four bags of ice and some nougat, and after returning to the ground, she gave one to each of them.

"The matter of the Seventh Young Master has already been reported. Ladies and gentlemen, we don't have to worry about it. We just need to make daily records."

"Don't worry, Sister Kou, we all know." The third wife Shui led the daughters-in-law to agree.

"Also, don't tell the outside world about this. After all, it's about the face of the masters. If it spreads, anyone's face will be ugly."

"Understand, understand, we won't talk about it."

Seeing that everyone nodded, Bai Kou left in peace.

But after walking out of the small courtyard of the ice cellar, Bai Kou took out a nougat from the ice bag and threw it into his mouth, with a small expression on his face waiting for the show, he walked away quickly.

Bai Kou didn't care at all whether Mistress Shui and the daughters-in-law would keep it a secret. She said this was just a trap deliberately set up to find fault.

The new manpower approved by the eldest lady for the ice cellar is four, and Mama Pang sent eight people. It took three or four days, and it was time to decide which half of the people should be eliminated, but they have been working honestly these days, and they can’t find them. If you want to pick the wrong place, then simply take advantage of the weakness of human nature.

Everyone loves gossip.

Other than Mei Lun Mei Huan and the third young master, those who knew the eldest lady's opinion didn't even know about Xiao Qian and Xiao Jing. The sisters would definitely not speak out. people.

It feels so good to have power in hand, and I feel a little excited just thinking about it.

After returning to Wenling Courtyard, Bai Kou rested for a while, and waited for the girls to prepare the dough before she washed her hands and put on her bun. She made some fried chicken with bean paste, and baked a batch of biscuits and a large pizza with the remaining dough. , the pizza is covered with fried chicken, smoked meat and vegetables, but unfortunately there is no brushed cheese, and the flavor is a bit worse.

As soon as the Chicken Roasted Fruit was taken out of the oven, the girls shouted how cute it was. There was no chocolate or cocoa powder, so Bai Kou had to use bean paste to smear the chicken's eyes and wing feathers on the roasted fruit, and put it on a plate for a glance. It looks like a fluffy little yellow chicken.

The roasted fruit was divided into two parts, one part was placed in front of the sixth young master in the hall, and the other part was sent to the second lady in a food box.

The Sixth Young Master screamed excitedly holding the plates, he couldn't eat any of them, he insisted on wrapping them up and bringing them back to his room to display, the girls had no choice but to hold back their laughter and went to the kitchen to get a food box to pack the snacks.

The big pizza made the two brothers burp, and the sixth young master hugged his stomach and said that he couldn't eat dinner. When he got up and was about to leave, he didn't forget to tell the girl to put the plate of sweet biscuits into the food box.

Seeing his younger brother like this, Gu Yun became more and more worried, so he called Meilun Meihuan to ask them to find a chance to remind the girl next to his younger brother to watch Sixth Young Master eating snacks, so don't look like Seventh Young Master.

The girl next to the second lady hurried over and handed the third young master a note, the second lady's personal letter, the chicken fruit is loved by the two ladies, and the taste is also very good, so it's decided, on the morning of the ninth day of May Get ready for a hundred.

Gu Yun gave the note to Bai Kou, he didn't worry about these things.

Bai Kou immediately decided to use the resources of East Kitchen to complete this task.

(End of this chapter)