Chapter 1099: Use your brain

On Tuesday at Chef Zhou's house, Su You has now arranged to stay with Hachigong to take care of the food.

In summer, melons and vegetables are extremely abundant, so the banquet noodles are particularly suitable for the taste of suyou.

Su You likes meat dishes, but doesn't like meat. Every meat dish must be mixed with meat and vegetables, and he mostly likes the side dishes around meat.

For example, garlic sprouts in twice-cooked pork, cucumbers in stir-fried diced chicken, shredded bamboo shoots in cold pork, dried vegetables and taro in braised pork...

But these things would not taste good without meat, so meat cannot be missing, but others are grabbing them.

In Shilin, this is regarded as evidence of Su Shaobao's elegance - whether he can afford to eat, whether he can afford to play, and whether he can afford to wear clothes - this is called seeking comfort and not being limited by things.

This is indeed a great state of life, but the outside world has simply misunderstood it. Su You is just a habit left over from the previous life.

In that life, losing weight was a painful torture for people.

For example, steamed egg custard, he really likes the shrimp on it.

Zhang Dunli was secretly observing Su You and saw that he only liked meat and side dishes. He couldn't help but secretly cursed, "This is really a disease of wealth from the previous life that was brought from the mother's womb. Even though he had a small life, he couldn't get enough of it."

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Meat side dishes, tsk tsk tsk, listen carefully!

Shaking his head, the chopsticks quietly reached out to the squid in the plate of three delicacies...

Su You feels that after twenty-eight years of hard work, his greatest achievement is that except for chili, he has basically restored the Chinese cuisine of his previous life.

For example, Zhang Dunli couldn't stop eating this squid dish. The authentic Sichuan recipe requires the use of steamed squid, crab paste, cooked lard, chicken fat, ham, cooked chicken, water-coated orchid slices, and seasonal vegetables.

Add soup, pepper, cooking wine, scallions, water starch, and salt.

First put the steamed squid into the soup and simmer.

Shred ham, chicken, orchid slices, and cut green onion into sections.

Heat the pan and cook the cooked lard until it is five times cooked. First, add the green onions and stir-fry until fragrant. Then add the ham, chicken and orchid slices and stir-fry briefly. Then pour in the soup, salt, cooking wine and pepper noodles and cook until the flavors are cooked. Next, cook the vegetables.

When cooked, remove all ingredients and place on a plate.

Take out the simmered squid, sear it in the pot, put it on a plate and spread it out, add crab paste and water starch to the soup to thicken it, add chicken oil to the pot and pour it on the squid noodles.

It's simple to say, the salt needs to be purified, the cooking wine needs to be brewed, the crab roe sauce needs to be boiled and soaked in oil, the water starch needs to be floated into a fine slurry and then dried and ground into fine powder, cooked lard needs to be made from captive pigs, and squid is

Seafood.

Dried squid made from squid and canned crab roe sauce have to be transported from Liangzhe Road, thousands of miles away.

In addition to pepper noodles, the production of ham also requires spices.

To make magnolia slices clean and white, they need to be cooked, sliced, mixed with a small amount of glucose, and then dried with steam in a very short time.

If it is a common smoking method in the Song Dynasty, it is smoked bamboo shoots. The cured pork legs of Zhou people are also a masterpiece, but the squid and three delicacies are not good-looking.

Therefore, the restoration of this dish involves chemical industry, machinery, biological fermentation, marine fishing, oil planting and promotion, livestock improvement, water transportation, and even rope making, net weaving, shipbuilding, canning...

If it comes down to politics, we may even have to break the ban on alcohol, the monopoly on salt, the monopoly on spices, smooth trade routes, and the prosperity of maritime trade...

Therefore, it is not simple at all to bring this dish to the dining tables of well-off people in Bianjing City.

Su You believes that all this is worth it, even if it means being known as a glutton, it is very worth it.

After dinner, the kids were still so excited and clamoring to go guard the melon patch.

Su You had no choice but to find a large enamel basin, put it in a mesh bag, and then took the flat pot with Wang Yanbi and Han Jiayan, arranged for them to boil some salted edamame and peanuts, and then taught them how to make torches.

If you were in the south, it wouldn't be so troublesome. Just cut a piece of bamboo tube, fill it with kerosene or tung oil, and seal it with a roll of toilet paper, and you'd have a torch that could burn for a long time.

In the north, you have to tear the dried fir bark into small pieces, tie it with yellow straw paper in the middle to form a wick, then pour kerosene or tung oil on it, and then tie it tightly with fir bark and straw on the outside to make it resistant to burning and not falling apart.

Torch.

