Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

Pepper, fermented glutinous rice, ginger, sugar, wine, rice noodles... Spicy peanuts and green beans are also added.

The approximate ingredients are easy to guess, but the most important thing is the way of cooking.Even if the same ingredients and ingredients are used, the taste of the dish will be affected regardless of the difference in the way the seasoning is placed and the order of production.

The steamed pork in Sanchunlou can be tender but not greasy. In addition to letting the meat get rid of oil during the steaming process, the soaking and marinating must be very particular.

Generally, the way to remove the fishy smell of pork is nothing more than wine, hemp, spicy, or onion, ginger, and garlic.

The step of soaking the meat in water can also remove part of the blood, which has the effect of removing fishy smell, but if soaked for a long time, it will also have the disadvantage of insufficient meat aroma

However, if in the process of soaking the meat in water, it can not only maintain the taste of the meat, but also remove the blood and make the meat tender, which is the best choice.

After Zhao Hanyan thought about it, he was ready to start making.She first grabbed a handful of glutinous rice and soaked it in water, then grabbed a handful of peppercorns and put it in a small bowl, adding a little warm water to soak.

The next thing is meat, Zhao Hanyan decided to go out to pick a piece of meat that he is most satisfied with.

Before leaving, Zhao Hanyan asked Xiuzhu to wash the japonica rice, dried hawthorn and black dates, "Remember to wait for the water to boil before adding these three things, and then boil it and stir it a few times, then cover the pot and put it on a low heat." boil."

Xiuzhu nodded again and again, she was also worried that the princess bought too much meat, so she wanted to ask Chunlai to go with it.

Bai Yutang got up and followed.

Xiuzhu glanced at Bai Yutang with a little fear, thinking that he was dressed in white, and he was so arrogant and martial arts, he probably wouldn't help his princess get the meat, so she continued to call Chunlai.

As a result, Chunlai didn't call, and Chunqu didn't call either.

Laiwang, who was lighting the fire, remembered, "I just saw their brothers walking towards the back door, and they must have gone grocery shopping again."

"Then I'll help you get the meat, you watch the pot." Xiuzhu said.

Laiwang was stunned for a moment, feeling like he couldn't do this kind of thing, but after hearing what Xiuzhu said, he just wanted to see if the porridge was mushy, so after thinking about it, it shouldn't be difficult, so he reluctantly agreed.

"It's just a few pieces of meat, I can still handle it, but don't let Laiwang come, he has a rough heart, just look at it." Zhao Hanyan refused.

Bai Yutang knew that Xiuzhu was worried about her young master, so he said, "I'm here too."

Xiuzhu nodded, and continued to watch over the pot with a wooden spoon.

After the two left Kaifeng mansion, Bai Yutang followed behind Zhao Hanyan. After a long silence, he slowly said: "Your servant girl seems to be a little afraid of me."

"Well, I wasn't afraid at first, and I looked down on you a little bit, but after hearing the rumors about you, I became a little scared."

Zhao Hanyan wanted to pick out lotus roots, but there were quite a few people who bought them. After she squeezed in, she found that the rest were not fresh, so she gave up.

"You don't like it?" Bai Yutang stopped, seeing that Zhao Hanyan was still walking forward, he stretched out his hand to grab her arm.

Zhao Hanyan was stunned for a moment, and when he looked back, his eyes first fell on Bai Yutang's hand along his own arm, and then slowly moved up to Bai Yutang's face.

In the noisy vegetable market full of street vendors hawking and bargaining, Bai Yutang with white clothes and black hair is completely like a crane in a flock of independent chickens, eye-catching and out of place.But he didn't care about the gazes of those people. At this moment, he only focused on looking at Zhao Hanyan, and wanted to know why Xiuzhu looked down on him.

A few old ladies who came to buy vegetables together and wanted to bargain, noticed Bai Yutang at a glance, and happily stopped buying vegetables, pushed the people around them, and those around them pushed those around them, three or four women got together excitedly , looking at Bai Yutang from a distance with a reddened face.

Although they are all married, they are not as shy as the little girl's family, but they also know how to be reserved, and stay away from Xiao Xiao's excitement.This is the first time I have met such a good-looking person after living most of my life. Every time I look at it, I earn money, so I try to blink less.

Although Bai Yutang didn't feel anything, Zhao Hanyan who was arrested was a little blushed when everyone saw him.

She was completely immersed in the noise of the market just now, just looking at the vegetables, and had no idea what Bai Yutang said to her, so at this moment Zhao Hanyan was very puzzled why Bai Yutang wanted to arrest her.

"Go...to buy meat?" Zhao Hanyan asked in a daze.

"it is good."

