[Sherlock Holmes] Captured a detective

Chapter [-]

The next day turned out to be a sunny day, the sun came out early, and it was rare for London to have a fog-free morning.

Taking advantage of the good weather, Jenny and Fantine dried the sausages early. She had to hurry to deliver the wedding dress to Tom. If the weather was like this in the next few days, she planned to buy some vegetables and come back to dry.

Since Tom accepted the order for the wedding dress, he has emptied all the rooms on the second floor except for the bedroom as a studio. Usually, those embroiderers come to embroider in the morning and go home in the evening, and Tom will pack a meal at noon.The gold thread and silver thread are calculated and given to the embroiderer, and Tom also checks the progress and quality from time to time.That's not to mention, when he sewed pearls and gemstones later, Tom had to keep an eye on them to prevent them from being stolen.

After half a year, Tom lost a lot of weight. Originally, he had been raised to be much rounder, but now he has returned to the shape he had three years ago.

"I'm worrying about how to lose weight, it's easy now." Tom patted his stomach cheerfully, and led Jenny upstairs.Personal friendship is personal friendship, business is business.Tom unfolded the wedding dress and veil that Jenny had brought, and couldn't help taking a breath.

Although the wedding dress is still just a large piece of tulle, it looks like a red rose blooming on it.The stamens are half-closed and the outer petals are spread out. Each petal is inlaid with a meter-by-meter white halo, and the color gradually becomes lighter from the inside to the outside. It just seems to be in full bloom in the early morning. If it weren't for the fact that there are no such big roses in the world.

Compared with the three-dimensional roses on the wedding dress, the small roses on the veil seem inconspicuous, but Jenny chose almost transparent colorless silk threads, and cut them thinly, only using superimposed stitches to make the roses appear white.The flowers embroidered in this way, when you look at them from a distance, are small flowers blooming on the veil. If you want to take a closer look, you feel that they are faintly visible, as if there is nothing.

This was still without jewelry, and Tom already felt that jewelry and everything seemed superfluous.

"Your craftsmanship is still so good." Tom sincerely praised.Jenny accepted with a smile.

Just kidding, did you think it was easy?

Tom looked at it for a while, then put the embroidery into the box, put it in the cabinet and locked it by himself, and only waited for the other tulle to be embroidered together before cutting the whole thing.

"It just so happens that you come, I'll find you if I don't have to." Tom walked to the desk, took out a notebook from the drawer, and handed Jenny a check inside. "I have already recovered all the money from last winter's income. This is your share. Do you want to see the bill?"

"Yes, thank you." Jenny looked at the check, and it was about the same as she thought. She carefully put the check and the slip away.

According to the previous contract between the two, Jenny's embroidery skills and creativity accounted for [-]% of the income of each business, while Tom accounted for [-]%.It seems that Jenny is at a disadvantage, but she doesn't actually produce fabrics and threads, and she doesn't have to please customers. She only needs to draw picture books every season and embroider every day.Apart from prepaying for materials and dealing with customers, Tom just needs to cut and make clothes according to the measured size and Jenny's drawings. This is not a long-term job... So, it's really hard to say who took it. Cheap.

"I'll tell you the result after I read it." Jenny wrote a receipt and handed it to Tom.

"Of course, dear Jenny~" Tom tossed the receipt into a box of which there were already many such receipts.

"Do you want to stay and guide them in their work? Just having lunch, ah, it seems that we haven't eaten together for a long time, I really miss your craftsmanship." The business is over, and now it's private time.

"I really want to have lunch with you, but not today." Jenny stood up holding her handbag, "I have something to get rid of Mr. Holmes' brother, so today I invited him to Baker Street for dinner... I have to go back and get ready."

"What? You declined my invitation because of that fat man?" Tom cried exaggeratedly, clutching his chest.

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, Tom." Jenny raised an eyebrow, "I'll make more jam, applesauce, green apples, right?"

"Yes, but it's not that I like it, it's that Lida likes sourdough." Tom said righteously.

"Oh yes, that's right, it's the same as her father's." After Jenny finished speaking, she said goodbye and left.There is a lot of work to be done today, and there is no time to waste time.

Jenny and Fantine hurried back to Baker Street, Cosette had cleaned up obediently, Fantine hurried to wash the clothes that had accumulated for several days, Jenny took Cosette to wash the damp quilt Take them all out to dry.

I really hope there will be a few more days of sunshine~

At noon, I simply ate some leftover sauerkraut fish and bread from yesterday. It was really shabby. The cunning Sherlock only left a note saying that he would not come back for lunch. It seemed that he had expected it.

Jenny: Damn it!

Jenny originally planned to buy some vegetables or fruits, and when the sun was good, she would make a la carte pickles, fruit wine and jam or something, but she spent too much time at Tom's, and she hadn't decided what to cook for the evening.

But there is one dish that has been decided long ago, borscht.It seemed that Holmes liked sweet and sour dishes best, so Jenny bought fresh beef when she came back.Beef takes three hours to cook, so make this first.

Cut the beef into pieces and soak in water, remove the foam, then add water to cook the soup.There are a lot of things to put in the soup. If it is normal, this soup can be worth a table of dishes.

All vegetables should be washed, potatoes, carrots, and tomatoes need to be peeled, cabbage should be cut into one-inch rhomboids, potatoes should be cut into hob pieces, carrots should be sliced, tomatoes should be cut into small pieces, onions should be shredded, celery should be diced, red sausage should be sliced . . . Jenny, Fantine, and Cosette were not idle.

"I'm probably not going to want to make this soup for a long time," Jenny said as she chopped celery.