I am an expert at doing this kind of tung oil. When I was a kid, I stole tung oil to photograph loaches, eels, and frogs, and I was often beaten by Hachiko.

Seeing Su You and a few young scholars lighting torches, Hachigong thought it was funny: "If this were put in the old Kelong, which adult would bring his own children to do this, it would definitely be a trip to a distant place to talk about marriage."

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Zhang Dunli looked on with great interest: "Why do you want to travel far away to propose marriage?"

Hachigong said: "We have two hundred acres of land together. Doesn't it mean that everyone around here knows that we are poor, so they won't marry our daughter over?!"

"Oh, I really forgot about this!" Zhang Dunli couldn't help but laugh so hard: "This is really the truth! You have offended the Eighth Prince by speaking without hesitation."

Hachiko waved his hands and said with a smile: "I wish I had forgotten all about it!"

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When it was time to set off, Hachigong took out a few more sticks of incense and said, "Bring this with you. It's made of that chrysanthemum sesame oil you brought from the South China Sea. I've tried it, and it's very good. Now the pig pens and cowsheds are all in good condition."

Using."

Su You was dumbfounded when he took it: "Hachigong, this is so valuable. Did you use those two places? This is for you..."

"There is no shortage of people in Zhuangzi who do this." Hachigong disagreed: "Besides, do I need it? I have a mosquito net!"

Well, people have mosquito nets, but livestock don't. The old man does housework, and he has a point.

There was a melon shed in the melon field. When Su You came here with his three children, he saw big watermelons on the ground under the torches. He couldn't help but laugh and said: "We missed the flat can. There is no need to boil green beans and peanuts."

Isn’t it good to eat melons? Wait, daddy will pick good ones!”

By the time Su You came back with a big melon in his arms, the three children had already lit a fire pit and burned mosquito coils.

Bian Guan and Wang Yanbi were loading the magazine of the small hunting gun, while Han Jiayan flipped through Bian Guan's armed belt curiously.

There are many small leather bags on the armed belt, which contain the outdoor equipment that Su You made for Bian Guan.

This is also a project that Xijun has been studying. Now it contains a multi-purpose pocket knife. The pocket knife can be divided into three pieces. One is a folding fork, one is a folding spoon, and one is a folding knife. It can be used alone

Use it to synthesize a handful.

There is also a can opener on the back of the folding knife, and a drill for pulling out corks hidden in the tail.

There is an emergency medicine kit, which contains hemostatic bandages, gauze, Jinchuangbaiyao, snake medicine, summer repellent, and cold-repelling medicine.

There are also sewing kits, which in addition to needles and threads, also include fish hooks and lead sheets.

There are also compasses, steel wires, and straight knives.

The handle of the straight knife is wrapped with a rope, and the rope can also be used.

Han Jiayan was a little dizzy: "Junior brother, will he take the path of the right class in the future?"

Su You said: "Since the Master, I, a Confucian scholar, have been proficient in both civil and military affairs. There are many people who mount their horses to manage the army and dismount their horses to manage the people."

"In my dynasty, Jinshi must test the martial arts scriptures. Sun Wu and Sima Fa are all the contents of the classics and meanings."

"Seniors such as Zhang Guaiya, Zhang Gongshou, Chen Yaozi, and Bao Xiren all have outstanding literary talents and amazing martial arts."

"Among the military generals, Cao Wumu, Di Wuxiang, and Guo Dutong are also proficient in the Spring and Autumn Annals and the Book of Han in addition to the art of war."

"Junior brother, from now on, it only depends on his interest to follow literature and martial arts. However, if you follow literature, you can't give up martial arts, and if you follow martial arts, you can't give up literature. This is the minimum requirement."

Han Jiayan nodded when he heard this: "Be prepared for any danger. A gentleman should learn and prepare for future use. He should learn from everything."

Su You smiled and said: "Jiayan is really smart, come on, let's have some fun."

A watermelon was cut open and several people ate it. While eating, the flat pot asked: "Daddy, why is this melon so big? And is it so sweet?"

Su You said: "The temperature difference between morning and evening is large here, so it is easy for melons and fruits to accumulate sugar. As for why it is so large, it is because your aunt used a substance that affected the genetic characteristics of the watermelon during pollination, causing it to change from both sides.

Ploidy became tetraploid..."

After that, he took the straight knife and drew pictures on the ground, and told several children about the role of colchicine in plant cultivation.

But after finishing the lecture, Bian Gu raised a question: "Dad, how do you know this is the reason? Why must it be that it has become a tetraploid, instead of affecting other aspects?"

"What if this colchicine is a special fertilizer?"
Chapter completed!