Traveling through farming with the system, I cooked delicious food in ancient times

Mao Xi and Xiaoqing stood at the door of the fruit cake workshop early in the morning, waiting for the leader's carriage from the Kaitang County Guild Manager to pick them up.

Aunt Shen and Mr. Chen continued to make vegetarian cakes in the workshop. The base of the cake had been baked in advance in the workshop in the morning and was put in a food box, carried by Xiao Qing.

Mao Xi whipped all kinds of ghee in advance and refrigerated it in the space.

Seeing the carriage parked next to the wooden archway from a distance, the two got on the carriage together.

The driver was a young man in his twenties. He asked Mao Xi to wait in the car, but he got out of the car and ran all the way to the fruit cake workshop and bought two packs of mung bean cakes and pumpkin cakes.

Seeing that the younger brother had bought his own vegetarian cakes, Mao Xi asked, "Brother, your house is having a big banquet today. Are these packs of vegetarian cakes enough?"

"The girl misunderstood. I bought this for my mother. She likes the tribute fruits from Yuqing Temple, but there are not many in the temple, so it is rare to buy them. So she asked me to bring a few bags back."

"Brother, if you like it, come and buy it often in the future."

"The girl's craftsmanship is good. She will open a fruit cake workshop in Kaitang County in the future."

Mao Xi silently wrote it down and thought it was feasible, so he started planning to save money to open a branch.

Arriving at the door of Zhou's mansion, the housekeeper took Mao Xi and Xiaoqing into the inner kitchen, where the cook and the helpers were busy preparing dishes.

Some of the steamed vegetables have been arranged on the plates and are just waiting to be put into the steamer; some are still processing the ingredients, killing fish and chickens, lamb chops and beef brisket, deep-frying, roasting, stewing.

Mao Xi can probably guess that the dishes on this table include: crab stuffed with orange, braised pork, shark's fin and abalone belly, grilled braised pigeon, grilled lamb chops, golden boiled jade...

Mao Xi and Xiaoqing were brought to the table in front of the main table by the housekeeper. On the table were various kinds of sugar glutinous rice cakes, five-spice cakes and eight-treasure rice.

"Ms. Ah, the butter cake can be made on this table. Please finish it before the guests arrive." After the housekeeper said this, he went to direct the servants to place tables, chairs, and potted flowers in the yard.

After laying the base of the countertop, Mao Xi, with Xiaoqing's help, fixed the preliminary model of the two-layer cake, and then began to apply cream, decorate and put fruits.

The cooks in the kitchen were all curious about how to make the butter cake. They wondered what method Mao Xi used to make butter as white as snow.

"That's butter cake. It smells so delicious!"

"Yes, yes, I heard that the county magistrate also asked her to make one for his birthday."

When the little cooks saw the butler coming to the inner kitchen, they quickly ran back to the stove.

A cook in charge rubbed her belly and ran to the housekeeper, saying, "Butler Lin, I have to ask for leave for you. I had a bad stomach this morning and I can't prepare the banquet. Oh! I have to relieve myself!" After saying that, he ran away.

The housekeeper asked the cook about the cooking progress, and then discovered that the dishes that the cook was on leave had not yet finished.

Seeing that Mao Xi and Xiao Qing had finished making the butter cake, he nodded with satisfaction after reading: "Very good, the color of these pants is so bright and beautiful! What kind of food are they made of?"

"Butler, the word "囍" is made of rose paste!"

The housekeeper paid the money, then pulled the two of them into the kitchen, and begged: "Miss Ah Shu, the house is short of manpower, can you stay and help?"

When the cooks saw Ma Xi being pulled into the kitchen by the housekeeper, they all gathered around her: "You are the little cook who makes cakes, right? Come and help, we still have one dish left and no one is responsible for it."

The housekeeper looked at the progress of the food preparation and realized that the missing dish was a big dish: "Miss Mao Xi, there is still one fish missing. The old lady is afraid of fishy food. Are you sure about this dish? I will pay you double the labor fee today!" "

As soon as she heard that the housekeeper wanted money for processing, Mao Xi immediately became motivated. She nodded in agreement and took Xiaoqing to work.

Xiao Qing was not sure about making fish, so she asked in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, what should we do with this fish? Isn't it the chrysanthemum fish sold in the store?"

"These are mandarin fish. Let's make squirrel mandarin fish. I'll fillet the fish with a flower knife, and you'll be responsible for frying the fish. The cooking method is similar to chrysanthemum fish." Ma Xi arranged for Xiao Qing to help, then stood up and asked the other cooks, "Excuse me Do you have any pine nuts here?"

"Yes, yes!" A fat little cook ran over with a plate of pine nuts and said, "I'll peel the pine nuts."

Mao Xi skillfully sliced ​​the fish into pieces, rolled it in flour, and handed it to Xiao Qing to fry in the pan. She started frying the sweet and sour red toppings.

When placing the fish on the plate, bend the fish head and place it together with the fish body into the shape of a squirrel. Finally, pour the sauce and sprinkle with pine nuts, and a plate of squirrel mandarin fish is ready.

After the banquet started, the maids went out with various dishes, and the kitchen became quiet.

The cooks pulled Mao Xi and Xiao Qing to the dining table and said, "My dear lady, you must have been very busy just now. Let's eat together!"

The hospitality was hard to resist. Although the food on the table was simple, the two of them were already very hungry. Picking up the braised pork was a feast for the eyes.

"My uncle has come to the banquet, everyone come and see!"

"This is the young lady's husband, he is so handsome!"

"My uncle seems to have fallen in love with the young lady when she was shopping for lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and that's why she came to live with my father-in-law."

Listening to these gossips, Mao Xi became curious about the groom. She joined the group of cooks and looked towards the main table of the banquet.

It doesn't matter at this glance. I didn't expect that today's groom would be Qi Rui!

"No, Mr. Qi is in Lihua Town. I saw him at Yaji Painting Academy in the morning. How could he come here to be the groom?" Mao Xi muttered to himself.

Returning to Lihua Town with suspicion, Mao Xi immediately went to the art academy to find Qi Rui and felt relieved when she saw that he was painting.

She did not forget to step forward and ask for verification: "Mr. Qi, do you have any brothers? I saw a person who looks very similar to you in Kaitang County today."

Qi Rui stopped painting and shook his head in denial: "My parents only have one son, shopkeeper Ah Shu, are you dazzled?"

"I was indeed right. I didn't expect there to be such similar people. People who don't know, would think that Mr. Qi, you have a twin brother!"

Qi Rui wondered: "What are twins?"

"They are twins. Mr. Zhou's son-in-law really looks like you."

"In that case, it's really a coincidence." Qi Rui was not interested in this and began to immerse himself in painting again.

Mao Xi turned around and left the art academy, then went to the market and purchased some pig intestines and fish paste.

Usually few people eat these pig intestines, and they are cheap, so Mao Xi has been looking for butchers in the market to buy them.

This is the fish bubble, but the quality is not as good as the one she had at the Aqiang Aquatic Products Stall in Wutong Port.

"I'll have to go to Wutong Port to purchase some another day. I wonder if Captain Wu has returned from overseas."