Food starts with Mapo Tofu

"Fu Hao is a pretty good name, as expected of a name chosen by a scholar."

Chen Nian praised.

Fu Xin waved his hand: "If others say this, I can still accept it with an open mind, but if you say it, Brother Chen, I won't dare to accept it. Your knowledge is much better than mine."

Hearing this, Chen Nian also felt a little emotional. Although he was considered a top student in the real world, he was much worse than those real top students.

In fact, Fu Xin can be regarded as a top student at this time. His title of No. [-] Scholar will be equivalent to the No. [-] Scholar in the national college entrance examination in later generations.

Chen Nian is not the kind of person who admires the ancients, nor is he the kind who thinks that modern people must be better than ancient people, because every era has its own particularity. After the revolution, the world is developing rapidly.

Putting today's smart people in ancient times, or putting ancient smart people in modern times, can also make a difference.

And if someone like myself became a native ancient person, under ideal circumstances, he would probably be able to pass the Jinshi exam. If he was lucky enough to stay in the capital, he would almost be assigned to be a parent official in another area.

It's just that people are arrogant, and the choice of the times is also part of a person's luck. For these ancient people, they know more about the current vintage than they do.

In this way, Chen Nian chatted with him all night at Fu Xin's house, until Xiaolu and Xiao Mudan went back to sleep, and the two of them were still chatting here.

Seeing that it was getting late, Fu Xin left Chen Nian to rest here.

And Chen Nian can only stay, because there is a curfew in the city now, if he goes out and is caught, he will be jailed.

But Fu Xin also knew that Chen Nian was going to enter the palace in the early morning, so he specially arranged a carriage for Chen Nian.

When the bell rang outside and the curfew was lifted, Chen Nian, who had already prepared, took a carriage to the place that he had agreed with Song Qingzhou.

Song Qingzhou walked over. He didn't see Chen Nian at first, that is, Chen Nian poked his head out of the carriage and called him into the carriage.

"Chen Nian, why did you come here in a carriage? Whose family is this?"

"Master, this is from Fu Xin's family. He knew that I was going to enter the palace, so he specially arranged for a carriage. With a carriage, we can save ourselves from going. Although it is not far, it will take at least a stick of incense time to go there."

"Alright, but the relationship between you and Master Fu is really enviable."

"Yeah, he's pretty good. He looked down on me after he didn't pass the exam, but he treated me more politely. Last night I also had a rest at his place to catch up on the old days."

"Well, there must be some confidantes in life."

Hearing this, Chen Nian thought to himself that Fu Xin and I were very close friends. I hugged him when he was still wearing crotch pants, and later became friends again.

It can be said that Little Peony is not old enough to understand Fu Xin's behavior.

In this way, the two entered the palace through another door.

Entering the palace still had to be searched by the guards to avoid taking things that shouldn't be brought into the palace.

Returning to the imperial dining room again, everyone here was a little happy to see the two returned. During their absence, another imperial chef in the palace was on duty.

Scolding them all day long.

But they forgot that Song Qingzhou scolded them in the same way before Chen Lai.

It's just that after the old age, Song Qingzhou's temper restrained a little.

Even if Chen Nian has to make snacks at noon, Chen Nian will help Song Qingzhou for dinner.

While they were preparing breakfast, Song Qingzhou talked about the interesting things about him at the house yesterday.

After Tan Yuanqing went back at noon, he also told about meeting Mr. Zhou in the morning. Fortunately, when Chen Nian left, he left behind the method of making egg-filled pancakes, so the people in Tan's house could continue to do it.

……

After finishing their breakfast, they ate some more by themselves, and then took a short rest while taking advantage of the gap.

Chen Nian was asking Song Qingzhou about the dishes that were not recorded in the last banquet hosted by Dashiguo, and he had to figure them out.

Especially the cooking techniques of some ingredients that were not exposed to much before.

There are also some ingredients that are very rare now, how to deal with them.

Of course, ingredients like hump, bear paw, deer tail, etc. can only be learned and used here.

If you do the same thing when you go back, it will be too much punishment.

