The biography of Gu Qi, a poor girl

Come to think of it, if Mrs. Lu's husband's family hadn't been seriously ill before, even if the situation in Lushan County was not good, with the craftsmanship of Mrs. Lu and her husband and wife, life would probably not be bad.

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Gu Qi asked Mrs. Lu to divide the pot of spicy soup into bowls for everyone to taste.

Ask Mrs. Wei: "What do you think of the soup base?"

As Shunzi said earlier, Mrs. Wei's family has ancestral handicrafts.Although the cooking skills of the Wei family are passed on from male to female, and Mrs. Wei is only good at making some pastries and snacks, she is still born into a culinary family. She has been nurtured since she was a child, and her knowledge and appreciation of food is always higher than others. The first person Gu Qi asked was Mrs. Wei.

Mrs. Wei is much younger than Mrs. Lu, she looks about 25 or [-] years old, tall and slender, with delicate skin, and of medium appearance. Although she is a little thinner, her figure is still well-proportioned and graceful.

At this time, Mrs. Wei had already known that Gu Qi was the young master, so she gave a blessing and said: "Ms. Lu's soup base is okay, but the cooking time is a bit short, which is not tasty enough."

Gu Qi glanced at Mrs. Wei, and seeing Mrs. Wei's expression was calm when she spoke, and she didn't have too much emotion on her face. Knowing that her "shangke" was just a false polite sentence, she asked again:

"In your opinion, how should this soup base be cooked?"

Mrs. Wei saluted again, and said hesitantly: "If you go back to the master's house, the servant's house is not good at making heavy dishes."

"It doesn't matter, you treat yourself as a diner today, and let's talk again, how can the soup base be changed so that it tastes better?" Gu Qi asked.

Seeing that she couldn't evade it, Mrs. Wei didn't hide it any more, she just said: "Because the soup base is made from sheep bones or beef bones, there are less chili peppers, green onions, garlic, etc."

Mrs. Wei mentioned the method of cooking bone broth, but she still didn't mention the fact that the condiments need to be fried with hot oil first. It seems that there are really few cooks in the Dakang Dynasty who are good at stir-frying. Maybe many places I don't even know the beauty of stir frying.

Of course, it's not that no one knows it at all, at least the scholar in the past was very good at stir frying.Obviously, the method of stir-frying is not unpopular, but it is not widespread enough.

Gu Qi didn't continue to question Mrs. Wei, but instead asked Shunzi and the others: "What about you? What do you think?"

Shunzi drank a few sips and smacked his mouth: "It's weird, but it's also delicious, and the spicy one makes your mouth numb."

Huang Shanhai nodded: "I can't say it, it's strange."

Ah Da wiped away tears: "It's too spicy, and my throat still hurts."

Apparently Ah Da didn't pay attention when he was drinking the soup just now, and directly put a mouthful of red pepper into his mouth, and chewed it unconsciously.

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In fact, the spiciness of the red peppers grown in Dakang is average. Most of the red peppers just smell fragrant, and they are only mildly spicy when eaten directly.

But this is also for people who are used to eating cuisines from all over the world in later generations. For the people of Dakang, even if it is slightly spicy, it is not good to eat directly.

After all, 'spicy' is essentially a sense of pain, not a sense of taste.

The real taste mainly includes sour, sweet, bitter, salty and so on.And 'spicy' is actually a burning sensation, which can stimulate the oral mucosa, similar to pain, not taste.

And this kind of pain has a certain relationship with the tolerance of the human body.

For example, people who have never eaten spicy food eat spicy food for the first time, and only a small amount of spicy taste is enough to stimulate tears and runny nose. In severe cases, they may feel numb in the mouth and swollen lips.

This tolerance will change with repeated habitual eating of spicy food.

Some people eat spicy food for the first time, and even if it is slightly spicy, they will jump their feet. After half a year, they will habitually add spicy food.

Although it is very common to plant and make spicy seasonings such as chili, rattan pepper, and dogwood in the Kang Dynasty, less than one-tenth of them are actually used in cooking.

There are only a handful of good ones that can be used in this one-tenth.

Gu Qi asked everyone to try the dishes to see how well they accept spicy food.In this way, we can determine the final taste of the soup base.

Judging from the current reference data, it is not unacceptable for people to be spicy, but they just need to get used to it a little bit.

This means that the soup base is enough to fry ordinary red pepper into red oil, and the amount of rattan pepper should be less. Several people are not very adaptable to mochi.

In addition, after boiling it into a soup base, the remaining red peppers have to be taken away, so as to avoid the similar reaction of Ada when the guests eat it by mistake.

After all, there are very few people in Dakang who are addicted to spicy food, and there are even fewer people in Lushan County. This can be seen from the reactions of the two cooks.In this environment, if the red pepper in the soup base is eaten by a diner by mistake, what you know is the reaction after eating spicy food, and what you don’t know may be regarded as food poisoning.

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"Is there a bamboo stick in the backyard?" Seeing that it was not too late, Gu Qi turned to Shunzi and asked.

"I have some, I'll get them." Followed Wen Yan out of the kitchen and went to the warehouse on the other side.

Liujiang Huang, Shanhai and the others didn't know what Seventh Sister suddenly wanted bamboo sticks for, but they always did what Seventh Sister asked them to do, and they were used to not asking why, just doing as they wanted.

As for Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Wei, they dare not ask at all.

While Shunzi was looking for bamboo sticks, Gu Qi told Mrs. Lu: "Ms. Lu, you should slice up the remaining bacon."

"Yes, Master."

The kitchen in the backyard is not small, and there is a special area for cutting and preparing vegetables. There are several large pots on the other side, and two small pots next to it. One of the pots is burning at the bottom, and it was used by Mrs. Lu when she cooked the soup. not yet extinguished.

Gu Qi looked at the condiment area, took a handful of dried red peppers from one of the bamboo baskets, and handed it to Qing Yi who was beside him:

"Chop them up."

Qing Yi was taken aback for a moment, took the red pepper, found a chopping board, and started chopping the pepper.

In fact, if there is a medicine pound, it would be more effective to pound the medicine into pieces, but Gu Qi just saw that there is no medicine pound prepared in the back kitchen.

The dry chili powder chopped with a kitchen knife is not satisfactory, but at this time, you can't force it, you can only use it first.Wait until tomorrow to go to the market to find suitable tools.

Naturally, the medicine pound is easy to use, but it is a bit small, and it will be a bit tasteless when it is used in large quantities.If possible, I still have to find someone to customize a wooden barrel with sufficient depth and make a long-handled shovel.

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After a while, Shunzi grabbed a handful of bamboo sticks and came over.Most of these bamboo sticks are about five inches long, but their thickness is thicker than the bamboo sticks commonly seen at barbecue stalls.

Almost one can hold at least five or six roots, and only one end is sharpened. Its function is similar to that of a tooth pick, and it is also used for ordinary extraction.

Gu Qi glanced at it, asked Mrs. Lu to borrow a mulberry knife, and directly split a bamboo stick into five parts.

He asked Shunzi again, "Are you coming?"

"Then I'll try!"

Shunzi had never practiced sword skills, but it didn't require any skills at first, after trying a few times, Shunzi found the way.