Cao Cao's chef

Chapter 74 The Sensational Front Soup

It was late at night, the banquet was about to begin, and government officials began to take their seats one after another.

"Sniff..." Xun Yu kept twitching his nose, which made Guo Jia beside her very uncomfortable.

"Yan, if you are like this, I will be very embarrassed." Guo Jia glanced at the guests, although no one noticed this, but it still made her very shy.

"The smell from Yuan's body is so fragrant, it's unbearable!" Xun Yu sniffed greedily, "Is this the smell of charcoal-roasted whole lamb? It feels different from the roasted lamb in my impression!"

"It should be improved by Wuyou, Yan...you can eat it later...so..." Guo Jia has noticed at this moment, it seems that someone has noticed this side and looked over.At this moment, her face was already red hot.

"Then!" Xun Yu had an expression of 'scheming to succeed', "Tell me about the menu tonight, how about it?"

"No!" Guo Jia shook his head, "Anyway, we'll find out later!"

Sticking out his tongue, this is revenge for Xun Yu's previous behavior.At the same time, I was worried that after hearing the name of the menu, especially when I heard that haggis and even sheep blood were used as ingredients, would there be any changes in the banquet.

"Yuan...you have failed in your studies recently..." Xun Yu looked heartbroken.

Fortunately, Cao Cao also began to attend, which means that the banquet is about to begin.Before the banquet, as the governor and the immediate superior of the officials, he had to say some encouraging words.

"This plan lasted nearly a month, and the time was short, but it was a surprise to be able to achieve such a result. This month, thanks to everyone's cooperation and hard work, such a fruitful result is possible!" Cao Cao said here, After a little signal, the soldiers beside the officials began to help them fill up the wine.

"The current achievements are inseparable from everyone's hard work. Please, gentlemen, drink this cup with me!" Cao Cao raised his glass.

"My subordinates thank the lord for giving me the wine!" Everyone also responded one after another.

Wang Yong was relatively embarrassed. After all, he was the chef and had to supervise the order of serving dishes and safety issues, so he could not be seated.He could only stand aside, hold his wine glass, raise it towards Cao Cao from a distance, and then drank it all in one gulp.

Cao Cao also obviously noticed the movement here, and nodded towards Wang Yong, which was regarded as a response.To be honest, Wang Yong didn't even know if that move was a signal to himself...

"Continue like this, I feel like I'm going to develop in the direction of licking dogs... Do you want to harm a few little girls first?" Wang Yong secretly reminded himself that he is a normal man.You can be a warm man, wandering among many women, and you must never be a single-minded, selfless licking dog.

"This guy is definitely a villain!" Apparently Wang Yong forgot that there was a little girl beside him.When Yang Xiu heard this, he immediately thought that Wang Yong had taken her as a target, and his cheeks immediately became flushed.

"Oh, are you here?" Wang Yong remembered that there was another little guy beside him, "Don't worry, I'm not interested in little kids who haven't grown up!"

"You actually said such impolite words to a lady, what on earth are you thinking?!" Yang Xiu yelled directly, obviously with her self-cultivation, she really couldn't swear.

On the other side, the wine has already been drunk, so the banquet will naturally begin, and the chef has already begun to direct and serve the soup.

The Han Dynasty adopted a meal-sharing system.It's not that everyone in later generations gathers around a round table and eats from the same plate.Instead, the seats are set according to the status, one or two people are one seat, what the back kitchen needs is to divide the ingredients into several equal portions according to the number of guests, and send them to each seat.

Seats are also particular. For example, if there are very important guests and the principle of "left is the top", then Cao Cao will sit on the left side of the first place, and the guests will sit on the right side of the first place.

The lower seat, the seat closest to the upper seat, is called the upper seat, and the seat on the left is the most honored, followed by the right.The farthest place is the last seat.For example, now, the two lowest-ranking officials are sitting on the bottom seat, and Wang Yong can't even name them.

Following Cao Cao's signal, bowls of soup were brought out. As a pre-soup, one bowl is enough, mainly for appetizers, not for filling the stomach.Of course, I have prepared some more according to the usual practice. If anyone wants more, he can directly ask the waiter to get it.

"However, in banquets, the nature of communication is often stronger than the nature of tasting food. For example, this banquet is mainly a platform for the governor and his subordinates to deepen friendship, and the tasting of food is just incidental." Yang Xiu reminded, " So your haggis radish soup may be able to get away with it...although the taste is not bad..."

Seeing someone say something about the soup against his will, Wang Yong said that he should give her some face and not laugh.

I especially remember that half an hour ago, someone was so shocked by the taste of this soup that he was speechless.Then the whole person blushed, as if he had been directly swollen.

"Qiantang, haggis and radish soup!" Wang Yong stepped forward and shouted. As the chef, his duty is to report the name of the dish.

"Haggis, sheep's offal? Is that edible?" Sure enough, many people began to whisper, a little worried about the taste of this soup.Clearly, offal dishes haven't been able to go mainstream yet.To put it bluntly, it is probably like the British way of "looking up at the starry sky", it is a dark dish at all.

"Wang Yong!" Cao Cao looked at the people in the first place, and shouted, "Why do you think of cooking soup with haggis?"

