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Du Heng took the Tianhu scale and went upstairs. This time he fished out the ducks and geese in the wooden basin from the clear water and hung them on the bamboo poles on the terrace.After the water on the surface of the ingredients was almost dripping, he weighed the ingredients.
The ducks in the demon world are indeed much heavier than those in my hometown. A duck in my hometown weighs about three catties, while the ducks in the demon world weigh four catties.Now Du Heng no longer has to worry about the annoying measurement conversion, he now makes things according to the weight of the Tianhu scale.
Two ducks are more than eight catties, and two geese are even more domineering. The two geese add up to twelve catties.
Du Heng held the goose neck thicker than his arm and said to Xiaoxiao with emotion: "Xiaoxiao, what do you think these ducks and geese in the demon world eat?"
Xiaoxiao is pulling broad beans to eat: "Jiujiu~" He doesn't know, he is not a duck.
After "careful" calculations, it takes about a catty and a half of salt to marinate these ingredients.Du Heng went to the kitchen with the Tianhu scale again. With the Tianhu scale, he believed that he could make successful salted duck and salted goose in one go.
A fire was raised in the pot, and Du Heng poured a catty and a half of salt into a warm iron pot. The iron pot should be kept dry and there should be no water in it, and the fire should be low when frying the salt grains.
After the salt grains were slightly hot, he poured one or two halves of peppercorns and eight anise and eight cents into the pot.Stirring the salt and spices with the frying spoon, Du Heng carefully observed the color of the pepper and salt in the pot. When the color turned slightly yellow, the water in the salt was fried dry, and the fragrance of the spices was also stimulated. It's time to cook.
After a while, Du Heng put the fried pepper and salt in a dry porcelain bowl, and the yellowish pepper and salt exuded a fragrance.Du Heng picked up the star anise inside and looked at it. The star anise had been fried until it was dry and brittle, and it could be broken into small pieces with a light break.
While the pepper and salt are cooling down, Du Heng is going to adjust the old stew.
Salted duck is a kind of lo mei, but it is different from other lo mei.It needs to be soaked in the marinade for a long time to make the flavor fully enter the duck, but it cannot be stewed for a long time, otherwise the meat will not be tender enough.
This is not a problem for Du Heng. There are so many diners in his hometown who have accumulated too much experience over the years.As long as he has enough time, he can marinate the duck bones.
The seasoning used by Lao Lu is similar to what he usually uses to marinate meat, but he does not add salt to the soup base.The flame at the bottom of the pot licked the bottom of the pot without haste. The brine in the pot needs to be boiled for half an hour and let it cool down before it can be used to marinate the ingredients.
During this period of time, he was able to marinate ducks and geese with the chilled pepper and salt.Du Heng took the bowl and wooden basin and went upstairs, smiled and took a few plums in his mouth, followed Du Heng's footsteps upstairs.When Du Heng turned around by chance, he laughed out loud.
Behind him were Xiaoxiao, Little Wonton, and two chicks. When the four fluffy saw him stop, they all tilted their heads and looked at him.Du Heng wanted to throw down the things in his hand, and rub them one by one.
The skins of ducks and geese are dry and cool to the touch.Du Heng held them by their necks and put them in a large wooden basin. He grabbed the pepper and salt and applied them evenly on their skins. While applying, he also kneaded the flesh.
There is also a trick to smearing. Where there is less meat, such as the neck, head and claws, less pepper and salt should be used, otherwise the salty taste will come out and the taste will not be good.And the place where there is more meat on the stomach needs to be smeared more, so that it can be marinated well and the fishy smell and greasy will be forced out.
Not only to smear the outer skin, but also to smear the inside of the stomach.The ingredients that Du Heng got were all cleaned up by the chef of Yunyanlou. In order to maintain the appearance, the chef of Yunyanlou did not disembowel the ingredients, but dug a hole from the buttocks.Only the liver and heart remained in the belly of the ingredients, and the intestines and the like were all emptied.
The viscera had already been pulled out by Du Heng and placed downstairs. When it was time to marinate, all four sets of hearts and livers could be thrown into the pot to marinate together.
It was not very easy to marinate the inside. Du Heng grabbed the pepper salt and wiped it from the hole. He lowered his head and involuntarily released his consciousness, trying to wipe every handful of salt evenly into the inside of the ingredients.
If other monks saw this scene, they would definitely laugh out loud.I have never seen anyone who uses spiritual energy and spiritual consciousness to process ingredients. Isn't this killing a chicken with a butcher's knife?
However, Du Heng and the furry people around him didn't think there was any problem, except that Little Wonton couldn't climb the railing on the balcony, Years and Years and Xiaoxiao squatted next to the wooden basin to watch him cook.As long as Du Heng raised his head, he would see three pairs of shining eyes.
All the pepper and salt in the bowl should be used, otherwise the taste of the marinade will be worse.After Du Heng smeared all four ingredients with salt, he left them in the wooden basin and placed them on the terrace.When the old stew is cooked and let cool, the four ducks can be marinated in the old stew.
Du Heng looked up at the spiritual fields outside the yard. He already had two spiritual fields, and he hadn't had time to grow anything in the newly reclaimed spiritual fields.While cooking, he planned to grow something edible in the Lingtian.
After a while, Du Heng came downstairs with a bag of seeds, which was a bag of pumpkin seeds.Although Du Heng doesn't like pumpkins very much, it is a good choice to use pumpkins for a meal when there is no food.What's more, pumpkins are full of treasures, and pumpkin vines and pumpkin flowers can be eaten.If there is no food in summer, you can make a bowl of soup by picking a few vines.
Growing pumpkins is not the same as growing other things. You don't need many seeds to grow pumpkins, and you don't need to spread them evenly in the field.
Pumpkins are a space-hungry crop, and it would be nice to have a trellis or pole for them to climb on.Du Heng didn't plan to give up the second piece of spiritual field to pumpkins, he just planned to give them a little corner and let them play freely.
He dug a hole in the ground near the road, and threw twenty or thirty melon seeds into the hole.After the melon seeds are thrown in, cover with a shallow layer of soil, pour a little water, and then wait for the seeds to germinate.When the pumpkin seedlings break through the ground and grow the first small leaves, they can be transplanted.
Du Heng was afraid that Nian Nian Sui Sui would accidentally turn out his melon seeds when they were playing, so he surrounded the pit with dense bamboo branches, and said to Nian Sui Sui while surrounding him: "The seeds inside It's pumpkin seeds, don't disturb them when you play. When a big pumpkin grows in the future, I'll steam the pumpkin for you to eat, okay?"
Years and Years glanced at each other, then chirped twice in disgust.
After planting the pumpkin seeds, Du Heng walked towards the peach forest with a basket on his back.The peach forest is next to the creek, and Du Heng plans to plant some taro in the low-lying area of the peach forest.
He didn't like taro and didn't pay attention to how to grow it before, but Fenggui and the others liked it, so Du Heng thought he could try it.
The peach blossoms have withered, leaving a thumb-sized hairy peach.Where the breeze passes, the leaves rustle, and the hairy peaches poke their heads out of the leaves.In a month or two, Du Heng will have peaches to eat.
There is also a plum tree in the peach forest, but Du Heng didn't recognize it as a plum at first.It was only after seeing the fruit that he recognized that it was a plum tree.The plum tree is close to the creek, and most of the treetops lean towards the direction of the creek.
Du Heng wanted to plant the taro near the plum tree, and there was a shallow ditch nearby.Du Heng dug open the silted dead branches and leaves in the ditch and piled them under the plum tree. After a while, he got a small piece of moist and fertile land.With his back to the creek, he dug two shallow nests, and then placed one or two taro seeds every three feet.He didn't know if it was right for him to plant like this. He remembered that when Mama Du planted taro, young shoots had already grown on the taro.And the yams he put in were all the small yams he had left over, all round and hairy.
Du Heng put the taro in the nest, and then covered it with a layer of soil.The place where taro is planted looks higher than other places, and there are twenty or thirty shallow nests of small mounds under the plum trees.
Du Heng looked at the mounds, and he tried to send some spiritual energy to the taros.When he was exhausted and gasping for breath, the taro finally sprouted sharp shoots from the soil.The green taro seedlings are like lotus leaves, which look pretty.