However, Chen Nian didn't plan to make snacks for them at noon today, and eating dim sum all day is meaningless. Earlier, he specifically asked Wang Jin and His Majesty to say that Chen Nian would make some new summer drinks after a while.

And Li Xu was naturally full of expectations.

What I want to make today is milk tea.

It's just that ordinary milk tea is not uncommon for the royal family of the Great Xia Dynasty. After all, the simple method is to boil milk and tea together, and then add some sugar.

What you want to do in the old age is the one you drank in the store before.

"Coconut milk poplar nectar and sweet-scented osmanthus jelly."

Anyway, these things are not difficult to make, but people at this time have never drunk it.

He has already thought about it, and there are many drinks that can be made, such as succulent peaches, sesame mangoes, grape milk caps, taro puree bobo and so on.

If I move all those from the milk tea shop out, at least I won't have to think about making new things for a few months.

Of course, it is impossible to drink milk tea for those empresses and His Majesty every day.

Still have to change some tricks.

For example, make snacks for ten days, drink milk tea after ten days, and make small cakes after a while.

And the life in the palace of Chen Nian began to go step by step.

Get up early every morning and cook breakfast with Song Qingzhou, then start thinking about making milk tea in the morning, go back to rest for a while at noon, and if Meng Tie, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, brings people over in the afternoon, Chen Nian will tell them some knowledge about physics and mathematics.

If not, follow Song Qingzhou to prepare dinner.

There is nothing to do at night, Chen Nian and Song Qingzhou usually go to ask for some cooking methods.

After learning, Song Qingzhou will also find time for Chen Nian to try to do it.

In the blink of an eye, another two months have passed, and Chen Nian feels that he has learned a lot of Tan family dishes and mastered the cooking methods of many kinds of ingredients.

"This Tan family cuisine is indeed a famous official dish. No wonder the heirs of Tan family cuisine like me want to worship Mr. Tan after returning home. Although Mr. Tan is an official in the court, he is really good at cooking ingredients."

Chen Nian still admires the ancestor of Tan Jiacai from the bottom of his heart.

But after two months, Chen Nian will be able to leave the palace again.

Still the same as before, on the first day Chen Nian stayed in the Tan Mansion, chatting with his master and masters.

Every time Chen Nian chatted with them, Song Qingzhou would feel that his master was too eccentric. He had been beaten since he was a child, and now he was in his 40s, and he still had to be scolded when he came back. Nian is like treating a grandson.

Chen Nian and Song Qingzhou were still cooking in the morning, but Tan Yuanqing found out about this after he came back at noon, and called Chen Nian and Song Qingzhou to chat for a while.

Of course, he is also showing off the egg-filled biscuits.

Because of the egg-filled biscuits, he is quite popular in the court now. Many court officials who are close to him ask him to bring an egg-filled biscuit to them every morning.

"These adults are really..."

"Greedy?" Tan Yuanqing said with a smile.

Chen Nian didn't speak, but just nodded.

"Hahaha, don't think too much about us. Although we are court officials, we are also human beings with emotions and desires."

Chen Nian thought for a while: "My lord, when it comes to breakfast, I will do something else."

"Anything else? Has anyone sold it outside?"

"I don't know about other places, but there must be none in Beijing and Yangzhou."

Tan Yuanqing suddenly became interested: "Then what else?"

"Pancakes, sandwiches, burgers..."

Chen Nian said a few things.

In the end, Tan Yuanqing was still a little dazed. He asked himself that he could be regarded as a glutton, but since he met Chen Nian, he said that he had never eaten a thing, and he had never heard of it.

You must have never heard of Chen Nian Xindao, because these were either invented by the West, or they only appeared during the Republic of China.

There are only a few similarities, if any, in this era.

Therefore, Tan Yuanqing was also very interested and said that he would not eat dinner tonight, but eat the snacks that Chen Nian said.

If it were any other big family, perhaps they would have to eat what they should have for dinner, but Tan Yuanqing was different, he could eat whatever he wanted, and the people in the family had already gotten used to it.

But these snacks are easy to make, so there is no need to make them too early, but when they were chatting in the afternoon, a child suddenly ran in.

