Datang First Chef

The paper jerky was originally made by Mo Wenyuan as a snack on the road. Who knows that it was well received in the restaurant. He is always a good one to share with others. After the jerky is made, it is put in a small basket and placed on a low table , family members, apprentices, can eat a piece of it in the spare time after tea and dinner.

At the beginning, no one realized that it was made by Mo Wenyuan, Aunt Hong, Sister Hong Erniang, Zhao Shenshan and others would make some food and put it there when they had nothing to do, but as soon as they ate it, everyone knew something was wrong, not to mention the disciples There is nothing wrong with his cooking skills, but the texture of the paper jerky, its taste, and the way the spices are used, you can taste it and know that only Mo Wenyuan can do it.

He has many apprentices, and each apprentice is good at different cooking techniques. The fifth apprentice, Liu Ren, is good at grilling techniques. Holding it in the middle of his hand, he said: "Master, master, how is this meat grilled?" He has been cooking barbecue for many years, and he has never made such a taste and texture.

Mo Wenyuan said: "You mean dried pork?"

"Yes Yes!"

"This method is similar to the way the Hong sisters bake pastries, and it is quite different from the usual method of baking on a plate. You can share your baking experience with the sisters."

"As for the other steps, it's not too difficult. You just need to chop the meat and add seasonings to compact it."

Mo Wenyuan has always liked to inspire teaching. He himself came from an apprenticeship. Knowing that the master would force-feed all the knowledge into the minds of the apprentices, it was not the best choice. The ability to learn new knowledge is also strong. Rather than teaching from others, it is better to let the apprentices learn from each other and exchange ideas frequently, so that the cooking skills will be significantly improved, and the dishes will also change with each passing day.

It is unlikely that he will guide the students in the next two years. It is better to let go now, try to inspire them, and open the shackles of thinking.

Liu Ren also understood Mo Wenyuan's painstaking efforts. From the other party's words, he also realized some truths. Generally speaking, cooking skills can be mastered whether it is steaming, frying, frying, and frying. If you want to invent and innovate, you must learn more other technologies.

"Go and discuss it first, and come to me if you don't know it. I will bake a batch of pork jerky in the future, and I will definitely call you to see it."

"In that case, Ren will thank Master first."

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After temporarily sending Liu Ren away, Mo Wenyuan continued to do the work at hand. The dried pork was highly praised by Zhongheiyang. Except for Zhongheiyang, he himself was addicted to the delicious snacks, and he ate one piece after another. .After eating dried pork, he naturally thought of the same kind of snack—beef jerky.

When he was a child, he liked to eat beef jerky, or beef cubes, one by one wrapped in tin foil, and he could eat a pack at a time. Later, he became a chef and studied the method of beef jerky. Unfortunately, Mo Wen Yuan is usually too busy, even when cooking, he is also busy making big dishes, so he has no time to make beef jerky for himself.Now Zhongheiyang is very interested in small meat snacks, and the glutton in his belly is also hooked. Thinking that there is still frozen anchovy meat in the universe in his sleeve, he is going to make it into beef jerky.

Before making it, Mo Wenyuan sighed and said: "This is the last piece of squid meat, it will be gone after eating." It is a bit sad to think about it, and there will be fish that has not tasted of tender beef for a long time.

Zhong Heiyang's answer is very domineering: "Baa baa baa baa baa." After eating, let's kill after eating!

Mo Wenyuan was dumbfounded: "That's alright? Anchovy is not a monster from mountains and seas? How can there be any reason to kill it? Not to mention where can we find it?"

Middle Heiyang: "Baa baa baa baa baa." In places like Chang'an and Luoyang, there are not many squid fish, but you can find them in the towns along the lake and the coast, especially in places where floods are common. We just need to go to the coast If you go to the town, you won't have to worry about finding the squid.

There are not many of them, but it is all right for us to eat.

Mo Wenyuan: Luxury!What a luxury!

But when he pictured what Heiyang said in his mind, his heart skipped a beat again. In Mo Wenyuan's heart, anchovy was already equated with high-grade beef, and he really couldn't bear to give up this kind of food.

Zhong Heiyang saw Mo Wenyuan's vacillation, and struck while the iron was hot, and said: "Eating anchovy is a great thing that benefits the country and the people. This thing is not very good. It will bring floods every time it appears. Think about it." In places where floods frequently occur, crops are flooded, huts are washed away, and people are in dire straits. Although we cannot build dams, dredge rivers, and solve floods from the source, the lack of anchovies will always make the lives of nearby people better. can be contained.

