The essence of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is a hodgepodge, but the stewing ingredients are arranged in an orderly manner, thus creating an ultimate superposition of umami flavors. The key points lie in the selection of ingredients and the cooking time.
Different ingredients require different preparation times, so you need to start cooking or soaking them according to the time.
The dried sea cucumbers and abalone soaked before dinner softened after washing the dishes. Uchiha Yuu started the preliminary processing, cutting the sea cucumbers, removing the sand, mouth and teeth hidden inside, and cleaning the abalone again, removing the mouth and gills, and then continued to soak.
Now is the right time to process the fish maw. Pour cold water into the pot and steam it for ten minutes. After the aroma of the fish maw is stimulated, take it out and rinse it immediately. After making sure it is completely cooled, replace it with new well water for soaking.
At this time, a handful of ginger slices is absolutely necessary, because this batch of fish maw comes from the Land of Waves, and I have no idea how the fish maw is dried after being taken out, so the fishy smell is unusually strong. If you don’t do enough to remove the fishy smell, the weird fishy smell can ruin all the work.
At around ten o'clock in the evening, we started to process the fish lips. This thing is actually the scalp of a big fish. It naturally has good waterproof properties, so it needs to be soaked in warm water.
After dealing with the fish lips, the tabby cat that insisted on staying with him was so sleepy that it could not open its eyes. Its whole body hung on Uchiha You's shoulder as if it had no bones.
"Okay, now that work is over for now, Rika-chan, go to bed."
"Meow, don't..." (Weak)
"Don't insist. The work of soaking the conches will take until four o'clock tomorrow. You can have a good rest in between."
"You can't stay up late. You'll be responsible for watching the fire tomorrow. You must get enough rest."
"Meow……"
After settling Miwa Masayo, Uchiha You quietly left home and walked towards the family's storage room.
The so-called storage room is a combination of a library, archives and museum. It is the most important heritage of the Uchiha family. Unfortunately, only Uchiha Yu thinks so at present.
Most members of the Uchiha clan do not attach much importance to the storage room, especially after the former clan leader Uchiha Madara swept away the ninjutsu information and treasures and defected, no one thinks that this place has any value.
Since no one wanted to rearrange them, they simply piled all the things left over by Uchiha Madara together and used it as a storage room or garbage room, leaving them alone.
The person in charge of the storage room was absent for a long time until Uchiha You discovered it and took over. Only under his arrangement did the storage room gradually return to order.
And he also gained a vast amount of knowledge in the process.
After unlocking the storage room and pushing open the heavy stone door that was one and a half feet thick, a faint stench emanated from the room. This was a mixture of sheepskin, ancient primitive ink, dried blood, bone fragments, tortoise shells, tree bark, and other strange carriers of text, and it was quite impactful.
Uchiha Yuu didn't like the taste, but he could tolerate it.
In this ninja world where any entertainment is boring to him, he has become accustomed to the pleasure brought by reading. Searching for interesting stories in Uchiha history in these piles of old papers was one of the few pleasures he had before he met Miwa Masayo.
Eighteen-year-old Uchiha Yu has spent most of his nights in this small storage room for the past fourteen years. When his biological father was still alive, he was also a busy ninja who was often away from home. Staying at home was not as fun as here, nor as safe as here.
It took Uchiha You fourteen years to finally classify and organize all the information, and copied it into twenty-four large scrolls, recording all the legacy of his predecessors in different categories.
The contents of these twenty-four scrolls include the insights of the predecessors from their own battles, rare chakra phenomena, thoughts on chakra research, the aura of bloodline limit development, attempts at fairy power, and speculation on natural energy.
Uchiha You claims to be a true materialist, and he will not collapse just because he has changed into a different world and has extraordinary powers and so-called "Gods".
Those who shout "science is dead" or "physics no longer exists" when they see phenomena beyond their understanding are actually just mechanical materialists.
What they worship is not the materialistic scientific spirit, but the scientific achievements with real power.
For Uchiha You, no matter whether it is supernatural power or God, as long as it really exists, it is something interesting or powerful that can be understood through observation, analysis, and summary, and finally mastered.
However, the premise of all analysis and summary is observation and sufficient information obtained through observation.
And in the storage room, it is filled with information, precious and even irreplaceable information.
It is precisely with this information that Uchiha You can truly embark on the path of immortality, instead of dying from the erosion of natural energy after sensing natural energy.
Uchiha You turned on the lighting in the storage room, and under the bright light, he copied the last part of the original material that had not yet been sorted out.
These words and patterns recorded on the silk have been worn out for hundreds of years, and even the silk has been damaged. The words recorded on it are missing strokes and are very difficult to recognize.
Most of the time, Uchiha You recorded things by guessing, and even had to write down the original incomplete text style and record it as doubtful so that he could study it slowly later.
After transcribing, Uchiha You had to read it carefully, analyze it thoroughly, and classify it into the corresponding scrolls.
By the time I finished today's work, it was already 4:20 in the morning.
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He hurried home, looked at Sanlun Yashi who was still sleeping, and then continued to prepare the materials for Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
Slice the conch, wash it repeatedly, and soak it in new well water after making sure it is clean.
Then, Uchiha You took out the dried scallops, shiitake mushrooms and other ingredients, washed and soaked them, and then soaked the meat ingredients such as the hoof tips, tendons, deer tendons, and pig feet to remove the blood.
It was not until 6:30 in the morning that all the material preparation was finally completed.
Fire, fire hard.
Cut the abalone into pieces, remove the heads and shrimp threads of the fresh shrimps, and boil the quail eggs in cold water and peel them.
Cut the pig's trotter into four parts, chop the soup bones into large pieces, remove the entrails, head, butt and wing tips of the hen, put them together with the trotter tip, tendons and deer tendons into a pot with cold water, add ginger slices and peppercorns, and boil the water over high heat to skim off the blood foam.
Uchiha You carefully skimmed off all the blood foam. This step cannot be neglected, as even the slightest residue can greatly reduce the fragrance of the final product.
After making sure that the boiling water is completely clean, remove most of the firewood, block the air inlet, turn down the heat, add water until it overflows, and slowly simmer the soup.
Heat up a pan with oil, fry the quail eggs until they become tiger skin patterns, then remove them. Clean the pan and pour in cold water. Add ginger slices, green onions, spices, and cooking wine. When the water boils, it's time to test your skills.
Blanch abalone, sea cucumber, and shrimp, and blanch conch slices, flower mushrooms, fish maw, and fish lips in turn. Time is critical, too little time will not completely remove the fishy smell, and too much time will cause the smell to come out prematurely and affect the fusion of flavors.
Find the largest jar in your home, place the pig's trotter bones at the bottom of the jar, then the fish maw, fish lips, conch slices, followed by quail eggs, abalone and sea cucumber.
Add broth and wine. Unfortunately, there is no Huadiao in the ninja world, and sake is not suitable either. Only shochu can be used, which is 50% less mellow and 30% more refreshing.
When it starts to boil, add salt, sugar and soy sauce and mix well. Quickly add sea cucumber, abalone, flower mushroom, quail eggs and shrimp in that order. Add the broth, cover with multiple layers of gauze and then cover with a porcelain bowl to minimize steam leakage.
Finally, place the pot on the fire and start to simmer over low heat.
At this time, Miwa Masayo had woken up and was staring at the earthen jar with his eyes full of fire.