At this moment, Little Wonton rushed from Du Heng's side to the stream, and he uttered a low-pitched threat in the direction of Nanshan.
Du Heng looked back and saw a bracken forest on the other side, but he didn't see anything.He wanted to release his consciousness, but suddenly thought of what Xuanyu said. Xuanyu said that there is a formation guarding the village in the stone river around the village, and the demon cultivators who want to spy on the village will be blocked by the formation.
Du Heng's cultivation was not high enough to penetrate the formation. He looked carefully at the bracken forest, and there seemed to be something in the bracken, and several bracken were moving very fast.
Du Heng patted Little Wonton's head: "It's okay, it's probably wild rabbits, they can't get through."
The bracken near the river moved, and an animal came out.The animal looked like an orangutan, but it had a white head and red limbs. It squatted opposite Du Heng and faced Du Heng across the water.
Du Heng was a little puzzled: "Monkeys on the mountain?"
Little Wonton lowered her figure and let out a bark. Little Wonton had grown into a medium-sized dog, and her barking was no longer as milky as it was when she was a child.The cry of the little wonton reminded Du Heng, and Du Heng knelt down and touched its head: "It's okay, it's okay, it can't get through."
The monsters couldn't get through, but the wontons could rush out. Du Heng felt that his hands were empty, and the wontons had rushed out like an arrow off the string.The little wonton was like a yellow whirlwind, it dexterously stepped on the stones on the water and went straight to the monkey on the other side.
The figure of the ape was many times bigger than the wonton. Du Heng stood on the opposite bank and his face turned pale with fright: "Wonton! Come back!"
The nature of the hunting dog made Little Wonton go towards the prey, but Du Heng only saw the huge difference in body shape, so Du Heng unleashed his flying sword in desperation.
Seeing that the wonton was about to rush across the stone river, the ape on the other side turned around and hid in the bracken forest.After the ape went in, Wonton also rushed into the bracken forest.Before Du Heng's flying sword flew over the stone river, the wonton had disappeared.
There was no sound from the other side, and Du Heng was very anxious.His consciousness can't penetrate the river, he doesn't know what happened on the other side, what if Wonton gets hurt? !
Du Heng thought for a moment before making a decision. He wanted to cross the river to save the puppy!
Just when Du Heng was about to fly up, Jing Nan grabbed his shoulder: "Forgot what I said to you?"
Du Heng didn't know how Jing Nan came to him, he pointed to the other side anxiously: "Little Wonton, it ran after a monkey! It won't get hurt, right?"
Jing Nan clasped her hands and said, "It's okay, don't worry about it. Next time you come to the peach forest and see a vision on the other side, let alone a monkey, even if you see me and Xuanyu standing on the other side calling you In the past, you can't even go. You can release the little ravioli, even if you release a smile, there is only one thing, you can't pass by yourself."
Du Heng was still worried: "But..."
Jing Nan reached out and touched Du Heng's head, and he smiled softly: "It's nothing to worry about, the monsters on Nanshan are full of tricks. Now you can't resist them. When you form a pill and turn into a baby, I and Xuanyu will teach you little by little the monsters on the mountain. Even if you want to go to Nanshan, we will accompany you there."
Du Heng was still worried about Little Wonton: "But my dog..."
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Jing Nan smiled slightly and said, "You have to believe it, it is a dog with the blood of spirit beasts, ordinary monsters can't hurt him." Jing Nan looked down at the taro next to him: "You planted taro here? The planting is not bad. It’s just that the trees here are a bit shaded from the sun, so I cut them down for you?”
Du Heng hurriedly stopped him: "Why did you cut it down? I don't know if I can plant it. How can I cut down a tree that has already bear fruit? And look at this plum tree, there are a lot of plums on it. After a while, I will be able to grow it." Let’s make plum wine.”
Jing Nan looked at the plum tree in surprise: "This thing...can be made into wine?" Jing Nan's disbelief was written all over his face.
Du Heng patted his chest: "Believe me, I have made plum wine. If you don't like plum wine, I can also make salted plums and honey plums. Even as a snack, they are very good."
Jing Nan folded her hands and sighed, "Why didn't you show up earlier."
Du Heng was confused: "Huh?"
Jing Nan said: "In the past, there were many such trees in the forest, and the fruits they produced were so sour that Xiaoxiao didn't like to eat them. When it's the season of falling fruits, the ground is full of fruits."
Du Heng was also heartbroken when he heard this: "Oh, it's a waste! But this year it won't be wasted." He will carefully make the plums into delicious ones, and not a single plum will be wasted.
At this time, the bracken forest on the other side of the river moved, and Little Wonton stood on the other side of the river covered in blood.Du Heng was surprised: "Little Wonton is injured!"
Jing Nan flew up and landed next to Little Wonton. He bent down to check Wonton and said loudly to Du Heng, "It's not Wonton's blood, it's from a monster."
Jing Nan walked a few steps into the bracken forest, he turned around and asked Du Heng, "Du Heng, have you eaten Zhu Yan?"
Zhu Yan?What is Zhu Yan?
Jing Nan seemed to see Du Heng's question, and he explained: "It's the monkey you saw just now. The monkey was bitten to death by the little wonton."
Du Heng:! ! !
When Du Heng hugged the little wonton again, the little wonton was buzzing in Du Heng's arms with excitement.Du Heng checked its fur up and down. The yellow dog hair was glued into strands by a lot of blood. Fortunately, these bloodstains were from Zhuan, not wonton.
Wonton's body smelled bad, and the clean dog turned into a little dirty dog. Du Heng gave it a bath when he was about to go back.
Then he turned his head to look at Zhu Yan who was dragged back by Jing Nan, he fell into a dilemma.Zhu Yan's neck was bitten off by the little wonton, God knows how such a small mouth of the little wonton could bite off such a thick neck.The bloody Zhu Yan was covered in blood all over his body, and his limbs were twisted and lying under the tree. Even the faint of heart would have nightmares just looking at it.
Du Heng hesitated: "This...isn't protecting animals?"
Jing Nan froze for a moment: "What? Protect what?"
Du Heng patted his forehead, he was really stupid, this is in the demon world, how could there be such a thing as protecting animals?It's just that he really doesn't know how to cook Zhu Yan, let alone eat it, this is the first time he has seen this kind of monster today.
Zhu Yan exuded a foul smell, Du Heng wished he could hide away.But instinct told him that if such a large mass of meat was wasted, the food god would punish him!
Du Heng was a little embarrassed: "I've never made a monkey before... no, Zhu Yan." Why is this thing a second-class protected animal in my hometown?If you eat it, it is guaranteed that the bottom of the prison can be worn.
And... Isn't this unrepentant look too hideous?Du Heng didn't dare to slaughter it!
Jing Nan saw Du Heng's entanglement, and he put Zhu Yan into the storage bag with a wave of his hand: "Let Xiaoyu clean it up when he comes back. You can cook it like a mountain paste and it's over."
Only then did Du Heng feel more comfortable, and he looked at Jing Nan suspiciously: "Aren't you sleeping? Are you awake?"
Jing Nan snorted: "If I hadn't stopped you, you would have been torn apart by those monsters in Nanshan right now. Can I sleep peacefully?"
Du Heng scratched his head in embarrassment: "I will remember next time." He happily patted the little wonton's head: "Our little wonton is so powerful, I won't be afraid if it follows me from now on."
Little Wonton wheezed and licked Du Heng's hand with his tongue, and the corner of Jing Nan's mouth twitched: "Hey, don't show off in front of my eyes, go take a bath, it's so dirty."
After a lot of tossing, the old bittern was cooked, and Du Heng scooped the old bittern in a wooden barrel to cool.When the old brine cools down, he can wash the marinated ducks and geese off their bodies with pepper and salt and soak them in the old brine to marinate.
Du Heng was holding Little Wonton and standing in the spiritual spring outside the yard. Little Wonton hung his head and let Du Heng scrub and wash his fur.Smiling, they squatted beside and watched.