Therefore, eating anchovy is a good thing among good things.

Mo Wenyuan was completely convinced, he said: "Well, well, well, if there is a chance, let's go out and kill some anchovies together. There will be meat to eat, and it will benefit the people's livelihood. This is a good thing."

After speaking, Mo Wenyuan began to process the last piece of squid meat. Seeing that there will be a steady stream of meat to keep up with the supply in the future, it is not a big deal to eat a piece at this time. After he has no worries, his movements of cutting the meat become brisk.

Not every piece of meat can be made into beef jerky. In general, beef hindquarters are the ones that undertake this important task.Beef hind legs are rich in protein, tender and elastic. His thawed anchovies are top-quality, with a shiny dark red surface and not sticky to the touch. It is really suitable for making beef jerky .

After cutting the beef into small strips, he washed the meat with clean water and boiled it in a pot. After the meat was blanched, he took it out, wiped it with warm water, and put it aside temporarily.

Rice wine, salt, soy sauce, Chinese prickly ash, cinnamon, star anise, oyster sauce, sugar, onion, ginger and garlic cut into sections, and all kinds of seasonings are shaken into the vessel containing the beef strips and fully marinated. Just put it in a bowl. Mo Wenyuan massages the beef strips for a while, and then stirs them clockwise to make sure that each side of the meat strips is full of juice.

Under Mo Wenyuan's order, Yi Ya Ding turned into a frying pan. The frying pan was placed on the stove, and the golden yellow vegetable oil was rippling on the bottom of the pan. The beef jerky had to undergo "frying" during the production process. , it is mainly fried, and it can be cooked slowly on low heat.This work requires the patience of the chef. Mo Wenyuan used long chopsticks to hold the long strips of squid meat, and kept turning them over. The volume of the meat gradually shrunk, from a swollen long strip to a thin and long stem. The juice is forced out from the meat. Unlike other fried foods, the fragrance is light and faint, and you can't even smell it if you don't smell it closely.

Zhongheiyang was none other than him, his sense of smell was excellent, and even the slightest scent in the air could make him look up, let alone the fried beef strips being processed.

"Baa baa baa baa baa!"

It smells so good!Is it ready to eat?

Mo Wenyuan said cruelly and unreasonably, "Impossible."

After frying, the beef jerky is basically done, and there is only the last step left. Yi Ya Ding changed its appearance and changed its appearance. The fried meat was put into the pot again, and the white sesame seeds and ground pepper were put into the pot together.

In the Tang Dynasty, pepper was a rare spice and the price was very expensive. It was a very extravagant act to grind peppercorns into powder. Even Mo Wenyuan only had a small bag of pepper powder.

In addition to pepper, he also made five-spice powder by himself. Five common spices, pepper, cinnamon, star anise, cloves, and cumin seeds were mixed together, ground into powder, and put into a large pot to stir fry.The aroma of the anchovy meat itself is not very fragrant, and its taste is locked in the texture, but the aroma of the five-spice powder and white sesame can't hide it. The white sesame turns into a brilliant golden color after being stir-fried. The smell of meat and spices mixed together, wafting out from the cracks in the kitchen door and windows.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom—"

Mo Wenyuan heard the footsteps of people coming, some men's footsteps, some women's footsteps, obviously Li Sanniang, Mo Xiaogou and Zhao Erniang were all here.The three of them knew that Mo Wenyuan was about to go on a long journey, so they temporarily put down their work and returned to Chang'an, hoping to see him off when he left.

He cooked the dishes in the back kitchen of his own yard, so the only people who came in at this time could be his own family members.

Zhongheiyang also heard the footsteps, he was a little sad and indignant, and thought that it was impossible to eat alone, and the three would definitely compete with him for food.

Mo Wenyuan was still a little worried: "Green fish is not a mortal fish. It is not harmful for me to eat it. Will A Niang and the others eat it?" He thought of the cultivation novels he read in his previous life. Aura, ordinary people can't stand this aura after eating it, and disaster will happen.

