Datang First Chef

In July, the sun was just right, and Mo Wenyuan was sitting behind the stove holding a volume of "Thousand Characters". He shook his head after reading it, very like an old master.

"The weather is dark and yellow, the universe is prehistoric. The sun and the moon are full and the sky is full. The cold comes and goes, the autumn harvests and winter hides..." The content is catchy, and the more he reads it, the more energetic he is. The "San Zi Jing" and "Hundred Surnames" are fun?

While thinking about it, there was business in the shop, Xu Zhixing said: "Is Da Lang still studying?"

Mo Wenyuan stood up and said: "A few days ago, my mother taught me to read "Thousand Characters". I saw that I had nothing to do, so I read while looking at the shop." On the next stool, the pink-carved and jade-carved smiling face was finally higher than the peeled bamboo steamer: "What does Uncle Xu want?"

Xu Zhixing sighed and said: "Da Lang is smart, he can read through articles at the age of five, my boy is ten years old and has no ambition to study, he can only write two words, he is really a debt collector." After he praised him, he began to get down to business : "Thirty steamed reed buns, sixty mutton steamed buns, half marinated and half fresh mutton, and some pork meat. You can take the steamed buns."

When Mo Wenyuan heard that another big order came, his eyes almost narrowed from laughter, he turned around and called Aunt Lin to make steamed buns, while he calculated the price of the food in his mind.

"Lu Fu steamed buns cost two coins, mutton pork sticks cost three coins, steamed cakes cost one coin, sixty coins, 180 coins, fifty coins, a total of 290 coins." 260 texts."

Xu Zhixing had seen Mo Wenyuan's mental arithmetic ability before. With this ability, he was well-known as a child prodigy in Guangde Square. Now people often buy steamed buns and ask Mo Wenyuan to settle accounts by name.

Unlike the neighbors who often come to buy steamed buns, Xu Zhixing is the clerk of the Xu family restaurant in Xishi. The owner of the restaurant is his elder brother. he.

The restaurant is different from the small food store. It is a comprehensive food business. The big dishes and small dishes are cleaned up by themselves, but the steamed buns are all outsourced. Xu Zhixing went shopping around, and finally selected Li Sanniang's house as the supplier of steamed cakes, once every two days , because every time he buys a lot of goods, Li Sanniang will give him a certain fee reduction.

For both buyers and sellers, it is the most cost-effective deal.

Mo Wenyuan was in a good mood when he heard the pleasant [reward points: 60], he was five years old, but Sanniang finally agreed to let him help in the kitchen after being stalked. It is impossible to practice knife skills, but washing vegetables and dividing dough It can be done. Aunt Lin took him for a while and was amazed by Mo Wenyuan's skillful cooking skills. She only felt that he was worthy of being Sanniang's son, with a great talent for cooking.

He thought about it in his mind, in half a month, the reward points for the storage method would be enough, but he still had to think of a way to let Sanniang know the method.

……

Mo Xiaogou came back from the rice store and saw Mo Wenyuan sitting on the ponytail thinking about life. He thought he had just realized the truth of the universe, so he laughed and joked: "I'm watching "Thousand Characters" again, What's so good about that book?"

Li Sanniang treated the two children equally, and Mo Xiaogou enlightened him as soon as he arrived in Chang'an. The common "Three Character Classics" and "Hundred Family Surnames" in the future market had not yet been compiled in Tang Dynasty. For enlightenment.Four-character sentence, dual rhyme, the content even includes astronomy, geography, literature and art, etc., with extensive knowledge, it is the most commonly used basic textbook.

She even dug out a copy of "First Aid" from her home and taught Mo Xiaogou to read "Song Yannian, Zheng Zifang, Wei Yishou..."

Mo Xiaogou is not a material for reading, and he is impatient with reading. After reading two articles, he stopped reading. He followed Li Sanniang's errands every day to buy goods. He already looked like a calm businessman at a young age.