Du Heng talked to him while washing the dog: "Wonton, I'm very happy that you rushed out to protect me today. It's just that you didn't listen to me. You retreated with your whole body. What if you lose to the monkey and get injured? Too You are reckless, if you run out to chase your prey next time you don't obey me, I will beat you up."
Little Wonton hummed, he stuck out his tongue and licked the back of Du Heng's hand.Du Heng held its jaw and opened its mouth: "Let me see the teeth of our wonton. You are still a little puppy. How did you bring down such a big monkey? I was scared to death."
Wonton's teeth were not sharp, and Du Heng couldn't figure out how it bit off the monkey's neck after watching it for a while.Or wait for Xuan Yu to come back to clarify the confusion?
After Wonton took a bath, it became a yellow, fluffy, clean and beautiful little yellow dog again.The afternoon sun fell on it, and Wonton's hair seemed to emit golden light. After a while, Little Wonton and two chicks squatted in the corner of the wall basking in the sun and fell asleep.
The old brine was cold now, and Du Heng soaked the two geese and ducks washed with pepper and salt into the wooden barrel.Fearing that the marinating would not be even enough, Du Heng put a big bowl on top of the duck.
After doing all this, he lifted the barrel to the terrace.After marinating for an hour, he can cook salted duck and goose.
Du Heng felt that his life was busy and fulfilling, and when he came out of Peizhu Forest to wash up again, an hour would pass.
Today, I spent more time in Peizhu Forest than usual, and Du Heng felt very satisfied.He was humming a song while cooking the duck, and he looked in a great mood.
The time to cook the duck does not need to be too long, as long as a stick of incense and a cup of tea are enough, and the water should be kept boiling but not boiling.If the time is too long, the duck and goose meat will be old, and if the water is boiled, the duck skin and goose skin will be easily damaged.
It is a technical job to make salted duck with white skin, tender meat and endless aftertaste. Time and patience are indispensable.
A layer of golden oil flowers appeared in the pot, and there were green onion knots and ginger slices floating in the oil flowers.The tempting fragrance soon floated out of the yard, Jing Nan sniffed the fragrance and came in: "Oh, it smells so good, I can smell it."
Du Heng smiled and said, "You came just after cooking, come, eat a duck leg."
Du Heng took out a salted duck from the pot and hung it on the pot to filter the water. When the soup on the duck stopped dripping, he put the duck on the chopping board.
The long neck of the duck was twisted towards the body of the duck by Du Heng, and he cut off the neck and the head of the duck with one knife.After a few knives, half a neck appeared on the plate.
Du Heng pressed the back of the knife, the tip of the knife was facing the position of the duck's breast, and the duck was divided into two halves by him after he raised the knife and dropped it.From the cut section, Jing Nan saw the clear texture of the duck meat.
The duck skin is white. Originally, this kind of duck would have a lot of fat. Jing Nan saw a thick layer of fat under the duck skin when cooking roast duck before.However, after making salted duck, there is not much fat.The duck skin looks very thin, but underneath is the thick duck breast.
If the duck breast is not handled properly, it will have a smell of mutton and the meat will be very thick, but the salted duck in front of you can still see the juice flowing on the gray duck meat after cutting it open.The duck meat still carried the heat from the pot, and it was still steaming slightly after being cut open.
Du Heng took half a duck and put it on the chopping board, he cut off the duck leg and put it beside him: "Jing Nan eats the duck leg."
The duck's feet had been chopped off by Du Heng in advance, and the part near the ankle was not much flesh, only a thin layer of skin and tendons were connected.There is a lump of solid meat on the duck leg, which is bigger than Du Heng's fist.The ducks in the realm of comprehension are very capable, and each of them grows fat and strong.
Jing Nan pinched the duck leg and looked left and right. He sniffed the duck leg, and a salty smell entered his nostrils leisurely. He could not smell the smell of the duck at all.The hot salted duck leg was seducing Jing Nan, if Jing Nan didn't take a bite, he would feel sorry for it showing off so hard.
Jing Nan smiled and said, "Usually you would leave the duck legs to Xiaoxiao, why did you suddenly give them to me today?"
As soon as the words fell, Jing Nan saw a smile squatting next to the chopping board, gnawing on another duck leg.Smiling and covering the whole duck with one mouth, he tilted his head slightly to look at Jing Nan, half of the bone was exposed in his mouth: "Chirp?"
Jing Nan took a bite of the duck: "Oh, it's nothing."
As soon as the duck meat was in his mouth, Jing Nan couldn't stop.The duck meat is soft, neither salty nor bland.Take a bite, and the flexible outer skin splits to reveal the taupe lean meat inside.The lean meat is crispy and tender. It has just come out of the pan, and there is still flowing soup inside after tearing a piece.
Jing Nan was full of praise after tasting a few mouthfuls: "It's delicious, fat but not greasy, fresh and delicious. I like this taste."
Du Heng smiled and narrowed his eyes: "I knew you would like this taste! You always like salty and fresh food, how about it? Even if you eat this in summer, you won't feel tired?"
Jing Nan gnawed on the duck leg: "Well, it's delicious. There are a lot of wild ducks on the Nanshan Mountain. We'll catch some more tomorrow. You can make more and keep them. I think Xiaoyu and Fenggui will also like the taste."
Du Heng thought for a while: "Okay, let's go to Nanshan to have a look tomorrow. If there are fat ducks, we will catch a few."
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The salted duck was deeply loved by Jing Nan. Before dinner time, he killed half of it by himself, and the bones he ate were piled up on the table.
The taste of salted goose is similar to that of salted duck, but the taste is still a little different.Goose meat is not as soft and tender as duck meat, and it tastes a little rougher than duck meat.But this does not affect Jing Nan's love for goose necks and goose heads.
The skin of the goose that has been soaked in the marinade is crispy, and the tongue is soft and tough when bitten in the mouth.After carefully gnawing off all the meat and skin on the goose's head, he knocked off the top of the sky and sucked out the bone marrow.Jing Nan is finally consummated, he finally understands why Feng Gui likes to eat brains.This dense and smooth taste is really amazing!
Moreover, the salted duck and salted goose are not spicy, and after Jing Nan savors the taste carefully, he only feels that his mouth is full of fragrance.If he hadn't stopped in time, he might have eaten the goose head and the duck head.
After eating the goose head, Jing Nan made up his mind: "Tomorrow we must go to Nanshan to catch a few ducks. Otherwise, let the cook from Yunyan Building send some ingredients. The salted duck and salted goose are delicious. We can eat them tomorrow." Do you want to continue eating?"
Du Heng couldn't laugh or cry: "Okay, I'll look through the storage bag tonight, if I find ducks or geese, how about I marinate them into salted salted ducks for you?"
Jing Nan sucked her claws and couldn't help picking up a piece of goose neck and began to chew it: "Hmm! Okay! By the way, the foie gras is delicious, cut another one for me to try."
Foie gras and duck livers are also brine-soaked, but they cannot be stewed in brine for as long as the body.At most, it takes only one cup of tea to be stewed. The foie gras and duck liver are delicate, soft and glutinous, without any peculiar smell.
Jing Nan accidentally killed two darlings.Du Heng just felt a little regretful, if the goose intestines and county liver were also kept, Jing Nan would definitely fall in love with that taste.
When it was time to eat, Wen Qiong, who was sober, praised the salted duck and salted goose again. She likes to eat leftovers, and I saw her gnawing on her neck and paws all night long.With salted duck as meat dishes, Jing Nan stopped nagging, even if there were still leftovers from the vegetarian dishes at noon, he happily finished the meal.
Du Heng looked at his stewed ingredients, one duck was gone, half a goose was gone, all the necks and heads were gone, and only the naked bodies of the goose and duck remained in the big bowl.In this world, everyone likes leftovers, but no one eats real meat?
After dinner, Du Heng looked at the darkened sky, and he began to worry about Xuanyu again.He didn't know when Xuanyu would come back, he met Zhu Yan today, and he didn't know what monsters Xuanyu would encounter on the road.
Du Heng was rubbing his oily skin while thinking wildly.He now has a lot of milk to make a lot of dairy products, and he has already stored a lot of double skin milk in the refrigerator.Du Heng wanted to try egg tarts. He was too lazy to make butter, and the egg tarts he made were also Chinese-style egg tarts that would fall off when bitten.