Although Zhongheiyang didn't want anyone to rob him of food, he was quite kind, and he didn't deceive Mo Wenyuan about it. He bleated and said, "Of course not. Anchovy is also a fish, but he is more than a fish." Generally speaking, fish are bigger and older, and other than that, they are uncivilized fish. People will not have any serious problems even if they eat spiritual monsters, let alone eat fish.Just treat it like a fish in the Yangtze River.

Mo Wenyuan trusted Zhongheiyang very much, and he didn't have any problems after eating it, so he was relieved.

Not long after the beef jerky was fried, the people watching outside the door couldn't help it anymore. Li Sanniang, the authority in the family, spoke first, "Da Lang, I'm ready to eat, can I come in?"

"Yes, come in!"

The three of them couldn't wait, and filed in one file at a time. When they entered the door, they saw that the middle black sheep had already eaten, and the sheep buried its head on the table without lifting its head.

The smell of fried beef jerky has not yet dissipated, and the air is full of tempting aromas. Before Mo Wenyuan invited the three of them to start their mouths, Puppy Mo couldn't help it. The spicy taste rippling from his mouth, he has eaten pork and mutton, but the taste in his mouth is different from the two flavors, the meat head is very thick and hard, full of elasticity, the umami taste of the meat is enhanced by the cinnamon star anise. Joe garnishes, with an acquired sweet and savory pickle.

After eating, he woke up like a dream and said embarrassingly: "I'm sorry, I couldn't hold back for a while."

Li Sanniang and Zhao Erniang stared angrily: It's shameful to steal food.

Mo Wenyuan quickly said: "Eat, eat, eat quickly."

"Hiss, it's a bit spicy."

"The lips are swollen."

"tasty!"

"Really delicious."

"fragrant!"

Everyone hissed as they ate, and at the end they commented. Mo Wenyuan himself sang about beef jerky. He thought that A Niang and others were not very good at spicy food. Just adding some slightly spicy spices made it spicy. So what if they eat chili?

It's a pity that chili is still in the Americas, separated from China by the ocean, so it is temporarily unavailable.

After a good meal, the three returned rationally and realized the problem. This meat is neither pork nor mutton. What kind of meat is that?

Li Sanniang and the others are well-informed, and they have eaten beef, but the beef they ate was aged and dead, and the meat was very old.The meat is old, but the taste remains the same. I still remember that Mo Wenyuan spent a lot of effort to soften the beef so that it tasted like the meat of a prime-aged beef. He stewed it in another pot. Not everyone praised the beef as delicious, Comparable to other meats?

Li Sanniang and the other two looked at each other, and they both saw the tension in each other's eyes. As the head of the family, Li Sanniang gave a fake cough and said: "Da Lang, how did this meat come from? It was caught by a sheep? Others Does anyone know?"

Looking at Li Sanniang's nervous eyes, Mo Wenyuan didn't know what she was thinking?Immediately smiled and said: "Don't think too much, aunt, this meat is not beef, but fish caught by sheep in other waters. The meat quality of this fish is different from ordinary fish. It only has one big bone, and the taste is similar to beef."

"Oh oh oh oh, it's fine if it's not beef."

All three breathed a sigh of relief. These days, cattle on arable land are precious materials. It is illegal to kill cattle and eat meat. In the early Tang Dynasty, the laws were strict and the politics were relatively clean. Even officials rarely broke the law, let alone ordinary people.

It is impossible for the three of them to kill their relatives righteously. After thinking that Mo Wenyuan killed the cow for the meat, his first reaction was to help him cover up the evidence and see if there is anyone who knew about his killing of the cow. Now that Mo Wenyuan did not do this, take care relieved.

"It's better if it's not beef."

"Don't scare me, Dalang."

Li Sanniang said: "The source of ingredients for this thing is very precious, can ordinary people catch it?"

"Of course not. Otherwise, wouldn't this fish be popular in the surrounding areas of rivers, lakes and seas? After all, it was Zhongheiyang who was able to bring me here."

Zhongheiyang, who was eating beef jerky, was suddenly poked, looked up at the crowd blankly, and continued eating.

After hearing this, Li Sanniang said: "It's a pity, otherwise it would be sold in the store." Speaking of this, she thought of another way to eat, "The jerky on the table is also made by you."

"Yes, Liu Ren has already come to ask me how to do it, and I asked him to communicate with the sisters of the Hong family."

"Can that thing be done?"

