The woman made Yin Lian a bowl of porridge, a serious rice porridge. It seems that this rice already exists in this world, and it has been fully utilized by people.
Although Yin Lian felt a little uncomfortable that these people with colorful hair actually followed the Chinese style of rice-based food, but to her surprise, the woman's pot of porridge was very delicious.
The rice grains are sticky, fragrant, and feel just right. The porridge contains an unfamiliar flower petal-processed ingredient. The aroma is very slight, but it tastes very refreshing. The most surprising thing is that this porridge is salty and sweet.
There are many savory and sweet Chinese dishes, but Yin Lian has never seen salty and sweet soup and porridge. Generally speaking, salty and sweet snacks and dishes are all heavy in taste and are not suitable for soup and porridge. When dishes use both salty and sweet flavors at the same time, you will pay attention to the transition between the two flavors when cooking.
The essence of soup and porridge is soup, and the flavor spreads too quickly to keep a certain flavor at a certain level. However, the rice porridge made by the woman is very sticky, with ingredients like buds floating in it. In fact, It is an ingredient made from a single petal, which is pickled and dehydrated and then filled with various gelatin products, including aspic, fish jelly, milk jelly, egg whites and other soup products that will freeze.
The bowl of rice porridge that Yin Lian ate had two flavors of flower buds added to it, one was fish jelly flavor and the other was egg milk flavor. After scooping the porridge into your mouth together, the soup was jelly when you bit it. The flavor will penetrate into the rice porridge, the fish soup is delicious, and the egg milk is sweet. This bowl of porridge alone is enough to be regarded as a unique meal.
There is usually meat in the petals. The meat is thick and difficult to taste. It also has too much fiber and is not suitable for consumption. But the bowl that Yin Lian ate was due to the type of flower itself or the cooking and processing techniques. The surface layer of the flower buds was soft and tender, and the thin layer tasted more like a single layer of complete seaweed, but it did not belong to seaweed. The fishy smell of the sea.
Just looking at the appearance and taste, this bowl of rice porridge is simply a masterpiece. But it would be wrong to think that this farmer's wife is some kind of cooking master hidden among the people. In fact, the other party is really an ordinary farmer's wife.
According to what the lady said, it is not surprising that everyone in this world has this level of craftsmanship. Yin Lian thought the other party was being modest at first, but after careful observation, he found that the farmer's aunt's expression and attitude were unfailing, and she indeed spoke sincerely.
What Yin Lian saw next proved this point.
The nine-year-old girl from the farmer's family turned out to be very skilled in cooking. Yin Lian saw with her own eyes that she used some utensils to make a large bowl of noodles. After cooking, the noodles were delicious and delicious, and she felt ashamed of herself.
Then it is worth mentioning that the little girl certainly did not make the noodles purely by relying on her skills on hand, nor could she have the strength. It’s just that there are many kitchen utensils in farmers’ homes that are exquisitely designed but not complicated in structure. There are so many bamboo shelves that fill an entire wall, which is amazing. These kitchen utensils are also very versatile. The little girl relied on several utensils to successfully make noodles in just a quarter of an hour.
These appliances are different from the electric noodle machines and other appliances that Yin Lian has seen. Most of them are manual and made of wood, bamboo, stone, and iron. They are not expensive, but they are very convenient to use. efficient.
Yin Lian tried one of the small stone grinders. This kind of stone grinder is about the size of a washbasin and is not heavy. In fact, the stone slab on it is only about an inch and a half thick. A child can pull it for grinding with a little force, but the grinding force is not very strong and cannot be used. Grind the grains completely.
This small stone mill is specially used to grind rice grains before cooking porridge. The rice grains that are milled and put into the pot are a little broken but not completely. When used to cook porridge, it will become sticky and delicious in a short time. In addition, there are many similar utensils. For example, the flower bud that Yin Lian thought was complicated to make is actually very simple to make after using the utensils.
Farmers collect flower buds in the right season, put them in special utensils for pressing, then pickle them and use a special bamboo tube needle to inject the soup. Finally, dip a little starch on the needle mouth, and then put it in a special wooden grid to wait for the pot. That's it.
The preliminary processing process takes less than a quarter of an hour, and drying is more time-consuming. However, after drying and storing, the process of cooking a flower bud only takes more than ten seconds. A skilled person like the mother and daughter of the family where Yin Lian is staying can only It takes several seconds.
It takes less effort than making dumplings.
After Yin Lian spoke, although the peasant woman was surprised, she thought she was just sick, such as a cold and inflammation, so she couldn't speak. Because Yin Lian had previously received a gold bracelet as payment for her stay, the woman's attitude was quite enthusiastic.
So Yin Lian also learned from the woman's mouth that the owner of this family was named Danna, and he was a very ordinary farmer. The only thing the couple is very proud of is that their daughter is very good at cooking and does great seasoning.
"Wika is much more talented in seasoning than both of us. We hope that when she grows up, she will be able to become a chef. Then we will be happy." Mrs. Dana said with a smile.