When he was in his hometown, he tried to make the kind of egg tarts from chain stores, but no matter how he did it, the egg tart skin always felt a bit inferior to the ones sold.Later, he accidentally ate an egg tart from a pastry shop. The egg tarts in that store were baked with Chinese-style ghee skin and water oil skin. The baked egg tarts were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.Du Heng was amazed when he ate it for the first time.
When making chicken crisps for Xiaoxiao before, Du Heng made oil skin.When he made dim sum last time, he didn't have an oven, and the chicken crisps were all put in the oil pan.With an oven this time, Du Heng felt that he could make good egg tarts.
After the water-oil skin and ghee skin were prepared, Du Heng wrapped the ghee skin with water-oil skin according to the method of making chicken crisps.When making small chicken crisps before, they were wrapped with salted egg yolk, but this time Du Heng evenly pressed the oil skins into the flower-shaped mold.
That was the mold he used to make chicken cakes. Originally, he wanted to make the mold again, but when he opened the storage bag, he saw the large and small molds he had made during this time.He had a deep understanding - once he got into baking, it was as deep as the sea.
There were a lot of messy molds in his storage bag. Seeing these molds, he told himself that it was time to stop making molds.Save a little if you can.
He evenly pressed the oily skin on the edge of the mold. The bottom of the oily skin should be a little thinner, so that the crisping will be better, as long as the edge is even.
With the help of aura, Du Heng quickly made two molds of egg tart skins.Then just pour the egg tart liquid into the egg tart shell.
Speaking of which, Du Heng made evaporated milk and condensed milk during this time.Evaporated milk is the milk obtained after half of the water is evaporated after heating the milk. This kind of milk is more mellow and rich.It is good for making milk tea or making snacks.
When filtering the evaporated milk, Du Heng also got a ball of cheese, if he is in the mood to make bread in the future, he can knead this ball of cheese into it.
Condensed milk is the product obtained by heating and stirring milk after adding sugar. After it is ready, the color is light yellow, the texture is thick and the taste is sweet, and it is really delicious to spread on the pastry.
It's easy to say, but it takes a lot of time to do.If it weren't for Xuanyu's formation, Du Heng wouldn't know how long he would have to guard in front of the stove.The finished condensed milk was too sweet, so Du Heng didn't pay attention, so Xiaoxiao helped him finish a bowl.
Evaporated milk and a small amount of condensed milk need to be added to the egg tart liquid. Du Heng can't remember where he saw the recipe.Before making the egg tart, he poured water into the mold and weighed it.The egg tarts in my hometown are two taels, and his mold is relatively large, so the egg tarts made are four taels, and the egg liquid needs to be poured into each egg tart is more than two taels.
He counted the number of egg tarts made, and the two versions of the mold can make 54 egg tarts.With so many egg tarts, nearly [-] catties of egg liquid are needed.
Du Heng hates doing arithmetic problems, but the most important thing in making pastry is the recipe, and the taste will be different if there is more or less.He counted until his head was bald, and then he figured out how much each of the required pure milk, white sugar, condensed milk, eggs, and evaporated milk needed.
Seeing Du Heng's bloodshot eyes sketching on the paper, he squatted on the chair with a smile and was confused.I don't know if it was his illusion, he felt that since Du Heng started kneading dough, he had been ignored by Du Heng.
In the end, Du Heng held up the paper excitedly and shouted: "It's out!! Hey!!" On the paper, there were messy writings on the paper: three ounces of milk, eight liang of sugar, two ounces of egg, four liang of condensed milk, and three ounces of evaporated milk. Two or two catties.
Xiaoxiao sighed heavily, why bother?Isn't this tossing yourself?
Du Heng quickly weighed out all the materials with a Tianhu scale, he took a wooden barrel and poured all the materials into it, and then began to pass them crazily.This time, with the blessing of spiritual energy, Du Heng dispatched quite rhythmically.
After half a cup of tea, Du Heng got a bucket of yellowish egg liquid that exudes sweetness.There are some foams on the egg liquid, and now Du Heng can control the aura to filter out these foams very well.
It was the first time for Du Heng to manipulate egg liquid into molds with spiritual energy. Although Du Heng had watched Xuan Yu and Jing Nan do it countless times before, he was still quite nervous when it was his turn to do it.
The egg liquid is poured into the yellowish egg tart skin, and it can only be poured [-]% full. If it is too full, the egg tart will overflow the egg tart skin once it is baked.
After Du Heng finished baking the egg tart skins in the two molds, he realized that he had made a mistake.There was still a large bowl of egg liquid left in his wooden bucket.Du Heng was dumbfounded looking at this bowl of egg liquid. He looked at the egg tart which was already filled with egg liquid and couldn't figure it out. Where did he make a mistake?How could there be so much egg liquid?
It's a small matter if you make a mistake, but how bad would it be if the egg tarts you make don't taste good?Du Heng himself doesn't like sweets, so what if it ruins it?
Xiaoxiao chirped twice, and Du Heng looked at Xiaoxiao as if waking up from a dream: "Hey? Xiaoxiao, why are you here?"
Smiling and sighing, he knew Du Heng didn't notice his existence.
But when he saw Xiaoxiao, Du Heng knew what he was afraid of if Xiaoxiao was here, at worst, he would flatten the egg tarts and turn them into cakes for Xiaoxiao to eat!Although a bit unkind, Du Heng really thought so.
Du Heng nervously opened the door of the oven, and he put the two molds into the oven.After closing the stove door, he moved a small stool and sat next to the oven.
It takes less than two sticks of incense to bake the egg tart, and it will be out of the oven after caramel spots appear on the skin of the egg tart.It was the first time he baked egg tarts from the oven. He was not very sure about the temperature and time, so he needed to keep an eye on the oven.
There is a small door on the oven, which can be opened to see what is inside while baking.But you can't use your spiritual sense to look in, otherwise the spiritual fire in the stove will teach Du Heng to be a man again.
Du Heng leaned his back against the wall, and he looked in the direction of the courtyard gate.It was already dark at night, and the light from the kitchen cast from the window onto the bluestone in the yard.Near the east courtyard wall, the little Peizhu survived after being nourished by a spring rain.It's just that it's still such a small branch, and it looks very thin.
Xiaoxiao walked to Du Heng's side, and he jumped on Du Heng: "Jiujiu?"
Du Heng put his arms around him and smiled, "Can you go to sleep after eating the egg tart? I'll wait for Xuanyu."
Hearing Xuanyu's name, Little Wonton came over and leaned against Du Heng's feet.Du Heng stretched out his hand and rubbed Xiao Wonton's hair: "There is someone in our family who hasn't come back outside, I can't sleep. Wait for him."
Little Wonton wagged its tail and licked Du Heng's hand.Du Heng felt a little relieved, at least he was not alone, there were Xiaoxiao and the puppy beside him.
It's almost the beginning of summer, and the courtyard is quite cool.Du Heng looked up at the sky, there was no moon in the sky, only stars all over the sky.Du Heng began to worry again: "I don't know if Xuanyu is holding the lamp. There is no moon today, and the mountain road is difficult. He must not be walking fast."
After a while, he seemed to be talking to himself: "It's okay, just walk slowly, it's safe."
After a stick of incense, the sweet smell in the courtyard is already evident.Du Heng opened the door of the stove and looked, only to see that the egg tart crust had come out of the mold, and the crisping was successful.In the middle of the flower-shaped egg tart shell, the egg liquid swelled up high, but fortunately, it did not overflow the egg tart shell.
Du Heng closed the stove door again, and the courtyard was filled with a milky and sweet smell. Smelling this smell made people feel relaxed.
Xiaoxiao jumped off Du Heng, and he was already squatting at the door of the stove.Du Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he stroked Xiaoxiao's fluff and said, "Look carefully, the egg tart will be out of the oven when caramel-colored spots appear on the surface of the egg tart. But you are not allowed to put your spiritual consciousness into it."
Smiling and nodding, Du Heng got up and walked towards the courtyard gate.After walking out of the courtyard, he looked towards Fang Xishan.