"Oh, young master, why are you here?" After seeing the child, Peng Changhai opened his arms and held the child in his arms.

"Master Peng, I'm hungry, I'm here to find something to eat."

"Eat, what do you want to eat?"

"I don't know either. I want to eat something delicious, preferably sweet."

"Then let me think about what to do for you."

But Song Qingzhou on the side couldn't help looking over there when he heard this, and after thinking about it, Chen Nian seemed to be very good at making sweets, so he said: "Master, why not let Chen Nian do it, he is still good at making desserts .”

"Let Chen Nian do it? That's fine, just take a look at Chen Nian's efforts in this area."

Chen Nian didn't expect that he would come to work suddenly.

But he didn't refuse either. It's just that if you want to do it now, you definitely can't choose the time-consuming ones, and many materials in the palace may not be available in the Tan Mansion. For example, condensed milk cheese can be made by yourself, but you really have to wait until you do it yourself. When he came out, the young master probably would have his chest stuck to his back from hunger.

After much deliberation, he planned to make a fruit pie for this young master.

I asked what kind of fruits are there in the house, and learned that there are some apples, bananas, pears and so on.

"Then make it with bananas."

Others have to make jam fresh, which is a little troublesome, but bananas can be used directly.

Chen Nian wanted to make snacks for the young master, and other people gathered around to watch, because they also wanted to know what new tricks Chen Nian could come up with.

Chen Nian first took some flour, added a little sugar, put it aside and woke up.

Then I took two more bananas.

Although it is said that it is to cook for the young master, other masters will definitely want to try it when the time comes, so it is not wrong to cook more.

After the dough was ready to wake up, Chen Nian took them one by one and rolled them into dough skins, crushed the bananas into mud and filled them with stuffing.

"Master Peng, what is he doing?"

It's just that Peng Changhai didn't know that Chen Nian's practice looked a bit like dumplings.

"This one is sweet banana dumpling."

"Sweet banana dumplings, don't they taste sweet?"

"of course."

"Is it tasty?"

"Delicious, but do you like bananas, young master?"

"I love to eat, sometimes I can eat two at a time, but my mother won't let me eat more."

Chen Nian smiled, this kid is quite polite and not timid.

"Then you can play for a while, and you can finish this later, very quickly."

"Okay, but what should I call you?"

"Young master, call him Master Chen, he is a chef just like me."

"Well, Master Chen, you look really good-looking."

Being praised by the child from the bottom of his heart, Chen Nian also said with a smile: "Young master, then you must look better than me when you grow up."

After wrapping the bananas in the dough, Chen Nian pinched a lace to make it look better. After that, he cracked two eggs in a basin and heated the oil in an iron pan at the same time.

After the oil temperature came up, Chen Nian put his hand on the pot to feel it.

"almost."

After speaking, dip the banana pie in the egg liquid, and then put it in the pan to fry.

Gradually, the banana pies changed color in the pot, and they were not fished out with a strainer until they were completely floating.

At this time, the appearance of the banana pie looks golden and full.

Put them on a plate, one after another, like petals.

"Master, the sweet banana dumplings are fried, but you have to wait to eat them, they are still hot."

"Then can I blow it?"

"You can't even blow on it. It's cold outside, but it's still hot inside. If you eat it rashly, it will easily burn your mouth and tongue."

"Okay, then I'll wait a little longer, but I'm so hungry."

Looking at the young master holding his belly with his mouth deflated, Chen Nian thought that he could make some small games for him to play later.

There are still many children in this Tan Mansion, except for the young master and lady of the Tan Mansion's main family, some servants' children also live here.

Obviously Tan Yuanqing also knew that the child wanted to play with the child.

It is not suitable for little boys to play with jumping rubber bands, but you can play checkers, which can be educational while entertaining.

But while thinking about it, Chen Nian took some sugar and put it in a small dish.

After about 5 minutes.

"Young master, you can eat."

"It tastes better when you dip it in sugar, but don't dip it too much."

"it is good!"

When the young master heard this, he jumped out of Peng Changhai's arms on the spot, came here, looked at this golden and bright banana pie, his saliva was about to flow out.