Mo Wenyuan smiled and said: "It's beautiful, you haven't heard that sentence, there is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book." After he finished speaking, he thought for a while, as if these two sentences were not from before the Tang Dynasty. Said.

Mo Xiaogou laughed and scolded: "What kind of golden house is Yan Ruyu, quickly make room for me to put peaches."

Mo Wenyuan pouted and said, "Which place is not easy to put, why do you want to compete with me for a seat?"

He muttered, but took his little pony to change places, and after rolling up the book, he ran over to look at the fruits he bought.

After several years of recuperation, Puppy Mo, who is not lacking in nutrition, has grown from a slender bean sprout to a thick radish. At the age of 12, he is taller than an adult man. He went to the West Market and brought two baskets of peaches.

In the north, peaches are a major fruit, and there are many peach trees on the road. If porters feel thirsty on the road, they can reach out to pick peaches. It’s just a variety planted randomly by the roadside. Just lose your teeth.

The peach Mo Xiaogou moved was different, plump and pink in color, and Mo Wenyuan vaguely remembered its name, Queen Mother Peach.He reached out and took one out of the basket, and pressed his fingers, leaving a small hole.

Sure enough, the juice is rich and the flesh is soft, which has the characteristics of later generations of peaches.

Mo Wenyuan said: "Aniang wants to use this peach to make steamed buns?"

Mo Xiaogou said: "Probably so."

"But I don't know, how can peaches be made into cakes?"

Mo Wenyuan said: "You don't know, and other people don't even know. Seeing that the Yulan Basin Festival is getting closer, how can you compete with other shops if you don't come up with some food that ordinary people don't see?"

……

The Obon Festival is a grand national carnival in the Tang Dynasty, and its excitement is even more lively than that of the Yuan Dynasty.

It is one of the three major Buddhist festivals. The other two are the Buddha Bathing Festival held on the eighth day of April, the Laba Festival on the eighth day of December, and the Yulan Basin Festival held on July [-]th. There is still half a month before the festival. .

In the past two years, Mo Wenyuan was also taken to the temple to feel the fiery atmosphere of the festival. The monks carried the Buddha to the street for a parade, and all kinds of rare tributes in the temple were for people to enjoy. , There was a sensation everywhere.

A large number of people gathered outside the temple gate to watch various performances.

Mo Wenyuan considers himself a small person who likes to join in the fun, and compared to the modern life in the Tang Dynasty, life is really monotonous. There is no computer or mobile phone. Apart from practicing cooking, he is reading "Thousand Characters". Such a large-scale event is rare in a year , of course not to be missed.

Last year during the Obon Festival, he was taken by Mo Xiaogou to the Sanmen Gathering, where he had a great time eating and watching.

There are hawkers selling popcorn for modern people watching movies, and the same is true for watching theaters during festivals. There are many performance troupes outside the mountain gate. When citizens gather there to watch performances, there are hawkers selling food with baskets and carts aiming at business opportunities.

Li Sanniang has been selling steamed buns for several years. Although the taste is good, there are too many vendors selling the same kind of snacks as her. After the diversion, they did not sell many steamed buns.

Therefore, this year, she is determined to improve and buy some steamed buns that are unique to her family and fit the festive atmosphere of the Obon Festival.

……

After a busy day, Li Sanniang locked herself in the kitchen and thought to herself about the two baskets of fruit.

She first made a few peach steamed buns in the way of making long cakes, cut the flesh into pieces and wrapped them in the noodles, but the taste was not satisfactory.

How to perfectly blend the sweetness of peaches with wheat noodles is a difficult problem.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Sanniang didn't take out the charter, and she tossed and turned on the couch, half-opening her eyes, waiting for the dawn.

Mo Wenyuan slept next to Li Sanniang, knowing her movements well, he simply closed his eyes and let his consciousness sink into the God of Cooking system.

His simulated body in the God of Cooking system is as old as his previous life, and the height of the stove is just right for him.

