[Comprehensive Classics] Different Jane

There's no such thing as "you gentlemen don't understand the sacred kitchen" and the Sherlock Holmes servants are well trained.

Mrs. Ritter has a female helper, plus two maids in the house, and Belle brought by Jane. The four people acted under Jane's command. Before the meat was delivered, there were many things to do.

What should be washed, what should be cut, what should be milled, what should be squeezed... There are also spices and seasonings that need to be weighed accurately, as well as tools to be used, such as knives, meat hammers, cotton Rope, this must be prepared first, and the boiling water must be boiled first.

At around nine o'clock, the butler came to tell Mrs. Holmes that Butcher was pushing a trolley to deliver the meat. Because there were too many meats, he told him to come directly to the kitchen at the back door.

"Really? Lit, oh, my God, Lit, Jane," cried Mrs. Holmes, standing at the kitchen door, where she had been watching so as not to disturb everyone's work.

"Ma'am?" Li Te clapped her hands and walked over.

"Butcher will be here soon," said Mrs. Holmes. "He has a cart. What shall we pack the meat with?"

"Oh, there are basins." Li Te hurriedly called other maids and moved a few basins out, and they would wash them outside after a while.

Mrs. Holmes and Jane also followed outside the door.

Sure enough, 1 minute later, a man in a leather apron pushed a flatbed cart and came along the path beside the wall. He propped up the cart and grabbed his dirty hat with his greasy hands. "Hello," he said. , and stared at Mrs. Holmes and Jane in surprise.

"Hold your eyes, boy, don't look blindly." The butler warned the butcher, butcher immediately lowered his head, and turned his eyes to Mrs. Ritter.

"Good day, Mrs. Ritter, I brought all the meat you asked for, and it's all clean." Butcher lifted a bucket down graciously, "This is the pig's blood you asked for. It's still hot, do you want to make blood sausage? That's a good thing."

"Okay, Butcher, don't talk about those useless ones, put all the meat in the basin." Mrs. Ritter waved her hand, "I have to see if you missed anything."

"Of course not. I have a good memory." Butcher didn't say any more, he took the meat off the cart one by one. He killed a pig today, and Mrs. Ritter asked for almost half of it. She is a big customer.

In addition to the two legs, pork belly and intestines, there are also ribs, suet, a large piece of pork skin, and pork liver that only the poor eat. Mrs. Ritter weighed the weight correctly, and the butler at the side paid Bach .

After the butcher left, the maids immediately began to clean. The intestines had to be washed with water and vinegar, and then the remaining fat was scraped off with thin wooden chips.The meat must also be cleaned of blood stains, and the uncleaned hair on the pigskin must be plucked.

It doesn't smell good.

"Oh, my God, we, let's sit in the study first." Mrs. Holmes took out her handkerchief and covered her nose. "I can't stand the smell."

"I'll come later, how about you make a pot of tea first?" Jane said.

"Well, all right." Mrs. Holmes ordered her maid to send a pot of tea to the ladies' lounge.

In the kitchen, Jane divided the seasonings and spices into portions first. Her recipe was different from others. In case Mrs. Ritter would get confused, Jane pointed out to Mrs. Ritter which one was mixed with blood sausage and which one was The sausage is made, which one is made of cured meat.

There is also the order. It does not take long to clean the cured meat, but it will take a long time to absorb the flavor, so it must be cooked first. The sausage must be cut and minced, and then marinated. The blood sausage is freshly made and eaten.Mrs. Ritter probably knew this, but Jane told her anyway.

After a while, Jane found Mrs. Holmes with tea herself.

"I have made a pot of tea," said Jane to Mrs. Holmes as she put the tray on the table, pouring out the tea. "Try the cakes I have brought."

"What kind of snack?" Mrs. Holmes was eager to try it. The small long snack was deep-fried and still hot. She picked up one with a small tong and held it on a small plate, and carefully took a bite.

Wow, it's hot, but, it's delicious.The outer skin sealed on all sides is crispy and delicious, and the filling inside is rich and sweet, but it is a bit hot.

"Oh, oh!" Mrs. Holmes couldn't help whimpering.

"Ah, what you ate was bean stuffing." Jane glanced at it, and then she picked up one and took a bite, and the stuffing was different.

"What makes you different?" asked Mrs. Holmes.

"Mine is from Apple," Jane said.

"Hmm... are there any different fillings?" Mrs. Holmes was looking at the bowl while she was eating.

"Well, I made five kinds of them. Potato fillings are slightly salty, bean fillings and apple fillings are sweet, orange fillings and strawberry fillings are also sweet but have a little sour taste." The dim sum is not big, two or three bites After finishing eating, Jane took a sip of tea, ah, sweet snacks go well with black tea, "I have asked Abeforth to send a copy to Dad and Mycroft, I don't know what they will eat ,whee."

The two serious gentlemen were very entangled. Mr. Holmes didn't like too sweet, and Mycroft didn't like sour. After listening to the tea steward's explanation, the two seemed to be very speechless about the tea in front of them. I want to distinguish which piece of dim sum is my favorite taste.

However, how could there be mistakes in Yijian's perfect craftsmanship?Every piece of dim sum looks the same, even if you put it under your nose, you can't tell what it is unless you break it apart...that would be rude!

The two Mr. Holmes reached out to pick up a piece of dessert at the same time. Alas, both felt a little regretful. Mr. Holmes ate the apple stuffing, and Mycroft ate the potato stuffing... It was a little bit wrong with the previous expectation, but... Even if It's not my favorite flavor, but it's still delicious, chewing, chewing, crackling, hiccupping.

