The ultimate rebirth of the abandoned woman

Chapter 212 The Family Has a Good Wife ([-])

A young lady from a family like Xiao Nan said that she cooks in person, but it's just 'talking'. Whose young lady can really go into the kitchen and wash her hands to make soup?
Even if a newly married lady wants to cook for Wenggu on the second day, it is the chefs who have prepared all the ingredients and the fire. When the lady comes, she only needs to pour the ingredients into the pot and cook. up...

However, today is different from the past, Xiao Nan suddenly remembered all kinds of things in her previous life, and she felt a little depressed.

For women, the way to adjust their mood is nothing more than shopping or gourmet food.

In Datang, shopping and the like are fine, what Xiao Nan can do now is to cook some delicious meals with his own hands, and then treat himself well.

Of course, it would be even better if he could earn some fame for himself.

He got up and went back to the main courtyard to change his clothes, Xiao Nan left and told Yuzan: "Go, ask someone to go to the yamen of Dali Temple and tell Lang Jun, and say that today is the first day of work for you, and Lang Jun is in the yamen. You are a junior here, and you still need a lot of advice from seniors, our Cui family would like to invite all the lords in the yamen to have a light meal, so at noon, please don't go to receive the 'porch meal'."

As a civil servant in the Tang Dynasty, Cui Da and their colleagues had working meals, and because they ate under the corridor of the Yamen, it was also called "corridor meal".

The corridor meals of officials vary according to their grades, and the richness of the meals also varies.Officials above the fifth rank still eat fresh mutton or pork every day, while officials below the fifth rank mostly have vegetables as the main working meal.

Cui Datongxie is a sixth-rank official. According to the rules, he can only eat ordinary work meals. This is absolutely unbearable for a family who pays attention to "never tire of food and fine food" and treats meals as works of art. of.

For this reason, it is necessary to deliver meals to Cui Da every day, and it is also an opportunity for Xiao Nan to show "virtuousness".

Not only Cui Da, Cui Youbo, but the old Xianggong, Xianggong, and Cui Yanbo of the Cui family, every time they went to work in the yamen, they would cook meals in the kitchen at home, and then send their servants to deliver them.In order to keep the meals from getting cold, the Cui family also specially equipped the horse-drawn carts or bullock carts with small copper stoves for hot meals, so as to ensure that the gentlemen can also eat steaming hot meals in the yamen.

Today is Cui Da's first day at work, Xiao Nan wants to support him.

"Yes, the servant girl will order someone to go."

Seeing that Xiao Nan had already changed his clothes, Yuzan knew that the Princess has made up her mind, and no matter how much she persuaded, the Princess would not change her mind.

While speaking, Xiao Nan had already arrived at the big kitchen.

In the big kitchen, Mrs. Sun just came back and was sitting in the cubicle drinking tea soup.

For some reason, Mrs. Sun always felt that something was going to happen. Although the princess lady said nicely, she would not touch the errands of these ladies in charge, but... After all, she is the new master, and I can't touch her temperament at all. Above, if anything is not done according to the lady's wishes, she may lose this lucrative job.

Just when she was thinking wildly, the cooks outside exclaimed, "Lady!"

What?The lady is here?

God, is my premonition true, the lady is really going to use her kitchen as a knife.

Madam Sun was frightened for a moment, and almost threw the teacup out of her hand, so panicked that she grabbed the teacup with both hands... The teacup was not broken, but the tea soup inside spilled on her sleeves.

Miss Sun didn't bother to wipe the stains, and hurried out of the cubicle, and she saw Xiao Nan in narrow-sleeved fine linen clothes standing in front of the chopping board, surrounded by several greasy-faced cooks, whispering something .

After swallowing her saliva, Mrs. Sun squeezed forward and greeted respectfully, "I wish my lady well, what do you want?"

Xiao Nan was picking out the ingredients, when he heard this, he turned his head slightly, glanced at the nervous lady Sun, and said: "Today I want to cook some food for Mr. Arrange for two skilled fire-burning girls, besides, this orange is not enough, go to the small warehouse to get some more."

Mrs. Sun was afraid that Xiao Nan would not let her interfere in anything, but now that she heard this series of orders, her nervous mood calmed down a lot, and she nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, I will go now, my lady, do you have any other orders?" ?”

Xiao Nan looked at the ingredients that had been washed and cut on the chopping board. These meals are okay for home cooking, but there are few banquets for colleagues, so he said to Mrs. Sun: "The few urns of spinach that were prepared last year are still in the vegetable cellar. How about you? Tell two people to go to the vegetable cellar, and get me four plates of each dish, and I want side dishes."

Watercress is also the Tang version of pickled vegetables. The Cui family is a family, and there are many secret methods for pickling vegetables in the Cui family’s recipes. One of them is Cui’s Song soup (it’s pickled cabbage). It’s very famous in the family circle. .

Mrs. Sun hurriedly said: "It's all in the vegetable cellar, I will order someone to fetch it."

Xiao Nan suddenly thought of the scorpion soup, and added another sentence, "take more succulent soup, this meal is sent to the lord's yamen for you to eat, our Cui family's succulent soup is very good, Presumably gentlemen like it too."

