Sweet Garden Sands

Chapter 442

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With an idea, Ke Hanxue quickly took out the pen and paper he carried with him and recorded it.

After a while, she wrote down the recipes of several delicious dishes that she had seen in her previous life and knew how to cook.

Ge Yunzhang stood by the table, softly reading the name of the dish written in her notebook: "Thousands of golden silk birds return to their nests, the pink lady, climbing the lotus and playing with its pearls, the waves are not round..."

Ge Yunzhang was surprised and said: "Hey, this sentence'climbing the lotus to get its pearls, the ripples can't make a circle' is not a poem. You actually named the dish after the poem?"

Ke Hanxue smiled and said, "Isn't it poetry? As far as I know, there are so many dishes named after poems. Why are you making such a fuss?"

"I've never heard of someone naming dishes with poems." Ge Yunzhang said seriously.

"Haven't heard of it?" Ke Hanxue paused and looked up at him: "Could it be that this dynasty doesn't like naming dishes with poems?"

"I don't know about other places. Anyway, I haven't heard of it in Beijing and Qingzhou City."

Ke Hanxue pursed her lips and thought for a while, then said with a smile: "The capital city and Qingzhou city are at the foot of the emperor, and all the fashionable things in the dynasty came from there. If there is no one there, there must be no other places. Try to name the dishes with poems, won't this make those arty nobles come here admiringly?"

Ge Yunzhang smiled and said: "It's not that I'm throwing cold water on you. If you just use the name of the dish to attract customers, it's only for a while. Those people on the opposite side want to learn how to brew bacon and wine. It's not difficult to name dishes with poems? "

"So, the cooking skills are the most important thing." Ke Hanxue smiled, then lowered her head and continued to write about the cooking methods.

After reading the name of the dish she wrote, Ge Yunzhang started to look at the method under the name of the dish from the beginning, and couldn't help being surprised again: "You put the sweet potato on the table? And you chose such a name?"

You know, this sweet potato is the most humble thing in the eyes of those noble people. If this thing is served on the table, it will be strange if it doesn't offend those people.

Ke Hanxue knew his scruples, and said with a smile: "I don't worry, I won't let them know that it's made of sweet potatoes."

"You can tell this sweet potato at a glance, do you still need to eat it?" Ge Yunzhang was puzzled.

Seeing his worried face, Ke Hanxue put down the pen, pulled him to the kitchen: "Come on, I'll make it for you to try."

"There are no sweet potatoes in the kitchen."

What?
Ke Hanxue paused, looked back at him, and then thought that this is the county seat, and was relieved.

"Forget it, let's go outside and buy some sweet potatoes."

"It's not easy to buy sweet potatoes here. It's getting dark now. Let's make it tomorrow after dinner."

She looked at the sky outside, and it was really dark, so she had to give up.

Early the next morning, Ge Yunzhang sent the waiter in the restaurant to buy some sweet potatoes. Ke Hanxue was taken into a small kitchen by Ge Yunzhang as soon as he finished breakfast.

Ke Hanxue knew that this was a kitchen used to cook soup for guests. After Ge Yunzhang cleared the two cooks out, he said, "I'll help you."

"Okay, just help me light the fire later." Ke Hanxue quickly peeled a half-sized sweet potato, cut it into small strips slightly shorter than the thumb, and rounded the corners.

"Start a fire." Ke Hanxue ordered while cleaning the pot.

Ge Yunzhang also often cooks, and lighting a fire will not trouble him.

When the pot was hot, Ke Hanxue poured an appropriate amount of vegetable oil into the pot. After the oil was hot, he put the sweet potato strips into the pot.

Observe the color of the sweet potatoes, fish out the sweet potatoes when they are cooked, and drain the oil.

After the sweet potatoes drained the oil, Ke Hanxue took the bamboo sticks again, and inserted the bamboo sticks on the top of each piece of sweet potato for later use.

"Boil the pot over there for me. The fire doesn't need to be too high." Ke Hanxue instructed without the slightest embarrassment.

As soon as Ge Yunzhang opened the booklet, he saw several heads poking at the door of the kitchen.

Ge Yunzhang recognized that it was a few people in the big kitchen who were responsible, and with a sharp glance, those people scattered away.

Ke Hanxue just smiled, then poured a little pot into the pot, then poured in the sugar, and boiled it slowly.

Watching the white sugar slowly melt away, Ke Hanxue kept stirring the syrup with a pair of chopsticks. After watching the syrup dripping on the chopsticks and drawing it into silk, he quickly wrapped the sweet potato strips, and then wrapped the bamboo Just sign out.

Looking at the shredded sweet potatoes wrapped with gold wires in the pure white ceramic plate, Ge Yunzhang could hardly believe that they were made of sweet potatoes if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.

So delicate, so beautiful, the thumb-sized sweet potato pieces are wrapped in strands of sugar, the color is golden, and the threads are constantly drawn, isn't it just "the birds return to their nests with countless threads"?
Ke Hanxue looked at his amazed face with satisfaction, and handed him a pair of chopsticks with her lips hooked: "Try it?"

He wiped his hands on his body, picked up a shredded sweet potato, and first licked the sugar shreds outside with his tongue.

Well, it melts in your mouth!

Tasting the sugar outside, he threw the whole thing into his mouth...

"Well, it's sweet and fragrant, crispy in the mouth, and lingering after eating." Ge Yunzhang finished commenting and took a piece of it to his mouth.

"In fact, not only sweet potatoes can be shredded, but also white radish, yam, and some fruits can be shredded. The first reason why I use sweet potatoes is because I like sweet potato shreds, and the second is because white radish, yam These are seasonal, not to mention those fruits, in addition to being seasonal, the price is also expensive, the cost is too high, I think it is better to use sweet potatoes, and then buy them in large quantities in the countryside, which is very cheap."

After Ke Hanxue finished speaking, seeing a piece of sugar on his lips, she couldn't help laughing, and stretched out a finger to help him scrape off the sugar.

"Don't waste it!" He said, took her hand and put it in his mouth.

As soon as Nie Jianzhong stepped into the kitchen, he saw this scene. With a sound of "Yo", he stretched out his hand to cover his eyes, turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait, Uncle Jianzhong—" Ke Hanxue hastily withdrew her finger, called him to stop, and explained with a blushing face: "I just had sugar on my hand... that, Uncle Jianzhong, taste my This is the silk drawing I just made."

Ke Hanxue didn't want to get darker and darker, so she hurriedly brought the plate of shredded sweet potatoes to Nie Jianzhong.

Nie Jianzhong cast an ambiguous glance at the two of them before turning his gaze to Ke Hanxue's hands.

Seeing this, Nie Jianzhong's cloudy old eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "What is this made of, so beautiful?"

"Uncle Jianzhong, try it and see if you can taste what it's made of?" Ke Hanxue put it off.

Nie Jianzhong took a pair of chopsticks and was about to taste the shredded silk, when Ke Hanxue yelled again: "Wait a minute."

Ke Hanxue found a can of sweet-scented osmanthus honey in the kitchen, poured out a little from a plate, and brought it to Nie Jianzhong, saying, "Uncle Jianzhong, it tastes even better with sweet-scented osmanthus honey."

(End of this chapter)