Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 367 Hot and Sour Noodle Soup
Fu Xin suddenly raised his head and looked at Li Xu in disbelief.

Li Xu, on the other hand, showed a hint of helplessness: "You are a poor family champion who came to the capital for the first time, and the friend you mentioned is from the common people. How many friends do you know besides the pastry maker?"

Only then did Fu Xin realize that he underestimated Li Xu and underestimated himself!
It turns out that my little thought is nothing in His Majesty's eyes.

"I hope Your Majesty will not disturb him. If he is involved in this dispute, if something goes wrong, then Fu Xin will bear the blame." Fu Xin knelt on the ground and said.

"Don't worry, I have a lot to say, and I can't get him involved, but you still have to ask about the follow-up method." Li Xu waved his hand, and asked Fu Xin to step back after speaking.

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Chen Nian naturally didn't know that his name was passed on to the empress again, because he was still studying the method of making sour plum soup.

In the afternoon, Chen Nian was washing ebony plums. The ebony plums that Lu Ke had washed in the shop had run out, so Chen Nian needed to deal with some more, but while washing, he heard Lu Ke calling him from outside.

"Xiao Nian, go for another trip and bring some snacks to Yuanwai Zhao's house."

"coming!"

Hearing Lu Ke's yell, Chen Nian hurriedly dried his hands and came to the front hall.

"You go to Zhao Yuanwai's house. Zhao Yuanwai's house is in Anlefang in Wannian County. Just ask someone and they will be able to guide you. When the time comes, just put down the snacks. The Zhao family will come by the end of the month. checkout."

"Okay, sister, I'll go right away."

Chen Nian went to wash his hands again, and then went out with some snacks when he came back. It took about half an hour to go back and forth.

Speaking of which, Yuan Zhao's house is indeed quite far away, and it's hard for him to come to buy dim sum from Lu Wanxing's dim sum shop after traveling such a long distance.

After all, there is also an Dongshi in Wannian County, and the people there basically go there often even if they buy things.

But doesn't this also mean that Lu Wanxing's dim sum shop's reputation has spread?
"After the Hai family's birthday banquet is over, the reputation will surely spread farther."

Chen Nian thought so.

Then he rushed back to the house, because he was in a hurry just now, and it was not until the way back that Chen Nian remembered that Wu Mei was still soaking in the water.

After returning, Chen Nian found that the ebony plums had been soaked and grown up a lot. He was just about to pour out the water, and then try to see how the remaining ebony plums would work. There was a faint smell of plums coming out of the pot, which was fresh.

This made him can't help but put down the pot of ebony water again.

Speaking of which, the water in this basin is actually not dirty, because it has been washed almost from the previous aging, and the water is rinsed again in the end, just to rinse it again for a formality.

He found that the ebony plum had a faint fragrance after soaking it, so he couldn't help thinking: "Why don't you try it with this water?"

In cooking, many dishes are made with soaked rice soup. Although Chen Nian knows exactly what is in the rice soup, it has to be said that sometimes the dishes made with rice soup are indeed better than those made with white water. Fragrant.

All of a sudden, Chen Nian hurriedly took out his notebook and started recording. After calculating the time, Chen Nian recorded the time he left on it.

Then start to make according to the previous method.

But when making it, Chen Nian suddenly thought that when decocting the medicine, it still needs to be decocted separately and twice, and when making sour plum soup, it is nothing more than two times before and after, and in fact there is still the same pot of water in the middle.

In this way, why can't it be boiled with some new water the second time?

But this is considered a new variable, and Chen Nian intends to keep it for the next time.

And this time the experiment number is C1.

After cooking, Chen Nian went to the front to help, and then Chen Nian ran to the back several times to handle the intermediate steps. After the sour plum soup was made, Chen Nian hoisted it into the well.

By the way, take out the sour plum soup that was made before and taste it.

Now every day, the freshly made sour plum soup will be put into the well. After all, the sour plum soup is better to drink when it is cold, and the temperature in the well is lower than the indoor and outdoor temperatures outside, especially when the half of the bucket is soaked in the well. In the water, bring it out after a few hours. The sour plum soup is really cold and delicious, and it is very enjoyable.

Now the sour plum soup made in the morning is the sour plum soup, which belongs to the B12 group.

