Nowadays, no matter how big a word is, it is better to have a full meal. If there is something more full, it is to make them feel oily on their mouths.

Li Xiao decided to cook this first meal on the open space of the courtyard, which could be regarded as a wedding banquet for returning to Li’s house. However, when the chef Lao He brought his proud three-piece iron pot, Li Xiao found that he had miscalculated the situation.

The first iron pot was carried by Lao He himself. This pot is very beautiful, why do you say that? Because this pot is made of copper, a pot made of copper is very valuable. The money of the Tang Dynasty is copper, not pure copper, so the copper of the Tang Dynasty is equal to money, and Lao He actually carried a copper pot.

The main body of the pot looks like a large copper basin, with a handle on it. If the pot below is not like a basin and is made deeper, it would be a bucket.

"Langjun, this is the best pot in our house. It is a copper pot with a beam. It is always valuable and the treasure in the kitchen. Every time a distinguished guest comes, the head of the family will ask you to cook it in this pot."

Li Xiao was helpless. The copper pot was quite valuable, but the pot was too small. Li Xiao thought that the three iron pots at home were very big, but now it looked like the copper pot was almost as big as an induction cooker. How much meat can be stewed? Just make do with it and treat it as a hot pot.

Lao He was still there, "The nobles in Chang'an used the silver pots of leash and the whole pot was made of silver. Oh my god, silver pots, such a treasure is used to cook, and it's not enough to eat."

Xue Wu laughed at the side. His family really had a silver pot with Liang, and there was more than one bite. To be honest, in this noble family in Chang'an City, who has few silver pots? Not to mention silver pots, then every household has silver tableware. Only ordinary people use copper pots, and only iron can they order them again.

Li Xiao put his hopes on the second iron pot.

There were about 40 people coming to Zhuangzi, and eleven people were left in the house, as well as Xue Wu and Zhao Lushi, who were waiting for customers. Today, there were about 60 people, so what was enough for those small copper pots?

But the second iron pot is also disappointing, as it is still small.

The shape of this iron pot is different, with three legs and two ears, and it looks like a small tripod. It is made of iron, but it really looks like a small incense burner, which looks not as big as a trash can used by the family.

This pot is also called the three-legged iron pot in the Tang Dynasty, and some are called the iron pot. It is no problem to cook dishes for a family of six or seven people. It is okay to cook a few bowls of noodles, but it is really not good to cook a large pot of dishes.

The last pot is quite big.

"Sanlang, this pot used to be the largest iron pot in our Lanxi." Old He said proudly.

This pot looks quite similar to the three-legged iron pot, but it has round bottom and no feet, and has two ears.

Xue Wu smiled and said, "Your iron pot is really big. Not to mention anything else, just because of your big iron pot, your old Li family was indeed quite rich before."

The name of this big pot is the iron pot. It looks like a jar. It must be placed on the stove or supported by other things. The mouth of the pot is also round and can be used directly for cooking, stewing, frying, etc. It can be regarded as the predecessor of the modern pot used.

The cauldron was a cooking utensil that was used since the Qin Dynasty. It used to have pottery kettles, but later it was made of copper and iron kettles.

To this day, many wealthy landlords have iron cauldrons.

However, in Li Xiao's opinion, this kind of iron pot is really not suitable for cooking. This one is more like a stew pot, suitable for stewing, but if it is used for frying, it is extremely inappropriate.

Speaking of which, Li Xiao had never seen a dish-shaped wok in the Tang Dynasty, nor did anyone cook by stir-frying.

These days, it is difficult to cook some vegetables. The pot is not suitable and there is no vegetable oil.

"Take this iron cauldron and stew a pot of meat."

Only this iron cauldron is the largest, and there is not much stew in other pots. Li Xiao finally changed his mind. He stewed the meat in the iron cauldron and asked Biaozi to chop the pork chops and then stew the soup. There were some radishes at home, and it happened to be stewed with the ribs. He didn't care about his large and small stews, and he even chopped the bones and meat into the water.

As for the copper pot with the beam and the three-legged iron garland, the three-legged iron garland is used directly to cook noodles. Li Xiao planned to make a mutton hotpot.

Without noodles, this would not be a problem for Li Xiao. He knead the flour sent by the Xue family with water and made the dough, and then he would not have to roll it out so much as it was done by hand, and cut it with a knife.

"One pound of noodles, three ounces of water, be careful to make dough into dough according to this ratio, and then knead it into dough." Li Xiao instructed Aunt Cuihua and several other women to knead the dough.

Looking at the white flour kneading, everyone was covered in spring breeze. Most people here have never eaten white flour in their lives. What people usually eat the most is millet porridge and wild vegetables, or steamed yellow rice flour cakes.

Who can eat white flour, rice, and many people have never seen anything like rice.

Li Xiao is generous, with a large pot of stewed meat and steamed white rice cakes. There are so many people who can compare with this kind of generous and generous manner. Everyone feels at ease with such people.

People in Guanzhong like to eat noodles, and at this time, the Tang people like to call pasta bread.

Noodles are called soup cakes, steamed buns are called steamed cakes, and noodle soup is called voluptuous, but no one has made them with cut noodles. Today, Li Xiao teaches everyone a new way to eat them.

Knead the dough and wake up the dough. After kneading the dough evenly and softly, the water has boiled.

Put the dough with a wooden board, hold the board with one hand and a knife with the other. Li Xiao stood by the side of the pot and cut the noodles with a knife. The knife was shining, and a piece of dough flew up and jumped into the pot.

One piece, two pieces, three or five pieces, and pieces fall into the iron pot.

Xue Wu looked at it interestingly, "I didn't expect that there would be such a way to do this?"

"This is called cutting noodles, which saves effort to roll them."

"Your soup cake is much simpler than usual, let me try it." Xue Wu was itchy when he saw it, and he couldn't wait to snatch it up and chop it himself, but it seemed easy to make it difficult, and the strength was not easy to master. Xue Wu's noodles peeled were uneven, either large or small, and they were peeled out of the pot from time to time.

The noodles are cut into the pot, and the pork ribs in the iron pot over the other side have been stewed with water and are simmering on the high heat.

"Sanlang, how do we make this mutton hotpot? We don't know how to do it?" Biaozi asked.

"Pick the good mutton first and shave the slices. The thinner the slice, the better. When the water boils later, it will be cooked directly in the boiling soup, and then eat it as soon as it is rinsed."

"Hey, this way of eating sounds fresh and it should feel good." Biaozi was very happy to hear this way of eating, "Isn't it just peeling mutton slices? I'll leave it to me. It's okay to cut it thinner."

"The thinner the better. The thinner it can be, the thinner it can be. It is best to be as thin as paper."

In the courtyard, three pots were set up, and a group of people made fire and cut meat, which was very lively.

Zhao Lushi stood in the corridor on the side, looking at the account book handed over by Zhang Fu, and glanced at the people in the yard from time to time. The Li family was really emitting smoke from the ancestral grave. After losing their luck, they could even make them turn over!

But Li Xiao looks like a prodigal son.

Once you take back the house, you will be like a prodigal son!
Chapter completed!