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

Anyway, Liu Mei felt that she was about to explode.

Earlier, Shiqing spoke coldly and asked her to think of dishes by herself, but it wasn't really embarrassing her in public - because in Liu Mei's consciousness, the system was online.

"This is an excellent opportunity for you. If you can withstand the pressure on such an occasion and bring out new dishes from the known Red Mansion, or if you can make any dish that satisfies the sage, the system gold coins you will get It can be doubled, it can be upgraded soon, it will be easier to complete the upgraded tasks, and the task prompts will be clearer."

At the same time, the system also straightforwardly explained to Liu Mei the reason why he rejected Liu Mei: "You also know that you have to do all of this by yourself, and I have to stand by and watch."

But Liu Mei knew that Shiqing was already helping her——

He gave her such a chance, such a stage... He also took all of Liu Mei's weakest and weakest athletic events.

Isn't this called helping?

Once Liu Mei understood the starting point of the system, she was full of gratitude in her heart.

Therefore, she was very angry when she heard the cynicism of the Dongying prince one after another.

"The only descendant of the majestic Taotie Mountain Man..." Prince Dongying looked at Shiqing, the corners of his lips curled up slightly.

He pointed his fingers and nodded his eyebrows, "For such a little...little guy...", such a little cook who obviously came to make up for it, "to pay for your reputation and reputation..." These things the world likes... ...Don't want them all?

And from the beginning to the end, this person only regarded Shiqing as an opponent, and completely ignored Liu Mei.

Liu Mei pursed her lips tightly, full of hostility, staring at Prince Dongying and that Ghost Master.

But her mind calmed down extremely quickly—the explosion wouldn't help at this time, it would be better to use this angry time to think about what to cook.

In addition to the most important puffer fish dish, she also needs to make some pickles and fried dishes for wine——

Pickles are pickled foods, which are equivalent to small pickles with flavors.Fried food is usually hung with batter on the ingredients and deep-fried in a pan. The most famous tempura and fried pork cutlets in later generations of Japanese food can be classified into this category, and the materials are ever-changing, and almost any food can be made. fried food.

So, are there any Red House dishes that can be slightly improved and classified into pickles and fried foods?

Liu Mei carefully looked around at the ingredients prepared by the royal chef in the palace, while watching, she was thinking quickly.

"Master Xiaoliu," said Liu, the imperial cook in charge of preparing ingredients for Prince Zhongshun. He had humiliated the Prince of Dongying earlier, and had to bow his head to admit defeat because of the puffer fish. At this moment, his heart was full of anger In a fit of anger, I wish I could help a group of Liumei with this ingredient, "What ingredients do you want to use?"

"I want dried venison. Also, is there any prepared water shield, soaked in oil?"

The pickles that Liu Mei thought of included pickled deer preserved in the wind, and a chili oil water shield sauce she once made for Daiyu.

"Yes, yes—" Liu Yuchu heard that he could help, so he quickly took two jars and said, "Master Liu, this is the water shield that was picked last year. First boil it with water, and then use it as soon as it is cooked." Wait for the vegetable oil to seal it to keep it fresh. Also, Master Liu, do you still want to use bamboo shoots? These are winter bamboo shoots from last year, but they are sealed with chicken oil."

When Liu Mei heard that it was winter bamboo shoots sealed with chicken oil, she immediately cheered up—this is almost a home-delivered dish from the Red Mansion, chicken marrow bamboo shoots, now she can make chicken marrow bamboo shoots!

"Of course I have to use it," Liu Mei nodded repeatedly at Liu Yuchu, "Thank you, Lao Liu!"

Unexpectedly, this remark was heard by another servant of the Dongying prince, who reported it to his superiors.

"Didn't it be discussed in today's competition that fresh ingredients should be used? With such pre-processed ingredients, can it still be regarded as a dish made by His Royal Highness and Master Xiaoliu?"

Prince Dongying immediately dug a hole if he could dig a hole for his opponent, and immediately yelled relentlessly.

"What you said is wrong!" Liu Mei has long been displeased with this person, "It takes the longest time to soak things. This competition only takes two hours in total. Who can have the opportunity to start with raw materials?"

"If it's not made by me, then I would like to ask your Excellency, many pickles in your country are called 'one-day pickles', and they must be pickled for at least one night before they are considered tasty. Are you going to present them today? The pickles on the table have only been pickled since now? If you brought them in from outside the palace, how would I know whether the pickles you brought in were made by you yourself, or were they done by others?"

Liu Mei responded immediately, and hit the point. Prince Dongying stared and opened his mouth, but he couldn't refute Liu Mei's words for a long time. After holding back for a long time, he asked back: "You actually know 'one day stain'?"

