[Red Mansion] A little chef came to the Grand View Garden

In the world of the Red Chamber, Siamese pigs are still tributes, but in later generations, the small fragrant pigs imported from Thailand are not particularly rare.

To cook Siamese pigs, Liumei naturally has confidence.

It's just why Wang Xifeng trusts her so much, and dares to hand over ingredients that ordinary cooks don't know how to cook, to a little girl who grew up in a deep house like her?

Liu Mei thought to herself, I am afraid that she, who is an outlier, has already been seen through by the equally unusual Wang Xifeng.

"Don't worry, Hong'er," Liu Mei nodded easily, "You must let me try first! If it doesn't work, let's think of other ways."

Xiaohong is full of confidence in her friends. Seeing Liu Mei's relaxed look, she naturally puts her heart in her stomach.

Accompanied by the sound of hooves, the cart drove directly to the back door of Hongshun Building.Lin Xiaohong jumped out of the car with Liu Mei, and led Liu Mei to the back kitchen of the restaurant familiarly.

She led Liu Mei to a group of depressed cooks.

Liu Meiyin studied the diet of red buildings, and had a general understanding of the kitchen configuration of restaurants in the early and middle Qing Dynasty.She only took a few glances, and she knew that the big kitchen in front of her was in line with the traditional division of labor and regulations of a Chinese-style restaurant. For decoration, there are dedicated personnel to perform their duties.

At this time, Lin Xiaohong had long since changed the humble demeanor of ordinary servants in Jia's mansion, but stood in front of everyone with her chest upright, her chin raised high, as if she was a shrewd and capable steward.

"This is Ms. Liu! The master has told you what to do in the kitchen when Chef Shao is not here. The dishes you can't cook will be done by this Ms. Liu. Whenever she needs it, you must obey her orders. Do not disobey. Do you understand?"

Lin Xiaohong spoke to this group of cooks with a very powerful tone, but the effect was not very good.

Seeing Liu Mei's description, all the cooks stared wide-eyed.Even the straight-hearted ones have already retorted loudly: "This... this is not acceptable! Isn't it a joke to let such a little girl to cook? Today's guests are..."

Lin Xiaohong stared, and immediately interrupted: "Which one of the master's orders is to deceive you?"

In a word, all the cooks immediately became dumb and dared not refute.It's just that everyone's mood is still not high.

Liu Mei watched silently, knowing that although the cook in front of her was suppressed by Xiao Hong's words, none of them really believed her.

But her appearance is indeed not believable-a girl, young, with thin arms, and she doesn't seem to have much strength.This is too far from the image of the main chef of the restaurant.

Thinking of this, Liu Mei pointed to a young cook and said, "You—show me today's menu!"

No humility, as if he really took his size as the chef, bossing around and giving orders.

The person she ordered was stunned, feeling that Liu Mei was not stage frightened, maybe she really had two brushes, and hurriedly handed over the main course menu written by the shopkeeper outside.

Scanning the menu with three eyes and two eyes, Liu Mei knew it well.

"Aside from that Lingbai-scented Siamese pig, is there anything else you don't know how to cook?"

Hearing Liu Mei's tone of voice, the cooks looked at each other.After a while, someone interjected, "There is also a two-foot-long sturgeon. Chef Shao didn't say how to cook it yesterday."

Such a long pink and tender lotus root, such a big watermelon, such a long tail of fresh sturgeon, and such a big Siamese cypress-scented Siamese pig that Siam paid tribute to——Liu Mei felt confident when she heard this.The guests of Hongshun Tower must be Xue Pan Baoyu and Feng Ziying.As for whether Yun'er, Jiang Yuhan and others sang for fun, it is unknown.

"Bring that sturgeon!"

She ordered without hesitation, and Lin Xiaohong was watching with her arms folded. The cooks dared not refuse to listen. Immediately, two people went down and brought up a large basin, only to see a huge tail swimming in it. sturgeon.

"Miss Liu, it's not easy to kill such a big fish!" a cook shouted at Liu Mei.

"The majestic cook of Hongshunlou can't kill fish?" Liu Mei sneered—this was trying to test her deliberately!

Liu Mei immediately got up, took a polished back kitchen knife, held it firmly in her hand, walked to the side of the water basin, raised the knife and dropped it——with a sound of duang, the swimming sturgeon was immediately caught by Liu Mei. Knocked out with the back of a knife.

The kung fu of the back of the knife requires a lot of strength.Moreover, Liu Mei shot very quickly and decisively, and the position of the knife was extremely precise, hitting the ridge one inch behind the head of the sturgeon - clean and neat, and the knife was dizzy immediately.

Liu Mei stood up and looked around at the onlookers, seeing expressions of shock or admiration from everyone.At this moment, the cooks finally began to put away their underestimation of Liu Mei.

"Ami Tofu, Brother Sturgeon, I'm sorry." Liu Mei murmured inwardly.

In fact, feeding a bottle of spirits to the sturgeon can also make the sturgeon fall asleep instantly, and it is relatively less cruel.But it couldn't achieve the effect Liu Mei wanted.

"What to do, how to deal with it, do you want me to teach you?" Liu Mei said coldly, "A quarter of an hour before the banquet, steam it in a pan, pour soy sauce on it, and place a peacock on a plate. Don't tell me you don't even know this. meeting!"

Immediately, a young cook under the stove carried the sturgeon out to deal with it, and no one dared to raise any objection to Liu Mei's words.

"Okay, the second cook on the red table stove, come here and show me how the Siamese pig is handled."

Isn't the Siamese pig smoked with ling cypress smoked and brought up as a tribute?

