Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the game is to touch the Princess Changle

Two quarters of an hour later...

"Lord!"

"Please take a look. The beef has been pounded to this shape. Does it meet Lord Su's requirements?"

Master Liu put the pounded beef into a glass container and brought it to the backyard for Su Chen to look at.

Su Chen didn't wash his hands, so it was not easy to pinch the meat directly with his hands to feel the texture.

"It should be OK! Let's go and try to make meatballs!" Su Chen stared at the pounded beef in the container and looked carefully.

"Okay!"

The two walked into the kitchen quickly.

"Master Liu, please help me to put my sleeves in!"

Su Chen washed his hands and prepared to demonstrate it to them in person. Although he had never really made beef balls, he had seen it several times!

The chef's clothes would not hinder his daily work, but the clothes Su Chen wore would not.

The sleeves were very loose.

"Well, the beef is pounded very well!"

Su Chen looked at all the pounded beef and decided to try it with one pound first to be on the safe side.

"Master Liu, get a clean large porcelain bowl and test it with a pound of beef first."

"Okay!"

Immediately, a waiter brought a large bowl and a balance scale, weighed a pound of pounded beef, and brought it to Su Chen.

"Master Liu, come! Beat the beef several times, remember to turn it over and beat it repeatedly!"

"Okay, Lord!"

Su Chen asked the waiter to boil a pot of water, and told him that the water in the pot should not be boiled too high, and the temperature should be just right to burn the back of the hand.

After Master Liu's hard work and repeated beating, the previously beaten beef was completely integrated.

It may be because of the cold weather and low temperature, Su Chen felt that the beef was a little dehydrated.

"Master Liu, this is it. Add appropriate amount of salt and pepper, and add two taels of sweet potato starch."

"Add five taels of water and stir evenly."

After Su Chen finished speaking, Master Liu did it one by one. Master Cheng and other chefs carefully wrote down every detail of Su Chen's words. They have experienced such scenes many times.

"Master Liu, let me make a meatball for you to see. You need this spoon to make meatballs." Put the beef with the seasoning to the side of the stove.

Su Chen reached out and grabbed a handful of beef, gently squeezed it into a ball in his hand, and then made a fist and exerted a little force, and a round beef ball was squeezed out from the base of his fist.

With a spoon, a beef ball was formed and put into the hot water.

"When squeezing the meatballs, the water in the pot cannot be boiled, just slightly hot."

Su Chen squeezed a pound of seasoned beef into beef balls and put them into the pot.

"Master Liu, Master Cheng, do you understand? I said it was very simple!" Su Chen didn't plan to squeeze the meatballs anymore, and looked at the two chefs and asked with a smile.

"Thank you for your advice, Lord! I'll take note!" Several chefs bowed.

"Okay, come on! When you cook the meatballs later, you have to cook them slowly over low heat. If the fire is too strong, the meatballs may fall apart."

"The beef balls will float up after being cooked. You know the heat better than me. You can master it by scooping them up and eating a few."

"After cooking, just scoop them up and continue to cook them in warm water."

After Su Chen finished his instructions, he went to the side to wash his hands.

"Okay, Lord, I understand!"

Master Liu and others bowed again, then washed their hands and started to squeeze the meatballs.

"You guys are busy. When you're done, weigh them and see how many meatballs can be squeezed out of 32 kilograms of beef."

Before leaving, Su Chen gave another instruction.

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"Oh, beauty, I'm waiting for me... Uh, I won't scare you!"

In the study, Princess Changle, who was sitting sideways at the door of the study, was frightened by Su Chen's sudden arrival and her shoulders trembled.

Su Chen slowly walked into the study and sat opposite Princess Changle.

"Haha, yes! I have been waiting for you for a long time. I wonder if the Marquis's beef balls are ready!"

Princess Changle bowed her head and stretched out her hands to Su Chen politely and asked.

"Soon, at most one hour, you can have the first bite of beef balls!" Su Chen promised confidently.

Princess Changle's greed was aroused, and she pulled Su Chen's sleeve and asked, "Really? Are the beef balls delicious?"

"Beauty, I haven't eaten them yet!"

Princess Changle rolled her eyes at Su Chen and said, "Tsk! If you haven't eaten beef balls, how do you know that beef balls are delicious?"

"Well... I ate them in my dreams! You also know what kind of life I lived before, I was hungry for nine meals in three days!"

"I can only taste all the delicacies in the world in my dreams to get by!"

"The past is unbearable to look back on...!"

Su Chen said with tears in his eyes, shaking his head and waving his hands.

It makes people feel pity.

Although what Su Chen said just now was a joke, it seems that the only thing Su Chen really does personally is food.

Every timeWhen serving fresh dishes or food, Su Chen would personally demonstrate to the chef.

Princess Changle stared at Su Chen for a while, picked up the gloves on the desk, and helped Su Chen put them on.

"It was inconvenient to wear gloves when I was making meatballs just now." Su Chen consciously cooperated and stretched out his hand.

