Learn to cook Xiaojiao online goose raising [Gourmet]

"Look at that man, he is dressed in rags, and he has the cheek to say that Chef Cai's son stole his recipe."

"That's right, I don't want to think that my father is Chef Cai who is studying art in the capital, so why steal an apprentice's recipe."

"It is said that this man is called Xie Zeyu. He is from the countryside. He has been an apprentice in Wenxianglou for five years and has not been able to become a teacher. Could it be that he has lost his mind? Look, he has a goose with him, maybe he is out of his mind... "

The hall of Wenxianglou was buzzing with people, and two simple fire stoves were built on the opera stage.

The two stoves were separated by a big red cloth in the middle, which divided the stage into two and blocked the two sides tightly.

The person standing in front of the stove on the left is named Cai Shanxue. He has a pair of small inverted triangular eyes, a sunken nose, and thin dark red lips with a hint of bitterness. He knows that he can't see the other side of the red cloth, but his eyes are still restless. He tried his best to aim to the other side.

Standing in front of the stove on the right was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy. He looked much worse than Cai Shanxue. His dark blue short brown was patched with various colors, and his trousers had a scorched black hole. Dusty cloth shoes, ragged clothes, like a beggar.

Only the white apron, tied around his waist meticulously, made him look like a cook.

This boy is thin and thin, but he has a pair of lovely phoenix eyes, two willow-leaf eyebrows looking forward and affectionately, and his lips are red and his teeth are white. If he dresses up carefully, he may be comparable to Song Yu and Pan An, who is exactly Zeyu who is attached to Xie Zeyu.

He turned a deaf ear to the criticism from all directions, and the geese squatted quietly at his feet, as if there was a barrier around each person and bird, isolating all worldly troubles.

Holding a small wooden spoon in his hand, Zeyu stirred the egg liquid in the bowl unhurriedly. With his smooth movements, the four round egg yolks gradually turned into a puddle of indissoluble golden yellow.

His gaze was fixed on the big steamer in front of him. The success or failure of this dessert was a matter of life and death.

If he can't prove that Xie Zeyu's prescription was stolen today, then not only will he be expelled from Wenxiang Tower, there will be no place for him in the city anymore.

The hut was set on fire in the middle of the night yesterday, and of course it was burned to nothing. Zeyu only rescued half a box of tattered clothes and a cookbook that was mostly burnt.

Fortunately, this kind of small fire is not a problem for a person and a bird, but it is quite uncomfortable to be woken up in the middle of the night.

It is not difficult to find out who set the fire, but it is a pity that Zeyu doesn't have that free time now, because Xie Zeyu still has a big thing on his mind to complete.

After all, Zeyu is now borrowing someone else's life to live. I don't know how long it will take. If one day he has to return it to the right owner, he can't make a mess of other people's life.

So he rushed to Wenxianglou with the only remaining "family belongings", only to find that a dessert recipe researched by Xie Zeyu had been stolen, and the person who stole it was Chef Cai's son - Cai Shan study.

Wisps of white smoke gradually rose from the top of the steamer. Zeyu put down the stirred egg yolk, took a deep breath, first lifted the lid with one hand, then squatted down and took out most of the firewood from the stove, leaving only a few logs to maintain the small fire fire.

To make this dessert well, the heat is the most important part, why?

Because of things like heat, it is unclear, and it can only be controlled by the sense of food.

Inside the steamer were five porcelain bowls, one large, four small, all covered with white gauze, and filled with freshly steamed buffalo milk. Zeyu took out four small bowls with tongs, lifted the gauze and put them aside to cool.

Next, he removed the gauze from the large porcelain bowl, gently stirred the bottom of the bowl with a wooden spoon, and at the same time pricked up his ears to listen carefully, with a slight smile on his tense face, because he didn't hear the slightest whining sound, In other words, the powdered sugar in the milk has been completely melted before, so that it will not affect the taste when it is eaten.

He picked up the egg yolk that had been mixed on the side, and stirred the milk in the bowl in the same direction with one hand to prevent the milk from being boiled again; with the other hand, he slowly poured the golden egg liquid along the edge of the bowl.

The difficulty of this dessert is here. When stirring the milk, it should neither be too fast nor too slow, and it cannot be stopped halfway; the purpose is to prevent the egg yolk from agglomerating, otherwise it will become a lump of astringent "custard lumps" ", the color and fragrance are ruined.

Feeling the resistance in his hands gradually increasing, the rich and sweet fragrance wafted out of the bowl, Zeyu saw the timing, when the bowl just condensed into a paste, he took the bowl out of the cage, and then poured it in slowly In several small bowls prepared.

There were several swallowing sounds from the audience, and the steaming moon-white milk paste slowly slid into the wall of the bowl, like a beauty stepping into a bath, which aroused people's imagination.

Zeyu put a pine nut in the middle of each bowl of milk paste, and decorated it with four mint leaves. After finishing, he raised his head and glanced at the audience, raised the corners of his mouth, and said loudly:

"This is the first dish, Golden Seed Phoenix Dew, please taste it."