There is no refrigerator in the world of red chambers, pork is difficult to preserve for a long time, bacon and bacon are all the crystallization of the simple wisdom of the working people.

So Liu Meiman thought that the Siamese pig had been smoked properly.

Unexpectedly, when the Siamese pig was carried up, it turned out to be a fresh and tender piglet that had just been slaughtered and washed in vain.

"Didn't you say it was scented with cypress?" Liu Mei was taken aback, this was really beyond her expectation.

The second chef is a young man in his early twenties with a clean body.Hearing Liu Mei's question, he nodded immediately, scratched the back of his head and said: "Master Shao said that he is indeed using Lingbai incense to fumigate it!"

Liu Mei immediately looked around for the legendary Lingbaixiang.As soon as she turned around, her eyeballs almost fell out - there was an incense burner in the corner of the big kitchen, and there was a handful of incense in it.

Let me go, light the incense burner in front of the little white pig, is this to worship the ancestors?

Liu Mei's expression was hard to describe at once——this incense smells really good, but using fragrant wood to smoke meat is not the way at all!

"Is this what your chef Shao ordered?" Liu Mei glared at the second chef.

"That's right, Master Shao gave the order yesterday, saying that he can start cooking when he comes. In our place, except for him, no one knows how to cook this Siamese pig." The young second chef kept scratching his head. With the back of his head scratched, the words "inexperienced" are written in big letters on his face.

Liu Mei had a pretty face, she knew that there must be something wrong with Chef Shao.

She immediately turned around and came out to look for Lin Xiaohong, "Hong'er, tell me honestly, is Chef Shao really sick or fake?"

Lin Xiaohong was startled, and immediately understood Liu Mei's meaning, opened her eyes wide and said in shock: "You mean..."

Liu Mei nodded.

If her judgment is correct, this Chef Shao should be trying to take Joe on the pretext of illness and blackmail the master's family when there are important guests in Hongshun Building—unless the master agrees to his conditions, he will never make a move, just sit and watch. Shunlou made a big fool of himself and lost his lord.

This also explained that after Chef Shao fell ill, Hongshunlou couldn't invite other famous chefs to replace him—I'm afraid that Chef Shao had already discussed with his industry partners.The value of chefs is rising, and others are also happy to see Chef Shao fighting for more profits.

"Mei'er, please. There aren't too many guests today, and they are all booked for evening dinners. There are at least two hours before the dinner. You stay here for a while, and I'll go back and let our grandma know. "

After all, Lin Xiaohong left in a hurry.

Not long after, Lin Xiaohong hurried back again, leaned into Liu Mei's ear, and whispered something.

Liu Mei: Hehe!

Lin Xiaohong came back and told her that Sister Feng had known Chef Shao's intentions for a long time, so in order to suppress Chef Shao, she moved Liu Mei.

"Our grandma said that you don't hesitate to hire someone, and don't use someone who is suspicious. She always remembers that you nodded to her and said that you are capable, so she trusts you and will never mess up today's banquet!"

Liu Mei was really speechless to this Lian Er|grandma.She understands that Sister Feng has a good plan - if a little cook like Liu Mei can do the work of a chef in Hongshunlou, what else can you, Chef Shao, have to say?

This Sister Feng seems to be going further and further down the road of psychological warfare.

But the crux of the problem is that Sister Feng is a little bit more courageous!In case she can't make willow eyebrows, and can't make this Lingbai-scented Siamese pig, Hongshunlou will lose in the end?

For Sister Feng's courage and boldness, Liu Mei felt that she must click 180 likes; but this courage and boldness can also be said to be reckless and adventurous!

However, Liu Mei always faintly felt that something was wrong—if the distinguished guests of Hongshunlou were really only Xue Panbaoyu and Feng Ziying, would it be necessary for Chef Shao to blackmail the host?Do the cooks have to be so nervous?

No matter how much it is, she can cook all the dishes on today's menu anyway.

Thinking of this, Liu Mei nodded to Xiaohong.Lin Xiaohong was overjoyed immediately, and raised her thumb, expressing that she was completely at ease with her friend.

Time was running out, Liu Mei immediately assigned the task, and ordered the cook who prepared the ingredients under the stove to chop the Siamese pig into eight pieces first, slice out the rib meat first, add various seasonings and start marinating.

Because this is very fresh and tender Siam pork, and it needs to be eaten every two hours, Liu Mei chose the method of half-smoked and half-baked: after the meat is marinated, it is placed on the grill, and the sun-dried spirit is ignited underneath. For the cypress branches and leaves, the skin should be sunburned thoroughly, then baked to [-]% or [-]% and then slowly smoked so that the aroma of cypress wood can penetrate into the flesh.

In the process of ordering the bacon, Liu Mei was also idle. Seeing that there was no need to regret the remaining Siamese pork, she rolled up her sleeves, sliced ​​the pork neck, and made another char-grilled pork neck.

"Is hot food okay?"

In the midst of being busy, time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, when it was time to start the banquet, it was the shopkeeper of Hongshunlou who personally brought a few waiters in to inquire, and saw Liu Mei tasting the freshly baked cypress-scented Siamese pig.

"Okay, let's go!"

The author has something to say: The thirty-odd words about lotus root, melon, fish and pig in this chapter are quoted from six chapters of No.20 of the original work.

The original text is about Xue Pan's birthday. He first invited Baoyu Feng Ziying, and then Feng Ziying invited him back, so he ate twice.The first invitation was at Xue Pan's place, the second invitation was at Feng Ziying's home, and Yuner Jiang Yuhan's appearance was the time Feng Ziying returned the invitation.In the following, for the sake of brevity, the two scenes will be merged into one, and new characters will appear, which will be fun!See you tomorrow night at 08:30!