Chapter 74 Sensational Fore Soup
It was late at night and the banquet was about to begin, and the officials of the government office began to sit down one after another.
"Sniff..." Xun Yu kept twitching his nose, and this action made Guo Jia beside her very uncomfortable.
"Yan, if you do this, I will be very embarrassed." Guo Jia glanced among the guests. Although no one noticed this place, it still made her very shy.
"The smell emitted from Yuan's body is so fragrant that it can't stand it!" Xun Yu greedily smelled, "Is this the smell of carbon roasted whole lamb? It feels different from the roasted lamb in my impression!"
"It should be improved by Wuyou. Yan... can be eaten later...so..." Guo Jia had noticed at this moment, and it seemed that someone had noticed this place and looked over. At this moment, her face was already red and hot.
"So!" Xun Yu looked like a 'traitor succeeded', "Tell me how about the menu tonight?"
"No!" Guo Jia shook his head, "Anyway, I'll know later!"
He stuck out his tongue, which was a revenge for Xun Yu's previous behavior. He was also worried that after hearing the name of the menu, especially when he heard that he used sheep offal or even sheep blood as ingredients, would there be any changes in the banquet?
"Fate... You have learned bad things recently..." Xun Yu looked heartbroken.
Fortunately, Cao Cao also began to attend the banquet, which means that the banquet was about to begin. Before the banquet, as the governor and the immediate superior of the officials, he had to say some inspiring words.
"This plan was nearly a month, and the time was rushed, but it was a surprise to achieve such results. This month, it was up to everyone's cooperation and efforts to achieve such rich results!" Cao Cao said this and signaled a little that the soldiers around the officials began to fill the officials with wine.
"To achieve the current achievements is inseparable from everyone's efforts. Please drink this cup with me!" Cao Cao raised his glass.
"I thank my lord for giving the wine!" Everyone responded one after another.
Wang Yong was relatively embarrassed. After all, his identity was the chef and he had to supervise the order and safety of serving, so he could not attend the table. He could only stand aside, hold the wine glass, and raise his gaze to Cao Cao, and then drink it all.
Cao Cao also obviously noticed the movement here, nodded at Wang Yong, and responded. To be honest, Wang Yong didn't even know if that action was signaling to him...
"Continue to this, I feel like I'm going to develop towards the direction of licking dogs... Should I harm a few girls first?" Wang Yong secretly reminded himself that he is a normal man. He can become a warm man and wander among many women. He must not be a licking dog who is wholehearted and selfless.
"This guy is definitely a bad guy!" Obviously Wang Yong forgot that there was a little girl beside him. When Yang Xiu heard this, he immediately thought that Wang Yong regarded her as the target, and his cheeks suddenly turned flushed.
"Oh, are you here?" Wang Yong then remembered that there was a little guy around him, "Sure enough, I'm not interested in the little brat who hasn't grown up!"
"What do you think of saying such rude words to a lady?!" Yang Xiu shouted directly, obviously with her cultivation, she really couldn't speak swear words.
On the other hand, the wine has been drunk, so the banquet naturally has to begin. The chef has already started to direct and serve the front soup.
The Han Dynasty adopted the separate meal system. It was not that people in later generations gathered on a round table and picked up vegetables on the same plate to eat. Instead, seats were set according to their status, with one or two people serving as one seat. What the kitchen needed was to divide the ingredients into several portions evenly according to the number of guests and delivered to each seat.
There are also some specialties in seats. For example, if there are very important guests and follow the principle of "left is the upper", will Cao Cao sit on the left side of the upper head, and the guests sit on the right side of the upper head.
The seat closest to the upper head is called the upper seat, the seat on the left is the most noble, followed by the right. The farthest place is the last seat. For example, now, the two officials with the lowest status are the two, and Wang Yong can't even name the two of them.
As Cao Cao signaled, bowls of soup were taken out. As the front soup, one bowl was enough, mainly to make appetizers, not to fill the stomach. Of course, more preparations were prepared according to the convention. If anyone still wanted it, he could directly instruct the waiter to get it.
"But the nature of the banquet is often stronger than the nature of tasting food. For example, this banquet is mainly a platform for the governor to deepen friendship with his subordinates, and the taste of the food is just a sidebar." Yang Xiu reminded, "So your mutton radish soup may be able to get away with it... although the taste is OK..."
Seeing someone saying his comments on the soup “unwilling”, Wang Yong said that he would give her some face and not laugh.
I especially remember that half an hour ago, someone was shocked by the taste of the soup, so hard that he couldn't speak. Then he turned red and his face turned red, as if he had been swollen directly.
"Previous soup, mutton mixed radish soup!" Wang Yong stepped forward and shouted. As the chef, his duty was to report the name of the dish.
"Hams, sheep's internal organs? Can that thing be eaten?" Sure enough, many people began to whisper and were a little worried about the taste of the pre-sour soup. Obviously, the internal organ dishes have not yet become mainstream. If you insist, it is probably like the British "Looking up at the stars", which is simply a dark dish.
"Wang Yong!" Cao Cao looked at the people at the head and shouted, "Why did you think of using mutton offal to make soup?"