"Is it delicious?" Cosette felt that this was more important.

"Well... I think it's okay." Jenny thought about the taste and answered seriously.

"As long as it's delicious, you're not afraid of trouble." Cosette expressed her opinion.

Jenny thinks what she said makes sense...

Put the prepared things aside first, and wait until the beef soup is cooked.Jenny is going to make red bean paste. After the red beans are boiled in the pot, sift off the skin, stir vigorously into a puree, add oil and maple syrup, and all the remaining rose sauce. Jenny put it down together, mix well and use Slowly stir-fry on low heat until it can be formed and does not disperse, then you can start the pot.

While Jenny was making hummus, Fantine was making pumpkin crust.She peeled the pumpkin and cut it into small pieces, steamed it, pressed it into mud and noodles with a spoon, and cut it into long strips of the same size.When Jenny's bean paste is ready, spread the bean paste on the dough, roll into small rolls, bake in the oven for 10 minutes, and the pumpkin buns are ready.

As soon as the bread was ready, Cosette ate one, it was delicious, sweet and glutinous, even if she breathed out from being scalded, she couldn't stop her mouth.

"It's delicious! Can I have another one?" Cosette was still at an age where she had no resistance to sweets.

"If you eat too much, you won't be able to eat." Even so, Jenny gave her another one.

Unexpectedly, pumpkin bread was so popular, Jenny decided to make two more cakes with pumpkin, and if Mycroft likes it, he can take one home.

Also steam the pumpkin and press it into puree, separate the egg yolk and egg white of the five eggs, put the egg yolk and sugar into the pumpkin puree and mix well, add olive oil and continue stirring until the oil is completely blended.Jenny sifted the flour into the pumpkin puree and continued to stir until there were no grains.

On the other hand, Fantine and Cosette took turns whipping the egg whites.Add some lemon juice to the egg whites, beat until coarse bubbles, add sugar once, then beat until fine bubbles, then add sugar again, until the dry foam becomes meringue.

These two are all strenuous work. After doing these, the three of them were tired and rested for a while before continuing to the next step.

First put one-third of the meringue into the pumpkin puree and mix well, then put the rest and mix until it is fine and smooth, and then pour it into the mold... I did too much, and I actually poured two big ones Small ones... well, that's not a problem, just bake them for fifteen to twenty minutes.

Jenny poured out all the cakes, and they were all very good. The golden cake exuded the sweetness of pumpkin... Since everyone didn't eat well at noon, Jenny decided that everyone should divide up the little cake first.

"Wow~ It's so delicious~" Cosette couldn't help shouting.

"Cosette, don't talk while you're eating." Fantine scolded. In fact, she also thought that pumpkin cakes were very good.There is no need to add too many other things. The sweetness of the pumpkin itself and the delicate taste of the cake are completely integrated, which is a perfect match.

"Then there is one left for dinner, and the other one will be brought back to Mr. Holmes." Jenny put the two cakes in the cabinet.Cosette couldn't help but look forward to it, because making dessert at night would definitely not be able to eat a whole cake.

Jenny looked at the beef broth, skimmed off the froth from the noodle soup, and let it continue to cook.

The trotters were processed yesterday. Fantine chopped them into small pieces, boiled them half-cooked, drained them, and fried them over low heat until the skin was slightly yellow.Jenny uses a small pot, first sauté the spices, onion, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, fennel, peppercorns, pepper...then put the trotters and spices and cook together with the wine, boil on high heat and then turn to low heat for 15 minutes, Cook until the sauce thickens.

Stir-fry with oil and sugar to a dark color, pick up the trotters and stir-fry together for coloring, then pour in the soup just now to collect the juice.

Then sauté the pork trotters with dried pepper and chili until fragrant, add some water, stir-fry over low heat until the juice is collected, put it on a plate, sprinkle with a little white sesame, and it is ready.

What a miscalculation, Jenny thought this dish would not be so troublesome to prepare.

"But it's delicious~" Cosette said vaguely, once again she had the honor to take on the task of tasting... and she hoped to come a few more times.

Fantine tidied up the kitchen a bit, and Jenny brought a large pan, put oil and butter, first fried potato cubes, then put red sausage, then other vegetables and salt, and finally poured two tablespoons of tomato sauce, all After frying for a few minutes, pour them into the beef broth together and continue to cook on low heat.While Fantine went to wash the cauldron, Jenny took another small pan, and fried some flour in portions until lightly browned, poured it into the soup, and stirred it with a large spoon.

"Okay, just cook for another 10 minutes." Jenny took a little soup with a spoon and tasted it. It has a very strong tomato flavor. Those who want to make it saltier can add salt by themselves.

"Bread, soup, main course, and dessert are all there. What seems to be missing?" Jenny counted and felt that something was missing.

"Perhaps we need a little more vegetables?" Fantine suggested.

Oh, yes, a table is either meat or sweet, which is boring enough, Jenny suddenly realized.

There happened to be fresh asparagus and shrimp. Jenny originally planned to fry the shrimp and eat them with salt, but she forgot.

The asparagus I bought yesterday is still very juicy today. Wash it, cut off the old part, cut it into small pieces, blanch it with oil and salt for 1 minute, and quickly pick it up.Peel the prawns into shells and soak them in water until they change color.There is no need for more seasoning. The refreshingness of the asparagus itself and the sweetness of the shrimp itself are very good. Just mix them together, just add some olive oil and pepper rice.

"Not bad." Jenny looked at her watch. It was almost a quarter past four, which was still early, but... everyone had been busy all day.

"Let's have afternoon tea!" Jenny stretched.