Bai Yutang let go of his hand, then put the hand that grabbed Zhao Hanyan behind his back, and lightly clenched his fist.

Bai Yutang continued to follow Zhao Hanyan to the butcher's shop, but he didn't speak any more along the way, frowning as if in deep thought.

Zhao Hanyan picked a five-flowered three-layer with the best ratio of fat and thin, and bought two heart-bladder ribs, which are ribs from the left and right areas closest to the pork neck bone.The meat quality of this part of the ribs is more tender than that of the middle and rear parts. Whether it is braised or grilled, it is not easy to have the taste of dry wood.

And because the pigs raised in ancient times were all farm pigs raised naturally, the meat quality is more fat and fragrant, so if this section of pork ribs is used to make steamed pork, it will be quite fat and thin, and the taste will be particularly tender.

Two large ribs and a large pork belly weighed about ten catties together.The meat was tied and hung with soft wicker, and Zhao Hanyan carried it all by himself.Bai Yutang wanted to help, but Zhao Hanyan refused.

"Why is that?" Bai Yutang stared at Zhao Hanyan, but Zhao Hanyan was still looking at the dishes with his eyes wandering here and there.

You just said that Xiuzhu looked down on him, and now you don't let him help with the meat. Could it be that their master and servant have disliked him a long time ago?Bai Yutang changed his mind and thought otherwise, if the little cook hated him, when he was in danger, he wouldn't immediately want to go to Zhuangyuan Building to find him, and he wouldn't cook so many delicious food for him before.

Bai Yutang couldn't figure out what was going on in the present situation, so Bai Yutang once again proposed to help Zhao Hanyan get the meat.

Zhao Hanyan firmly disagreed, and asked Bai Yutang to stay away from him.

Bai Yutang then followed Zhao Hanyan back to the kitchen of Kaifeng Mansion, his expression had become very gloomy without his knowing it.

When Xiuzhu saw her princess came back, she hurried over to pick up the meat, then turned her head to look at Bai Yutang who entered the door empty-handed, feeling very angry.I had a good impression of him just now, because he said "I'm also there" before leaving, but it turned out that he said nothing and didn't do anything.

At this time, Zhao Hanyan washed the pork belly and cut it into large pieces, and cut the ribs into strips, but did not chop them into small pieces.Then put the soaked glutinous rice on a small stone mill, add water and grind it into rice milk, then soak the pork belly and pork ribs just cut into the rice milk, and then add the previously soaked bowl of peppercorn water, Then prepared cabbage, lotus root slices, sweet potatoes and green beans.

After Zhao Hanyan finished these, he began to prepare to make steamed meat powder.Take a scoop of japonica rice and glutinous rice and fry them in the pot until cooked. Add star anise and cinnamon. When the rice is fried until golden and fragrant, take it out of the pot. Grind it into fine powder and soak it in warm water.

At this time, the pork belly and ribs are almost soaked, ready to be marinated, but before marinating, make sure that the pork and ribs are drained, and then rub the sliced ​​pork belly and ribs with ginger, onion and garlic, and then use salt , sweet sauce, soy sauce, sugar and other condiments to taste, and finally add tamales powder, stir evenly, wait about half an hour for the taste to penetrate into the meat thoroughly.

Then peel and slice the lotus root and sweet potato, mix well with salt and other condiments, and marinate them for flavor.

During the period of bacon, Zhao Hanyan was going to cook for Duan Silian.

Xiuzhu can also help a little bit, but can't help too much, "Young master, I think our kitchen is really short of staff, we should hire another person to help, do something like making cakes and rice, so that we don't have to cook all the meals. The young master supported it all by himself.

Originally, it was enough for us to serve the small dining table, because Master Bao and Mr. Gongsun are not picky about food.But here comes a little Prince Duan again, he can't be fooled with the same dishes, at least he is going to entertain the prince of Dali Kingdom on behalf of the Song Dynasty, so he dare not neglect easily?So we're going to have to hire at least one more person to help. "

After Bai Yutang listened, he agreed.

Xiuzhu looked at Bai Yutang with displeasure, with uncontrollable displeasure on her face, and even more thoughts about him in her heart, all kinds of contempt for him.

"Let me think about it, if you really want to hire another person, you have to discuss it with Judge Shi." Zhao Hanyan pondered.

"He will definitely agree. Mr. Bao and Mr. Gongsun said before they left that if the small kitchen needs people, they can speak up at any time." Xiuzhu quickly reminded.

"Let's talk about it, let's finish the current work first."

In fact, at this moment, there is no need to go out of the way to supply the small dining table, Zhao Hanyan thinks it is not too tiring to only deal with Duan Xiaowang's dining table.However, there are some simple tasks of cooking scones, as Xiuzhu said, it is better to have someone to help.