After tasting it carefully, record it carefully in the book. Of course, the overall evaluation is not so high. The conclusion of the whole experiment of group B is that the evaluation is average.

After drinking, Chen Nian began to look forward to the performance of Group C.

But there is no rush.

Chen Nian didn't drink the sour plum soup from group C until late at night. At this time, he just had dinner and wanted to drink something to quench his thirst, so he went to the mouth of the well to bring up the bucket of sour plum soup that was hung down in the afternoon.

I scooped up a scoop with a scoop and drank it with my head raised.

After taking a sip, he suddenly felt that the plum flavor in his mouth seemed to be stronger!
And it's not the uncomfortable sourness caused by cooking for too long, but it's very fragrant.

This made Chen Nian's eyes shine.

At the same time, he quickly discovered that the soaking time can actually be shortened a little bit, not as long as an hour, and four to ten minutes is enough.

Thinking of aging here, I took out some ebony plums and washed them, then soaked the ebony plums and other materials into the water.

But the sweet-scented osmanthus is still excluded, after all, even if the sweet-scented osmanthus is released, it will not be released until the end.

This time he soaked for about four to ten minutes, and then he went to cook according to the best cooking time that had been determined before.

After the head was fried, he directly poured out the sour plum soup that had been boiled for the first time, and then poured in new water to continue cooking.

First boil over high heat, then simmer slowly.

In this way, he kept busy until the sound of evening drums outside, and Chen Nian finally made the sour plum soup.

At the same time, number this experiment as C2, and record all the corresponding variables and formulas.

Finally, pour these sour plum soup into buckets and hang them into the well, and taste them after getting up the next day.

I don't know why this time the anticipation in my heart is even greater than before.

But no matter how urgent it was, it was not at this moment, so Chen Nian lay on the bed like this and gradually fell asleep.

When he opened his eyes the next day, Chen Nian straightened up from the bed, put on his clothes, wiped his face and brushed his teeth with a homemade toothbrush.

Now he's going to the kitchen to make some breakfast.

My cousin will get up in a while, so Chen Nian needs to prepare some food in advance, and after my cousin gets up and washes up, we will have breakfast together and start working.

This morning, I made a small ball of noodles and planned to make a hot and sour noodle soup.

The dough can be made directly, then flattened with a rolling pin, and then cut into slices with a knife, first cut into a long strip, and then pulled into the pot by hand.

In contrast, Chen Nian still feels that pulling with hands is more soulful. Although it may be a little uneven and the thickness is different, it tastes better that way.

But the noodles in a bowl of hot and sour noodle soup should be chewy and elastic. That is only the most basic, and the more important thing is the soup.

Compared with the situation when I was in Yangzhou before, maybe the living conditions in the capital are many times better than before, and the vegetable market in Chang'an City is far better than the few vegetable markets I visited in Yangzhou. , You can even find chili peppers here, although the price is more expensive, but old age is rich now, so naturally you can buy some chili peppers to enjoy yourself.

Moreover, he had fried some chili peppers that he had bought back in the past and made them into oily chili peppers.

While cooking the pulled noodles in the pot, Chen Nian took out two sea bowls, put oily chili peppers in them and poured a lot of vinegar, followed by a little soy sauce, and put a few leaves of laver There is a little sugar.

He has now fully figured out Lu Ke's taste, so he also knows that although Lu Ke looks weak on the surface and is from Jiangnan, his taste is actually quite strong.

However, there are two types of oily chili made in the old age, one is more spicy, and the other is only burnt and tastes basically no spicy.

And this time, the vintage is using the second type.

After the noodles are cooked, Chen Nian directly scoops up the soup and noodles with a spoon and pours them into a bowl. As the hot soup washes away, the seasoning at the bottom of the bowl is also completely washed away.

The color suddenly turned dark red, but there were still red oil droplets floating on it.

Just like the scene of Huoshaoyun in the sky in the evening, those patches are like clouds dotted on it under the illumination of Huoshaoyun.

The process is not complicated at all, it can even be said to be very simple.

Most of the large bowl is soup or the proportion of noodles is relatively small, but it is enjoyable to eat a bowl with such thin soup and little water.

Afterwards, Chen Nian poured out the noodle soup in the pot directly, so he didn't need to drink it anymore, and this bowl of hot and sour soup was enough if he wanted to drink it.

