Pastoral Tea Fragrance: The High Price Medical Concubine

Chapter 12 Jin Yao's cooking skills are praised

"Okay, let Yinling help me." After speaking, Lu Jinyao took Lu Yinling's little hand, turned to Lian Shi and said, "Mom, you just rest today, you don't have to do anything. I can cook with Yinling gone."

Looking at her pair of daughters, even Susu showed a satisfied smile and nodded.

The children of the poor are already in charge of the family. Although Lu Jinyao has cooked before, she only helped Lian Susu. Today is the first time she has officially cooked in this world.

To be a real foodie, one must not only know how to eat, but also how to cook!
Today Lu Jinyao bought a lot of vegetables in quantity and variety, including green radishes, potatoes, cucumbers, round eggplants and leeks.There are not many leafy vegetables in summer in the north, most of them are like this.

Whether it is Dayangshu Village or Lujia Town, they are all under the jurisdiction of Wei County.Green radish is a specialty of Weixian County, and it is the only one in the country. It is generally called "Weixian radish" to distinguish it from other radishes.

Weixian radish has a dark green skin, but the inside is emerald green. It is spicy, crispy, sweet, and juicy. It can be eaten raw as a fruit or as a vegetable for cooking.Not only that, but it is also rich in nutritional value and has a good health care effect.There is a local saying that "eating radishes and drinking tea will make angry doctors crawl all over the streets", which means that eating Weixian radishes and drinking tea will keep your body strong and prevent you from getting sick.In the entire Shandong Province, there is also a saying that "the apples in Yantai and the pears in Laiyang are not as good as the radish skins in Weixian".

The local people in Weixian and nearby, if they want to eat radishes, they all eat this kind of Weixian radishes.Especially in winter, if you don't eat Weixian radishes, you will feel as if something is missing.

Today Lu Jinyao bought more than a dozen radishes, naturally planning to eat some of them as vegetables and some as fruits.

Potatoes, the name is potatoes, were introduced from abroad during the previous dynasty.

"Potatoes" are recorded in the "Complete Book of Agricultural Politics" written by Xu Guangqi, a famous agricultural scientist in the previous dynasty. When it rained a few days ago, Lu Jinyao dug out a copy of "Complete Book of Agricultural Politics" from home and read it all.

Xu Guangqi also had a person on the earth in Lu Jinyao's previous life, who was from the Ming Dynasty.Coincidentally, the dynasty before the Apocalypse Dynasty was called the Ming Dynasty.

From this, Lu Jinyao infers that this world is likely to be a parallel world to the world he lived in in his previous life, but after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was succeeded by the Tianqi Dynasty.

The following passage is recorded in volume 28 of "Nongzheng Quanshu": "Potato, one name is potato, and one name is yellow solitary. The trailing leaves are like beans, the roots are round like chicken eggs, and the inner white skin is yellow....Cooking and eating Steamed food. Boil taro juice, wash greasy clothes, white as jade.” It can be seen that in the previous dynasty, potatoes had been widely grown and eaten.

Asking Lu Yinling to help pick the leeks, Lu Jinyao soaked the spare ribs he bought in the water, and then went to pick up the two fish.

Green radish, I want to make radish balls and radish cakes, and I plan to put some in when the noodles are cut.For ribs, Lu Jinyao plans to make sweet and sour, and for fish, she plans to braise one in braised sauce and the other in stew.She plans to make leek scrambled eggs, eggplant and potatoes. She plans to fry them in oil. For better taste and not to be smashed by the oil later, she peels them and cuts them, then puts them on the side with salt and sugar.

As for the other things that she couldn't eat for the time being, she kept them in the space, and then secretly replaced the water in the ladle with pure water from Lingquan.

Pour rice wine, soy sauce, salt, vinegar, and sugar into a large basin, and Lu Jinyao put all the cut pork ribs into it to marinate, and then started to pick up the two fish.

Cleaning up fish is a big project.

To make a delicious fish, not only must the internal organs be handled well, but more importantly, there is a line on the back of the fish, extending from the tail to the head.Before picking up the fish, the thread must be pulled out in one breath, so that the fish will not have an unpleasant fishy smell.

Carefully removing the lines on the backs of the two fish, Lu Jinyao began to scrape the scales and clean the internal organs.

Lu Yinling finished picking the leeks by the side, then went to wash the leeks carefully, put them on the chopping board, and asked, "Sister, what else should I do?"

"Well, pick two green onions and crack two eggs into a bowl." Although Lu Yinling was young, she was very proficient in doing these things, and Lu Jinyao was very relieved.

After finishing the fish, she poured soy sauce, vinegar, green onion, ginger, garlic, sugar and salt into a large bowl, and stirred it a little, but she regretted that there was no chicken essence and very delicious taste.The taste of miji umami is better than traditional soy sauce, and it is also lighter.

After picking the onions and breaking the eggs, Lu Yinling took the initiative to bring a handful of firewood over, squatted on the ground and started pulling the bellows.She is a little person, and she is covered in sweat after pulling for a while.

"Yinling, go and play." Lu Jinyao said with some distress.

"No!" Although Lu Yinling was young, she was very stubborn, "I'm here to help my sister."

Lu Jinyao could only smile and said: "Then you have to pay attention, don't be too tired, and be careful of sparks."

"Yeah!" Seeing that Lu Jinyao didn't chase her away, Lu Yinling nodded cheerfully.

Whether it's fish or ribs, it takes time to stew.Fortunately, two pots can be placed on the stove in Lu's house, otherwise, this meal will consist of pork ribs and fish, and Lu Jinyao doesn't know when it will be done.

After thinking about it, Lu Jinyao decided to make sweet and sour pork ribs and braised fish first, so he cooked the ribs and fish in two pots respectively, and asked Lu Yinling to watch carefully, and call her if there were a lot of supercilious eyes.

After that, Lu Jinyao started kneading the noodles again, and cut the radish into very thin strips. Looking at it by herself, she was quite complacent about her knife skills.

Naturally, she wanted to make radish balls.

Many radish balls that Lu Jinyao ate in the previous life were made of white radish and carrots, but there was only green radish in the local area, so only green radish was used.

The sweet and sour pork ribs and braised fish have already collected the juice. Lu Jinyao put the two dishes on the plate. In order to prevent the taste from getting worse after cooling, he also covered the two bowls with two more bowls.

Of course, it's summer now, and it's not good to be too hot.

Then she poured the oil she bought into the pan and fried the radish balls first, and then the potatoes, but the potatoes were only half-cooked.Then scoop out most of the oil, put it back up, and only a little bit remains, pour the eggplant and fried potatoes into it and fry it.

As for the other pot, of course it can't be idle.Lu Jinyao was cooking on the left, but the pot on the right was used to make fish soup.

The fish soup took a lot of time. After Lu Jinyao finished frying the leek and eggs, he put out the vermicelli and sprinkled some shredded radish in it for seasoning.When the noodles come out of the pot, the fish soup is also stewed.

The two sisters brought the prepared dishes to the table. The sumptuous dishes and the wonderful aroma of the dishes were alluring.Lu Jinyao knew that since the Chinese New Year, she had never seen meat on her table, except for the few bird eggs she picked up on the mountain before, so today she made it with big fish and meat.

(End of this chapter)