Chapter 92 New Year’s Eve (1) [Second update]
There were many people in the kitchen and it was very busy. Jiang Feng saw at first glance that there were at least three cooking masters, plus helpers, messengers, and stewards. It seemed that the originally quite large kitchen was a bit crowded.
"Does Xiao Wang have any cut sweet potatoes?" Jiang Huiqin asked a familiar cook.
"Yes, Master Chen has just cut it. I'll get it for you, young lady." Xiao Wang stopped what he was doing and went to get the cut sweet potatoes for Jiang Huiqin.
"Huiqin, what can you do for me?" Li Mingyi was also a little eager to give it a try.
"Stand aside, be careful if the oil splashes on your clothes, it will really stain your clothes." Jiang Huiqin pointed him to a place away from the stove, "Last time I made sea cucumber and hibiscus custard, I asked you to beat an egg for me. You even got it all over me, causing me to be scolded by my mother.”
Li Mingyi sneered and stood obediently where Jiang Huiqin pointed: "Isn't that my first time? There are two talents. If I learn it twice more, I won't get it on my body."
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"Forget it, your hands are meant for writing, and you have to take the college entrance examination next year! It's good to be able to pick up vegetables. If I have to learn it twice more, my mother will have to ban me from the kitchen!" Jiang Huiqin said with a smile, looking at the child Wang brought the cut sweet potatoes and stopped looking at Li Ming to look at the sweet potatoes.
The sweet potatoes have been cut into two-centimeter-wide hob pieces by Master Chen. Master Chen is an old cook at Tai Feng House. He followed Jiang Chengde from the northeast to Peiping. He agreed to come to the Li family because of Jiang Huiqin's sake. Be a chef.
Although the imperial court is now dead, there are still young and old, noble sons and daughters everywhere in Beiping City. Li Mingyi's grandfather was only a fifth-rank Hanlin scholar back then, which was not enough to be seen in Beiping City.
"Master Chen, I'll use your sweet potatoes first, you have to use them yourself and then cut them!" Jiang Huixin said in a loud voice to Master Chen who was cooking far away.
"Okay." Master Chen said he heard it.
Add oil to the pot, add cold oil to the sweet potato pieces, and let them fry slowly. Jiang Huiqin did not stir them, but waited slowly. When the skin of the sweet potatoes was all golden and scabbed, she quickly took them out and put them aside. Drain.
Next is the highlight of shredded sweet potatoes, fried with sugar and shredded.
Stir-fried sugar and shredded sugar can also be regarded as one of the unique skills in Shandong cuisine. Honey juice, hanging frost, colored glaze, shredded and stir-fried sugar are the five steps of stir-frying sugar in a progressive relationship with the heat.
Jiang Feng can also stir-fry sugar. Anyone who can't even cook can fry sugar in a decent manner if they follow the video instructions. But if you want to actually complete the five steps of stir-frying sugar and then pull the thread, it will be difficult. .
Jiang Huiqin poured the sugar and water into the pot and brought it to a boil over high heat. After the water boiled, she took the spatula and stirred it in a clockwise direction, staring at the pot with all her concentration, not daring to slack off. When the water in the pot gradually evaporated, the color of the sugar began to gradually darken, and the sugar water began to bubble. Jiang Huiqin asked the helper who set the fire to lower the fire, and kept stirring with his hands at the original speed.
At this time, the sugar water in the pot could barely be called syrup, and gradually began to thicken. When soft bubbles appeared on the surface of the syrup, Jiang Huiqin asked the helper to add firewood to the fire. When a hint of burnt aroma floated out of the pot, she hurriedly He took the time to pour the oil-drained sweet potatoes into the pot, not forgetting to ask the helper to lower the fire.
Quickly stir-fry the sweet potatoes in the pan so that the surface of each piece of sweet potato is coated with syrup, turn the spoon over and remove from the pan.
Each piece of sweet potato fried to golden brown is tightly wrapped with a thin layer of syrup, and there are long and slender sugar threads between the sweet potatoes. The shredded sweet potatoes are shining on the plate, exuding sweet fragrance, golden and crispy.
Jiang Huiqin patted her sleeves and upper body proudly, looked down, and turned around in front of Li Mingyi: "Look, it didn't get on her body, and her new clothes aren't dirty! Xiaoqin just likes to worry about things unfounded. Thanks to her reputation, There is a word with the same pronunciation as me. I don’t believe it at all.”
"Yes, yes, we will talk about her together after the Chinese New Year." Li Mingyi agreed with a smile, "Don't you always say that sweet potatoes are delicious when they are hot? Why don't you bring them to the back hall for grandma to try? ”
"Wait a minute, I have to show Master Chen first." Jiang Huiqin carefully held the shredded sweet potato and approached Master Chen.
Master Chen was deboning the whole chicken. When he saw Jiang Huiqin coming, he knew what she was going to ask: "You pulled the wire at the wrong time and the temperature was not enough. It is far behind your brother."
Jiang Huiqin immediately grimaced.
"Okay, it's much better than you did last time. Didn't you go to Tai Feng Tower yesterday? Why does your brother think that your sister is married and is no longer a member of the Jiang family, so he doesn't want to teach you the stunt of pulling silk? "Master Chen is in his forties. He grew up watching Jiang Huiqin. He is quite serious, but he likes to joke.
"Master Chen, what are you talking about? My brother taught me, didn't I learn it? It's too difficult to cook two pots at the same time. You see, I'm pretty good at pulling silk. Can't you praise me? I If you don’t praise me, you won’t praise me either!” Jiang Huiqin felt that her performance today was actually quite good.
"Okay, okay, young lady, your cooking is very good. It's much better than what you cooked last time. The old lady will definitely like it when she tastes it. Bring it over while it's hot. Wait for it to cool down." Master Chen was busy taking off the bones of the chicken. , said perfunctorily.
Jiang Huiqin put the vegetables into the food box and said to Li Ming: "Mingyi, don't give red envelopes to Master Chen during the Chinese New Year this year. Anyone who celebrates the Chinese New Year won't say anything nice about me."
"Okay." Li Ming smiled and watched Jiang Huiqin leave the kitchen, then turned to Master Chen and said, "Master Chen, don't worry, I will definitely give you the biggest red envelope!"
"Then don't let girl Huiqin find out, otherwise she will definitely be angry." Master Chen said with a smile.
"How could she know if you didn't tell her!" Li Mingyi was in a good mood and went out to chase Jiang Huiqin.
Jiang Feng thought that this was Li Mingyi's memory. When he first appeared in the kitchen, Jiang Huiqin and Xiaoqin struggled at the door for a long time before Li Mingyi showed up. He thought that there was a large range of free activities in this memory, so he wanted to keep it. Watch how Master Chen removes the bones in the kitchen.
Little did he know that Li Mingyi had just taken two steps out of the kitchen when the invisible wall hit Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng finally knew it. Li Ming pretended to have just come to find Jiang Huiqin, but in fact he had been hiding for a long time watching the excitement.
Thief, what a thief!
Jiang Feng rubbed his poor butt and trotted quickly to keep up with Li Mingyi. (End of chapter)