delicious little cook

Chapter 3 Kitchen chores are heavy and tiring

The apprentices had to get up to work before dawn every day, and under the instructions of the third-class cook and cook, they made some preparations for breakfast.

The Duke's Mansion bought 24 outstanding apprentices who had been trained for many years from different chef workshops, saying that it was to supplement the kitchen staff, but the apprentices have been here for two months, but they have not had a chance to cook.

These two assessments were all boring basic skills. The apprentices had never even done such tasks as watching the stove fire and kneading dough and mixing stuffing. They usually washed, picked and slaughtered with the handymen.

When the sky was bright, the girls from each house and courtyard came to get breakfast. Although there were many people, it was not chaotic at all. Behind each girl was a master with a different status, and it was enough to receive the food boxes in order.

Seeing the girls leaving with their breakfast smoothly, everyone in the kitchen had time to eat their breakfast in a hurry.

A little later, the warehouse delivered today's ingredients, Wen Gushan arranged the dishes, picked out the ingredients for lunch, and the apprentices and handymen began to deal with them. The cooks and cooks had some rest time and went out in twos and threes. Take a break, and wait until it's time to cook before coming back to wash your hands and go to the stove.

After a tense lunch time like a war, everyone has a short respite during the day, but the rest is less than an hour at most, and the kitchen will start making afternoon snacks, then dinner, and then there will be supper.

The apprentices seized the time to go back to take a nap. Bai Kou didn't take the lunch break. Instead, after cleaning the kitchen, she faced the shelves full of ingredients and the seasoning cabinet, and recited the Chinese and foreign recipes accumulated in her previous life in her heart.

In her previous life, she was a famous chef with numerous awards. She was good at both banquet dishes and home-cooked dishes. When she had time, she would cook time-consuming and labor-intensive state banquet dishes for family and friends. Waking up on the body, but this poor deity, because of a careless carving, the carving knife cut through the tiger's mouth and died of wound infection.

In the memory fragments of the deity, it is an obsession to become the official cook of the Duke of Ye's mansion. It is for a set of Bai's recipes in the mansion of the Duke of Ye. It was the cook who accompanied the army. Because of this credit and his superb cooking skills, after Taizu ascended the throne, he was rewarded for meritorious service. The Bai clan has always been the hereditary imperial cook, known as "Royal Cook Bai".

Bai's recipes are the family wealth passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors of the royal chef Bai family. It embodies the highest culinary wisdom of each generation of ancestors. It records the most proud homemade dishes of the ancestors.

And why this set of recipes came from the Bai family to Duke Ye's mansion, and why Bai Kou, who was supposed to be an official lady, was sold to Xuexuefang, that is another story.

If he wants to see that set of books again, Bai Kou must become an official cook at all costs, and then climb up step by step to the position where he has the right to borrow recipes from his masters.

Kitchen Manager!

Be a kitchen supervisor by all means!

An hour later, the quiet east kitchen compound became lively, and the cooks and cooks came over one after another to make afternoon snacks for the masters. Bai Kou was cleaning the yard, sweeping the scattered leaves and feathers by the well into a pile, Put it in the garbage basket, so that it will not be blown everywhere by the wind.

After a while, an old servant who collected garbage came in, put down a few empty baskets, and carried away the full ones.

There are many masters, big and small, in the house, and the daily workload in the kitchen is not easy at all. The rice that is boiled alone has to be counted, and the garbage produced is of course packed in baskets.

You must know that under the old Duke's knees, there are three sons, two daughters, and three daughters.

The parents are still there, and the family is not separated, so the three masters and their family members still live in the Duke's Mansion, and they have given birth to 16 grandchildren over the years.

After the eldest lady and the second lady got married one after another, the old man fell ill, and all the happy events in the follow-up plan were put on hold, so there are still fourteen young masters and ladies in the mansion, and counting the number of concubines, There are as many as two to thirty masters, big and small.

With so many masters living in a big house now, three meals a day plus snacks and suppers, and extra extra meals, basically there is not enough rest time in the kitchen, even the stewards and first-class cooks who only serve the masters The cooks are quite tired after a day.

Soup is stewed on the stove in the kitchen of the red case, while the kitchen of the white case is busy making desserts. The third-class cooks and maids are taking care of the work, and it is not up to the apprentices to do it. They can only sit by the well and peel and wash the melons. nutshell.

Half an hour later, the maids from various courtyards serving the masters took time to come to the kitchen to get snacks, and then the handymen began to clean the kitchen and prepare for dinner, and the others had a little rest time, and each took a break .

Bai Kou sat on the door pier outside the corner door of the kitchen. The path leading out of the corner door leads to the courtyards where everyone lives and the back door of the Duke's Mansion, and leads to the kitchen gate at the other end. It connects with the main road in the mansion. through the road.

"Bai Kou, do you want to eat walnuts?"

Bai Kou was staring at the high wall in a daze when Lu Doudou jumped out from behind her, holding a handful of broken shelled walnuts in her hand, which were thrown away after the shell was broken with a small copper hammer because it was difficult to pick the meat. The mouths of everyone in the kitchen.

"You eat it, I don't want it, it hurts to peel."

Lu Doudou was not too polite, put on the apron and put down the walnuts, with a white cockroach on her buttocks, snatched half of the door, and sat next to her.

"Why are you in a daze here?" Lu Doudou had a good mouthful of teeth, and he directly bit open the walnut shell with his upper teeth.

"Think about where we'll all be in a month's time."

"Cough!" Lu Doudou choked on the walnut shell fragments, "I'm just happy, don't remind me of this!"

"You'll be happy if you eat some walnuts? Look at your prospects."

"Otherwise, what should I do? Cry for a month?" Lu Doudou rolled her eyes.

Bai Kou was silent, thinking that Lu Doudou's words made sense, so she also reached out and took a piece of walnut from Lu Doudou's apron to lick the taste.

Lu Doudou, who was concentrating on trying to get through walnut shells with her teeth, suddenly stiffened, elbowed Bai Kou hard, and shouted nervously in a low voice.

"Look, someone is coming! It's a man!"

"How rare, when will there be no one on this road?"

Bai Kou was taken aback, looked up, and sure enough, there was a boy in commoner clothes coming from the direction of the mansion along the narrow passage, he didn't look like he was going to the back door, because his eyes circled around the two of them.

"Who is he!? What are you doing looking at us!?"

Lu Doudou was so nervous that she couldn't even bite into the walnut shell, she clutched Bai Kou's sleeve tightly and tried to stay behind her.

"Doudou, don't move around, you will be seen by the people in the courtyard."

Bai Kou hurriedly stabilized Lu Doudou first, and the two of them huddled together on the door pier, but Lu Doudou was leaning against the door frame, half of her body was in sight of the people in the courtyard, if she couldn't hold back and yelled, she would be fine Something has to happen.

Lu Doudou quickly took a deep breath and remained seated, but still nervously grabbed Bai Kou's sleeve.

The boy in common clothes obviously didn't expect that there were two girls sitting outside the corner door of the kitchen. He hesitated for a moment, turned his toes slightly, as if he wanted to turn around, but after thinking about it, he went straight to Bai Kou and Lu Doudou.

(End of this chapter)