"Know yourself and know the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles. You have come to Beijing and clamored to challenge my country of China. Haven't you heard this sentence? No wonder, no wonder..." Liu Mei replied with a sneer, calling it a fluke in her heart. She guessed the dishes and methods of the Dongying team in front of her according to the number of Japanese food in later generations, but she was wrong.

Prince Dongying couldn't refute Liu Mei, and saw Prince Zhongshun standing behind her all the time, with an indifferent expression on his face, but people could tell that he was supporting Liu Mei at a glance.This person had no choice but to stare at Liu Mei: What are you staring at?

Liu Mei was confident, and a pair of beautiful eyes stared at each other fiercely: What are you looking at?

"Forget it, Xiao Wang doesn't want to have the same knowledge as a small person like you." The Dongying people finally gave in and gave in.

Liu Mei glared away at Prince Dongying, and returned triumphantly: teach this opponent to interrupt, so that she can even think about what the bomb is.

There is a ready-made deep-fried dish in the Red House cuisine - fried quail, marinated quail, deep-fried in hot oil, the most suitable for wine.In addition, Liu Mei also made a decision, intending to hang the fresh wolfberry sprouts, chrysanthemum chrysanthemum leaves, and shepherd's purse leaves with a thin batter, and deep-fry them until they are crispy—this can be regarded as cooking the Red House with the method of later generations. Those fresh vegetables mentioned in the dishes.

"My lord, my lord once... a long time ago, when I just met you..." Shi Qing stood behind Liu Mei with his hands behind his back, and when he saw her go to prepare a frying pan, he couldn't help but want to remind her, but he didn't know why Still held back.

Liu Mei turned around, looked at Shiqing's handsome face under the warm spring sun, suddenly remembered an old incident, said "Oh", and nodded.

She remembered that she once got an oil thermometer from the system, but she hasn't used it much, because she didn't use it when cooking those dishes in the Grand View Garden.Now she plans to fry quail. To achieve the effect of crispy outside and tender inside, the heat must be extremely precise. When cooking those vegetables with tempura, oil temperature control is also very important. With an oil thermometer, it is almost It can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

As soon as she understood this, Shiqing immediately breathed a sigh of relief, with a little relief in his eyes.

Liu Mei also gave Shiqing a smile - it's just that she is dressed like a man now, with such a pursed smile, she immediately looks three parts handsome and seven parts evil.

It's just that the two of them didn't notice that they were busy here, every word they said to each other, every look they exchanged, was seen by the servants in the palace, and then they secretly reported to the Supreme Court to sit in the Zichen Palace. The holy place above.

When the sage heard this, although he was noncommittal, he showed some displeasure after all, and only waved his hands and said: "Listen again, and report to me at any time. If the prince mentions other old things... well, that's all, let's go and listen first. "

The bead curtain behind the saint moved slightly, and a woman's voice was soft and soft, and said softly behind the saint: "Your Majesty, the matter of the prince can be put on hold for now, and the matter of diplomatic relations with Dongying is indeed more important right now."

The sage nodded slightly when he heard the words, and said in a low voice: "Concubine Xiande said..."

The bead curtain stopped trembling, and the woman behind the curtain fell silent, never saying a word.

When the servant in the palace took the order to go back, the competition on the field had begun to change: Shiqing had already started to deal with the puffer fish.

Fugu is highly toxic, and all pre-treatment is to remove the toxicity.

When Liu Mei saw Shi Qing moving the knife, she couldn't help but stare intently.

I saw that Shiqing was quite skilled at cooking puffer fish, disemboweling the puffer fish and bleeding the internal organs... The blood is extremely poisonous, so it must be washed repeatedly so that no trace of blood remains on the meat. The skin and internal organs are also poisonous, and some viscera are especially poisonous.

However, this food is delicious, Shiqing tore off the fish skin, cut a little bit, rolled it upside down, held it with chopsticks, and put it into Liu Mei's mouth.

Liu Mei can be regarded as a brave person with high skills, knowing that this amount of fish skin is very poisonous, and it is not a serious problem; although there are thorns on the fish skin, but Shi Qing rolled the fish skin back and fed it to her mouth, and Liu Mei chewed it a little After swallowing it, he nodded at Shiqing: "Very good!"

The fish skin tastes soft and waxy, and the mouth is purely fatty, delicious like the skirt of a soft-shelled turtle.

The fugu before the Qingming Festival was slaughtered so fresh, and it is naturally delicious when made into fish sticks like this.

Seeing Shiqing and Liu Mei like this from a distance, the Prince Dongying couldn't help but say sarcastic remarks, "Little Brother Liu, I can't tell, you are quite courageous, and you dare to test the poison for His Highness, which shows that you can trust His Highness. Your Highness is intimate, so be careful..."

