Infrastructure maniacs from the East

Question: How to make delicious food with only salt and oil as seasoning (and they are all precious items)?

Answer: Work hard on your own.

The above is a joke, but Xu Tian is really in this kind of predicament now. As a modern only child who doesn't work hard and doesn't distinguish between grains, he really doesn't know how to cook, and he can't recognize unfamiliar raw materials.

But it doesn't matter, in this situation where even the barbecue is a king's banquet, Xu Tian feels that he can still save it with his own efforts.

No, he found a fruit that is very suitable for making desserts - acorns.

The discovery of this ingredient is actually a bit embarrassing. The reason is that the mud bricks Xu Tian made before need to be fired to become bricks, and the construction of bricks requires a brick kiln, but the brick kiln is built of bricks... In short, this is a chicken or first As for the problem of eggs, Xu Tian quickly gave up this great project after thinking about it carefully, and decided not to embarrass himself first, but to fill his stomach before talking.

When he passed the kitchen, he saw the hanging pork and mutton, and then subconsciously thought of the fishy smell of pork here and the deliciousness of the original world. He was swallowing when he heard a vague sound. The housekeeper saw his doubts , took the initiative to explain that this is the horn of the pig herder... Wait, the pig herder?

Only after the butler’s science popularization did he realize how miserable pigs are in this era—there is no so-called pig food here, and the daily life of pig herders is to let them go to the woods to eat a kind of fruit, which can be proud of thirty catties It is said that it is a big pig, and the lord of fifty catties will hold a banquet to celebrate.

Xu Tian: ...Oh.

After initially understanding how healthy the pigs live here, Xu Tianxia consciously thought of the pigsty, and then thought that most of the rural pigsties in the novel were made of mud—very good, I’m going to see my pig.

Then the lord set off with the steward and his two knights. The two-wheeled carriage almost sent him to meet God again. He silently made a bold statement in his heart that he must build the road. There is a group of skinny pigs and a pig herder who is also skinny but much better than the average farmer.

Then the question arises—how does the pig herder manage to support himself well when the profession of housekeeper can barely eat enough?

The pig shepherd who only had one pair of trousers seemed terrified of Lord Xu's arrival, but Xu Tian didn't care about him anymore, all his mind was on the fruit that was half buried by pig manure on the ground—

—If he thought correctly, he probably found the reason why the pig herdsman lived such a healthy life.

When Xu Tian expressed that he was very interested in the kind of fruit on the ground and looked at the pig shepherd, this thin man who looked much better than the contemporary farmers, but was still like a refugee knelt down When he got down, he told how hungry he was with snot and tears, and how he ate the food of the noble lord's pig under the circumstances of being obsessed...

Honorable Lord: ...

The noble lord's pig: Hululu——

Cough, no matter how messy the process is, Lord Xu has confirmed that these fruits are the modern acorns. That’s right. Facing the housekeeper who protects his property like his own, Xu Tian can’t say anything. It was serious, so the final punishment was to let the pig shepherd go to his castle to grind the mill for a week. This is the hard work that slaves do. Although the steward is still not satisfied, he still obeys the lord's decision.

"Call some slaves over to pick up the intact fruits here."

The housekeeper wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, and Xu Tian didn't mean to explain.

This is where the acorn comes in.

But Xu Tian is not a small expert in survival in the wild, and he can recognize the acorn only because of the squirrel in "Ice Age" and being dragged by his father to climb a mountain on weekends.

But that's not important, what's important is that he can finally make acorn jelly, and he is really thankful to his old father.

Acorns, beautiful, like a pointed chestnut wearing a hat, are also the fruit held by squirrels in many cartoons, but these are not important, the important thing is that Xu Tian can cook two dishes with acorns——Acorn sub tofu and acorn jelly.

Um, yes, you heard it right, acorns can also be used to make tofu and jelly, although Xu Tian has never cooked or eaten it...but it doesn’t matter, there are recipes and recipes in my mind, life lies in trying, although the recipes on the Internet are all strange , jelly and tofu Xu Tian can't see any difference...

Because of Xu Tian's special instructions, the housekeeper delivered the acorns very quickly, and the pig herder's family was brought here to be punished. Xu Tian didn't want to ask anymore, he believed that the housekeeper would handle it. OK

The pig shepherd's family must not have been eating acorns for a year or two. Xu Tian believed that they had more experience in picking acorns than he did. Since the banquet was about to be held in the evening, he stopped the housekeeper from taking them to the mill, but let them Pick out the dried acorns and teach the little girl how to peel them—yes, the girl with no skin disease on her hands—what Xu Tian dared not eat after other people’s hands have experienced it.

Let me say something quietly, Xu Tian secretly tasted the acorns peeled out by the little girl, and was so bitter that he almost doubted his life. He admired the family of pig herders who could eat such unpalatable things.

