Chapter 86 The Royal Chef's Menu, I have learned a lot!
While the laptop was still closed, Xu Guangling took the mobile hard drive, copied the menu file that he had moved over previously, and then opened it.
As a result, the first picture and menu item that caught his eye made Xu Guangling stunned.
It should be an image file scanned from a somewhat damaged old white paper. It is said to be white paper, but in fact it is dark in many places and is very unclean. I don’t know if it is the paper itself that is dark or something went wrong during the scanning. I guess.
Most of them are the former.
But this is not Xu Guangling's focus.
From what Mr. Zhang said when he mentioned this menu before, Xu Guangling knew that every document in it should be written by the so-called "imperial chef", and most of them were written in his own hand. Even the apprentices of the imperial chef and the like
The chances of putting pen to paper are slim.
It is precisely because of this that something surprising and seemingly expected happened.
Take Xu Guangling himself as an example.
He has now reached the master level in chess. He should be at a different level but at the same level as those royal chefs. So, now, if he were asked to write a "chess secret skill", what would he write?
Woolen cloth?
Writing long theoretical expositions?
Write step-by-step specific moves starting from the basics?
Write various openings, various mid-game interpretations, and various closing moves?
No!
Won't!
He is not teaching people to play chess, he is not writing a chess textbook! That is not the case at all! Just like the imperial chef who originally wrote this menu, he is not trying to train chef apprentices, absolutely not! So...
How would he write about Xu Guangling’s secret chess skills?
He would write: "The other side is strong and I am weak, the other side is weak and I am strong. The opponent attacks my center, and I peek at their three or seven routes."
If it were simpler, it could be reduced to "there are three or seven among them."
This is the first move, and then the second move is used casually. It is also commonly used by Xu Guangling when killing his opponent. Through various arrangements in the early stage, after one's own forces have penetrated into the opponent's camp, he can find the right time and make a decisive move.
Adopt the strategy of abandoning the son, and then implement various tactics such as the rook pressing the elephant's eye, etc., to cut off the opponent's escape route with one move.
How do you say this move when you say it?
Just two words, "choking the throat", or to put it more bluntly, three words, "choking the neck".
This is the ultimate trick, this is the secret technique! It can handle quite a lot of situations!
However, this stunt is useless to most people. It is not even as good as any introductory chess book in bookstores or on the Internet that elementary school students can understand. But is this stunt fake? Is it valuable?
Not fake!
No moisture at all!
However, the prerequisite is that it falls into the hands of the appropriate person.
This is the general Mo Xie, the ancient divine sword. But most people may not be able to even hold this sword, let alone kill enemies with the sword or wield the sword for nine days!
To them, this so-called divine sword is worse than a dog-beating stick!
Now, in front of the so-called imperial chef's menu, Xu Guangling faced such a situation.
On this menu, the middle of the paper is actually not the middle. In the upper middle, there are a few big words written in pencil, and it seems to be the kind of big pencil used by old-fashioned carpenters, "Secret Braised Pork", and the words are not the same.
It doesn’t look good, it’s probably at the level of a primary school student.
Then, the real problems came, and they were a series of problems.
Secret Braised Pork, the first two words of these five words, "Secret", are circled with a pencil, and outside the circle are the other two words, "Made with Honey", and after that, the "Made with Honey"
"Zhi" was circled again, and outside the circle was another word, "Zhi".
That's the title of this menu, okay, let's just call it a title.
Then there is the main text at the bottom, just six words:
"Thousand-Sided Knife, Slightly Fired."
Frankly speaking, Xu Guangling only understood the two words "微火" among these six words. In fact, it made no difference whether he understood or not, because what kind of "microfire" was this?
I don’t know. Brother, what do you mean by heat in cooking?
A slight difference can make a difference a thousand miles!
There is no basis for anything, just the word "little fire". By then, in terms of the control of fire, it will not only be a slight difference? It may be a thousand miles away!
But that’s just the tiniest bit!
Slightly hot.
What does "through" mean? Cook it slowly over low heat to cook it through.
That may be the case.
Or maybe, it’s not the case at all! It’s not the case at all!
And then, what is the Thousand-Sided Knife?
On these three words, Xu Guangling didn't even have the slightest idea, let alone speculation!
Secret preparation, honey preparation, honey roasting, Qiansi Knife, slight fire. This is all of this "Secret Braised Pork", below, there is no more below...
I will teach you step by step, how many grams of oil, salt, sugar, and soy sauce should be put in, and how many grams of dark soy sauce and light soy sauce should be included in the soy sauce?
So naive!
Is this something to fool people?
Not to mention that there is no possibility that Zhang Laocun was deceived, but as far as this menu is concerned, Xu Guangling intuitively judged that it was not a deception, but that it was probably really the "secret braised pork"
All the secrets are stated, just in those few words!
As for other "basic" processes, come on, I am an "imperial chef" after all. If I ask someone to write that kind of thing in detail, stroke by stroke, is this an insult to their level or to their personality?
?
You want me to write it down in detail, that kind of thing that "any cook can understand"?
roll!
So, that’s it for this imperial meal list from the imperial chef!
But it's also possible that the owner of this menu is a cold or a little strange old man who doesn't talk much, so that's why the menu is so simple? With this idea in mind, Xu Guangling rolled the mouse wheel, and the menu switched to
Next portion.
The handwriting is different!
The menu has changed owners, and this one is written with a pen. The paper is much better, and the handwriting is much neater. Judging from the handwriting of this one, it is at least the level of a high school student.
After Xu Guangling looked over, the next moment he closed his eyes hard and then opened them again.
He wasn't dazzled, and he wasn't wrong either.
The title of this menu is written in the upper left corner, "Pao Pig Trotters", and then there is the text like a letter at the bottom. Well, this refers to the format, and the letter, no, the text content of this menu, just
Five words, not even punctuation.
"The hooves are thin and cooked together."
It’s actually simpler and simpler than the one just now!
Thin hooves.
Does it mean that the pig's trotters are thin, or does it mean that the pig's trotters are specially selected for thinness?
If the true expression of this aspect can be found through simple experiments, then who can tell him what the following "three-to-one cooking" means?
Looking at the second menu in a daze, Xu Guangling felt speechless for a moment. - Is this the menu of the Royal Chef? What a wealth of experience, what a wealth of experience!
Too much knowledge!
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