MTL - Chang’an Small Restaurant-Chapter 20 lion head again

Yunlai Winery is the largest tavern in Chongxian Square. It can accommodate more than 100 guests, and the layout is luxurious. Big wine shop, but it's also very good.

The business of Yunlai Winery has always been good, but recently the shopkeeper has been a little worried. These days, guests often bring food and drink in.

In fact, the restaurant has always been able to eat out. Occasionally, there are guests who hunt geese, deer and other things. They think the chefs are not good at cooking, so they bring them to the store, please cook for them, and the store greets them with a smile. .

Of course, there are also customers with special tastes. Occasionally, they come in with rough snacks such as fried tofu, pickled fish and scallops bought from the stalls outside. When they see it in the store, they just smile and put plates on their behalf. The guests are good, what else can I do?

But recently, customers often come in with small white porcelain dishes, and the dishes are either ruddy and trembling meat on both sides, or meat **** the size of a child's fist, and the guests shout, " Bring a spoon." It turned out that the round was so tender that it couldn't be clamped with a chopstick, it could only be scooped with a spoon.

This kind of customer is not one or two, the store will naturally notice. It is embarrassing that there are many leftovers from the dishes that customers order in our restaurant, but the small dishes are always clean, and even the juice is poured into the rice.

What the hell!

The shopkeeper asked and said that he bought it from the Shenji Food Shop in the workshop. Shen Ji, the shopkeeper knows that the owner of the shop is a beautiful lady who makes good cakes and jade-pointed noodles.

For the festival a while ago, the shopkeeper himself even let someone buy a flower cake box from there as a gift. The cake is really exquisite, and some of the colors are not available in the cake workshops that specialize in selling cakes in the East and West Market.

Just somehow selling meat?

At this time, the food shops and wine shops were often separated. The food shops were specializing in Hu cakes, steamed cakes, rice cakes, houto and various rice and noodle foods, and even many restaurants only sold Korean food, while the wine shops Most of them don’t open until noon. They sell wine and vegetables, and also sell meals after drinking, but they don’t focus on pastry.

Shen Ji, a little lady... that's all, let someone buy some to taste.

Really! The shopkeeper Yunlai has to admit, it's really good. I have never seen anyone make hog meat so well. It is plump, tender and not greasy, and it looks beautiful. It can be a big meal.

The shopkeeper Yunlai asked the chef of the restaurant to imitate it, but there are some tricks, if no one tells them, they can't figure it out on their own. Cooking made by a cook is always less vigorous.

Shen Shaoguang didn't know that he had committed a taboo in the industry, so he was instructing Ah Yuan to cut the meat stuffing for the lion's head.

"Thin and three points of fat" is the most suitable. Shen Shaoguang is a moderator, and thinks that the "fat and thin" said by the big foodie Yuan Mei is better.

Cut it too big, or mash it.

A Yuan's meat is well cut, strong, patient, the key - she is interested. Over time, he might also become a good cook.

After cutting the meat, Shen Shaoguang has to do the rest of the process. Dip your hands with glutinous rice flour, shape the meat into large rounds - don't add glutinous rice flour to the meat, otherwise the taste will be sticky, then deep fry it into a shape, and then steam it in water for an hour.

The lion head made in this way is as tender as tofu.

These are the famous dishes of later generations. After centuries of verification, it is easier to make a name for themselves.

With the agate meat and lion head, Shen Shaoguang was thinking about whether to serve the chicken in the jar again, and he was thinking about the colder weather, and then he could cook the ham. Go back and borrow the taste of ham to stew tofu, stewed cabbage, steamed duck and steamed fish, or simply honey ham, old wine ham... tsk! Gee!

Such a soft and plump steamed stew is not only suitable for the weather, but also for the appetite of the elderly - for example, Li Yue, the Minister of Rites who lives in Yankangfang.

Li Yue was in his sixtieth year. He was the Minister of Rites more than ten years ago. Later, Zuo Qian went to Jiangnan to serve as two governors. He came back last year and became his minister. A while ago, he added Tongping Zhangshi. , he is one of the four prime ministers in the political affairs hall.

Old Li Xianggong is the most elegant person. I heard that he was radical in his early years and offended many powerful people. Poems, female music, wine and food.

Yankangfang is on the edge of Chongxianfang. Because of the hobby of the master, the servants of old Li Xianggong often look for delicious food everywhere, and then they find Shen Shaoguang.

From jade tip noodles to various flower cakes to agate meat, to the recent lion head, they are all suitable for husband and wife. The servants of the Li family had to go to Chongxian Square not so often. Even as a treat, the meat and **** from Shen Ji's restaurant were also placed on the table.

Li Xianggong also specifically pointed it out, it can be seen that he really thinks it is good: "Shouren and An Ran, both taste this agate meat."

In terms of age, the governor of Jingzhaobai is only a few years younger than Li Yue, and in terms of official position, he is only one rank lower, but he is very respectful to this husband. "Rouge agate color, fragrant cheeks and teeth, and a wonderful name! Xianggong's private dishes are really wonderful."

Li Xianggong smiled and said, "It's not my private chef. The two of you will try this lion head again."

Before eating, Bai Fu Yin had already laughed, "What a mighty name!" Like Li Yue, who scooped a piece with a spoon and put it in his mouth, with a strange expression on his face, "It's so tender!"

Li Xianggong asked Lin Yan again, "How does An Ran taste?"

Lin Yan smiled and said, "Xiaoguan also feels very good."

"I bought this from a restaurant in your square. Haven't Anran ever eaten it?"

Lin Yan wiped his mouth with a handkerchief: "I have never eaten it before." It's so delicate... It's in the same vein as the soup with jade tip noodles.

Bai Fu Yin smiled and said: "Chongxian has a lot of delicious food! In our office, young people eat Chongxian's chicken pancakes in the morning. I tried it once and it tasted good."

Li Xianggong smiled and looked at Lin Yan, and joked: "A certain can't imagine An Ran eating pancakes."

The corners of Lin Yan's mouth curled up and did not explain anything.

Bai Fu Yin smiled and said, "An Ran is not in this list. After working together for so long, the lower officials have not seen An Ran's frizz."

Li Xianggong sighed slightly, "An Ran's demeanor, just like in the past—" Suddenly he stopped, took a sip of wine in disguise, and said with a smile, "May I ask Tao Rui to dance a piece of "Spring Orioles", Chunnu pipa Accompanying you, to thank the two of you for saving your life?"

Li Yueai, Ji Taorui, and Chunnu went to Qujiang to play. They were shocked. Qia Jingzhao's yamen rescued the two daughters.

The two daughters came to the court and thanked the two officials of Jingzhao for their life-saving grace even though they were not there at the time, and then began to sing and dance.

How can there be no poetry when drinking and having fun?

"Pink face and green eyebrows, a bit of sandalwood lips, rouge color... Hua Dian is on the ground, the waist is soft and weak..."

Listening to the words of the two old bosses, Lin Yan took a sip of wine and ate the agate meat in the small plate.

The author has something to say:The practice of lion head refers to the Internet, and also refers to the articles of Liang Shiqiu and Wang Zengqi.