delicious little cook

Chapter 20

The experienced Bai Kou would naturally not be disturbed by such urging, but she still quickly scanned the entire shelf, regretting that the ingredients in the first choice recipe in her heart were not enough, since she had no choice, she did not choose , decisively took the dustpan handed by the girl, and took the ingredients needed for the second choice recipe.

The performance of each apprentice falls into the eyes of the masters in the spectator seats. You can tell who is confident and who is hesitant by looking at their backs and movements.

Within two moments, everyone's selection of ingredients was over. In front of the spectators, a table was displayed, with only an incense burner on it. Mama Pang lit a special stick of incense and inserted it on the incense burner.

Half an hour later, the timer starts.

Bai Kou's second choice recipe is purse tofu, which has simple ingredients and simple cooking. It is not only a home-cooked dish, but also can be used in banquets.

The starting point for setting this recipe is that Bai Kou focused on the filial piety banquet on the day of the three-year filial piety. It was a banquet that only family members could attend, and it was the most urgent banquet in the mansion.

No matter how lively the rumors are among the servants in the mansion, it is said how the great master will prosper in the future, but after all, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials have not yet officially issued an order and issued a document, so the success of the noble and promotion are unknown, so only this clan Banquets are business.

From this point of view, tofu is often a must-have ingredient for this kind of banquet, so making a new tofu dish may win favor and give extra points.

Pouch tofu is a quick dish that can be completed within two minutes from the processing of the ingredients to the completion of the finished product.

Bai Kou concentrated on cooking without distraction, pounding mashed tofu, dicing ham, lighting a fire and boiling water to blanch vegetables. Every step was done without panic. As for the other 23 people, they had their own performances at this moment.

As an excellent apprentice in various culinary arts workshops, he should have some experience in cooking competitions, but today's specification is too high-end, all the masters are here, how can people not be nervous, Bai Kou's composure is what makes him appear The most unusual, the masters and maids in the spectator seats often looked at her.

Since you are nervous, you will panic, and naturally you will make mistakes in your busy schedule, so from time to time, you will see people screaming in pain when they are splashed with boiling oil, or they can't hold the frying spoon steadily, and there are even poor eggs who accidentally spilled half of the pot. .

These big or small misses and accidents are naturally deduction items.

Those messy voices didn't affect Bai Kou who was already concentrating on it at all. When she took out the steamed tofu from the pot, dripped sesame oil, and finished the final arrangement of the dishes, she looked up and was a little surprised to find that she was the first an end.

The girl in charge of passing the dishes came over at the right time, Bai Kou picked up the dish and put it gently into the tray in the other party's hand, watched her walk up to the sidelines to show the dishes to the masters, then returned to the stage and put the tray on the table. On another table with tableware, they were divided into seven food plates, and then the old lady and the big girl next to the old lady came over and sent the food plates to his master to start tasting.

By this time, Bai Kou was finally really nervous. The work ahead was under her control, but the final tasting and scoring were all in the hands of others. She was the first to complete it. Can she be selected? Becoming an official cook can only depend on prayers.

The seven judges on the stage began to score after tasting the food, and then handed over the scoring paper to Mama Pang to calculate the total.

The third young master, who had been sitting quietly behind the eldest lady, waved lightly to his maid at this time, and then a young girl who looked to be 20 years old walked towards Mama Pang, saw the total score just calculated, and then returned to her young master A few words were whispered around.

The third young master immediately raised his head and chatted with the eldest lady and the elder, and then with the old matriarch. From Bai Kou's perspective, it was only the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren who were chatting happily.

Bai Kou withdrew her gaze and stopped staring at the spectator seats. Instead, she began to clean the stove, went to a bucket by the wall to get water to wash the pot, and restored the stove to its original state.

There are too many people in the spectator seats. If she keeps staring at the third young master, she will always be discovered. If she leaves a bad impression on the masters, it will not be good for her to stay in the mansion. Find something to do so you don't have to stand around and be bored.

While she was doing the aftermath, someone else finished the dishes one after another, and the girl passing the dishes came and went, and the spectator seats gradually became lively.

Everyone finished their dishes within the time limit, and the results of the score rankings came later. Mengmei's sweet and sour live fish ranked first. When the masters tried it, they nodded in unison, with happy faces.

Bai Kou's purse tofu ranked fourth. When she heard the result, she let out a sigh of relief, and Mama Pang immediately announced that this dish had been selected as one of the dishes on the Xiaoyan banquet menu.

Pang's mother took the note and said it from the book in a flat tone, but as soon as she finished reading this, it caused an uproar among the apprentices. She looked at Bai Kou with mixed emotions, envy, jealousy and hatred, but there were not many in the spectators. The voice was obviously the result of the unanimous agreement of the seven masters.

Bai Kou hurried to the spectator seats, thanking the masters, her whole face was flushed with excitement and joy.

She just wanted to be opportunistic and earn a little extra points for herself, but she didn't expect to be selected into the menu, which was really a surprise.

Afterwards, Lu Doudou's crispy meat rolls came in sixth. She clutched her chest and looked almost over-stressed, with tears glistening in the corners of her eyes.

If you still follow the old rules and only win the top six this time, it will be over if you go to Lu Doudou, but think about the value of an excellent cooking apprentice who is worth more than 50 taels of silver. It was 200 taels, and the eldest lady in charge of the family would naturally have to see if it was worth the money anyway.

The list of 12 people who were selected was read out quickly, and more than half of the eliminated people had various mistakes and accidents. Only two or three people were squeezed out by a difference of one or two points, crying into tears.

Mengmei led the other 11 people to stand in front of the spectators and salute and thank the masters.

After the ceremony, the masters began to get up and leave, while the new couple stood aside, bowing their heads respectfully.

After all the masters had left, Wen Gushan waved and took his new subordinates back to the kitchen to cook lunch.

The twelve people who failed were not wasted. Before the order of the eldest lady, they had to work as handymen to earn food for themselves, and the role of the kitchen had nothing to do with them.

In the kitchen compound, Wen Gushan left Mengmei and the others behind, announced to the other chefs and ladies that they were the winners, and then called the third-class veteran chefs over to stand with the newcomers.

"Tomorrow morning at the same time, your group of third-class chefs will compete again. The top sixteen winners will be the official third-class chefs, and all losers will be sent out of the house."

Wen Gushan announced a new news with a serious face.

(End of this chapter)