Concubine Chef Youxi: Lord, Master, stop

Chapter 358

"Sure enough, it has a different style from Chang'an." Mi Xiaoye said, "What's next, mother-in-law?"

The mother-in-law laughed and said: "When the harvest is good, everyone grinds tofu, eats duck, and makes pickled fish. However, when the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, there will be plump snails. Stuffed snails and fresh chestnuts , Grapefruit, pears and other melons and fruits are the most beautiful at that time."

Mi Xiaoye propped her chin and said enviously: "I really want to eat fried snails. It feels like I haven't eaten them for a long time. In the past, fried snails, skewers, and crayfish were the most popular at the night market."

The mother-in-law smiled, ate a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake bought by Su Ziling, and said, "When the Double Ninth Festival comes, we will eat Jiuzhongpi here."

Su Ziling immediately became interested and asked, "What is the nine-fold skin?"

The mother-in-law said: "Jiuzhong skin is made of indica rice. It tastes fresh and fragrant, and it tastes very refreshing. Soak the indica rice, grind the rice milk, add salt, oil and kaempferen to taste. Then, pour the rice milk on a clean cloth Put it in a pot for steaming, add another layer of paste to the steamed layer, until the ninth layer, and sprinkle minced mushrooms, dried shrimp and green onion on the last layer. After steaming, cut into small pieces and eat."

"The snacks here are really exquisite." Liu Lin said with a smile.

The mother-in-law said: "When the new year comes, there will be more. At that time, the weather was cold and some places were dry, so it happened to be marinated meat to eat, and some vegetables were also marinated to eat in winter. It was very lively."

"Bacon?" Mi Xiaoye said, "I haven't eaten bacon here for a long time."

"What is bacon?" Li Yu asked the most questions.

The mother-in-law said: "In the twelfth lunar month, every family prepares New Year's meals. After the pork is marinated, it can not only be preserved for a long time, but also has a special delicacy. In winter, the family slaughtered the New Year's pig, selected the best pork belly with skin, divided In pieces, use salt, add pepper, anise, star anise, cinnamon, cloves, marinate in the tank, and people who can afford pepper will also add some pepper in. After half a month, hang them with palm leaf ropes , use cypress branches, sugarcane bark, toon tree bark or firewood to slowly smoke and roast, and then hang it up and smoke slowly to dry with fireworks.”

"Sure enough, it's different from Chang'an." Jun Yize said, "It seems that it really is a place and a flavor. I don't know how this kind of bacon tastes like."

Mi Xiaoye said: "The bacon here is delicious, and it has a smoky taste. The finished bacon is stored in the barn, so that it will be dry and will not spoil. When eating, wash it with a washing machine. The rice water washes off the black layer on the outside."

Jun Yijing asked: "Then how do you eat this bacon?"

"That's a lot." Mi Xiaoye said, "Bacon is useless, it's delicious when fried with any vegetables, and it can also be made into claypot rice, or put some when steaming rice, the rice that comes out is oily and smells like bacon. .”

Su Ziling said, "When we get back to Chang'an, let's try and see if we can do it."

"I believe you can." Jun Yize said, "If you make it, don't be stingy, Yijing and I will try it for you. After we have tested it, we can sell it in Yunlai."

Chatting with my mother-in-law until the evening, we don't want to bother you any more, so I bid farewell to my mother-in-law and went back to the post house.Before leaving, in order to thank her mother-in-law for her hospitality, Su Ziling gave her mother-in-law five pennies.The mother-in-law declined for a long time before accepting it.

"I really learned a lot today." Li Yu said, "This must be just the tip of the iceberg of Shang Dynasty food. It seems that I will know more than this in the future."

(End of this chapter)