"It's just made of ordinary pork meat. Of course, it can be cooked and sold. Not only that, it can be stored for a long time in summer. When it comes to cold autumn and winter, it is not a problem to store it for several months." Mo Wenyuan was embarrassed. Said, "I made it with the intention of taking it with me on the westbound journey, and seeing that the finished product tastes good, I want you guys to try it."

Li Sanniang: Since Liu Ren can do it, we might as well hehehehehe.

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A few days later, Li Sanniang's restaurant had a new window, specializing in dried pork. Some diners didn't think much of it after hearing about it. Not to mention Li Sanniang's restaurant, there was even a store selling preserved pork in Tang Dynasty.

It is recorded in "Book of Rites" that Zhou Tianzi already used preserved meat as a banquet dish, and "The Analects of Confucius Xiangdang" also has the saying "buy wine and sell preserved meat instead of eating".During the Ruzong period of the Tang Dynasty, there was a famous dish with a historical name. It was called Hongqiufu, which was made into a Qiu shape and stored on a plate for consumption.Whether this thing is made of pork is unknown to future generations, but it can also be seen from the popularity of Tang Dynasty preserved food.

Shen Yu was in the middle of the line, listening to the chatter of the people in front: "I heard that Sanniang's restaurant has candied meat for sale, do you want to eat it?"

"Here, Moyo knows how to eat."

"As far as I'm concerned, her family's candied food is still not very tasty. There are many candied food shops in Chang'an City that have been passed down for decades. At most, Sanniang's family can be regarded as Cheng Yaojin who came out halfway, and the quality is definitely not as good as those old-fashioned ones. In addition, Mo Dalang has frequently made foolish tricks recently, just take the cup noodles as an example, who would not buy two more Hoto biscuits if they have the money to buy cup noodles?"

"That's true, but I've heard that cup noodles are also bought by some people, most of them are nobles from aristocratic families, and they are ashamed to have so much money."

Shen Yu snorted with his nose, but the first two chatted too fiercely and couldn't hear his snort. He thought to himself that he had no money and was so ashamed, it was obvious that these people didn't realize the importance of cup noodles However, the guy in the store said that cup noodles can be stored for eight months to one year, while open-air noodles can be stored in half. He has never seen food that can be stored for such a long time. Of course, he has to buy it for research.

As for the taste of dried meat in Li Sanniang's restaurant, there is no difference between a century-old restaurant and a century-old restaurant. It is really vulgar!vulgar!

After finishing the line with great difficulty, he immediately said to the waiter, "Give me a catty of dried meat."

The clerk smiled embarrassedly: "Mr., there is only half a catty of dried meat left in the store."

"Only half a catty left?" He was surprised, "It sold really fast."

"No, Da Lang ordered me to treat the preserved meat as a gift and give it to other guests to taste. I think the guests are very satisfied with the taste, so they took care of our small shop business and bought a lot."

"Half a catty is half a catty, you wrap it all up for me."

"Come on!"

Shen Yu held the paper bag containing jerky in his hand, and regardless of his aristocratic appearance, he twisted a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, squinting his eyes in happiness.

Ah!

He sincerely hopes that there will be more people who look down on the jerky in restaurants like the two just now, so that he will have more opportunities to buy jerky!

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It was night, the moon was bright and clear, the cool breeze was blowing, and spring had arrived, but the night was still dewy and the temperature was low. Mo Wenyuan deliberately put on more clothes, and then stepped on the sheep's back.

The earth was silent, and the insect frogs that croaked in summer hadn't hatched yet. Under the deserted moonlight, the overwhelming silence came to the two of them forever.What broke the almost frozen silence was the footsteps of Zhi Jinwu, who were responsible for patrolling after the curfew, looking for those who dared to break the curfew.

Mo Wenyuan turned on the sheep's back, both of them were quiet, maybe because they didn't want to be discovered by Zhi Jinwu, and because they were pure and not far away.The two of them agreed to go out tonight to add a batch of "beef", and the lurking squid was their hunting target.

"Where are we going?"

"Baa baa baa baa baa baa." First go to the South China Sea. Many anchovies are born in the South China Sea. They fly all the way inland from the South China Sea, causing floods along the river. When I go to the sea, I am more likely to find them. squid, while also nipping them in the bud.

Thinking of being able to serve big and small squid in one pot, Zhongheiyang salivated.