Du Heng took the Tianhu scale and went upstairs. This time he fished out the ducks and geese in the wooden basin from the clear water and hung them on the bamboo poles on the terrace.After the water on the surface of the ingredients was almost dripping, he weighed the ingredients.
The ducks in the demon world are indeed much heavier than those in my hometown. A duck in my hometown weighs about three catties, while the ducks in the demon world weigh four catties.Now Du Heng no longer has to worry about the annoying measurement conversion, he now makes things according to the weight of the Tianhu scale.
Two ducks are more than eight catties, and two geese are even more domineering. The two geese add up to twelve catties.
Du Heng held the goose neck thicker than his arm and said to Xiaoxiao with emotion: "Xiaoxiao, what do you think these ducks and geese in the demon world eat?"
Xiaoxiao is pulling broad beans to eat: "Jiujiu~" He doesn't know, he is not a duck.
After "careful" calculations, it takes about a catty and a half of salt to marinate these ingredients.Du Heng went to the kitchen with the Tianhu scale again. With the Tianhu scale, he believed that he could make successful salted duck and salted goose in one go.
A fire was raised in the pot, and Du Heng poured a catty and a half of salt into a warm iron pot. The iron pot should be kept dry and there should be no water in it, and the fire should be low when frying the salt grains.
After the salt grains were slightly hot, he poured one or two halves of peppercorns and eight anise and eight cents into the pot.Stirring the salt and spices with the frying spoon, Du Heng carefully observed the color of the pepper and salt in the pot. When the color turned slightly yellow, the water in the salt was fried dry, and the fragrance of the spices was also stimulated. It's time to cook.
After a while, Du Heng put the fried pepper and salt in a dry porcelain bowl, and the yellowish pepper and salt exuded a fragrance.Du Heng picked up the star anise inside and looked at it. The star anise had been fried until it was dry and brittle, and it could be broken into small pieces with a light break.
While the pepper and salt are cooling down, Du Heng is going to adjust the old stew.
Salted duck is a kind of lo mei, but it is different from other lo mei.It needs to be soaked in the marinade for a long time to make the flavor fully enter the duck, but it cannot be stewed for a long time, otherwise the meat will not be tender enough.
This is not a problem for Du Heng. There are so many diners in his hometown who have accumulated too much experience over the years.As long as he has enough time, he can marinate the duck bones.
The seasoning used by Lao Lu is similar to what he usually uses to marinate meat, but he does not add salt to the soup base.The flame at the bottom of the pot licked the bottom of the pot without haste. The brine in the pot needs to be boiled for half an hour and let it cool down before it can be used to marinate the ingredients.
During this period of time, he was able to marinate ducks and geese with the chilled pepper and salt.Du Heng took the bowl and wooden basin and went upstairs, smiled and took a few plums in his mouth, followed Du Heng's footsteps upstairs.When Du Heng turned around by chance, he laughed out loud.
Behind him were Xiaoxiao, Little Wonton, and two chicks. When the four fluffy saw him stop, they all tilted their heads and looked at him.Du Heng wanted to throw down the things in his hand, and rub them one by one.
The skins of ducks and geese are dry and cool to the touch.Du Heng held them by their necks and put them in a large wooden basin. He grabbed the pepper and salt and applied them evenly on their skins. While applying, he also kneaded the flesh.
There is also a trick to smearing. Where there is less meat, such as the neck, head and claws, less pepper and salt should be used, otherwise the salty taste will come out and the taste will not be good.And the place where there is more meat on the stomach needs to be smeared more, so that it can be marinated well and the fishy smell and greasy will be forced out.
Not only to smear the outer skin, but also to smear the inside of the stomach.The ingredients that Du Heng got were all cleaned up by the chef of Yunyanlou. In order to maintain the appearance, the chef of Yunyanlou did not disembowel the ingredients, but dug a hole from the buttocks.Only the liver and heart remained in the belly of the ingredients, and the intestines and the like were all emptied.
The viscera had already been pulled out by Du Heng and placed downstairs. When it was time to marinate, all four sets of hearts and livers could be thrown into the pot to marinate together.
It was not very easy to marinate the inside. Du Heng grabbed the pepper salt and wiped it from the hole. He lowered his head and involuntarily released his consciousness, trying to wipe every handful of salt evenly into the inside of the ingredients.
If other monks saw this scene, they would definitely laugh out loud.I have never seen anyone who uses spiritual energy and spiritual consciousness to process ingredients. Isn't this killing a chicken with a butcher's knife?
However, Du Heng and the furry people around him didn't think there was any problem, except that Little Wonton couldn't climb the railing on the balcony, Years and Years and Xiaoxiao squatted next to the wooden basin to watch him cook.As long as Du Heng raised his head, he would see three pairs of shining eyes.
All the pepper and salt in the bowl should be used, otherwise the taste of the marinade will be worse.After Du Heng smeared all four ingredients with salt, he left them in the wooden basin and placed them on the terrace.When the old stew is cooked and let cool, the four ducks can be marinated in the old stew.
Du Heng looked up at the spiritual fields outside the yard. He already had two spiritual fields, and he hadn't had time to grow anything in the newly reclaimed spiritual fields.While cooking, he planned to grow something edible in the Lingtian.
After a while, Du Heng came downstairs with a bag of seeds, which was a bag of pumpkin seeds.Although Du Heng doesn't like pumpkins very much, it is a good choice to use pumpkins for a meal when there is no food.What's more, pumpkins are full of treasures, and pumpkin vines and pumpkin flowers can be eaten.If there is no food in summer, you can make a bowl of soup by picking a few vines.
Growing pumpkins is not the same as growing other things. You don't need many seeds to grow pumpkins, and you don't need to spread them evenly in the field.
Pumpkins are a space-hungry crop, and it would be nice to have a trellis or pole for them to climb on.Du Heng didn't plan to give up the second piece of spiritual field to pumpkins, he just planned to give them a little corner and let them play freely.
He dug a hole in the ground near the road, and threw twenty or thirty melon seeds into the hole.After the melon seeds are thrown in, cover with a shallow layer of soil, pour a little water, and then wait for the seeds to germinate.When the pumpkin seedlings break through the ground and grow the first small leaves, they can be transplanted.
Du Heng was afraid that Nian Nian Sui Sui would accidentally turn out his melon seeds when they were playing, so he surrounded the pit with dense bamboo branches, and said to Nian Sui Sui while surrounding him: "The seeds inside It's pumpkin seeds, don't disturb them when you play. When a big pumpkin grows in the future, I'll steam the pumpkin for you to eat, okay?"
Years and Years glanced at each other, then chirped twice in disgust.
After planting the pumpkin seeds, Du Heng walked towards the peach forest with a basket on his back.The peach forest is next to the creek, and Du Heng plans to plant some taro in the low-lying area of the peach forest.
He didn't like taro and didn't pay attention to how to grow it before, but Fenggui and the others liked it, so Du Heng thought he could try it.
The peach blossoms have withered, leaving a thumb-sized hairy peach.Where the breeze passes, the leaves rustle, and the hairy peaches poke their heads out of the leaves.In a month or two, Du Heng will have peaches to eat.
There is also a plum tree in the peach forest, but Du Heng didn't recognize it as a plum at first.It was only after seeing the fruit that he recognized that it was a plum tree.The plum tree is close to the creek, and most of the treetops lean towards the direction of the creek.
Du Heng wanted to plant the taro near the plum tree, and there was a shallow ditch nearby.Du Heng dug open the silted dead branches and leaves in the ditch and piled them under the plum tree. After a while, he got a small piece of moist and fertile land.With his back to the creek, he dug two shallow nests, and then placed one or two taro seeds every three feet.He didn't know if it was right for him to plant like this. He remembered that when Mama Du planted taro, young shoots had already grown on the taro.And the yams he put in were all the small yams he had left over, all round and hairy.
Du Heng put the taro in the nest, and then covered it with a layer of soil.The place where taro is planted looks higher than other places, and there are twenty or thirty shallow nests of small mounds under the plum trees.
Du Heng looked at the mounds, and he tried to send some spiritual energy to the taros.When he was exhausted and gasping for breath, the taro finally sprouted sharp shoots from the soil.The green taro seedlings are like lotus leaves, which look pretty.