"Go back to the lord!" Wang Yong walked out, "I slaughtered five sheep tonight. When the sheep was slaughtered, the sheep blood and sheep were left behind, and it was a waste. Such delicious food, I also want everyone to taste it."
"If it's not delicious, can you settle the score with you?" Cao Cao scooped up a spoonful of soup and a piece of sheep's belly.
"If you really think it's not delicious, then you can only be punished!" What else can Wang Yong say? In the feudal era, a prince had to insist that the dish was not delicious. Who would not be punished obediently? There is no reason to say about this!
Take a step back and say that this is to make yourself reason with a woman? Don’t you know that there is a saying in later generations, “Unreasonable and remorse are women’s patents!”
"Okay!" Cao Cao actually wanted to protect Wang Yong, otherwise she would not need to try it, so naturally someone would come out to find fault. He would not even need to taste it, and he could directly punish him.
However, she ate it, but it can be seen that before eating it, her brows frowned. After all, it is an internal organ that most people do not eat. Eating this thing is just like many people eating fried scorpions for the first time, which requires a lot of courage.
When you enter the mouth, it is not a stinky smell or the strong smell of mutton, but a faint smell of pepper. The smell of white pepper, the sweetness of shredded white radish, and of course, there is also the smell that cannot be ignored. However, after the suppression of pepper and the blending of radish, the smell is almost undetectable, and it seems to be developing in another direction.
The aroma of mutton is the most tender texture. This should be done by using some treatment techniques and it is not greasy at all.
It is not easy to handle mutton well. On the one hand, it is difficult to suppress the smell of mutton, and on the other hand, it is that the greasy smell is very uncomfortable. Perhaps some poor people who have not eaten oil for a long time will feel comfortable to eat such greasy mutton, but it is definitely not something that Cao Cao and others who have not suffered much.
However, the pork is not delicious, the beef cannot be afforded, and the mutton can only be tolerated. The soup is actually OK. It was not until the appearance of cumin that the barbecue became more delicious.
"Does the mutton taste like this?" Cao Cao couldn't help but exclaim, "It's not as scent as I imagined. The key is that the meat smells stronger than the mutton. How could it be like this? Could it be that there is such a change? It's because you put pepper?!"
"For seasoning, some pepper was indeed added." Wang Yong said with a smile. In fact, in addition to pepper, there was also a little rice wine and a few peppers.
In the future, spices such as cumin, star anise, grass fruit, bay leaf, sugarcane and orange peel will also be added. Of course, it is simpler and easier. Just add a little curry powder to stew. After all, there are many of the above spice ingredients in the curry powder you bought now.
"The price of pepper is not cheap!" Cao Cao glared at Wang Yong directly.
"But sheep offals cost almost no money, so it didn't exceed the budget." Wang Yong pretended to be confused. If he really counted, can this sheep offal not be considered a money? It was still included in the money he paid, but it was not considered a lie if he didn't leave the yamen's account.
"Is this dark red blocky sheep's blood?" Cao Cao obviously also saw the sheep's blood in the soup bowl.
"That's right, the sheep blood after solidification and cooking has a good taste and a stronger taste!" Wang Yong replied.
"If someone asked me to eat sheep blood in the past, I would definitely chop the other party. This time I would give you a face!" Cao Cao scooped up the sheep blood and ate it under the attention of all the ministers.
The sheep blood is delicious, and the mouth is dissipated like tofu, and at the same time it turns into a fragrant smell, which slides directly over the taste buds, then enters the mouth and into the stomach.
"How could this... taste like this?" Cao Cao didn't expect that sheep blood could actually be in his mouth, and the taste was OK!
Wang Yong actually wanted to say that in his hometown of Xi'an, there is a dish called sheep blood vermicelli soup! It can be used as a soup. If you want to eat enough, you can add some steamed buns to soak in it. Sheep blood and vermicelli, as well as soaked buns are mainly composed of "heat, spicy, salty, fragrant, bright and tender".
"I once traveled to a place where animal blood or bird blood that is cooked like this is called blood tofu. It is really no different from tofu in terms of taste." Wang Yong said with a smile.
"Indeed, this taste is really good. This mutton radish soup has a strong taste but is not strong. Instead, it stimulates the feeling of hunger... As a front soup, it is qualified!" Cao Cao nodded and admitted the front soup.
Of course, it is hard for others to say anything. The lord reacts like this, so she/they are naturally not good at pretentiousness.
"It's worthy of being Wuyou. Sheep offal and sheep blood can be used as ingredients to cook such delicious food!" Xun Yu naturally took the initiative and savored it carefully. Guo Jia next to her was also slowly tasting this bowl of soup.
Originally, Wang Yong had their share in the kitchen, but who made Guo Jia still have her seat in the government office? Dian Wei was the same in this regard. Only Liu Li, Xu Huang and Yang Xiu were left. They had accompanied him to enjoy it in advance in the kitchen before, but now they are full.
"The first main dish at the banquet is white chicken, serve!" Seeing that everyone finished drinking the soup, Wang Yong shouted again.
"Baizhang Chicken... I seemed to have eaten a little too much some time ago..." Xun Yu showed a bitter face when he heard this.
Chapter completed!