He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

The next day, Lu Yan closed the stall and rushed to Song's house with Lu Sheng. Because Lu Sheng strongly suggested that she make pickled fish again, she also brought a small can of pickled cabbage. And her various starches.

Song Bowen first took Lu Yan and Lu Sheng to see Master Song. Master Song was shocked when he saw the two of them. Like Song Bowen, he knew that they were young, but subconsciously regarded them as adults, which was suddenly exposed when they met.

Mr. Song immediately became more dignified as an elder. He showed the two of them their seats and offered them snacks in a gentle voice. Lu Yan couldn't help but laugh.

"Don't be like this, Master Song." Lu Yan said, "Aren't we here to cooperate? Don't treat us like children."

Mr. Song was stunned, thinking that this was what happened, and immediately corrected his attitude. After the two exchanged pleasantries, Lu Yan went directly to the kitchen.

Because there was something to be steamed, Lu Yan had to make the dough quickly. Peony flower steamed buns and peach blossom steamed dumplings both require pink noodles. She spent the whole night thinking about how to make them and what to use instead. If it is modern, no food coloring is used, usually butterfly pea flowers or purple cabbage are used. She went around twice and found no butterfly pea flowers for sale at all. Thinking about it, butterfly pea flowers are native to the south and the yield is small. Now no one bothers to transport them to the north.

But there is purple cabbage. She chopped purple cabbage and boiled it in water, and a pot of blue water came out. After adding a few drops of vinegar to the water, the fruit turned pink. This is the principle of acid-base indicators. They turn red when exposed to acid. The stronger the acidity, the redder the color. Lu Yan mixed up two bowls of pink water with different colors, one was light pink and the other was red.

Lu Yan mixed the dough with the dark pink water and made a pink dough, then put it aside to rise.

Lu Yan thought about the dishes she wanted to make. The most laborious thing was probably the boiled cabbage, so she decided to make the soup from the boiled cabbage first.

The boiled cabbage soup looks as clear as white water, but it is actually made with a lot of auxiliary ingredients, such as chicken, duck, elbows and ham. Although there was ham at this time, it was produced in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas and was difficult to buy in the north. The time was too short and Song Bowen did not prepare it.

If not, then there won’t be. Lu Yan processed the elbows, chicken, and duck, and cut out the breast meat of the chicken and duck separately and set them aside. Put the prepared chicken and duck elbows into the pot and blanch them. After the water boils, skim off the foam, then remove and wash them. Add enough water and green onion and ginger and simmer for three to four hours, that is, one and a half or two hours. .

While the soup was simmering in the pot, Lu Yan cut the cleaned chicken and duck breasts into minced meat and put them in the bowl.

Lu Yan then found a basket of shrimps, washed them, peeled them and put them in a bowl to marinate. Then she cut a piece of pork, minced it into minced meat, seasoned it and mixed it with the shrimps to make the fillings for steamed peach blossom dumplings. .

The skin of peach blossom steamed dumplings is still made from a mixture of wheat starch and potato starch. After boiling light pink water, pour in the starch, and finally knead it into a light pink dough.

Lu Yan cut the dough into small pieces of the same size, then rolled them out, filled them with fillings, and kneaded them. Peach blossom steamed dumplings are actually very simple. Use the technique of wrapping a sugar triangle to pinch a five-pointed star, then pinch one edge of the five-pointed star with your thumb, push the wavy pattern up and connect it to the second edge, and pinch all five edges. , a light pink flower appears.

Lu Yan wrapped the dumplings and started preparing the next item.

She took a fish and processed it neatly. The chrysanthemum fish was made very similar to the squirrel mandarin fish. She cut the fish into strips of even thickness but did not cut them. After cutting, she put it in a basin and marinated it.

Since Lu Sheng said he was going to make pickled fish, Lu Yan simply took another fish fillet and filled it up for later use.

Lu Yanlu prepared all the cooking ingredients one after another. As if an hour and a half was a signal, Lu Yan opened the lid of the pot where the chicken and duck were stewed, and a strong aroma of meat came to her face. She took out all the ingredients inside, poured the minced meat into it three times, swept the soup several times and filtered it, leaving a basin of light yellow clear soup.

The method in most hotels is to cut the prepared cabbage hearts into lotus shapes, pour soup from above, and let them bloom. However, Lu Yan felt that that was not tasty enough, so she gave up the step of blooming on the spot and put the cabbage cut into lotus shapes on top. Blanch them in the soup until they are raw, then soak them in the soup.

The peach blossom steamed dumplings are also steamed in the pan, the lotus cakes are fried in the pan first, and then the chrysanthemum fish is wrapped in batter and fried in the same pan. The peony flower bun also bloomed into a beautiful big flower in the steamer.

Two quarters of an hour later, the cooked dishes were served one by one.

Lu Yan was still tinkering with the pickled fish in the kitchen, and the task of introducing the dishes was given to Lu Sheng.

The peony steamed bun was served first. Lu Sheng opened the lid of the steamed bun and said, "This dish is called Guose Tianxiang."

The taste is no different from ordinary steamed buns, but it looks like a big blooming peony flower. The pink petals are slightly curled, half closed and half closed, with white stamens sandwiched in the middle.

"Beautiful!" Mr. Song exclaimed.

When there are beautiful peach blossom steamed dumplings like peach petals, golden chrysanthemum fish, cucumber cups filled with various vegetable pieces arranged like bamboo, fragrant and sweet lotus cakes, and white lotus floating in the water like a water When the blooming boiled cabbage appeared in front of his eyes, Mr. Song was already at a loss for words.

"It's so beautiful." This is the end of Mr. Song's vocabulary.

As Lu Yan brought a large bowl of pickled fish to the table, today's dish tasting was completed.

"This dish is called Qingshan Wanli Yizhou, and I strongly recommend adding it." Lu Sheng said, "Come and try it."

Mr. Song has already eaten all kinds of novel dishes. He is almost full and has no appetite to continue eating. But as soon as the pickled fish dish came up, the sour and spicy taste stimulated by the splash of oil immediately aroused Mr. Song's appetite. He picked up a piece of pickled cabbage with chopsticks, and then picked up a piece of fish. His eyes lit up when he ate it in his mouth. .

He has never eaten such delicious fish. It has no fishy smell at all, and it is so sour and spicy that it makes people unable to stop mouthing. When he ate the sweet and sour chrysanthemum fish just now, he thought it was delicious, but he didn't expect that this dish would quickly hit his taste buds.

After the meal was enjoyed by both the guests and the host, Mr. Song felt that he had seen the dawn of hope and his eyes narrowed.

"By the way, I used a lot of ingredients to make this boiled cabbage just now. The chicken and duck elbows are still in the kitchen. What?" Lu Yan desperately hinted, "I had a few little maids to help me when I was cooking." Be less busy.”

Master Song heard the sound and understood the meaning: "Miss Lu is kind-hearted, let's give those to them."

Lu Yan happily agreed and quickly returned to the kitchen.

When Lu Yan was cooking just now, the alluring smell made the two little maids who were helping keep swallowing their saliva. The boy who delivered the food stopped standing still after delivering the food. When Lu Yan came back, the three of them were still waiting. With.

Lu Yan entered the kitchen, quickly mixed a bowl of dipping sauce, and brought it to the stone table in the courtyard together with a large pot of chicken and duck knuckle meat.

"Master Song said this is for you to eat. Thank you for your hard work." Lu Yan asked a few people to sit down. "This meat doesn't have too many ingredients and doesn't have much flavor. You can eat it with this sauce."

The three and a half-year-old children were in a daze as they looked at a large bowl of meat.