At this moment, Little Wonton rushed from Du Heng's side to the stream, and he uttered a low-pitched threat in the direction of Nanshan.
Du Heng looked back and saw a bracken forest on the other side, but he didn't see anything.He wanted to release his consciousness, but suddenly thought of what Xuanyu said. Xuanyu said that there is a formation guarding the village in the stone river around the village, and the demon cultivators who want to spy on the village will be blocked by the formation.
Du Heng's cultivation was not high enough to penetrate the formation. He looked carefully at the bracken forest, and there seemed to be something in the bracken, and several bracken were moving very fast.
Du Heng patted Little Wonton's head: "It's okay, it's probably wild rabbits, they can't get through."
The bracken near the river moved, and an animal came out.The animal looked like an orangutan, but it had a white head and red limbs. It squatted opposite Du Heng and faced Du Heng across the water.
Du Heng was a little puzzled: "Monkeys on the mountain?"
Little Wonton lowered her figure and let out a bark. Little Wonton had grown into a medium-sized dog, and her barking was no longer as milky as it was when she was a child.The cry of the little wonton reminded Du Heng, and Du Heng knelt down and touched its head: "It's okay, it's okay, it can't get through."
The monsters couldn't get through, but the wontons could rush out. Du Heng felt that his hands were empty, and the wontons had rushed out like an arrow off the string.The little wonton was like a yellow whirlwind, it dexterously stepped on the stones on the water and went straight to the monkey on the other side.
The figure of the ape was many times bigger than the wonton. Du Heng stood on the opposite bank and his face turned pale with fright: "Wonton! Come back!"
The nature of the hunting dog made Little Wonton go towards the prey, but Du Heng only saw the huge difference in body shape, so Du Heng unleashed his flying sword in desperation.
Seeing that the wonton was about to rush across the stone river, the ape on the other side turned around and hid in the bracken forest.After the ape went in, Wonton also rushed into the bracken forest.Before Du Heng's flying sword flew over the stone river, the wonton had disappeared.
There was no sound from the other side, and Du Heng was very anxious.His consciousness can't penetrate the river, he doesn't know what happened on the other side, what if Wonton gets hurt? !
Du Heng thought for a moment before making a decision. He wanted to cross the river to save the puppy!
Just when Du Heng was about to fly up, Jing Nan grabbed his shoulder: "Forgot what I said to you?"
Du Heng didn't know how Jing Nan came to him, he pointed to the other side anxiously: "Little Wonton, it ran after a monkey! It won't get hurt, right?"
Jing Nan clasped her hands and said, "It's okay, don't worry about it. Next time you come to the peach forest and see a vision on the other side, let alone a monkey, even if you see me and Xuanyu standing on the other side calling you In the past, you can't even go. You can release the little ravioli, even if you release a smile, there is only one thing, you can't pass by yourself."
Du Heng was still worried: "But..."
Jing Nan reached out and touched Du Heng's head, and he smiled softly: "It's nothing to worry about, the monsters on Nanshan are full of tricks. Now you can't resist them. When you form a pill and turn into a baby, I and Xuanyu will teach you little by little the monsters on the mountain. Even if you want to go to Nanshan, we will accompany you there."
Du Heng was still worried about Little Wonton: "But my dog..."
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Jing Nan smiled slightly and said, "You have to believe it, it is a dog with the blood of spirit beasts, ordinary monsters can't hurt him." Jing Nan looked down at the taro next to him: "You planted taro here? The planting is not bad. It’s just that the trees here are a bit shaded from the sun, so I cut them down for you?”
Du Heng hurriedly stopped him: "Why did you cut it down? I don't know if I can plant it. How can I cut down a tree that has already bear fruit? And look at this plum tree, there are a lot of plums on it. After a while, I will be able to grow it." Let’s make plum wine.”
Jing Nan looked at the plum tree in surprise: "This thing...can be made into wine?" Jing Nan's disbelief was written all over his face.
Du Heng patted his chest: "Believe me, I have made plum wine. If you don't like plum wine, I can also make salted plums and honey plums. Even as a snack, they are very good."
Jing Nan folded her hands and sighed, "Why didn't you show up earlier."
Du Heng was confused: "Huh?"
Jing Nan said: "In the past, there were many such trees in the forest, and the fruits they produced were so sour that Xiaoxiao didn't like to eat them. When it's the season of falling fruits, the ground is full of fruits."
Du Heng was also heartbroken when he heard this: "Oh, it's a waste! But this year it won't be wasted." He will carefully make the plums into delicious ones, and not a single plum will be wasted.
At this time, the bracken forest on the other side of the river moved, and Little Wonton stood on the other side of the river covered in blood.Du Heng was surprised: "Little Wonton is injured!"
Jing Nan flew up and landed next to Little Wonton. He bent down to check Wonton and said loudly to Du Heng, "It's not Wonton's blood, it's from a monster."
Jing Nan walked a few steps into the bracken forest, he turned around and asked Du Heng, "Du Heng, have you eaten Zhu Yan?"
Zhu Yan?What is Zhu Yan?
Jing Nan seemed to see Du Heng's question, and he explained: "It's the monkey you saw just now. The monkey was bitten to death by the little wonton."
Du Heng:! ! !
When Du Heng hugged the little wonton again, the little wonton was buzzing in Du Heng's arms with excitement.Du Heng checked its fur up and down. The yellow dog hair was glued into strands by a lot of blood. Fortunately, these bloodstains were from Zhuan, not wonton.
Wonton's body smelled bad, and the clean dog turned into a little dirty dog. Du Heng gave it a bath when he was about to go back.
Then he turned his head to look at Zhu Yan who was dragged back by Jing Nan, he fell into a dilemma.Zhu Yan's neck was bitten off by the little wonton, God knows how such a small mouth of the little wonton could bite off such a thick neck.The bloody Zhu Yan was covered in blood all over his body, and his limbs were twisted and lying under the tree. Even the faint of heart would have nightmares just looking at it.
Du Heng hesitated: "This...isn't protecting animals?"
Jing Nan froze for a moment: "What? Protect what?"
Du Heng patted his forehead, he was really stupid, this is in the demon world, how could there be such a thing as protecting animals?It's just that he really doesn't know how to cook Zhu Yan, let alone eat it, this is the first time he has seen this kind of monster today.
Zhu Yan exuded a foul smell, Du Heng wished he could hide away.But instinct told him that if such a large mass of meat was wasted, the food god would punish him!
Du Heng was a little embarrassed: "I've never made a monkey before... no, Zhu Yan." Why is this thing a second-class protected animal in my hometown?If you eat it, it is guaranteed that the bottom of the prison can be worn.
And... Isn't this unrepentant look too hideous?Du Heng didn't dare to slaughter it!
Jing Nan saw Du Heng's entanglement, and he put Zhu Yan into the storage bag with a wave of his hand: "Let Xiaoyu clean it up when he comes back. You can cook it like a mountain paste and it's over."
Only then did Du Heng feel more comfortable, and he looked at Jing Nan suspiciously: "Aren't you sleeping? Are you awake?"
Jing Nan snorted: "If I hadn't stopped you, you would have been torn apart by those monsters in Nanshan right now. Can I sleep peacefully?"
Du Heng scratched his head in embarrassment: "I will remember next time." He happily patted the little wonton's head: "Our little wonton is so powerful, I won't be afraid if it follows me from now on."
Little Wonton wheezed and licked Du Heng's hand with his tongue, and the corner of Jing Nan's mouth twitched: "Hey, don't show off in front of my eyes, go take a bath, it's so dirty."
After a lot of tossing, the old bittern was cooked, and Du Heng scooped the old bittern in a wooden barrel to cool.When the old brine cools down, he can wash the marinated ducks and geese off their bodies with pepper and salt and soak them in the old brine to marinate.
Du Heng was holding Little Wonton and standing in the spiritual spring outside the yard. Little Wonton hung his head and let Du Heng scrub and wash his fur.Smiling, they squatted beside and watched.