The sheep flew over the South China Sea. Nanhai County was established in the Tang Dynasty, which is equivalent to most of Guangdong Province today. As soon as Zhongheiyang was under the clouds, Mo Wenyuan felt the hot wind blowing against his face, so he took off his coat and put on some clothes.

The sea is calm, with occasional breezes blowing and waves washing away, but no fish can be seen in the sky or underwater.

The squid has the body of a fish and the wings of a bird. It often comes and goes in and out of the sky and the sea. The vastness of the world and the sea makes it difficult for people to find their whereabouts. Even if they encounter them by chance, they are often accompanied by floods. Anchovy skims over the town, bringing dense rain.

"Can we find the squid?" Mo Wenyuan asked.

"咩 咩 咩 咩 咩 咩 咩." Yes, I can smell their taste.

Taotie himself is also a member of the Shan Hai Jing recipes. Of course, he is different from other spirits. He eats spirits and is not eaten. The demon formation interfered. Without the formation, he would still be able to catch the slightest scent in the air.

Hearing Zhongheiyang's words, Mo Wenyuan believed more and more in his supernatural powers, and he also calculated in his mind, what kind of god or what kind of god's mount is in the shape of a sheep, and it can be the same as Zhongheiyang, but after much deliberation he couldn't believe it. He didn't get an answer, he just lamented that he was ignorant and didn't know enough about immortals, so he couldn't even tell what happened to the black sheep.

In fact, if he asked Black Sheep, the other party would definitely tell him, but Mo Wenyuan just didn't want to ask. He regarded guessing the other party's identity as a little joy in life, and he had to guess it himself.

Zhong Heiyang sniffed here and there, and suddenly caught some scent, he bleated and said: I smell it, they are there!As he spoke, he drove towards the depths of the South China Sea at a fast speed.

Only reefs and waves can be seen in the depths, and I don't know if it is Mo Wenyuan's psychological effect. I always feel that the sky here is darker, the clouds are thicker, and the waves are more turbulent.There are pitch-black silhouettes in the turbulent waves. The size of the black shadow is definitely beyond the size of ordinary fish. In modern times, it may be a creature like a whale, but in the fantasy Tang Dynasty, these things are spirits The possibilities are greatly increased.

Suddenly, the shadow of a squid appeared in the air, and the big fish with wings jumped out of the clouds and rushed into the sea.

There are not only one or two squids making this move, but five of them moving together. Looking at the size of their bodies, Mo Wenyuan judged that these squids belonged to the same family. The first two are very big, and the three small fishes behind Smaller, he still sighed in his heart, the squid is obviously a fish, but its living habits are similar to those of birds, adult squids will feed young ones.

Seeing five fish, Zhongheiyang was very excited, and immediately uttered a dragon cry: "——"

Mo Wenyuan cooperated with him tacitly, so he rushed up with the Vajra Subduing Demon Pestle, and even in dizziness, he was knocked out with a hammer.

Zhong Heiyang drooled at the five fish: "Baa baa baa baa baa!" There are five fish, what should we eat?

Unexpectedly, Mo Wenyuan said seriously: "Although there are five fish, we can only eat two, and the remaining three underage fish will be released into the sea."

Middle black sheep: "Baa baa baa baa baa?" Why?

Mo Wenyuan said: "Think about it, the squid is a monster in the mountains and seas. Compared with other species, there may be more fish in their species, but compared to other pigs, cattle and sheep, the number is still very small. If we eat one a day, we will eat one fish a year. It takes [-] to eat, maybe in less than a year, there will be no anchovy in the world."

"So we have to develop sustainably. We only eat the biggest fish, and keep the small ones to reproduce. When the small ones grow up and regenerate the small ones, we will find the big ones and eat them."

"Later, I'll see if I can set up a formation to limit its range of activities to the South China Sea, so that we don't have to worry about the giant fish coming ashore to commit crimes, and next time we want to eat fish, we can also directly catch them without looking around. Killing two birds with one stone." He was still wondering how to tell the difference between male and female gillfish, keeping fish of the opposite sex together, they might be able to give birth to more small fish after ovulation, gillfish raw gillfish, their food is abundant constantly.

Middle Heiyang: "Baa baa baa baa baa!"

Oh, as expected, Mo Xiaoyuan is so smart!

Mo Wenyuan: Eating monsters, we also want sustainable development =v=!