Chapter eight hundred and forty-eight goals in life
Han Peacock smiled and said, "Is it revealed? It turns out that when you look at Jin Ping Mei, you are focusing on clothes and jewelry? Well, your methods should be able to find uncut versions, so we will communicate more in the future."
"Rogue, who wants to communicate this with you?" Liu Xu was angry and embarrassed.
Han Peacock laughed, while Zhou Meiren kept Liuxu and said, "Have you really seen it?"
Liu Xu said: "I'm curious, so I looked for it. There's nothing good to watch, and that's it. It's definitely not as real as the little movie Sister Zhou watched."
"The small movie is even worse. I can't shoot as beautiful as the book's description. It's even more boring to watch it. I'll stop watching it after watching it for a while." Zhou Meiren followed Liu Xu's words and directly said some secrets, which made Han Peacock speechless.
Liu Xu is even more fierce: "That's right, the movie is not as good as the one described in the book, but I really didn't look at Jin Ping Mei, so I have more variety."
Han Peacock said: "You two erotic women are actually concerned about that? Why is Jin Ping Mei not good-looking? Remove those pornographic descriptions, Jin Ping Mei's descriptions of characters, clothes, cleaning, food, wine, tea, power struggle, camp, and a lot of trivial matters in life, so we can clearly see how the ancients lived at that time, which is very important for understanding the history of that period."
Liu Xu was stunned and said, "Is it because we are superficial?"
Han Peacock smiled and said, "So I say there is a difference between men and women. This is not a mockery of women, but a fact. When we read the same book or the same TV series, we often focus on different points.
Let’s talk about pickled crabs. Pan Jinlian’s pickled crabs made the men in Ximen’s house fascinated. Mr. Lanling did not tell us how it was made and could not be verified, but this book told us the source of this dish.
In addition to tracing the origin of pickled crabs in my country, people often quote the golden dragon and phoenix crabs recorded in "Qingyi Lu": Emperor Yang went to Jiangdu, Wuzhong tribute crabs, and sugar crabs. Whenever they entered the imperial world, they would wipe the shell surface and use gold to carve dragon, phoenix and flowers to paste it.
"Mengxi Bitan" written by Shen Kuo, a scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty: In the Great Avatar, two thousand honey crabs were tributed in Wuzhong... He Yin also likes sugar crabs. Most of the southerners like salty salt. Northerners like sweets, and fish and crabs plus molasses are easier for the customs of the north.
Lu You, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem about "Preferring Candy Crab with Lu You's "Notes on Lao Xue'an" Volume 6: Books before the Tang Dynasty. Everyone who talks about sugar is terrible. Like sugar crabs and sugar ginger are all.
Lu You's statement of "生口" is different from Shen Kuo's "Northern people are fond of sweets. Fish and crabs and molasses are added to facilitate the customs of the North". "生口" means wine, which is very different from "生口". More of them should be Shen Kuo's typos.
So is Pan Jinlian's pickled crab a drunk or sugar crab? This requires a specific analysis. Imagine that only Pan Jinlian can make pickled crabs in Ximen Mansion, which means that this pickled crab is not a simple way to pickle.
Compared with the two, drunk crabs are relatively simple. The production of drunk crabs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was very mature. The formula for making drunk crabs in "Diaoding Ji" is catchy: thirty balls do not need to be pointed, it is a bad pound of salt, a good vinegar, a little wine, and I will leave it for you until the New Year.
The terrible crabs recorded in "The Complete Works of Must-Available at Home" are also relatively simple: wash the female crabs, dry them, add terribles, salt, and vinegar for seven days.
We usually put the crabs in clean water for two days, then take them out of the water for a day without feeding them, then marinate them with wine, add appropriate amount of salt, cooking wine, green onion, ginger, sugar, put them in a small jar, cover and seal them, put them in the refrigerator for refrigeration, and eat them directly after one week. The basic seasoning wine, salt, onion and ginger are roughly in line with the ancient ways of drunkenness.
The sugar crab is more complicated. Where does the sugar come from? The only seasoning based on wine brewing can be sterilized and stored. Using wine brewing to pickle crabs is more complicated. First of all, you need to make wine brewing to control the fermentation temperature, sweetness, and alcohol. When picking crabs, salt, onion, ginger, etc. are naturally indispensable. Therefore, sugar crabs are also a famous dish with a complex flavor.
A poem by Su Shunqing, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, roughly describes the appearance of sugar crabs: Frosted orange sugar crabs are beautiful, and you feel that everything is wrong in life?
The ancients often compared ‘frost’ to white sugar, ‘frost orange’ to sweetness of sugar, ‘frost orange sugar crab’ means that the crabs are covered with white wine on the surface; ‘melly’ refers to unfiltered wine, ‘frost Mei’ immediately drinks the juice of pickled sugar crabs, so it is definitely not that simple to make this plate of sugar crabs.”
"You have really studied food." Zhou Meiren was very impressed.
Han Peacock said: "In life, food and clothing are both things. If you don't study food and clothing when you have time, what should you study?"
Zhou Meiren looked at Han Peacock and said, "Is this your life goal?"