After simply brushing the pan, Chen Nian poured some oil into it. After the oil was hot, Chen Nian directly cracked two eggs and started making fried eggs.

Chen Nian likes to eat eggs with a little bit of sugar in the middle, so after frying for a while, he picks them up and puts them in his own bowl, while my cousin likes to eat eggs that are fully cooked, so I fry them more After a while, take it out and put it in a bowl until both sides are golden and slightly burnt.

At this time, Lu Ke had already got up and finished washing, and then heard the sound of clanging pots and spoons colliding with iron pans from the kitchen. She couldn't help coming here curiously, and she said to see what Chen Nian did again. food.

As a result, as soon as I got to the door and smelled the hot and sour smell coming from inside, my stomach surrendered on the spot, grunting begging for mercy.

"what are you doing?"

"Hot and sour noodle soup." Chen Nian said.

Lu Ke also saw the two large bowls from the gap left by Chen Nian's sideways body and couldn't help but gasped: "Such a big bowl? I can't eat it."

"It's okay. There are not many noodles in it. Just drink some soup after eating. This soup is like water. If you want to drink it, you can drink more. If you don't want to drink it, just eat it dry." Chen Nian said.

The original noodle soup is like this.

Watching Lu Ke move a small horse directly to the stove and prepare to have breakfast, Chen Nian also picked up the bowl, first took a sip of soup along the side of the bowl, the sour feeling hit the taste buds directly.

Immediately afterwards, the body was like a chain reaction.

The brain also gave instructions for hunger at the same time.

Finally, Chen Nian began to tilt the bowl towards his mouth, and while drinking the soup, at the same time, the chopsticks were also pulling the noodles to his mouth.

In such a snoring sound, Chen Nian swallowed the noodles and the extremely appetizing hot and sour soup, took a long breath, and then picked up the fried egg with chopsticks and bit off most of it in one bite.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt that it was not enjoyable, so he put down the bowl and went to the side to rub two cloves of garlic and came back.

"Sister, do you want to eat?" Chen Nian asked.

"I don't want to eat it, it tastes bad in my mouth after eating it." Lu Ke Yaoyao rejected him with her head.

Chen Nian thought to himself, this noodles are delicious with garlic, no wonder Yan Lili looked for garlic every time she came to the store to eat noodles after they broke up.

Really exciting!
Afterwards, Chen Nian finished eating the noodles in this way, and even drank the soup upside down. His forehead and the tip of his nose began to sweat slightly, and he felt comfortable and transparent.

The 365 million pores all over his body were open, cheering.

Then I turned to look at my cousin.

I saw that Lu Ke was also drinking hard, obviously very appetizing.

But when there was still one third of the soup left in the bowl, Lu Ke put down the bowl: "No, I really can't drink it anymore!"

"It's okay. If you can't drink anymore, don't drink any more. Just eat enough. If you eat too much, your stomach will burst, and the gain will not be worth the loss."

In contrast, Chen Nian feels much better at the moment.

He was only slightly full, basically reaching a very proper state.

Let Lu Ke prepare to make snacks first, and after Chen Nian tidies up the kitchen, he goes to pull up the sour plum soup that was made last night.

This is what he had hoped for.

Moreover, the production process is also one of the most complicated control groups in all experiments. Not to mention the previous cleaning of the ingredients, after cleaning the ingredients, they need to be soaked for four to 10 minutes, and then they should be cooked twice. , and then put the sour plum soup fried for the first time and the second time together.

Smelling the bursts of fragrance from the amber and transparent sour plum soup, the old man sprinkled a little sweet-scented osmanthus on it, and the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus was soon stimulated.

In fact, in the subsequent experiments, the appearance is not much different each time, but this time you can really smell the aging, and the sour plum soup made this time has a more mellow and rich taste.

Because of the hot and sour noodle soup that he had eaten before, his mouth was thirsty at the moment, so Chen Nian couldn't help taking it up and took a big gulp.

There was an instant sensation of cooling and quenching thirst.

White porcelain plum soup in midsummer, when the broken ice hits the wall, it clangs.

Chen Nian suddenly thought of such a poem, and at the same time, he was also thinking in his heart if he could put some ice cubes in the sour plum soup, and then serve it in the white porcelain described in the poem.

What a beautiful thing to drink when the time comes.

(End of this chapter)