Mrs. Sun said again and again: "That's right, the reputation of our Cui family's food has been praised by even the saints in the palace—"

In the middle of speaking, Mrs. Sun swallowed it back again, and she just wanted to slap herself in the face—this stupid mouth, why does everything go bald when you are happy?The one in the palace is the lady's real grandfather.

In fact, Mrs. Sun is used to showing off, and this is also a common problem of aristocratic families. She often takes pleasure in overwhelming the royal family-hehe, there is no way, her family has a family history of hundreds of years, but the one who lives in the Tai Chi Palace is a A complete nouveau riche, not to mention etiquette and book collection, even the recipes of private kitchens in his hands, the aristocratic family is a few streets away from the royal family.

Xiao Nan was not angry, this is the usual way of the aristocratic family, if someday the aristocratic family does not trample on the royal family or nobles, they will not be the gentry who are used to pretending to be 13.

Besides, Xiao Nan is also from a noble family, if you compare family history and recipes, her Lanling Xiao family is no worse than the Cui family.

Well, thinking of this, Xiao Nan really remembered a few family dishes of the Xiao family.

"Who has the best knife skills? Or, who cuts the carp at home?"

Xiao Nan glanced at the dozen or so cooks present, and asked calmly.

"Nu, I can't say that my knife skills are the best, but the carp at home are all cut by Nu."

Among the cooks, a 25-year-old plump lady stepped out of the queue and said timidly.

Xiao Nan raised his chin, "Is there any carp today, let me have a look."

The cook hurriedly replied: "Yes, I will go and get it."

Saying that, the cook hurried out of the kitchen, went to the vegetable cellar next door and brought back a one-foot-high celadon urn.

Carefully uncovering the bowl on the urn, the cook picked up a pair of long bamboo chopsticks and a small porcelain bowl from the chopping board, put a few slices of marinated carp into the bowl, and then held the small Show Xiao Nan the bowl.

Xiao Nan looked at the sliced ​​carp that was not much thicker than paper, and nodded in satisfaction, "That's right, what's your name?"

When the cook saw this, a flash of surprise flashed in her heart, but she still managed not to laugh, put down her chopsticks, and saluted, "My mother-in-law's family name is Hu, and everyone calls her Lady Nuhu."

"Okay, Mrs. Hu, you and I will go to the small kitchen and help me out. Yulian will also come, and everyone else can go their own way."

Xiao Nan waved his hand casually, and rushed all the cooks who surrounded him to continue cooking.

"Yes."

Under the envious gazes of all the cooks, Lady Hu happily followed Xiao Nan into the small kitchen next to the big kitchen.

At this time, Lady Sun had already ordered someone to bring in the oranges and other ingredients that Xiao Nan wanted.

"Empty these oranges, wash them, and don't throw away the tops, I still have use for them."

Xiao Nan washed his hands, raised his hands and let Yulian help her tie her apron.

"Yes, lady, is this orange carved according to the shape of orange custard?"

Madam Hu was really clever, and immediately thought of the custard cup prepared for the little lady this morning.

Xiao Nan is very satisfied, she likes to use smart people, she nodded: "Yes, the orange must be carved more delicately, I am going to invite Lang Jun's colleagues to eat it." Like a work of art, you are too embarrassed to invite others to eat it.

"Hey, I understand, my lady, don't worry, hehe, the orange custard this morning is also an orange bowl carved by this slave."

Lady Hu wiped her hands with her apron, took out her usual slender food carving knife, flipped her wrist a few times, and cut off the top of the orange. Put the top cover aside, cut off the orange flesh with a small knife, and dug it out. After digging out the flesh, Mrs. Hu took out a smaller carving knife, swished it a few times, and carved it on the outer wall of the orange cup. A few small flowers.

When there was only a cup of tea, a small and exquisite orange rice cup was dug out.

Seeing this, Xiao Nan was even more satisfied, "Very good, every group of four orange cups will be carved in the pattern of plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, and rich peony."

"Yes, I obey."

Mrs. Hu responded with her mouth, and kept her hands, swiping a few times, and carved into a small orange cup with orchids carved on the outer wall.

"My lady, which dish do you want to cook?"

Yulian is a domestic slave of the Xiao family, and her aunt is the cook in the Xiao family's kitchen, and she also knows a few dishes from Xiao's private kitchen.

"Bihe group meal."

Xiao Nan stood aside, waiting for the fire girl to control the fire.Today is not a future generation. There is no gas stove or induction cooker. They are all big stoves. If you want to control the heat, even a non-professional fire girl can't do it.

After hearing this, Yulian began to prepare. She first found a pottery kettle to wash and added half a can of mountain spring water, and then went to the rice tank to get a large bowl of japonica rice. After washing it, she poured the rice into the pottery pot .

After washing the rice, Yulian found another piece of pork, as well as green onions, bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, and white fungus. She cut all these ingredients into cubes of the same size, and then poured them all into the clay pot.

At this time, the girl who burned the fire had already warmed the stove, and after reporting the report, she retreated to one side and waited for dispatch.

Seeing that the servants were all ready, Xiao Nan took the pottery cauldron with his own hands and put it on the stove, then took salt, pepper, cardamom and other seasonings, lifted the lid, and poured in some seasonings with a small silver spoon. Except for Xiao Nan and Yu Lian who was next to her, no one else in the kitchen could see clearly what was going on.This is also normal, since it is a family dish, how can you learn it secretly?
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