Mo Wenyuan said: "Peach."

A basket of peaches quietly appeared on the stage.

While playing with the kitchen knife neatly, throwing it up and down to make beautiful cuts, he was meditating.

His way of thinking is similar to that of Li Sanniang, and he is going to make peach steamed buns.

In his opinion, there are two elements of peach steamed buns, one is to look like a peach, and the other is to fully appreciate the sweet and sour taste of peaches.

It is not advisable to cut peaches into pieces and steam them. After steaming, the juice flows into the wheat noodles, which can make the noodles exude peach fragrance, but the filling tastes bland, which may not be liked by diners.

What they have to do is to fully appreciate the sweet and sour taste of peaches.

Mo Wenyuan suddenly realized, and his mind came to light.

No peach cubes, how about peach jam?

……

Early the next morning, Li Sanniang got up and went to the hall to study the new method of making steamed buns, with Mo Wenyuan hanging behind her like a tail.

Li Sanniang put her finger on his forehead and said, "What are you doing?"

Mo Wenyuan grinned and said, "Of course I saw Aunt making peach steamed buns."

"The steamed buns I ate yesterday were bland, I wonder what my mother can do about it?"

Li Sanniang shook her head and said, "Not at all."

Mo Wenyuan said: "I see that my mother always adds salt and other ingredients to the filling when making mutton buns. Why?"

Li Sanniang raised her brows and said: "It's to bring out the umami taste of mutton." She suddenly realized, "You mean peaches and plums also want to improve the taste?"

Mo Wenyuan stood on the small horse and was parallel to the table: "I'm just pushing myself and others, using the method of seasoning mutton to make peaches."

Li Sanniang scolded with a smile: "You are the only one who is smart." But the words were full of love and affection. Da Lang is smart and can draw inferences from one example, no adult can compare to him.

Sanniang thought that when he was older, he would definitely send him to study, maybe he could be an examiner.

But Mo Wenyuan didn't know what his mother was thinking, and he would cry to death if he found out.

Don't worry, mother, I'm not interested in studying, why don't we work hard to earn money and study cooking, open a restaurant and go to a well-off life?

He really has no ambition to be an official.

Or Mo Wenyuan's reminder made Sanniang suddenly enlightened, she half-tested and half-prompted: "Does Dalang know what is the characteristic of peach flavor?"

Mo Wenyuan said: "Sweet." He thought of peaches, which are really sweet to people's hearts.

But Sanniang said: "Not only that, besides sweetness, there is also sourness."

Mo Wenyuan patted his head annoyed, forgetting that the current peaches have not been selected and improved from generation to generation, and even the sweetest pink peaches have a strong sour taste.

Sanniang said again: "I want to cook peach meat in the same way as mutton, and add sweet and sour flavors to the juice."

She is very active, so she started making peach jam as she spoke, and now cut the flesh into pieces, and when making mutton stuffing, cut the flesh into small cubes, and the same goes for peach flesh.

Mo Wenyuan said: "Can I add caramel?"

Sanniang melted the caramel sugar with hot water, and then added peach meat to it and said, "Naturally." Then she ordered, "Dalang, give me a spoonful of vinegar." She emphasized, "Vinegar made from liquor tail .”

Vinegar has become an important seasoning in the Tang Dynasty. There are black vinegar, white vinegar and fruit vinegar. The wine vinegar is called wine vinegar that is left to ferment in hot air with the tail of white wine.

Speaking of wine vinegar, there is no alcohol in the taste, and it has a longer aroma than ordinary white vinegar.

He directly handed the spoon to Li Sanniang, who poured it all into the pot.

Half an hour later, the peach sauce with just caramel and wine vinegar was freshly baked.

Mo Wenyuan poked in the jam with bamboo chopsticks, pulled it out, and licked it, his heart filled with indescribable happiness.

The peach jam is also delicious!

[Task: Develop peach jam (1/1)]

[Reward points: 10]