"Yes! Is your life goal great?" Han Peacock looked at Zhou Meiren and said.
Meiren Zhou lowered her head and thought about it for a while, but she didn't think about what her life goal was, whether it was greater than Han Peacock's life goal.
"I won't talk about this anymore. Come on, since it's a crab banquet, let's have another willow catkins to eat, otherwise she will feel unbalanced." Seeing that the two girls were thinking, Han Peacock didn't want to destroy a good banquet, so she was born immediately and broke the silence.
"What else?" Liu Xu asked.
Han Peacock said: "I just mentioned the drunk crab. Since the more complicated sugar crabs have come out, drunk crabs are naturally indispensable, so the next step is to stew the drunk crabs. Let's eat crabs, and you eat chicken with willow catkins."
"You have so many tricks, but how much does it cost to eat crabs like this?" Liu Xu asked.
Han Peacock smiled and said, "It's impossible to eat without three or five thousand yuan, so the life goal of you two can be to make money. Only when you have money can you enjoy all this. Now most people have such a life goal, so are mine."
This plate of drunk crab stewed chicken can be eaten by three people, so the table is even more lively. The three of them keep chopsticks, and soon they eat the same plate of drunk crab stewed chicken. In fact, there are not many stewed chicken in a plate of drunk crab. There are only two crabs and seven or eight pieces of chicken in it, which has already piled up a flat plate.
"This drunk crab is also delicious." Zhou Meiren said.
Han Peacock smiled and said, "That's natural. The method of making sugar crabs is lost, and there is no reason. Sugar crabs disappear in traditional recipes, and the complex production is the fundamental reason. In addition, sugar crabs have a shorter shelf life than drunk crabs and are prone to deterioration.
After the Qing Dynasty, drunk crabs were basically unified in the world, with simple production and long shelf life. At the same time, drunk crab dishes such as drunk crab stewed chicken were also derived. Drunk crabs have a special aroma. Drunk crabs can be made into soup dishes, cold dishes, and are fragrant and refreshing.
There are only three of us today, so this crab banquet is not complete. When Willow Feather gives birth to a child and the whole family is together, I will ask someone to make a veritable crab banquet for you."
Zhou Meiren said: "This is already very good, if there is more, it will be a waste."
Liuxu said: "I ate a lot of deer tails and chicken, and the grilled fish smelled a little bad. No, I want to keep my stomach and eat grilled fish."
Han Peacock said: "Eels have the function of replenishing deficiency and nourishing blood. If you can't eat them, I can do it for you. Now I also need to nourish blood."
Zhou Meiren said: "Eels are indeed good things. You can eat them frequently in the future. You should know that in the bend island area, people regard Double Ninth Festival as the eel food festival to tell everyone that eels are a symbol of longevity. Eating eels can promote health and longevity."
After eating the saury, each of them had a bowl of eel cover and cooked rice. The three of them were already full of wine. Of course, the Han Peacock ate a lot. Liuxu and Zhou Meiren only each finished a bowl of rice. The others were all symbolically tasted a few pieces, but even so, they were already full.
Looking at the plates eaten by Han Peacock, Liu Xu said, "The chef hasn't eaten yet, right?"
Han Peacock said: "Don't worry, no matter who is hungry, the chef will not be hungry. You go down to have a meal!"
"As long as the gentleman and wife are satisfied with their food, there are still a lot of leftovers in our kitchen, so it's just right to go back and eat." The chef standing next to him said.
"Leftovers?" Liu Xu frowned.
The chef quickly explained: "It's not what the wife imagined. The leftovers we talk about are the leftover dishes after serving, not the kind of leftovers you eat."
"Ah! Then you guys go to have a meal quickly!" Liu Xu said.
After all the chefs went down, the soldiers standing guard around also took turns to move, and Han Peacock and the other two got up and slowly patrolled the deck.
"I really didn't expect that it was only a long time before your achievements were amazed." Liu Xu looked at the boat that appeared in front of them from time to time. She knew that those people were Han Peacock's employees.
It has been less than a year since she met Han Peacock, but Han Peacock's strength has expanded to a level that most people cannot reach in their entire lives.
Han Peacock looked into the distance and said, "What is this achievement? In my mind, this kind of thing is not as meaningful as finding out how to cook sugar crabs from the golden bottle plums."
When Zhou Meiren heard this, she immediately said, "Is it better to have a work of art than you for a meal? Does anyone say that you are just a real vulgar person?"
Liu Xu chuckled and said, "If it weren't for a vulgar person, why wouldn't you get used to drinking red wine? You know, even if you can't use vulgar people, they will pretend to behave. Han Peacock doesn't even pretend."
Meiren Zhou immediately continued: "I'm still dressed up. Look at him wearing camouflage uniforms and his size, following us, others will definitely think you are our bodyguards."
Liu Xu immediately smiled: "Yes, if he makes some intimate actions with us, it is definitely a love affair with the employer's wife."
Although Han Peacock was good at speaking, he could only listen to the continuous attacks of two women, because he did not have the same amount of interruption.
Finally, after waiting for the two women to say enough, Han Peacock smiled bitterly and said, "You two women are too mean, are I? Am I as bad as you said?" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!