Chapter 202

How can this be done?

A Yao looked helplessly at the maid's leaving figure, opened the small door and looked out.

A path connects the kitchen. There are large fields of lotus leaves, one or two bright red lotus flowers emerge in the middle, and a shy belt is put. A lone boat is tied to the edge of the lotus pond.

Close the door and count the materials. Lotus, lotus seeds, chrysanthemum, Jasmine

A Yao sent out the message of "poor, helpless and weak" in the corner. The servant girl next to the cook glanced at a Yao and whispered to her cook as a joke: "girl, the flowers and grass in the corner are the food and drink of immortals. It's not too much not to eat human fireworks."

"Don't talk too much and focus on your men."

Some cooks warned to restrain their own people, while others shared gossip with their own family: "I heard that there are two banquets in the house today. The childe and young master have their cultural banquets to recite poems against them, and the girl's family has girls' poetry and painting meetings, and she is in charge of the sixth girl. It is said that the sixth girl was raised in the countryside before and was picked up recently, Naturally, she can't compare with other girls. "

"So it is."

"Don't break your mouth. Today's literary meeting, banquet, poetry and painting meeting, in the final analysis, is to find a good son-in-law for the girl."

"Oh, didn't the six girls lose?"

"If you can invite your rural friends to her small banquet and see the wealth of the world, where can you lose?" The cook covered her mouth and smiled.

“……”

She said not to break her mouth, but her voice was not low at all. Most of the kitchen could hear it. Ah Yao naturally heard it clearly. She felt that she had taken over a hot list, but on second thought, she was a cook. The host family paid a large price to invite her to come and make the host family happy and assured. It was her duty. Why do you want what the host family didn't have.

But the problem is

Is it hard to make a lotus feast?

When she thought so, a round faced servant girl ran into the kitchen, looked around, asked the servant girl in the kitchen, and determined that ah Yao in the deepest part of the kitchen was the person she was looking for“ Is it Yao Zhu's cook? "

A Yao was still sketching the menu in her mind and worried about what to do. The servant girl next to her woke her up, "I am. What's the matter?"

"I'm Lvping beside miss six. Come and see what you need." Lvping explains her intention. Yu Guang glances at the material at a Yao's hand. Her heart is half cold. A burst of resentment in her heart makes her face red.

How can these people treat girls like this!

A Yao breathed a sigh of relief. There were servant girls around her master's house. Their eating preferences were taboo. Finally, an understanding person could tell her that she was saved from the tangled sea of bitterness“ It's very kind of you to come. How many people will the six girls entertain? What do they not eat... "

Seeing that a Yao is in charge, Lvping is more or less relieved. She pays for food for a Yao and repeatedly asks a Yao to do it well.

A Yao: "at that time, six girls... Will they treat guests with wine or tea?"

Lvping: "first, there is tea. There is a part of Qu Shuibei on the banquet. We use the newly brewed rice wine, but we just taste it and don't drink too much."

"Since it's a curved water cup, I'll add some elegance to you."

Lvping goes back quickly and brings the tea. In her unknown eyes, a Yao asks her to stay and look after the ingredients. She sets off on a leaf boat and floats into the lotus pond with a pole.

The head of the boat pushed away the lotus leaves. They had to bend over and wait for the boat to pass through. They couldn't wait to close up and recover into a green lotus group, while a Yao disappeared in the depths of the lotus leaves.

One or two teas are carefully wrapped in glutinous rice paper and put into the budding lotus. The fragrance of flowers infiltrates the tea, and there is a hidden fragrance of lotus.

She saw that there were several lotus leaves slightly larger than the palm of her hand nearby. The appearance was intact. Cut off the lotus leaves and keep them for use.

When I returned, the new ingredients had arrived.

A basket of river shrimp, a mandarin fish, bracken, Ulva, bamboo shoots, eggs, shrimp, kelp, lotus seed, bean curd, and old hen.

The other cooks glanced and secretly laughed. Although there are many materials, mandarin fish is not big. If you really want to talk about it, there are no dishes that can support the appearance. This servant girl can only add money to add dishes. What's more, they make golden delicious jade, monkey head flying dragon, peony swallows, first-class sea cucumber, lotus chicken slices, Yunlin duck, Shili ginkgo and so on, The six girls have a miserable life because they have a lot of face and can cook dinner.

"Are these enough?" Lvping is worried. She knows how many there are. The woman who secretly hates buying is obsessed with the situation. She is insatiable. She also loves her girl. She spends all her monthly silver and asks the cook to buy more ingredients, but she may not be able to make a decent dinner.

"Enough." A Yao nodded and caught a glimpse of Lvping's distressed and depressed face. She comforted: "don't worry, I'll try my best not to make your girl feel that the silver is floating and can't hear the sound."

Lvping said she had no confidence.

The six girls' small banquet is staggered with the cultural conference banquet and poetry and painting banquet. It is placed in the afternoon. At that time, it is sunset in the west mountain. For a Yao, this time is too sufficient!

First make cakes for guests, lotus cake and lotus seed cake.

Lotus antler is used to make lotus cake and lotus seed cake.

Soaking lotus seeds in hot alkaline water makes them easy to cook soft and rotten. A Yao washes the lotus seeds with alkaline flour, washes them white and clean, removes the lotus core, immerses them in cold water for half an hour, and then steams them in high fire until they are ripe and mashed into antler.

Steam the agar until it melts, pour it into a copper pot mixed with lotus seed antler, granulated sugar and sweet scented osmanthus, continue to boil, and skim off the foam. A Yao had already folded square molds with fragrant leaves. The boiled lotus seed antler was poured into the mold and put into the cool well water to wait for condensation.

Dry flour stained with lard turns into individual lumps, which are kneaded by a Yao and gradually merged into a large dough. Next to it, there is a light red moist dough, which is mixed and kneaded with Monascus water and lard dough. The water and oil dough in the red area is wrapped with pastry dough, rolled into a rectangle, folded three layers, rolled open and folded three layers, and cut into a round crust.

The fire on the stove was not strong. When she rubbed the dough, she did not forget to pay attention to the frying pan. The temperature of the frying pan increased, and the snow-white lard melted slowly. When the oil was not boiling, sugar was added to cook, and a sweet taste floated out. The spoon was pushed several times, the sugar melted in the oil, and then lotus antler was added to stir fry until the bubbles decreased. Sugar and cooked lard continued to be added in the frying process.

The taste of lard is no longer obvious. It is integrated into the lotus antler and wrapped with its oil. The lotus antler with sweet sticky silk has a shiny appearance.

Wrap the stuffing into the crust, pinch it tightly, and cut it into five pieces from the top to the periphery with a knife.

Start the oil pan, put the raw lotus crisp in the leaky spoon and put it in the oil pan.

With a brush, the lotus crisp is in full bloom in the oil pot. The petals are layered, the outer layer is light red, the middle is white, and the inner is brown, like a lotus.

Serve it on a long dark plate decorated with leaves.