Yin Lian pondered their tone and then guessed that chef might be a relatively prestigious profession in this world.
She smiled and said to the little girl Wika: "Is Wika so awesome? I really want to try Wika's works if I have the chance."
Wika was very happy when she was praised, and said: "I will cook a dish for my sister to try tonight!"
As expected, Wika made a dish that night, and after Yin Lian ate it, she immediately noticed the difference. To be honest, the dish Wei Ka made is just an ordinary home-cooked dish. The ingredients are not very complicated, and it is not like some heavy-flavored dishes on earth that use a lot of spices.
If I have to say, the seasoning and heat are very precise, which makes the whole dish feel very comfortable to eat and has a particularly delicious and refreshing feeling.
To be honest...it tastes better than Yin Changning's.
Yin Lian finally understood what Mrs. Danner meant by being gifted. To be honest, she didn't really believe in the so-called taste talent until she actually tasted Wika's works. In Yin Lian's opinion, the most so-called taste talent is that the tongue is more sensitive and can taste the ingredients and quality of food. Her own tongue is very sensitive, but this obviously has nothing to do with cooking skills.
Anyway, her cooking skills have never been as good as Yin Changning's.
As for the tongue being so sensitive that it can distinguish the ingredients and formulas of a dish... Yin Lian has never seen it, but based on general logic, he knows that it is not a good thing. Using the analogy of the vinegar-garlic production process, garlic will emit a spicy smell after being soaked in vinegar-garlic. Theoretically speaking, a cup of vinegar soaked with a large amount of garlic in a short time and a cup of vinegar with a small amount of garlic soaked for a long time, will The spiciness is probably similar. In this case, how to tell the proportion of ingredients? In addition, vinegar and garlic itself will produce chemical reactions during the soaking process, and the taste will also change a lot. If people who have used separate vinegar and garlic but have not tried vinegar and garlic taste it, they will be very surprised. It’s difficult to come up with specific production procedures.
And unless you are a fan of garlic or acetic acid, it would be a tragedy if you taste the original ingredients when using vinegar garlic.
But now Yin Lian realizes that there is indeed a talent for seasoning, and the reason why she can't understand it is because in her world, the food culture has not yet developed to the point of talking about talent. If the level of the entire industry is still in a situation where Yiping's skills, experience and formulas can clearly distinguish the level of the gap, then the talent will not show an obvious gap at all.
Only after technology has developed to a certain level, and most people can easily rely on equipment or techniques to achieve outstanding craftsmanship, will the talent gap be revealed.
According to Yin Lian, both Mrs. Dana and Wika's skills are already very good, but Wika is indeed more talented in seasoning. Her works are more amazing than Mrs. Dana. Although the difference is very small, it tastes good. The taste is completely different.
Then Mrs. Dana said: "Didn't Miss Lian say she wanted to visit the city before? This month's food festival is just three days away. I want Wika to sign up for the children's chef competition. Why don't Miss Lian go with her then? Go ahead. When the time comes, the village will arrange for Ammu vehicles to carry people."
Yin Lian didn't know exactly what the so-called Amu Beast Car was, but he still pretended to know and responded.
A few days before the start of the food festival, Yin Lian took the opportunity to learn a few skills from Wika, the most important of which was the use of various kitchen utensils. In private, she secretly studied their structures and took photos, wondering if she could imitate and electrify them after returning.
Yin Lian himself actually has pretty good cooking skills, but it's just the first time he's seen such a variety of utensils, so he's inevitably a little clumsy when using them the first time.
However, Wika misunderstood and thought she was an eldest lady who had never touched kitchen supplies. Everyone in this world seems to value cooking skills, even nobles. Even aristocratic ladies who don't need to cook by themselves will take the initiative to learn related skills. One or two specialty dishes can be displayed as one of their talents, just like Yin Lian's world of music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
So Wika looked very surprised and said to Yin Lian: "Sister, your parents dote on you too much. You are so old and you haven't started learning to cook yet?"
Yin Lian was embarrassed to show off in front of Wika that her cooking skills, which were good in front of her compatriots, but seemed crude and unappreciable in front of the Dana family, so she just smiled at her and pretended to be a beginner with peace of mind.
However, compared to a true beginner, Yin Lian was still somewhat capable in this area, which made Wika think she was very talented, so she enthusiastically taught her for several days.
In the process, Yin Lian also discovered that farmers seem to have a relatively high status in this world. Although they are a little worse than chefs, they can still be regarded as middle class. The various foods grown by farmers are strictly graded due to their different appearance and taste, and their prices vary greatly.
Soon after, the day of the food festival arrived. The Danner couple sent Yin Lian and Wika to the entrance of the village and entrusted them to the driver. Although Hou Yin Lian finally knew what the so-called Ammu beast was.
That's a look
The author has something to say: A very cute giant python with a pure white head and circles of black and white lines on its body. Its body is driven in sections of carriages. At first glance, it looks like an animal version. train.
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After finishing this book, I will never read it twice again...at least not until the full text is saved_(:3」∠)_