There was another uproar, and the boss of Wenxianglou who was sitting under the stage raised his eyebrows and asked:

"The first way? Do you have a second way?"

"Yes, in fact, only half of the prescription was stolen. However, I plan to disclose the whole thing here today. This is my repayment to Wenxianglou. Please wait and see."

Nodding confidently to the boss, Zeyu didn't say much anymore, when he took the egg yolks, he had already left the egg whites in the other bowls, just in time.

In fact, Xie Zeyu really only researched one recipe, Zeyu is different, he has seen countless mortal recipes, and if he just picks out one or two with a slight improvement, it is enough to crush any chef Cai.

In addition, Zeyu also wanted to teach Cai Shanxue a lesson for Xie Zeyu. If this person hadn't been a hindrance, with Xie Zeyu's talent, he could have been a teacher in two years, but he was delayed for five years.

Because Cai Shanxue relied on being the son of Chef Cai, he deliberately destroyed the ingredients prepared by Xie Zeyu repeatedly, this time he even did such things as stealing someone's recipes, just to overwhelm Xie Zeyu.

It's ridiculous that a frog in a well like him doesn't understand at all that the recipes he researched are just scratching the surface, and the means of cooking ingredients is the essence of cooking.

Withdrawing his mind, Zeyu scooped up a few spoonfuls of powdered sugar and sprinkled it into the egg white, stirring carefully to avoid foaming, until the powdered sugar evenly melted into the egg white and stopped.

After the preparation, he turned his head to check the first four bowls of buffalo milk that came out of the cage. He touched the side of the bowl with his hand and found that it was almost cold, and he could see that a layer of thin and wrinkled milk skin had formed on the surface of the milk.

He carefully poked a small hole in each bowl of milk skin with the tip of his chopsticks, and poured the milk into the bowls containing the egg whites through the small holes, so that he got four complete milk skins. After that, he used a spoon to stir the egg white and milk evenly. .

At this time, Ze Yu just made a series of "inexplicable" actions, which caused more and more loud discussions in the audience:

"Is there something wrong with him? Playing tricks?"

"That's right, it's upside down, can I eat it?"

Still turning a deaf ear to the argument, Zeyu slowly poured four bowls of milk mixed with egg whites into the bowl containing four milk skins along the side of the bowl.

The most tedious step has been completed, and Zeyu couldn't help but frown, heaved a sigh of relief, put the four milk bowls back into the steamer, and pursed his mouth to add firewood to the stove.

Everyone was wondering why he didn't cover the steamer, and saw that he took two plump red dates from the stove, cut them in half, put the four petals of dates into bowls one by one, and placed them on the four bowls filled with milk Cover it with white gauze before closing the lid.

There was still half a stick of incense time before the dessert came out. Zeyu moved her shoulders, took a boiled egg from the stove, peeled it off, broke off a piece of white, and reached out to feed it to the "sand sculpture" who had been dozing off.

"Shusha? Don't you want to eat?"

Shasha is Zeyu's new name for the goose. After all, there are thousands of sand sculptures in the world, and there must be someone to identify them.

"Shusha" opened his eyes a little, and only glanced at him, turning his head away, as if he had made up his mind to ignore him.

"If you don't eat, then I will. I'm very hungry."

The audience exploded again, and everyone was even more incomprehensible:

"Is he a fool? How can a goose eat eggs?"

"Do you still need to ask? A normal person can talk to a goose?"

"Why don't you drive him down? He's here to make trouble?"

However, those people who have tasted the freshly baked Phoenix dew have different moods at the moment.

In this competition, the tasters are: the owner of Wenxiang Building and Chef Cai, the housekeeper of the noble Ning Mansion in the city, and the godmother Hua Gu of Fireworks Building.

Needless to say, the people in Wenxianglou, the other two are all veterans, and they can compete with each other when they are particular.

As soon as the four of them smelled the mellow fragrance of Fenghuanglu, they couldn't hide the surprised expressions on their faces. Just looking at the sticky, white and tender appearance, it already made people salivate.

What's even more amazing is that when you eat it, the cotton is so cottony that it doesn't feel grainy at all, and it's full of custard flavor, sweet but not greasy, and silky smooth.

The four of them took one spoonful after another, eating the small bowl to the bottom in the blink of an eye, and they were still unsatisfied. The three of them had even greater expectations for the second dessert Xie Zeyu was making.

Chef Cai was the only one, with a livid face and clenched fists. It is not difficult to guess how resentful he was. He is Cai Shanxue's father, how could he not know what virtue his son had? I had doubts in my heart, but I didn't worry too much.

Anyway, he is Chef Cai, so what if his son really stole the recipe?Xie Zeyu should be grateful to Shanxue, which means his son thinks highly of that scorpion.

But when he tasted the first sip of Phoenix Dew, he really panicked, because he knew: his son was doomed.

Unexpectedly, this Xie Zeyu has always swallowed his anger, but this time he wants to humiliate his son in public, it is really hateful.

As if he could sense the hateful eyes from the audience, Zeyu glanced coolly at Chef Cai, who looked away guiltyly, and he raised the corners of his mouth, not paying attention at all.

