gourmet chef

Chapter 527 Cordyceps Duck Soup

Bai Xiaobai said, "I haven't thought of it yet, let me think about it."

Right now, Bai Xiaobai's thoughts are in a mess. Frankly speaking, he has no thoughts at all right now, and he doesn't know how to cook.

It is really difficult to reproduce the same Cordyceps Duck Soup more than 60 years ago.

It is difficult for a dish to have exactly the same taste, even if it is from the same chef.

Because the amount of seasoning can't be exactly the same every time, so the taste will be different every time.

Bai Xiaobai either does not do it, or does it best.

Want to reproduce a delicacy.

The first thing to focus on is the ingredients of this delicacy.

Cordyceps duck soup, as the name suggests, the main ingredients are Cordyceps sinensis and old duck meat.

The key is that even if it is the combination of these two main ingredients, there are many combinations.

First of all, Bai Xiaobai had no thoughts about the choice of Cordyceps sinensis.

Cordyceps sinensis from different origins not only have different medicinal effects, but also have different tastes in the stewed soup.

Moreover, the taste of Cordyceps sinensis picked at different times is also different.

Furthermore, the choice of duck meat also made Bai Xiaobai want to break his head.

There are also many kinds of duck meat that can be raised in the snow area, and the taste of different duck meat must be different.

This shows that if you want to reproduce the Cordyceps Duck Soup more than 60 years ago, the premise is to choose these two key ingredients.

Bai Xiaobai was thinking without thinking.

At this moment the door opened.

Gao Chao came in, holding a big notebook in his hand.

"Bai Xiaobai, Mr. Chen asked me to give this to you."

Bai Xiaobai asked, "What is this?"

Gao Chao said, "Mr. Chen said that this is the Cordyceps Duck Soup made by other chefs in the past ten years. This is the type of ingredients they choose, as well as the related cooking methods. He asked me to show it to you. Maybe it will give you some ideas. "

Fortunately, Chen Qian has records, so that Bai Xiaobai can stand on the shoulders of his predecessors and avoid detours.

He opened the big book and read it carefully.

There are many records in the book, including the time of cooking, the selection of various specific ingredients, and the specific cooking methods.

Each page is accompanied by a photo, which is very clear.

In addition to recording the content of the chef, there is also a detailed record of Chen Qian's mother's feelings about the Cordyceps Duck Soup they cooked.

Bai Xiaobai read these contents carefully. These are valuable experiences and can be a good reference for him.

Because there was a lot of content, Bai Xiaobai was still reading until dinner time.

Not only reading, but also repeatedly analyzing the failure experience of his predecessors.

Dinner was eaten at Chen Qian's house.

"Boss Bai, dinner suits your appetite, don't you have any special advice?" Chen Qian asked.

The private chefs of Chen Qian's family are all star chefs of the hotel, so it goes without saying that they are good at cooking.

"Not bad." Bai Xiaobai said, "By the way, Mr. Chen, I read the records in the notebook today, and found that the taste of the Cordyceps Duck Soup prepared by a chef is quite similar to that of 60 years ago. "

Chen Qian said, "Yes, this was made by a chef three years ago, but the Cordyceps duck soup he made, my mother thinks the taste is quite similar, but there is still a little difference, the taste of the soup is not quite right."

"Then is the chef still around?" Bai Xiaobai asked.

He wanted to ask the chef some questions in person.

Chen Qian said, "The chef passed away in a car accident last year. He has been studying the Cordyceps Duck Soup that my mother drank for the past two years. Although the taste is getting more and more similar, it is still not exactly the same."

Originally, Bai Xiaobai could communicate with this chef face to face. After all, what he does is a bit similar. He must have his own experience, and he can learn from it.

Now this only hope is dead.

But fortunately, the information on how he made the Cordyceps Duck Soup was recorded in detail in this book.

After dinner, Bai Xiaobai turned on the lamp to read at night, continuing to study the chef's cooking process.

In the choice of ingredients, this chef uses fresh Cordyceps sinensis, paired with the original ecological plateau native duck, adds two red dates, and a few wolfberries. The cooking method is to stew in a pressure cooker.

According to his cooking method, he keeps the whole local duck intact, takes out the internal organs, and fills the internal organs with cordyceps sinensis, red dates, and wolfberry.

Then put two slices of ginger, and use the pure ice water from the mountains, and put them together in a pressure cooker to stew.

The cooking method is relatively simple, not difficult.

According to Chen Qian's mother's feelings, this soup is a bit like what she remembered back then, but it's not exactly the same, it seems that something is missing.

But she couldn't tell what was wrong.

Intuition tells Bai Xiaobai that the chef who cooks like this back then should have no problem with the choice of ingredients.

The key should still be in the cooking method.

Gao Chao held the bowl, pushed the door in, saw Bai Xiaobai frowning, and said, "I'm still thinking about it, but the body is more important, let's drink some yak bone soup, it tastes pretty good."

As Gao Chao said, he put the soup bowl beside Bai Xiaobai's table.

After thinking about it for a long time, Bai Xiaobai was a little hungry at the moment, and he picked up the bowl casually, and took a sip of the yak bone soup.

The taste is mellow and strong, with a strong sense of collagen, which is very different from the ordinary beef bone broth that you drink in the mainland.

Bai Xiaobai asked, "Gao Chao, do you think this yak bone broth is particularly delicious?"

Gao Chao said, "The taste is really good. I just went to their kitchen to check it out. They cook it in a pressure cooker with strong airtightness, so the soup tastes really good."

No wonder.

XZ is a high-altitude area. The higher the altitude, the lower the air pressure, so the corresponding boiling point of water is also lower.

When the water boils in the XZ plateau area, it is generally only about 80 degrees, and it is difficult to cook food under such conditions.

Therefore, pressure cookers are generally used locally in XZ to increase the air pressure and cook food.

correct.

pressure cooker?
Bai Xiaobai suddenly thought of something, and he looked carefully at the method recorded in the notebook.

After browsing all.

Bai Xiaobai discovered that all chefs have one thing in common.

Without exception, these chefs all use pressure cookers when cooking Cordyceps Duck Soup.

Bai Xiaobai was wondering if there might be a difference in cooking utensils.

For example, Uncle Chen Qian did not use a pressure cooker to cook Cordyceps Duck Soup, but other cooking utensils.

But if you use other utensils, it is difficult to cook meat at such a high altitude.

In order to prove his conjecture, Bai Xiaobai asked Chen Qian again.

Chen Qian said, "My mother said that she only drank soup and didn't eat meat, so she didn't know what it tasted like."

It almost fits with Bai Xiaobai's initial guess.

If he guessed correctly, the reason why he has not been able to reproduce the Cordyceps Duck Soup for so many years is the cooking utensils.

But now there is another very contradictory place.

If you don't use a pressure cooker, can the soup made by ordinary cooking utensils taste good?

In addition, what kind of common cooking utensils did Uncle Chen Qian use back then?

(End of this chapter)