"Su Chen, don't worry, I will never let you go hungry again from now on!" Princess Changle looked at Su Chen with a very serious expression, as if she had made some difficult decision!

"Well, I know! I heard from Wang Xi that the manor has so much money that the money cellar can't hold it!" Su Chen nodded and responded.

Puff!

Princess Changle couldn't help but laughed.

"Who told you this!" Princess Changle clenched her fist and gently hit Su Chen's wrist.

"Ouch, it hurts so much!"

Even if it doesn't hurt, you have to pretend.

Princess Changle spat with contempt, and then asked:

"School will be on holiday in three days. When will we leave Chang'an to go to the Yellow River for fun?"

Su Chen opened his eyes a little wider when he heard this. He never remembered the date and was surprised: "School will be on holiday so soon?"

"My Lord! What do you mean? Don't you want the school to be on holiday?" Princess Changle clenched her fist and threatened.

"That's not the case... I was wondering why Changsun Chong and the others haven't returned to Chang'an yet." Su Chen thought for a moment, looked at Princess Changle and explained:

"You also know that the weather is cold now, and spending the night outside is not the same as staying in the manor.

Therefore, a few days ago I asked Changsun Chong and the others to build a kang along the way, so that when we go out to play, we won't be frozen at night."

Su Chen smiled at Princess Changle, "Do you understand?"

"Oh!" Princess Changle nodded.

Su Chen was very satisfied with her attitude, "So, we can only set off after Chang Sun Chong and the others come back."

"Otherwise, we will stay there overnight, even if we bring a quilt!"

While talking, Wang Chao came to the door of the study, "My Lord, the beef balls are all ready. The beef balls weigh 29 kilograms after cooking, a total of 1,130 meatballs."

Su Chen listened to Wang Chao's report and opened his mouth.

Have you counted the number of beef balls?

The strange thing is that after 32 kilograms of beef were made into beef balls, there were still three kilograms missing.

"Li Zhi, go call Jin'er and Xiao Sizi and the others, I'll make beef balls for you to taste!"

"Yes!" Princess Changle immediately went to call people.

Su Chen quickly came to the kitchen, and there were two large pots of cooked beef balls on the chopping board.

The cooked beef balls were grayish white, and there was still steam on them.

"Master Liu, have you tasted it?" Su Chen guessed that they would not taste any ingredients in the kitchen privately.

"My Lord, when cooking beef balls, I will pick up one and break it apart to see the quality of the meatball." Master Liu said as he scooped out the broken beef ball from the basin with a spoon.

Su Chen smiled and nodded, looking at all the people present in the kitchen, including the three people brought by Master Cheng, a total of seventeen people.

"Master Liu, help me get ten bowls for rice and prepare some coriander."

"Okay, my Lord!"

Master Liu put the rice bowls on the table, and Su Chen scooped a spoonful of beef balls into each bowl, about nine in total.

"Pour a ladle of beef bone soup into the bowl."

The steaming beef bone soup, plus the beef balls, had just been cooked and did not need to be heated separately.

The beef bones were blanched without beef, so they did not look greasy, with only a little oil foam floating on them.

Su Chen took a small spoon and tried the beef ball soup. It didn't taste salty.

After adding a little salt, he tasted it again.

"Perfect!"

Finally, throw in a few slices of coriander.

"Master Liu, I'll take this away first. Each of you will have a bowl later, and the other balls will be refrigerated."

"Remember, one bowl per person, this is an order!"

Everyone worked hard for an afternoon to kill a cow and wash the internal organs. It's time to reward them.

Su Chen said seriously and took the tray.

"My Lord, let me do it!" The waiter immediately took the tray from Su Chen and brought the beef ball soup to the tray.

"Okay, just take it to the study room, and prepare chopsticks and spoons." Then he looked at Master Cheng who came to the palace to learn how to make beef balls, "When you return to the palace later, take some beef balls back!"

"Okay, my Lord!" Master Cheng bowed and replied.

... When he walked to the door of the study, Su Chen took the tray from the waiter. "Go back to the kitchen and make a bowl for each of you to try, okay?"

The waiter bowed and said, "Thank you, my Lord!"

Su Chen nodded, "Well, go ahead!"

"Beauty, the beef ball soup is here!"

Princess Changle and Jin'er helped take the beef ball soup off the tray and put it on the desk.

"Be careful when eating, there will be very hot soup in the beef balls!"Su Chen looked at the three little guys and reminded them.

"Yes!" The three nodded heavily.

"Also, be careful of the soup in the beef balls, which may splash onto the faces of the people sitting opposite."

Su Chen reminded them of everything he could think of!

"Yes, it's really delicious!" Princess Changle carefully bit a beef ball and chewed it slowly.

They have all eaten beef, but the taste is different!

"Wow~ Delicious! So bouncy!" Little Sizi, as usual, has a great appetite and eats spicy food!

"Su Chen... How does this beef ball taste compared to the one in your dream?"

Princess Changle suddenly looked up and asked with a smile.

Su Chen: "... Uh, that's the taste!"

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