Shiqing and Liu Mei glared at him together.

Prince Dongying: ...Did I say something wrong?

Liu Mei and Shi Qing then turned their heads together, Liu Mei carefully looked at the puffer fish organs that were about to be thrown away by Shi Qing, and suddenly, as if she had found a treasure, she pointed to one of them and said, "This is good, don't throw this away, leave it to me..."

Shiqing's face darkened, he looked at Liu Mei and said, "This is highly poisonous...pork liver."

Liu Mei nodded: "I know, but this is delicious!"

She knew the way to remove the poison from dolphin liver, so she immediately turned to Liu Yuchu and said, "Master Liu, please, I need high-quality, small-scale soybean oil." It is the best choice to grind soybean oil and heat it to make foam.

Liu Yuchu responded and went to fetch it.Shi Qing looked at Liu Mei and nodded slightly, as if agreeing with her method of detoxifying the fish liver.

At the same time, the Dongying people yelled, "Oh, this baizi is so fresh, so plump, so soft..."

"Oh my goodness, I'm so lucky today, every one is a male dolphin, and every one has a white porcupine."

Liu Mei's pair of willow-leaf eyebrows gradually frowned, she saw that every time Shiqing dissected, all of them were female dolphins, there were no white eggs, only highly poisonous viscera.As time went by, she became more and more suspicious whether the person who distributed the materials had been bribed, and all the male porpoises were sent to the Dongying people, while the ones given to Shiqing were all female porpoises—the puffer fish. , the female fish is more poisonous than the male fish, and it lacks one of the most delicious things - baizi.

When she thought about it, Shiqing also frowned, and said, "That's not right!"

"But the matter has come to this point...can I still ask for more materials?" Liu Mei looked at the pufferfish that Shiqing had already cut out, and felt a bad premonition in her heart.

"I can't—" Shiqing replied decisively, "Reporting this trivial matter to the Holy One just shows that we have lost the bearing and demeanor of a big country."

He turned his face and looked at Liu Mei coldly: "Can you be sure of winning with only pork liver?"

Liu Mei thought about it out of thin air, shook her head frankly and said: "I can't."

Fugu Baizi and fugu liver, the two cannot be compared at all.

The servants standing behind Shiqing turned pale again, and quietly sweated for Liu Mei.

However, Shiqing didn't act impulsively, just turned his cold face away, lowered his head and picked up the pork meat he was going to use to cut up the fish, and threw all of them into the ice water.

"No, just think of another dish." What Shiqing said was the most practical solution, "Just think about it, who will this dish be presented to in the end."

Liu Mei had a feeling that this man was trying his best to remind him.

But it is up to her to figure out what to do in the end——

She knew that the cooked fugu dish would eventually be presented to the sage, but the sage was just a backdrop in the original novel of the Red Chamber, and she didn't know anything about the sage's dietary preferences.

However, when Shiqing picked her up from Hongshun Tower, he did mention, "When the Holy One was still the prince, he lived alone in Jinling for a long time, and he often went to the Guazhou area. "

The Guazhou area is the best place to eat Jiangxian.

Liu Mei closed her eyes, imagining that the fresh and jumping fish was caught in a net, and the simple fishermen set up a big pot by the river to boil water and cook fresh food, entertaining the young prince who travels lightly.The unfavored prince received such the most sincere courtesy, and his heart became warmer and firmer...

For a while, she thought a lot, and she even remembered to understand the story Xiao Chuan told her.

——Man is such a strange creature. The food and drink he tasted when he was young and in times of adversity are more likely to be entrenched in the depths of his memory, stubbornly occupying the word "most".

Liu Mei immediately opened her eyes, and she has completely figured it out so far.

She walked to the water tank, picked up one of the tanks with a strainer, and listened to the "squeak" of the puffer fish.She glared at the fish that bulged into a balloon: "Come on!"

The author has something to say: Knock on the blackboard, this chapter is full of cold knowledge!

- Fugu Baizi is a certain organ of the male puffer fish. It is also called "Xi Shi milk", which means it is white and soft, with a delicious and smooth taste... I didn't ask Liu to make this kind of thing, because thinking about it carefully, eating this Kind of thing... so strange.

- Fugu liver is highly poisonous, in short, don't eat it, don't eat it, and don't eat it yourself.

- Regarding eating puffer fish, this article refers to the two articles of "Sanlian Life Weekly", Issue 2013, 18, "The Old Calendar River Fish is Infinitely Good" and "The Temptation of Puffer Fish". In addition, the author himself was born in the free shipping area and grew up on the riverside... I miss my hometown food every day.