The half stick of incense passed quickly, Zeyu put out the stove fire, and smiled at the stage:

"Second way, agate and white jade, please enlighten me."

I saw that the liquid in the bowl had solidified into a paste, the surface was smooth and flawless, decorated with half a red date, it really looked like suet white jade against the blood-colored agate.

The sweetness of Agate White Jade is lighter than that of Fenghuanglu, and it is tender and smooth in the mouth, and the milky fragrance lingers on the tip of the tongue.

"Wonderful!"

The boss of Wenxianglou couldn't help sighing, he took one bite after another, almost licking off the residue on the bowl.

Not only that, the boss even said boldly: "Please make a price, I want to buy this prescription."

"I don't want money. As I said earlier, I plan to make this recipe public. Everyone here can follow it when they go back."

Zeyu replied neither humble nor overbearing, turned his head to look at the red cloth, and replied calmly:

"Today, I just want to be innocent, and I don't care about this prescription. Dare I ask Mr. Cai if it has been completed? I would like to trouble all the folks and elders to give me a testimony."

At the beginning, the focus of the competition was on Zeyu. After being reminded, everyone remembered the neglected Cai Shanxue. Seeing that he was sweating profusely, he didn't even have the guts to serve the dessert he had made.

The so-called watching the excitement is not a big deal, the troublemakers in the audience immediately booed:

"Why don't you show it when it's done? It's a mule or a horse, take it out for a walk! Are you afraid that your lies will be exposed?"

The winking shop waiter immediately jumped onto the stage, looked at Cai Shanxue's steamer, and blurted out: "What is this? It's really disgusting to look at."

Hearing this, the boss's expression changed, and he signaled the waiter in the shop to quickly bring up the things Cai Shanxue made. The customers who were close couldn't wait to come over, and couldn't help shaking their heads with just one glance: "It's too bad, I didn't expect the chef's son It's a thief."

The two desserts on the table are not the same as Zeyu's. Even though they use the same ingredients, what Cai Shanxue made looks more like "milk egg drop soup".

There are lumps of half-yellow and half-white egg flowers scattered on the milk, stained with wrinkled milk skin, nondescript.

"Although the appearance is a bit poor, the taste is not necessarily bad."

Chef Cai's face turned pale, and he was still trying his best to protect his son. He took the spoon first, took a sip and drank it, but saw his lips twitch, and was speechless for a while.

"Since Chef Cai said so, everyone will save face."

The boss said so, and after he finished speaking, he slashed at Chef Cai, pursed his lips and tried to take a sip, the hand holding the spoon sank, and the smile froze on his lips instantly.

"What the hell is this? Do you want to kill people?"

The boss and the chef are concerned about the reputation of their restaurant, the godmother Huagu has always been open-mouthed, she just took a sip and kept wiping her mouth with a big purple handkerchief, waved her hands to let Xiao Er serve tea to rinse her mouth, and put her hand on Chef Cai's face Last finger:

"Your son stole it if he stole it. Is it so difficult to admit it? Let alone the boiled eggs, the egg yolk and white are tasteless, and the milk is so greasy that you want to vomit. If you don't believe me, just ask someone to come up and taste it. Who will take this bowl?" After drinking, my aunt Hua will give him money to see a doctor."

The corners of her wrinkled eyes slanted at Xie Zeyu, showing an ambiguous smile, and her tone softened:

"I think this little brother is born white and clean. Why don't you just come to my place to cook? I promise you to eat well and live well every day. The girls are very nice."

Although he didn't know what she meant, Zeyu had a sharp nose and could smell the pungent scent of balm and perfume on her body even from a distance.

"Thank you for your kindness, let's talk about it later."

The housekeeper of the Ning Mansion seldom spoke. Seeing Xie Zeyu's honest look, he asked in a deep voice:

"Can I ask Mr. Xie, why did you pour the buffalo milk in several bowls just now?"

He asked many questions from the spectators present, and Zeyu replied generously:

"I don't dare to do it. The villain has tried many times. After steaming like this, the bottom layer of milk skin is tender and smooth, and the upper layer of milk skin is sweet and fragrant. This is the purpose of keeping the two layers of milk skin."

After hearing Zeyu's explanation, the butler of the Ning Mansion rarely showed approval on his face, and turned to the boss beside him:

"I think everyone knows the result of this competition, boss, what do you think?"

Rubbing his sore forehead with one hand, the boss turned his face away, not wanting to look at the Cai family father and son again, and announced to the diners behind him:

"Xie Zeyusheng, Wenxianglou will retain his qualification to participate in the teacher's banquet."

"Thank you boss, I have a plea here."

Seeing the timing, Zeyu hurried from the stage to the boss, and bowed deeply to him.

The author has something to say:

The practices of Phoenix dew and agate white jade are all from Baidu_(:з」∠)_

The name is borrowed from a dessert that the author has eaten. The full name is "Jinqi Jinzi Phoenix Dew". It is a dessert that is very suitable for winter. You can try it when you have time.