Because Bai Yutang just learned that Xiuzhu didn't like him, after he came back this time, he would inevitably pay attention to Xiuzhu intentionally or unconsciously.With this attention, he found that Xiuzhu really looked down on him.

From time to time, Xiuzhu would look at him with small eyes, always with anger, wishing she could eat him at a glance.Bai Yutang looked back, and when she wanted to come face to face, she immediately lowered her head and avoided it.

Bai Yutang was very puzzled, he didn't understand how he offended this little maid.

Bai Yutang would never take dislikes from people he didn't care about, but Xiuzhu was the little cook's maid, so it was a little troublesome.

Bai Yutang's handling of people or things that get in the way has always been simple and rude, just kick them away immediately so that they don't disturb the eyes.

Taking advantage of Zhao Hanyan's ability to cut meat, Bai Yutang approached her and asked her why she brought a little maid with her.

"She has lived with me since she was a child, and she has nothing to do at home, so she naturally comes here with me." Zhao Hanyan asked Bai Yutang why she asked this.

"I don't get along with her." Bai Yutang said bluntly, "Either give money, or arrange for her to go elsewhere, or find a good marriage, you choose one."

Zhao Hanyan was stunned, put down the kitchen knife, and asked Bai Yutang, "Why didn't you two get along? Besides, you two don't get along with you, and you can't arrange what will happen to her in the future."

"I can't, you can, so I'll discuss it with you. As long as you agree, I can do the arrangement." Bai Yutang's tone was cold and hard, and most people didn't think it was a discussion.

Zhao Hanyan moved his eyeballs and thought about it carefully.Since Bai Yutang raised this question, it meant that there must be a gap between the two of them.He knew both of these two people, and there was no problem with their character. If they didn't like each other, there must be a misunderstanding.

look down on...

Zhao Hanyan remembered that when she was in the vegetable market just now, she seemed to be talking too much.Is Bai Yutang fussing over this matter?

"Don't get me wrong, I mean that when she first met you, she had some prejudice because of your arrogance, but later she heard about your chivalrous deeds in the arena, and she was in awe of you." The point is actually 'Fear', but of course Zhao Hanyan couldn't say this when trying to persuade peace.

"It's not because of this, you'd better ask her." Bai Yutang said.

Bai Yutang is not like Zhan Zhao, he never tolerates others, he basically follows the principle of "get together if you agree with each other, separate if you don't agree with each other, hit if you get in the way, kill if you hate it".

Seeing Bai Yutang's serious attitude, Zhao Hanyan also heard that this is what happened just now, so it's best to solve it quickly.Bai Yutang is the person who is least likely to be slapped by others, it is probably because of Xiuzhu's wrong attitude just now.

Zhao Hanyan went to call Xiuzhu, dragged her to a secluded place, and asked what was going on.

Xiuzhu then complained: "What's wrong with the hero, I just don't like him! We agreed to accompany the young master to buy meat, and specifically said 'he's here' to ensure the delivery of the meat, but when the young master came back just now, all the meat was gone. I took it by myself, but he is a big man, but he is idle, wearing a flowing white dress, patronizing beauty, people are... good-looking, but good-looking can be eaten as meat!"

Zhao Hanyan grabbed Xiuzhu and told her not to be too aggressive.

"It's because of this? He just wanted to carry it for me. He said it twice, but I didn't let him go. As you said, he was dressed in white, flowing, carrying two skewers of pork, blood red. What did he look like?" Oh, it affects the perception. I made the sacrifice for my own eyesight, and also for the comfort of those big girls on the street.

also.Think about it carefully, I am a princess in your eyes, but I am a man in the eyes of others.It's nothing more than normal for me to carry two catties of pork.In the future, don't worry about this kind of thing, or you will leak about my daughter sooner or later. "

"So that's how it is!" Xiuzhu transformed from a hedgehog into a fluffy little white rabbit in an instant, and admitted her mistake embarrassedly, "That's because I misunderstood him."

"Go and apologize." Zhao Hanyan said.

"Ah? Do you want to apologize?" Xiuzhu grabbed Zhao Hanyan's arm in fear, "What if he slashes me in a fit of anger?"

"No, if he really wants to cut you, you won't talk in front of me now."

Zhao Hanyan's words did not comfort Xiuzhu at all.With her head down, Xiuzhu reluctantly followed Zhao Hanyan to Bai Yutang, and apologized to him in a mosquito-like voice.

"It's my fault too. I was weak when I was young, and she always cared about me, so she treated me like a girl," Zhao Hanyan explained, "Later, when I got better, she was still stronger and more capable than me. Take care of me, I guess you have developed this habit."