Du Heng talked to him while washing the dog: "Wonton, I'm very happy that you rushed out to protect me today. It's just that you didn't listen to me. You retreated with your whole body. What if you lose to the monkey and get injured? Too You are reckless, if you run out to chase your prey next time you don't obey me, I will beat you up."
Little Wonton hummed, he stuck out his tongue and licked the back of Du Heng's hand.Du Heng held its jaw and opened its mouth: "Let me see the teeth of our wonton. You are still a little puppy. How did you bring down such a big monkey? I was scared to death."
Wonton's teeth were not sharp, and Du Heng couldn't figure out how it bit off the monkey's neck after watching it for a while.Or wait for Xuan Yu to come back to clarify the confusion?
After Wonton took a bath, it became a yellow, fluffy, clean and beautiful little yellow dog again.The afternoon sun fell on it, and Wonton's hair seemed to emit golden light. After a while, Little Wonton and two chicks squatted in the corner of the wall basking in the sun and fell asleep.
The old brine was cold now, and Du Heng soaked the two geese and ducks washed with pepper and salt into the wooden barrel.Fearing that the marinating would not be even enough, Du Heng put a big bowl on top of the duck.
After doing all this, he lifted the barrel to the terrace.After marinating for an hour, he can cook salted duck and goose.
Du Heng felt that his life was busy and fulfilling, and when he came out of Peizhu Forest to wash up again, an hour would pass.
Today, I spent more time in Peizhu Forest than usual, and Du Heng felt very satisfied.He was humming a song while cooking the duck, and he looked in a great mood.
The time to cook the duck does not need to be too long, as long as a stick of incense and a cup of tea are enough, and the water should be kept boiling but not boiling.If the time is too long, the duck and goose meat will be old, and if the water is boiled, the duck skin and goose skin will be easily damaged.
It is a technical job to make salted duck with white skin, tender meat and endless aftertaste. Time and patience are indispensable.
A layer of golden oil flowers appeared in the pot, and there were green onion knots and ginger slices floating in the oil flowers.The tempting fragrance soon floated out of the yard, Jing Nan sniffed the fragrance and came in: "Oh, it smells so good, I can smell it."
Du Heng smiled and said, "You came just after cooking, come, eat a duck leg."
Du Heng took out a salted duck from the pot and hung it on the pot to filter the water. When the soup on the duck stopped dripping, he put the duck on the chopping board.
The long neck of the duck was twisted towards the body of the duck by Du Heng, and he cut off the neck and the head of the duck with one knife.After a few knives, half a neck appeared on the plate.
Du Heng pressed the back of the knife, the tip of the knife was facing the position of the duck's breast, and the duck was divided into two halves by him after he raised the knife and dropped it.From the cut section, Jing Nan saw the clear texture of the duck meat.
The duck skin is white. Originally, this kind of duck would have a lot of fat. Jing Nan saw a thick layer of fat under the duck skin when cooking roast duck before.However, after making salted duck, there is not much fat.The duck skin looks very thin, but underneath is the thick duck breast.
If the duck breast is not handled properly, it will have a smell of mutton and the meat will be very thick, but the salted duck in front of you can still see the juice flowing on the gray duck meat after cutting it open.The duck meat still carried the heat from the pot, and it was still steaming slightly after being cut open.
Du Heng took half a duck and put it on the chopping board, he cut off the duck leg and put it beside him: "Jing Nan eats the duck leg."
The duck's feet had been chopped off by Du Heng in advance, and the part near the ankle was not much flesh, only a thin layer of skin and tendons were connected.There is a lump of solid meat on the duck leg, which is bigger than Du Heng's fist.The ducks in the realm of comprehension are very capable, and each of them grows fat and strong.
Jing Nan pinched the duck leg and looked left and right. He sniffed the duck leg, and a salty smell entered his nostrils leisurely. He could not smell the smell of the duck at all.The hot salted duck leg was seducing Jing Nan, if Jing Nan didn't take a bite, he would feel sorry for it showing off so hard.
Jing Nan smiled and said, "Usually you would leave the duck legs to Xiaoxiao, why did you suddenly give them to me today?"
As soon as the words fell, Jing Nan saw a smile squatting next to the chopping board, gnawing on another duck leg.Smiling and covering the whole duck with one mouth, he tilted his head slightly to look at Jing Nan, half of the bone was exposed in his mouth: "Chirp?"
Jing Nan took a bite of the duck: "Oh, it's nothing."
As soon as the duck meat was in his mouth, Jing Nan couldn't stop.The duck meat is soft, neither salty nor bland.Take a bite, and the flexible outer skin splits to reveal the taupe lean meat inside.The lean meat is crispy and tender. It has just come out of the pan, and there is still flowing soup inside after tearing a piece.
Jing Nan was full of praise after tasting a few mouthfuls: "It's delicious, fat but not greasy, fresh and delicious. I like this taste."
Du Heng smiled and narrowed his eyes: "I knew you would like this taste! You always like salty and fresh food, how about it? Even if you eat this in summer, you won't feel tired?"
Jing Nan gnawed on the duck leg: "Well, it's delicious. There are a lot of wild ducks on the Nanshan Mountain. We'll catch some more tomorrow. You can make more and keep them. I think Xiaoyu and Fenggui will also like the taste."
Du Heng thought for a while: "Okay, let's go to Nanshan to have a look tomorrow. If there are fat ducks, we will catch a few."
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The salted duck was deeply loved by Jing Nan. Before dinner time, he killed half of it by himself, and the bones he ate were piled up on the table.
The taste of salted goose is similar to that of salted duck, but the taste is still a little different.Goose meat is not as soft and tender as duck meat, and it tastes a little rougher than duck meat.But this does not affect Jing Nan's love for goose necks and goose heads.
The skin of the goose that has been soaked in the marinade is crispy, and the tongue is soft and tough when bitten in the mouth.After carefully gnawing off all the meat and skin on the goose's head, he knocked off the top of the sky and sucked out the bone marrow.Jing Nan is finally consummated, he finally understands why Feng Gui likes to eat brains.This dense and smooth taste is really amazing!
Moreover, the salted duck and salted goose are not spicy, and after Jing Nan savors the taste carefully, he only feels that his mouth is full of fragrance.If he hadn't stopped in time, he might have eaten the goose head and the duck head.
After eating the goose head, Jing Nan made up his mind: "Tomorrow we must go to Nanshan to catch a few ducks. Otherwise, let the cook from Yunyan Building send some ingredients. The salted duck and salted goose are delicious. We can eat them tomorrow." Do you want to continue eating?"
Du Heng couldn't laugh or cry: "Okay, I'll look through the storage bag tonight, if I find ducks or geese, how about I marinate them into salted salted ducks for you?"
Jing Nan sucked her claws and couldn't help picking up a piece of goose neck and began to chew it: "Hmm! Okay! By the way, the foie gras is delicious, cut another one for me to try."
Foie gras and duck livers are also brine-soaked, but they cannot be stewed in brine for as long as the body.At most, it takes only one cup of tea to be stewed. The foie gras and duck liver are delicate, soft and glutinous, without any peculiar smell.
Jing Nan accidentally killed two darlings.Du Heng just felt a little regretful, if the goose intestines and county liver were also kept, Jing Nan would definitely fall in love with that taste.
When it was time to eat, Wen Qiong, who was sober, praised the salted duck and salted goose again. She likes to eat leftovers, and I saw her gnawing on her neck and paws all night long.With salted duck as meat dishes, Jing Nan stopped nagging, even if there were still leftovers from the vegetarian dishes at noon, he happily finished the meal.
Du Heng looked at his stewed ingredients, one duck was gone, half a goose was gone, all the necks and heads were gone, and only the naked bodies of the goose and duck remained in the big bowl.In this world, everyone likes leftovers, but no one eats real meat?
After dinner, Du Heng looked at the darkened sky, and he began to worry about Xuanyu again.He didn't know when Xuanyu would come back, he met Zhu Yan today, and he didn't know what monsters Xuanyu would encounter on the road.
Du Heng was rubbing his oily skin while thinking wildly.He now has a lot of milk to make a lot of dairy products, and he has already stored a lot of double skin milk in the refrigerator.Du Heng wanted to try egg tarts. He was too lazy to make butter, and the egg tarts he made were also Chinese-style egg tarts that would fall off when bitten.
