I am Qinxing No.1

Chapter 460 Lotus Leaf Lotus Soup

Huang Sixia is also a very interesting person. Hearing what Zhou Dong said, he immediately smiled and said, "Oh, but could it be the soup that Second Master Bao is thinking about?"

This "teeth-gritting" soup comes from Chapter 30 of No. [-] of A Dream of Red Mansions. After Baoyu was beaten, the mother was so painful that she shed tears, so she asked my sweetheart what would you like to eat?
But Baoyu smiled and said that he didn't want to do anything else, but the soup made with little lotus leaves and lotus pods that time was better.
This soup is called lotus leaf lotus pod soup.

When Sister Feng heard it, she smiled and said, Baoyu, you really know how to eat, this soup is too teeth-breaking.

Teeth grinding here does not really mean teeth grinding, but that this soup is not easy to make, and it takes a lot of hard work. It is a soup that makes people feel anxious and can grind their teeth.
Even the second grandma of Jia Fulian, who is famous for her food, said "grind her teeth", which shows how complicated it is?
Zhou Dong nodded: "Master Huang guessed right, it is this lotus leaf lotus soup."

"Chef Zhou, I'm afraid this is inappropriate?"

Huang Sixia frowned slightly, with a troubled expression on her face: "Shang Lao has never had any requirements for food, and what he hates the most is luxury.
This lotus leaf and lotus pod soup sounds very simple, but it is considered a very troublesome and teeth-grinding dish in Jia’s house.”

Huang Sixia is right, this lotus leaf lotus pod soup is not only cumbersome to make, even the mold used to make it has to be made into a lotus pod shape, and it is best to use silverware.

It is not only extravagant to create such a set of molds but only corresponds to one soup dish, it is simply extravagant!
It can be imagined that no matter how delicious this soup is, Mr. Shang will definitely be unhappy.

"Master Huang, don't worry, I know what's going on in my heart."

Zhou Dongdao: "This soup dish is called lotus leaf lotus pod soup. In fact, it just borrows the fragrance of lotus leaves. It doesn't really use lotus pods. Instead, it mixes various ingredients into a puree, steams it in a mold, and then uses chicken skin to make a puree." into the soup, and then boil these 'lotus pods',
The so-called luxury, in fact, is mostly on this set of molds, but how can this be difficult for you and me?

Master Huang is a dragon and phoenix carving knife, can't you carve a set of molds? "

"Of course I have thought about this, but what is it used as a tool?
No pumpkin, no big radish, the taste does not match this soup,

Even if you use wax gourd, it's hard to say that it won't affect the taste of this soup." Huang Sixia thought of several answers, but she denied them one by one.

"Just use winter melon.

Compared with pumpkins and radishes, wax gourd has the weakest taste, and the molds carved out of it should be usable, and I will add some water chestnuts to the ingredients. Its taste is slightly sweeter than that of lotus seeds, but a bit stronger than that of lotus seeds. It can be neutralized with winter melon.

Master Huang, I'm going to prepare all kinds of ingredients. Can I leave this wax gourd mold to you? "

"Well then"

Huang Sixia thought about it, and Zhou Dong immediately became a chopping board when he came, but he didn't call this dragon and phoenix carving knife for nothing.

According to the records in the Dream of Red Mansions, the lotus pods in the lotus leaf lotus pod soup are made of rice flour ground from Oden rouge rice, Bijaponica rice, red rice, etc., embedded in a silver mold.

The names of these rice are all tall, but what kind of rice are they?I am afraid that only Cao Xueqin knows, and many red scholars are still arguing fiercely.

This dish nourishes the spleen and nourishes qi, relaxes the meridians and activates blood circulation. It is most suitable for middle-aged and elderly people. Because of the system tasks, Zhou Dong has been thinking about the recipe of this soup.

It can be prepared to complete part of the tasks, and it can also be eaten by parents, so during this period of time, I often practice in the good kitchen. Today, seeing Mr. Shang, I remembered this soup on a whim.

According to the research of some red scholars and Zhou Dong's own speculation, this so-called royal rouge rice should be what modern people call "purple rice". Isn't Bigengxiang rice just teeny rice?As for red rice, [-]% of it is sorghum!

Zhou Dong thought about the living habits of Shang Lao, and he was afraid that there would not be too top-notch purple rice and sorghum. The old man was used to hard work and simplicity all his life. I would be scolded, but when I opened the rice vat, I guessed it right. Purple rice is a first-class product, but it is still far from what I wanted.

There are also half a tank of sorghum, and Huang Sixia said that this is because Mr. Shang loved to recall the hard times in the three northern provinces, and he often had to eat some sorghum.

"Master Huang, you have to help me get some high-quality teeny-headed rice. It doesn't need much. It's almost enough if you have five or six taels. You can also get some water chestnuts. Without these two ingredients, this soup can't be made."

"Don't worry, isn't it just rice? I've wanted to get some for Shang Lao, but Shang refused. Anyway, he didn't know that it was ground and mixed together. I will get some without telling him."

As Huang Sixia, getting some top-grade teeny-headed rice was just a matter of phone calls. After a while, someone quietly delivered it. Zhou Dong took it over and took a look. It was a grade higher than the purple rice and sorghum in the kitchen.

But even this kind of top-notch rice is far inferior to the Bigengxiang rice described in the Dream of the Red Chamber. Although the novel is fictional, Cao Xueqin was a real nobleman in the first half of his life. What kind of land was he in those days ?
But these are all difficult for Zhou Dong, he took two and a half of each of the three kinds of rice, and when they were mixed and grinded, just passing through his hands lightly, it seemed to be completely reborn, showing brilliance!
The purple rice, which was originally only first-grade, had become as crystal clear as purple jade when it fell after being held and released by Zhou Dong's hand, and the ends of every grain of rice were glowing!

The red sorghum, which was originally a first-grade red sorghum, was gently stroked by him, and each grain seemed to be dripping with oil.

There is also the teeny rice that Huang Sixia found, which was directly exchanged by him for the ancient tribute 'Thousand Drops of Cui' in the system at the expense of appreciation points. The color of the water head is as pure as imperial green jadeite.

Most people may not be able to see these changes, after all, Zhou Dong's technique is extremely fast, but Huang Sixia is different, so Zhou Dong arranged the work on the 'cutting board' for him in advance,
At the moment, Lao Huang is struggling to carve molds with big wax gourds. How could he have thought that Zhou Dong had "stealed the sky and replaced the sun" and prepared three kinds of good rice for Mr. Shang, which can't be found now?
When he carved out the lotus pod molds one by one, Zhou Dong had already ground all three types of rice into rice noodles, adding the glutinous rice juice that had just boiled, and was stirring them gently.

"what?"

Who is Huang Sisi?It was also one of the few chefs in China. Although Zhou Dong was just stirring raw rice noodles, he could smell the rice fragrance strangely.

"The rice doesn't seem right"

(End of this chapter)