Traveling to the ancient harem

Chapter 121 Braised food

In the courtyard of Hibiscus Garden.

Today's weather is not good, not only is it gloomy, but there are also gusts of cold wind. It is officially winter. People in the garden don't feel cold at this time. Everyone is wearing thick cotton-padded jackets and is being directed by the yellow leaves.

Huang Ye asked Lu Dou to cut the fat and lean meat into strips and put them in a big bowl in front of the anxious prince. It didn't go out today. Huang Ye told her last night that she didn't need to go out to find food today. Such a big fat pig, how could it be missing a bite of food? Everyone was eating meat today, and her eagle couldn't be wronged.

Everyone in the yard was used. Two little maids were cleaning the internal organs, among which the pig stomach and large and small intestines were the most difficult to clean. You know, rich people in this dynasty did not eat animal offal. So when Huang Ye ordered them to use flour to wash the pig large intestines, the two little girls felt very distressed. Flour is a fine grain. Isn't it a waste to wash such a smelly thing? Although they grumbled in their hearts, they did not dare to be lazy.

"Miss, using so much flour, can this thing be eaten?" Huang Ye usually gets along well with these girls, and the little girls are not very afraid of her, but they started to grumble about this.

"Just wash it when I tell you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Hongdou said to her angrily.

The little girl shrank her head in fear. This Sister Hongdou was so scary, even more ferocious than the young lady.

Hongdou went to the small kitchen, she took Lungdou with her, taught her how to stir-fry sugar color, how to add ingredients, fortunately, there was already yellow rock sugar. That is the most important ingredient of braised food, without it, braised food would lose its soul.

As for the ratio of the marinade ingredients, Huang Ye taught her step by step. Mung Bean was really a natural cook. As long as Huang Ye told her once, she could remember it quickly. Huang Ye exclaimed that she had found a treasure.

The cleaned internal organs were brought to the kitchen one after another, and first rinsed in a small pot outside (the small pot was not small, it was also a large pot used by ordinary people), and the wine found by Uncle Chen was added to remove the fishy smell. There was no rice wine here now, but fortunately the wine at this time was generally low in alcohol content and could be used as cooking wine.

The water in the big pot has boiled, and the marinade bags wrapped in clean fine cotton cloth are rolling up and down, and an enticing aroma wafts out.

Huang Ye began to ask Mung Bean to put the blanched ingredients into the big pot, including a large pig head cut in half, four large pig trotters cut in half, pig intestines, pig stomach, and cleaned small intestines. In order to increase the taste, two fat hens were also put in. She was afraid that it would not be enough, so she asked Mung Bean to put two large pieces of pork belly. They filled the pot together, covered the pot and began to stew it slowly. Not long after, the overbearing aroma of the braised food floated from the sky above Furong Garden to every corner of the Huang Mansion.

Huang Ye specially decided to open the small kitchen today because everyone in the family was at home today. She informed everyone in the family during breakfast that in order to celebrate the successful construction of her small kitchen, they all came to her Furong Garden for lunch at noon. Among them, Hong Ge'er agreed the most actively. He said that he must finish the homework assigned by his grandfather in advance so that he could eat and drink to his heart's content at noon. The old lady laughed and scolded: "You little bastard, look how greedy you are. You have never eaten and drunk to your heart's content."

Besides, Hong Ge'er was doing his homework at the moment. He always felt that there was a fragrance somewhere, which kept coming into his nose.

"Qingfeng." He called to the servant standing outside the door: "Do you smell a fragrance?"

Qingfeng was standing outside and smelled it earlier than him. He was about to run out to take a look. He had a feeling that it must be related to Furong Garden.

"Second Young Master." Qingfeng ran in: "I smelled this smell outside, it's so fragrant. Didn't the young lady's small kitchen invite us for dinner today? I guess it came from the young lady's small kitchen."

Qingfeng only felt a shadow whizzing past his eyes, and before he could finish his words, his young master disappeared. He shook his head, he said he had agreed to finish his homework before going to dinner, but now he was not keeping his word.

At this time, the lid of the pot of braised meat had been opened, and one could see the red marinade boiling inside, with various ingredients floating in it. The tempting aroma made Hongdou stand in front of the pot and refused to leave. Hongdou felt that even if she didn't eat the meat, she could eat three bowls of white rice just by smelling the aroma.

"Sister, sister..." Hongger rushed in from outside the door, without even looking at where his sister was, and ran to the big stove to accompany Hongdou to smell the smell.

"Miss, I think the meat is cooked and can be eaten." Hongdou ran to Huang Ye, who was stroking the prince slowly, for the fourth time and gave a serious reminder.

"Two hours at the earliest... otherwise it won't be tasty." Huang Ye said the same thing.

"I think it's very tasty." Hong Ge'er wanted to take a piece of meat from the braising pot to taste it, but the diligent and responsible Hong Dou slapped his hand until it hurt, and he was feeling dissatisfied.

"Just wait." Huang Ye said the same thing.

In fact, it was not only Hong Ge'er who came here to smell the fragrance at this time. There were also many servants hiding outside the yard. The garden was so fragrant that they had no intention of working.

"What are you all doing here? Go to work." Uncle Chen's majestic voice rang out, scaring the servants who were smelling the smell outside and running away.

"Old man, please come in." Looking at the old man who was walking slowly from the corner, Uncle Chen complained in his heart: This old man is too concerned about his reputation. Like him, he came here because of the smell. When he saw someone at the gate of the garden, he insisted that the person be taken away before he came out. Unlike the old lady, she ran in without notifying anyone.