When he was in his hometown, he tried to make the kind of egg tarts from chain stores, but no matter how he did it, the egg tart skin always felt a bit inferior to the ones sold.Later, he accidentally ate an egg tart from a pastry shop. The egg tarts in that store were baked with Chinese-style ghee skin and water oil skin. The baked egg tarts were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.Du Heng was amazed when he ate it for the first time.
When making chicken crisps for Xiaoxiao before, Du Heng made oil skin.When he made dim sum last time, he didn't have an oven, and the chicken crisps were all put in the oil pan.With an oven this time, Du Heng felt that he could make good egg tarts.
After the water-oil skin and ghee skin were prepared, Du Heng wrapped the ghee skin with water-oil skin according to the method of making chicken crisps.When making small chicken crisps before, they were wrapped with salted egg yolk, but this time Du Heng evenly pressed the oil skins into the flower-shaped mold.
That was the mold he used to make chicken cakes. Originally, he wanted to make the mold again, but when he opened the storage bag, he saw the large and small molds he had made during this time.He had a deep understanding - once he got into baking, it was as deep as the sea.
There were a lot of messy molds in his storage bag. Seeing these molds, he told himself that it was time to stop making molds.Save a little if you can.
He evenly pressed the oily skin on the edge of the mold. The bottom of the oily skin should be a little thinner, so that the crisping will be better, as long as the edge is even.
With the help of aura, Du Heng quickly made two molds of egg tart skins.Then just pour the egg tart liquid into the egg tart shell.
Speaking of which, Du Heng made evaporated milk and condensed milk during this time.Evaporated milk is the milk obtained after half of the water is evaporated after heating the milk. This kind of milk is more mellow and rich.It is good for making milk tea or making snacks.
When filtering the evaporated milk, Du Heng also got a ball of cheese, if he is in the mood to make bread in the future, he can knead this ball of cheese into it.
Condensed milk is the product obtained by heating and stirring milk after adding sugar. After it is ready, the color is light yellow, the texture is thick and the taste is sweet, and it is really delicious to spread on the pastry.
It's easy to say, but it takes a lot of time to do.If it weren't for Xuanyu's formation, Du Heng wouldn't know how long he would have to guard in front of the stove.The finished condensed milk was too sweet, so Du Heng didn't pay attention, so Xiaoxiao helped him finish a bowl.
Evaporated milk and a small amount of condensed milk need to be added to the egg tart liquid. Du Heng can't remember where he saw the recipe.Before making the egg tart, he poured water into the mold and weighed it.The egg tarts in my hometown are two taels, and his mold is relatively large, so the egg tarts made are four taels, and the egg liquid needs to be poured into each egg tart is more than two taels.
He counted the number of egg tarts made, and the two versions of the mold can make 54 egg tarts.With so many egg tarts, nearly [-] catties of egg liquid are needed.
Du Heng hates doing arithmetic problems, but the most important thing in making pastry is the recipe, and the taste will be different if there is more or less.He counted until his head was bald, and then he figured out how much each of the required pure milk, white sugar, condensed milk, eggs, and evaporated milk needed.
Seeing Du Heng's bloodshot eyes sketching on the paper, he squatted on the chair with a smile and was confused.I don't know if it was his illusion, he felt that since Du Heng started kneading dough, he had been ignored by Du Heng.
In the end, Du Heng held up the paper excitedly and shouted: "It's out!! Hey!!" On the paper, there were messy writings on the paper: three ounces of milk, eight liang of sugar, two ounces of egg, four liang of condensed milk, and three ounces of evaporated milk. Two or two catties.
Xiaoxiao sighed heavily, why bother?Isn't this tossing yourself?
Du Heng quickly weighed out all the materials with a Tianhu scale, he took a wooden barrel and poured all the materials into it, and then began to pass them crazily.This time, with the blessing of spiritual energy, Du Heng dispatched quite rhythmically.
After half a cup of tea, Du Heng got a bucket of yellowish egg liquid that exudes sweetness.There are some foams on the egg liquid, and now Du Heng can control the aura to filter out these foams very well.
It was the first time for Du Heng to manipulate egg liquid into molds with spiritual energy. Although Du Heng had watched Xuan Yu and Jing Nan do it countless times before, he was still quite nervous when it was his turn to do it.
The egg liquid is poured into the yellowish egg tart skin, and it can only be poured [-]% full. If it is too full, the egg tart will overflow the egg tart skin once it is baked.
After Du Heng finished baking the egg tart skins in the two molds, he realized that he had made a mistake.There was still a large bowl of egg liquid left in his wooden bucket.Du Heng was dumbfounded looking at this bowl of egg liquid. He looked at the egg tart which was already filled with egg liquid and couldn't figure it out. Where did he make a mistake?How could there be so much egg liquid?
It's a small matter if you make a mistake, but how bad would it be if the egg tarts you make don't taste good?Du Heng himself doesn't like sweets, so what if it ruins it?
Xiaoxiao chirped twice, and Du Heng looked at Xiaoxiao as if waking up from a dream: "Hey? Xiaoxiao, why are you here?"
Smiling and sighing, he knew Du Heng didn't notice his existence.
But when he saw Xiaoxiao, Du Heng knew what he was afraid of if Xiaoxiao was here, at worst, he would flatten the egg tarts and turn them into cakes for Xiaoxiao to eat!Although a bit unkind, Du Heng really thought so.
Du Heng nervously opened the door of the oven, and he put the two molds into the oven.After closing the stove door, he moved a small stool and sat next to the oven.
It takes less than two sticks of incense to bake the egg tart, and it will be out of the oven after caramel spots appear on the skin of the egg tart.It was the first time he baked egg tarts from the oven. He was not very sure about the temperature and time, so he needed to keep an eye on the oven.
There is a small door on the oven, which can be opened to see what is inside while baking.But you can't use your spiritual sense to look in, otherwise the spiritual fire in the stove will teach Du Heng to be a man again.
Du Heng leaned his back against the wall, and he looked in the direction of the courtyard gate.It was already dark at night, and the light from the kitchen cast from the window onto the bluestone in the yard.Near the east courtyard wall, the little Peizhu survived after being nourished by a spring rain.It's just that it's still such a small branch, and it looks very thin.
Xiaoxiao walked to Du Heng's side, and he jumped on Du Heng: "Jiujiu?"
Du Heng put his arms around him and smiled, "Can you go to sleep after eating the egg tart? I'll wait for Xuanyu."
Hearing Xuanyu's name, Little Wonton came over and leaned against Du Heng's feet.Du Heng stretched out his hand and rubbed Xiao Wonton's hair: "There is someone in our family who hasn't come back outside, I can't sleep. Wait for him."
Little Wonton wagged its tail and licked Du Heng's hand.Du Heng felt a little relieved, at least he was not alone, there were Xiaoxiao and the puppy beside him.
It's almost the beginning of summer, and the courtyard is quite cool.Du Heng looked up at the sky, there was no moon in the sky, only stars all over the sky.Du Heng began to worry again: "I don't know if Xuanyu is holding the lamp. There is no moon today, and the mountain road is difficult. He must not be walking fast."
After a while, he seemed to be talking to himself: "It's okay, just walk slowly, it's safe."
After a stick of incense, the sweet smell in the courtyard is already evident.Du Heng opened the door of the stove and looked, only to see that the egg tart crust had come out of the mold, and the crisping was successful.In the middle of the flower-shaped egg tart shell, the egg liquid swelled up high, but fortunately, it did not overflow the egg tart shell.
Du Heng closed the stove door again, and the courtyard was filled with a milky and sweet smell. Smelling this smell made people feel relaxed.
Xiaoxiao jumped off Du Heng, and he was already squatting at the door of the stove.Du Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he stroked Xiaoxiao's fluff and said, "Look carefully, the egg tart will be out of the oven when caramel-colored spots appear on the surface of the egg tart. But you are not allowed to put your spiritual consciousness into it."
Smiling and nodding, Du Heng got up and walked towards the courtyard gate.After walking out of the courtyard, he looked towards Fang Xishan.
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