How much time was spent in the middle, Xu Tian is too lazy to describe, anyway, in the afternoon, the acorns that were carefully sifted (yes, there are sieves in the castle, but they are small and clumsy, not very useful) The powder has been placed in a relatively large pottery bowl (?) basin (?), and the housekeeper brought it over solemnly.

Xu Tian didn't want to talk about things like changing the water repeatedly to filter out harmful tannins.

Let me add another sentence here. Under Xu Tian's brainwashing, after the butler knew that he could soak in water for half a month without being invaded by demons with just one garlic soap, he quickly brainwashed other people, and the castle finally It's not so smelly anymore, but there is still a long way to go to create an environment that Xu Tian is relatively satisfied with, but it doesn't matter, Lord Xu's main purpose now is to deeply root the concept of 'the body will not be invaded by demons after washing the body with soap' , I will talk about the rest later.

Xu Tian had another use for the pottery pot. The iron pot was washed again with clean water, and the water for washing the pot was divided by the servants as usual. After making sure that the pot had completely cooled down, he simply poured all the acorn powder into it. It stands to reason It should be processed in a separate container, but Xu Tian is poor and can only make do with it.

There are many ratios of water and powder on the Internet. Xu Tian chose the one that he had seen in the video, and used the container in his hand to scoop six times from the clay pot he drank water in. Stir the spatula scalded with boiling water evenly. It's not that I don't want to find the little girl, but the little girl can't see the stove at all.

"You will have one later."

Seeing that she couldn't help, the little girl immediately had mist in her eyes. Xu Tian knew what the little girl was worried about, so he directly gave her a reassurance.

The chef has been kneading flour for so many years, and it is not easy to deal with small acorn powder. After mixing well, Xu Tian immediately ordered someone to set it on fire, and at the same time prevented the chef from trying to stop.

"It bubbles up and you don't stop until it bubbles up."

Acorn jelly is easier to make than Xu Tian imagined. All the pottery fired before were filled with unsolidified acorn powder. Xu Tian couldn't make it out of the pot, so he just added some water to clean it and gave it to the servants to eat. In this way, the housekeeper became a kind lord, so Xu Tian could only...

Xu Tian would never eat the pork and mutton hanging from the beams, but it’s okay to ask the chef to make them for other people to eat. There are no dead pigs or sheep recently... Xu Tian rolled his eyes and stared at them. Got the chicken that was sent over.

Yes, Xu Tian is going to kill the chicken again.

The small chicken was plucked neatly by the little girl, and places like the head and tail, small wings, and claws were mercilessly removed. The internal organs were put together with them, but the fat from the chicken belly was carefully scraped to one side. In the pottery bowl, together with the leftover skin.

Yes, Lord Xu had no lard, could not see butter, and sheep oil was still far away, so he relentlessly focused on chicken oil. Although the shelf life is not long, it is easy to refine.

The chef's hands still need to be nourished, so the little girl came in handy again, holding the bowl in her little hand, pouring it all in when the pot is hot, and the chef kept stirring it to avoid sticking to the pot. Less seasoning, but Xu Tian has nothing. Fortunately, the oil that comes out in the end looks pretty good. Although it is still not much, it is still enough for basic dishes.

Xu Tian had never seen the method of cooking chicken in a clay pot, so he decided to cook it according to the method of a crock pot. He didn't want to touch the chicken by blanching it to remove the blood foam. The little girl was obviously not old enough to use a knife, so the whole chicken The chicken went directly into the half-meter tank, which had already been filled with cold water. Xu Tian covered the top with a wooden board, and planned to wait in peace. After all, chicken soup always tastes good when it is simmered slowly.

Then, Xu Tian extravagantly took out wheat flour to make egg-filled pancakes. After all, he doesn’t know if rye can be made successfully, but wheat should be fine—he really, really misses yeast, after all, the bread here is different from It is more appropriate to say that it is bread, rather than bread. There are also various weeds, tree roots and small stones in it, which makes people look unappetizing.

Egg-filled biscuits are a simple and delicious food. Simple materials in the Middle Ages can also be made well. The most important thing is it!All the way!Need not!yeast!

Well, in this era, it can be said that there are no other disadvantages except expensive.

The big iron pot does not need to be washed, and it will be used later to make pastry, but Xu Tian has already made up his mind - since it is a banquet, the servants must also join in, and the housekeeper dare not use too expensive ingredients , but you can put a little more vegetables and beans, throw in the claws and head just now, and crack an egg in, but this is the last thing to do.

Well, this is the fastest way to do it, and the final result looks similar to the free soup in the cafeteria, with oil flakes left over after Xu Tian fried lettuce floating on it, and the housekeeper praised him wildly——

"You are the most generous lord in the world."

The steward said this sincerely. After all, in his impression, no lord would give his servants eggs.

Xu Tian: ...

Next, it's time to fill the cake with eggs——