Chapter 137

Seeing Sha Zhu smiled and said, "Okay. We brothers are destined. I'll show off my skills. You wait first. I'll go home to change clothes, put down things, and take some seasonings, and then I'll come back."

After nodding to everyone, he went to the middle courtyard.

Li Xuewu asked Lao Biaozi to put the ingredients he brought back in the morning on the chopping board, while he went home to get the bean sprouts.

After passing the second gate and entering his own house, he saw Qin Huairu helping to cook, and she was steaming two-mixed-flour buns with Liu Yin.

The wages of the Li family were quite high, but at this time, grain was not linked to wages, but to the population. Everyone's grain was fixed, so even if the Li family had money, they didn't dare to eat fine grain every day.

This was still because Li Xuewu brought back grain and instructed them to make two-mixed-flour buns. That was why Liu Yin did it this way.

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The vegetables for workers every day were potatoes, cabbage, and radishes, made in turns. Fortunately, Li Xuewu brought back a lot, otherwise the Li family's supply grain wouldn't keep up.

"Xuewu is back." Qin Huairu greeted Li Xuewu.

Li Xuewu smiled and responded, "Qin Jie, you've worked hard."

Qin Huairu smiled and said politely, "What hard work? It's all you helping me, otherwise the family would have run out of food."

Li Xuewu entered the inner room and saw his daughter sleeping in the cradle, and the old lady was pushing the cradle while looking at playing cards.

Li Xuewu approached and wanted to tease Li Shu, but was slapped by the old lady.

"Get lost. If you make her cry, you coax her?"

Li Xuewu grabbed a handful of bean sprouts from the bean sprout basin at the end of the kang and said softly, "Hey, this is called helping each other. Don't be polite to anyone."

Qin Huairu was now helping to cook buns and cut vegetables here at night, and sometimes she had to go to the stove in the greenhouse in the back to fill the fire, which was very hard work just to earn a dinner.

Li Xuewu said and said to Liu Yin, "Mom, I pinched a handful of bean sprouts. I'll eat with my Hearing Hearing Da Lao in the inverted room. It's the first day of moving, so I found Brother Zhuzi from the middle courtyard to have a housewarming. How about it?"

Liu Yin was dissatisfied, "It's so good to eat at home."

Li Xuewu said while walking out, "Lao Biaozi and the others are here. I can't trouble you all the time in the future. We have to start a fire over there sooner or later. When the dishes are ready, I'll let Erhai bring them over."

After speaking, he had already gone out the door, not knowing that these words were heard by Qin Huairu.

When Li Xuewu returned to the inverted room, Seeing Sha Zhu was already in the kitchen.

"Brother Zhuzi, look at these bean sprouts. Are they okay? Bean sprouts grown at home."

Seeing Sha Zhu took off his coat and said, "Okay. We'll just eat the taste. There's no need to be so particular."

Erhai put the branches into the stove, used leaves as kindling, and started the fire in the stove.

Seeing Sha Zhu picked up a kitchen knife and said to Li Xuewu, who had also taken off his coat, "I only use one knife usually. Cutting, chopping, slicing, patting, and other methods all rely on it. Look carefully."

After saying this, he took the roe deer meat that had been soaked earlier, took a large piece along the texture, and cut the meat into square pieces the size of mahjong tiles along the texture.

"When cutting meat, especially livestock meat like beef, the fibers are large and the texture is coarse. You have to cut along the texture. This is not only good-looking but also flavorful."

Seeing Sha Zhu handed the kitchen knife to Li Xuewu and said, "You try it."

Li Xuewu took the kitchen knife and, according to Seeing Sha Zhu's teaching, pinched the kitchen knife with his right hand and pressed the roe deer meat with his left hand curved together.

"Don't hold your hand so tight. I've looked at the knife; it's very sharp. You can cut it by dragging it gently along the texture. The force of holding the knife should be loose, but you can't let it go. You have to have the feeling that the knife grows on your hand. Your wrist should also move with the knife."

Seeing Sha Zhu saw that Li Xuewu had some foundation in holding the knife and guided the trick of holding the knife from the side.

"Do you see this blade? This is a knife that the master has already used. The blade is arc-shaped. You have to let the knife drag back and forth on the meat along this arc. Be steady and fast. Scald the kitchen knife with hot water so it won't stick to meat foam and oil."

Li Xuewu tried it, and it was really the case. With the force taught by Seeing Sha Zhu, he cut the roe deer meat into pieces one by one.

Seeing Sha Zhu took the potatoes that Erhai had peeled and placed them in front of Li Xuewu, saying, "Cut the potatoes into diamond blocks, and try to make them the same size."

Li Xuewu cut eight or nine large potatoes by comparison. While teaching Li Xuewu, Seeing Sha Zhu had already patted the ginger, green onion, and garlic with another kitchen knife, filled cold water in the stewing pot, put the cut roe deer meat into the pot, put the prepared onion, ginger, and garlic, and poured half a bowl of white liquor.

Seeing Sha Zhu was using both hands. As soon as he finished one, he filled half a pot of water in the frying pan and put a piece of pork into the pot as a whole.

"Brother, don't stop the fire," he didn't forget to instruct Erhai, who was adding fire, while covering the pot.

Seeing Sha Zhu saw that Li Xuewu had finished cutting the potatoes and asked him to cut chili shreds and other side dishes, while he picked up the little chicken prepared by Li Xuewu and started slicing the meat.

After slicing the chicken, he took the knife from Li Xuewu's hand and taught Li Xuewu how to cut shreds.

"For the same raw material and the same cooking method, as long as the cutting method is different, the quality of the finished dish will be different."

"For example, in general, dishes that mature quickly can be cut into shreds, slices, dices, grains, etc. Conversely, they should be cut larger, thicker, and thicker."

Seeing Sha Zhu explained while cutting: "The processing of knife work is to make the size, thickness, length, and shape of the raw materials meet the requirements of cooking, because it not only determines the final shape of the raw materials, but also plays a decisive role in the color, fragrance, and taste of the finished dish."

Li Xuewu looked carefully at Seeing Sha Zhu's technique and listened to the explanation in his ears.

"The chicken in this dish of Silver Bud Silver Spine must be a young rooster. The meat is tender but the taste is light. We have to use white liquor to wash away the 'chicken meat taste'."

As he spoke, he started to soak and wash the shredded chicken with white liquor, his fingers were gentle, but his speed was very fast.

"Help me cut some onion and ginger shreds, they must be fine, and cut the onion I brought into shreds."

Li Xuewu picked up the knife again and cut the ginger and onion shreds, and cut the onion into shreds.

Seeing Sha Zhu fished out the shredded chicken, put it in a basin, poured in the rice wine he brought, put the onion and ginger shreds cut by Li Xuewu on the shredded chicken, and finally rubbed in some water starch.

Just as he finished this, the pot of roe deer meat being blanched boiled, and the pot of stewed pork also boiled.

Seeing Sha Zhu handed the spoon to Li Xuewu and asked him to skim the blood foam from the roe deer meat stewed in the stewing pot, while he used a fork to fish out the pork and put it aside.

"Don't even mention it, the stuff of the palace cuisine chef is convenient. There is a meat fork to fork meat. Skim the blood foam in this pot too."

After instructing Li Xuewu, Seeing Sha Zhu took the knife and cut the cooked pork. The knife in his hand flipped, and the whole piece of pork became thin slices of pork.

Li Xuewu had just skimmed the blood foam in the two pots, and Seeing Sha Zhu had squeezed the water out of the pickled cabbage shreds brought by the Hearing Hearing Da Lao from the front courtyard, pinched them loose, and sprinkled them into the frying pan.