"Return to the lord!" Wang Yong came out, "This subordinate slaughtered five sheep tonight. When the sheep were slaughtered, the sheep blood and haggis were left, and they were thrown away. I want everyone to taste such a delicious thing." taste."

"If it doesn't taste good, can I ask you to settle the score?" Cao Cao scooped up a spoonful of soup and a piece of lamb belly.

"If you really think it's not delicious, then the subordinates can only be willing to be punished!" What else could Wang Yong say, if a prince in the feudal era insisted that this dish was not delicious, who would not obediently be punished?Among them, there is no reason to say at all!

Take a step back and say, is this asking yourself to reason with a woman?Don't you know that there is a saying in later generations, which is called "unreasonable and repentant are women's patents!"

"That's good!" Cao Cao actually wanted to protect Wang Yong, otherwise she didn't need to try it, and someone would come out to find fault.You don't even need to taste it, you can directly punish the crime.

But she ate it, but it could be seen that before she ate it, her brows still frowned unavoidably.After all, it is the internal organs that most people don't eat. Eating this thing, like many people eating fried scorpions for the first time, requires a lot of courage.

At the entrance, it is not a smell, or the strong smell of mutton, but a faint smell of pepper.The taste of white pepper, the sweetness of shredded white radish, and of course the smell of mutton that cannot be ignored.However, after the suppression of pepper and the blending of radish, the taste is almost undetectable, but it seems to be developing in another direction.

The aroma of mutton, the key taste is very tender, which should be due to some processing techniques, and it tastes not greasy at all.

It is not easy to handle mutton well. On the one hand, the smell of mutton is difficult to suppress, and on the other hand, the greasy taste is uncomfortable.Maybe some poor people who haven't eaten oil for a long time will be very comfortable to eat such greasy mutton, but it is definitely not something that Cao Cao and others who have a better background and have not suffered much like it.

But pork is not tasty, beef is unbearable, lamb can only be tolerated obediently, stewed soup is actually okay.It wasn't until the appearance of cumin that the barbecue became more delicious.

"Does the haggis taste like this?" Cao Cao couldn't help but marvel, "It's not as smelly as expected. The key meat smell is stronger than that of mutton. How could it be so? Could it be that the change is because you put pepper?! "

"For seasoning, some pepper was indeed added." Wang Yong said with a smile. In fact, apart from pepper, there was also a little rice wine and a little pepper.

Later generations will also add spices such as cumin, star anise, grass fruit, bay leaf, sugar cane and orange peel. Of course, it is simpler and easier, just add a little curry powder to stew.After all, there are many of the above-mentioned spice ingredients in the curry powder that is bought now.

"The price of pepper is not cheap!" Cao Cao glared at Wang Yong directly.

"But the haggis costs almost nothing, so it didn't exceed the budget." Wang Yong pretended to be confused, and if he really counted it, can this haggis be considered as money?That was still included in the money he paid out, but if he didn't take the yamen's account, it wouldn't be a lie.

"This dark red lump is sheep's blood?" Cao Cao obviously saw the sheep's blood in the soup bowl.

"Exactly, the sheep's blood after coagulation and cooking has a good taste, and the taste is more fragrant!" Wang Yong replied.

"If someone asked me to eat sheep's blood before, I would definitely cut him off. This time I will show you face!" Cao Cao scooped up the sheep's blood and ate it under the watchful eyes of all the officials.

The goat's blood is delicious, and it dissipates like tofu in the mouth, and at the same time, it turns into a fragrant taste, which slides directly over the taste buds, and then enters the mouth and stomach.

"This...how could it taste like this?" Cao Cao didn't expect that sheep blood could be eaten, and the taste was okay!
Wang Yong actually wanted to say that in his hometown of Xi'an, there is a dish called sheep blood vermicelli soup!It can be used as a soup, and you can add some steamed buns to soak it if you want to be full.Lamb blood, vermicelli, and steamed buns are the main components, and the taste is 'numbing, spicy, salty, fragrant, light, and tender'.

"My subordinate once traveled to a place where the animal blood or poultry blood cooked in this way was called blood tofu. In terms of taste, it is really no different from tofu." Wang Yong said with a smile.

"Indeed, this taste is really good. This haggis and radish soup has a strong taste, but it is not strong. On the contrary, it stimulates the hunger... As the previous soup, it is qualified!" Cao Cao nodded and admitted this. Soup before.

Of course, it's not easy for other people to say anything, whether they like it or not, the main character reacts like this, so she/they are naturally not good at being hypocritical.

"As expected of Wuyou, haggis and sheep's blood can be used as ingredients to cook such delicious food!" Xun Yu naturally did his part and savored it carefully.And Guo Jia beside her was also slowly tasting the bowl of soup.

Originally, Wang Yong was in the back kitchen, and they already had a place for them, but who made Guo Jia still a clerk in the government office, and had her seat.On this point, Dian Wei is also in the same situation.Liu Li, Xu Huang and Yang Xiu were the only ones left, who had accompanied him to eat in advance in the back kitchen, and now they are full.

"The first main course of the banquet, white chopped chicken, serve!" Seeing that everyone finished drinking the soup, Wang Yong shouted again.

"Boiled chicken... I seem to have eaten too much a while ago..." Xun Yu had a sad face when he heard this.

　The last few chapters are all about banquet dishes...Chapter 2 will be released tonight!
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