Zhao Hanyan had to explain the reason, otherwise she was worried that with Bai Yutang's intelligence, she would see the abnormality of their master and servant.

After Bai Yutang finished listening, he didn't say anything, but just nodded, indicating that the matter was over.

"Then I'll make tamales for you." After Zhao Hanyan finished speaking, she took Xiuzhu with her and continued to work in the kitchen.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhao Hanyan's busy back.

Slender, slender, narrow shoulders, that waist... for a girl?

Bai Yutang recalled this sentence inexplicably in his mind, his heart beat suddenly and his face became a little hot.

Bai Yutang took a sip of tea, grabbed the sword on the table, turned and went back to his courtyard, and practiced the sword.

After some tossing, there was applause outside the courtyard.

"Excellent swordsmanship! The sword flies in the air, the clouds flow and the water flows, and the broken leaves are ruthless." Duan Silian walked into the courtyard happily, looking at the fallen leaves on the ground that had been chopped into pieces by Bai Yutang's swordsmanship, he couldn't help but admire.

Bai Yutang looked at him in dislike, and turned around to go back to his room.

"I think your skill is no less than Zhan's guard? Why are you willing to be a small policeman in Kaifeng Mansion? Why don't you go back to Dali with me, and I will protect your high-ranking official and rich salary, prosperity and wealth, how about it?" After Duan Silian finished speaking, Seeing that Bai Yutang didn't respond, he hurriedly added, "Of course these vulgar things may not have caught your eye, but this mere no-name arrester really buried your talent."

At this moment, Duan Silian felt that he had dug up a piece of jade in the rough and was very excited.

"Don't worry about it." Bai Yutang said and entered the room, closing the door with a bang.

Duan Silian was taken aback, frowned, secretly wondering why this person is so arrogant.It's just that talented people have some tempers, since they want to employ people, they must have a certain amount of tolerance, Duan Silian comforted himself.

After leaving the hospital, Duan Silian sent someone to quickly inquire about the life experience of this white yamen servant, who is in the family, and what are his weaknesses, so that it will be convenient to win him over in the future.

The dishes for Duan Silian in the kitchen have been prepared and served.

Zhao Hanyan made another batch of cakes, and while waiting for the cakes to be cooked, the steamed pork just finished.

She spread the washed and drained cabbage leaves on the bottom of the steamer, followed by a layer of meat, a layer of lotus root slices, another layer of pork belly, another layer of sweet potato slices, and another layer of meat.The steamed pork ribs are also arranged in the same way.

After steaming for one stick of incense on high fire, change to low heat, wait for another stick of incense, pour some water on the meat, and continue steaming for one stick of incense, and the steamed meat with two kinds of flour is considered ready.

Before the food was ready, Zhao Hanyan specially sent Xiuzhu to ask Bai Yutang to come over for dinner.

Xiuzhu was a little scared, but after she went to call, she found that Bai Yutang didn't show her face, and she felt a lot more at ease.

Zhao Hanyan, Bai Yutang and others in the kitchen gathered around the table to eat afterwards.They are all on their own, so they don’t pay much attention to what they eat. In addition to porridge with black dates and hawthorns, there are pretzels with tamales, which is very simple.

When Bai Yutang saw the steamed pork on the table and smelled the aroma of the meat, he immediately lost his temper.First put a piece of steamed pork belly with rice flour. When added, the meat shivered slightly and swayed from side to side, with an irresistible aroma. The meat was covered with golden yellow rice noodles, fat and thin, with distinct layers, and sliced ​​very thinly. Soft and tender in the middle, it melts in your mouth instantly, and the aroma of your meat fills your lips and teeth.

The taste of steamed pork ribs with vermicelli is even stronger. The pork bone meat is the most fragrant, and it is steamed with such a fresh and tender method. It has no firewood, is soft and not greasy, and is very juicy.Not only is the meat extremely delicious, but the cabbage, lotus root slices and sweet potato slices that go with the meat are also delicious and have a long-lasting fragrance.

At the end of the meal, people still don't want to put down their chopsticks, and because they are immersed in the delicious food, they even forget the words of praise.

Everyone at the dinner table was very quiet at this moment.

Zhao Hanyan, who can listen to his heart, also received feedback from everyone.Everyone's voice has already told her that this dish is very successful, and its taste and texture are even better than that of Sanchunlou.They all praised her meat for being more tender, more delicate, and richer in taste.

This is probably due to the steps of soaking and removing the fishy smell before making the meat, and the selection of ingredients is more refined, and the second is the grasp of the heat. It is divided into three periods, and water is added to one of them to ensure that the meat is cooked in a timely manner. During the steaming process, it will remain fragrant and tender without being overcooked.