Chapter 37 Thirteen Spices (Additional Updates Requesting Votes)
Su Yujin squinted her eyes for a long time before she spoke, "Mother Liu is generally in good health, but she has damp heat in her body. She needs to pay attention to her diet, otherwise she will easily develop some eczema."
"Besides, Mama Liu's lungs are not in good condition, so she needs to take good care of them on a daily basis. Now that the red pears are in season, Mama Liu can stew some more red pears with rock sugar to nourish the lungs. These are not important, but Mama Liu's liver fire is a bit strong..."
"I think normal diet is not enough. I need acupuncture to reduce the liver fire. Otherwise, it will easily cause other diseases."
Su Yujin's medical skills are not bad. When Mother Liu heard this, she nodded again hurriedly, "Then listen to the young lady."
Then he felt a little embarrassed and said, "I am really sorry to trouble you, young lady."
After all, she is a servant and Su Yujin is the master.
"It's not a bother. Since you follow me every day, you are a family. There's no need to be polite." Su Yujin laughed and asked Mother Liu to lie on the bed, then gave her acupuncture on her back.
After showing off her skills, Su Yujin was very satisfied. Mother Liu also felt refreshed and thanked Su Yujin repeatedly.
Ai Cao felt itchy and was eager to try it.
So Su Yujin indulged in the game again.
After finishing the work, she happily put away the needles carefully.
Because she was in a good mood, Su Yujin went into the kitchen at noon and made a dish of scallion chicken.
The whole chicken is boiled and the meat is shredded and served with a sauce made of salt, sugar, scallion oil, soy sauce, etc., and sprinkled with chives, coriander and white sesame seeds. The chicken tastes tender and has a rich flavor.
At noon, Ai Cao ate half a bowl of rice again.
When the sky was setting in the afternoon, Shuangye came and said that a peddler had come to the shop to sell thirteen spices. He smelled that the quality was good, so he came to ask Su Yujin if she needed to buy some.
The so-called thirteen spices are made by combining a variety of seasonings according to specific proportions, drying and grinding them into powder, and then sealing them for storage. When used, the powder can be directly poured into the dish. It has a rich and unique flavor and is very popular.
There are many recipes for Thirteen Spices. If you break it down, there are those for stir-frying, stewing meat, and making soup. However, most of those sold on the market are general recipes made with Sichuan pepper, star anise, cinnamon, galangal, tangerine peel, nutmeg, dried ginger, amomum, angelica, cloves, costus root, fennel, and galangal.
This kind of formula can be said to be versatile.
But the disadvantage of being versatile is that it goes with everything, so nothing stands out.
When ordinary people cook, they like to use thirteen spices like this in order to avoid mistakes. However, Su Yujin is a good cook and he cooks according to local conditions. He doesn't like this kind of general seasoning.
"Tell them that we can prepare the ingredients ourselves and don't need these thirteen spices." Su Yujin was not interested in these thirteen spices.
"That's what I said originally, but that person said that his Thirteen Spices are different from others, and you'll know if you go and take a look." Shuang Ye replied, "I saw that person was very sure, so I came back to tell you."
A unique thirteen-spice flavor?
Su Yujin blinked, thought for a moment and said, "You go back first, I'll be there later."
Go and have a look at what the Thirteen Spices are like that makes them so different from the others.
After Frost Leaf went out, Su Yujin asked Ai Cao to get a thicker coat to change into before going to Su's.
The peddler was standing at the door of Su Ji, with bamboo baskets hanging on both ends of the shoulder pole under his feet. The bamboo baskets were tightly wrapped with oil paper, and it was impossible to see what was inside.
But even so, Su Yujin could still smell the strong aroma of seasoning coming from the oil paper.
The peddler saw Su Yujin coming and bowed, "This must be the owner of Su Ji, Miss Su, right? My name is Zeng Dayong, and my master and I specialize in selling thirteen spices."
It was freezing cold, and Su Yujin invited the guests to Su's shop. After they were seated, he said, "Just now the waiter said that the thirteen spices that the young man brought were different from the others, but I don't know what the difference is."
When he said this, Zeng Dayong immediately raised his chin, "I'm not exaggerating. The thirteen spices I sell are something that no one else on the market can make. This is my master's top-secret recipe. Whether it's stewing or stir-frying meat, once you add the thirteen spices, the aroma will definitely spread thirteen miles away!"
"The Su Ji restaurant opened by Miss Su is doing good business now, with people coming and going. It's already good. If the thirteen spices I sell are used, the taste will definitely be taken to the next level, and the profit will double."
He talked excitedly for a long time. Seeing that Su Yujin seemed to be uninterested, Zeng Dayong coughed lightly and said, "It's better to see it with your own eyes than to talk about it. Miss Su, take a look at our Thirteen Spices?"
After that, Zeng Dayong took some thirteen spices from the bamboo basket, put them on a small piece of oil paper, and asked Su Yujin to look at them. "Miss Su, smell it, how is the fragrance?"
Su Yujin took the oil paper and first looked at the powder of thirteen spices carefully.
It feels delicate and doesn't stick to your hands, which means it's ground finely enough, passed through a sieve, and fried dry enough without any moisture. Then put it under your nose and smell the smell...
Su Yujin was stunned for a moment, but a little uncertain, and then she smelled it again.
This is indeed a little different from the usual general version of thirteen spices.
But the versions of Thirteen Spices are not exactly the same, and even because of personal preference, even if the purpose is the same, the ingredients may not be exactly the same. But this Thirteen Spices is a little too different.
Su Yujin glanced at Zeng Dayong and asked, "Did you make this Thirteen Spices yourself?"
"This is my master's recipe. We grind it ourselves!" Zeng Dayong said with a smile, "Miss Su, when you smell this, do you think it smells delicious?"
"Indeed." Su Yujin said, "It has added some dried tangerine peel and hawthorn, which are not commonly used in the Thirteen Spices. The most important thing is that it has added ground tangerine peel."
Zeng Dayong was stunned for a moment, and then he opened his mouth after a while, "How did Miss Su know?"
"The flavor of the rice flour is strong and you can smell it. It's not difficult to distinguish." Su Yujin said with a smile, "It's just that the production of rice flour is quite troublesome, and not many people know the production method, so ordinary people don't know it."
"You just said that these thirteen spices were made by your master. I think this powder was also made by your master. Since your master has this skill, why does he only make these thirteen spices to sell?"
Being able to make minced meat powder is an extraordinary skill, but it is a waste of talent to only make thirteen spices that need to be sold on the streets.
Or maybe he was originally a master chef and wanted to live a secluded life? Su Yujin was really curious.
"This... is an old story. It's hard to talk about it." Zeng Dayong scratched his head embarrassedly.
Popular knowledge: Thirteen spices is not a modern invention, it has been around since the Ming Dynasty. This article is fictional and does not take the era into consideration. In addition, chicken powder, also known as ji powder, is not a modern product, it had its prototype in the ancient Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was invented by the ancient god of cooking, King Zhan.
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