The meal at noon was very simple, because there were not enough people to cook, but the dinner was very rich, because the meat sausage, blood sausage and rice sausage were all ready, and they could be eaten directly after cooking.

So I got a little bit of everything, and there are different flavors: spicy, strong, and mild. In short, everyone was very satisfied with the food and looked forward to other varieties.

Radish pork rib soup, rich but not greasy, is very delicious with fried pork cutlets.

Mrs. Ritter, the cook of the Sherlock Holmes family, felt that she had opened her eyes. How can pork be eaten like this?

Large chunks of lean meat are loosened with a meat hammer, marinated with salt for a while to taste, coated with egg liquid and flour, and then deep-fried. It is delicious with jam and tomato sauce. One bite, the shell is crispy, and the inside is delicious. The steak was tender and juicy.

There is also suet. Mrs. Ritter never bought it before. She always thought that this stuff was eaten by inferior people. It was not meat, and nothing could be eaten except for cooking a pot of oil.

At first, Mrs. Ritter thought that Jane had bought the wrong thing, but afterwards she was glad that she did not say the wrong thing... It turned out that this thing was not bad, but that it had to be fried.

Mrs. Ritter watched as Jane instructed the handyman to wash the suet and cut it into small pieces, then put it into the pot, and then kept turning it over a low heat, and these small pieces of fat gradually fried out oil.Jane also asked someone to put a few prickly ash, and the fried oil smelled of prickly ash.

The lard is really fragrant~ Take out all the dregs in it, sprinkle some salt on the lard dregs, Jane let everyone in the kitchen taste it first, it is so fragrant and crispy that people can't stop talking.

Whether it was blood sausage, bone soup, deep-fried pork chops, or lard dregs, almost all of them were eaten up during dinner. After walking outside for an hour, I came back to sleep.

Mycroft stayed for one night, and rushed back to the city early the next morning to go to work, but Jane stayed to continue the rest of the work. The meat marinated yesterday can be dried~o(￣▽￣)Y

Most British people like to eat fresh meat. First, meat is cheap now, not more expensive than wheat; second, the climate in the UK is not suitable for long-term preservation of meat; Thick salt is used to make bacon, which is dried on the seashore like fish and hard enough to be used as a hammer, or smoked to blacken the meat.

Jane was going to use the drying method to make sausages and bacon. She had mentioned this to Mrs. Holmes before, and Mrs. Holmes agreed.However, this is difficult for the butler of the Holmes family - setting up racks in the garden to dry sausages and bacon?What is it like to be seen! = mouth = what?I figured it out myself?

Butler: I'm so tired ○|￣|_

Mrs. Holmes: ≡ω≡

The housekeeper's solution is to build a circle of wooden boards around the rack where the sausages are dried to block other people's sight, but Jane thinks this...it seems to be more eye-catching...Is this really good?

Jane: As long as you are happy =-=

Although it was getting late after finishing all this, Jane still insisted on taking Belle back to London.

Mycroft returned to London alone in the morning, and there was no cook at home. Jane worried that if she stayed another night, what would happen to Mycroft's breakfast tomorrow morning?Does he know where his clean shirts are?Is it safe to eat out for lunch?

These reasons were very strong, and the Holmes couple had no way to refuse, so they had no choice but to let Jane rush back to London without having afternoon tea. Of course, she also packed away some ready-made sausages and other food.

After returning home, Mycroft hadn't come back yet. It was getting dark, and Jane asked Belle to prepare dinner and boil hot water. It was almost ten o'clock before Mycroft returned home.

"You're back?" Mycroft and Jane said to each other.

Jane couldn't help laughing, she stepped forward to help Mycroft take off his coat and scarf and hang them up, "Why is it so late today?"

"Sigh." Mycroft looked tired, "Things are worse than expected." Just after he finished speaking, his stomach suddenly gurgled.

"Hurry up and wash your hands and face, and eat first. You have to drink a bowl of hot broth today." Jane called, "Berry, Belle, bring some hot water."

Mycroft changed his clothes and washed his hands and face, while Jane made Mycroft a glass of eggnog.

"What is this? Hot eggnog? I haven't really tried it (eggnog is usually served ice-cold)." Mycroft took a sip. "Ah, is it the whiskey that Dad gave you? It's the Scotch he likes." taste."

"Your tongue is really sharp." Jane put the tableware in front of Mycroft, Belle was carrying the dinner, and Jane put them on the table, "Eat, eggnog is for you to prevent colds, you came in It's really cold at the time."

"It's winter after all." Mycroft put down his glass and began eating his dinner.

"So, why is it so late today?" Jane poured herself a cup of hot water and sat next to Mycroft, covering her hands.

Mycroft did not speak for a long time, as was his habit.

Because it is too professional, Jane can't understand, so every time Mycroft wants to say some more professional questions to her, he will first think about the wording, try to speak the language as simple and understandable as possible, and then talk about today's bad news. In the process of talking to Jane about his thoughts, he found that he seemed to have a new idea.

The author has something to say: Mr. Holmes: Sun drying is a must, just do as Jane said, but don’t lose your dignity, Abeforth (housekeeper), I’ll leave it to you.

Butler: ...Master, you will lose me like this, let me tell you!

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I wanted to post it yesterday, but I forgot to set the time [cover my face]