Chapter 192 Case File 3: The Mystery of Rose Villa Begins (8)
Jiangyou went into the storage room and counted the ingredients again, and then talked to the butler Richard. Then he sat down at the table in the kitchen, deleted and revised the menu several times, and decided on the final version.
The housekeeper said that seafood such as shrimp and fish needed to be ordered in advance and would not be delivered until the early morning of the next day of the event at the earliest. Jiangyou then adjusted the menu and moved all the dishes requiring fish and shrimp to the next day.
In order to keep the nobles fresh, the menu has to be changed every day. If it is not used on the first day, it will be saved for the next day.
There was a large dinner with thirteen courses on the first night. There were fourteen people in total, including the guests and Madame Butterfly who hosted the dinner. Although it was a little less than the number of people that Yadra had estimated in the letter at the beginning, it was still a considerable workload.
Since they were also preparing for a large dinner, they had to cut corners on the snacks and light meals. After some thought, Jiangyou decided to focus on submarine sandwiches and hand-rolled noodles.
Both of these were quick and easy meals. Although bread and noodles weren't readily available in the Middle Ages, Jiangyou could prepare them in advance. Tomorrow, he could simply prepare a variety of sandwich fillings and noodle soup toppings, and a meal would be ready in just a few minutes.
The storage room is stocked with very fine flour. Jiang You used the [Poison Detection Technique] to check and found that it has a high protein content, almost catching up with modern standard high-gluten flour, which is more than enough for making bread.
The bread for the submarine sandwich can be made with crispy baguette or slightly softer Italian bread, either long white bread or ciabatta. The only difference is the taste, and each is delicious in its own way.
In fact, if Jiangyou had a mold, she could also make toast or hamburger buns...but she didn't think of making these in advance, so naturally she didn't prepare any.
"Well, that's not a big problem. Let's make submarine sandwiches that don't require a mold this time. We can ask the dwarf craftsman to customize the mold when we get back."
Jiang You placed the written menu in the place designated by the butler, and prepared all the ingredients that needed to be pre-processed overnight. He took out the stored soul fire and fed the small rice cake, then picked up the candle and closed the kitchen door: "Call it a day! Go back to your room and sleep~!"
The skeleton fell onto the bed in his room and slept until five in the morning.
Being awakened on time by the little rice cake that diligently acted as an alarm clock, Jiangyou yawned loudly, pushed up his mandible that was almost falling off to reset it, took a towel to wash his face, and then he became a refreshed and clean skeleton again.
There are many things to do in the morning. The Polish dough that has been refrigerated and fermented needs to be further mixed with flour, water and other materials to form a larger dough, so that the yeast that has been multiplying overnight can be revitalized at room temperature and vigorously produce more bubbles in the dough.
The dough needed to be repeatedly fermented, folded, fermented, and folded several times before it was finally shaped into rectangular pieces and placed on the stone slabs of the bread oven for baking. Considering the nobles' appetite, Jiang You did not make each loaf of bread very long.
——Well, as long as it’s enough to eat.
Cut the hand-rolled noodles, sprinkle them with dry flour to prevent them from sticking together, roll them into a neat roll, wrap them tightly with greaseproof paper and put them in the refrigerator. You can eat them whenever you want and cook them whenever you want.
Wash the lettuce and shred the onion. Light up the oven. Thread the marinated duck and ribs onto hooks and hang them up to air dry. Once the oven heats up, place them in the oven to roast.
Then boil water in a pot, stew a pot of beef shanks, and prepare a pot of braising liquid... Three of the four stoves were used at once. The fire licked the bottom of the pot happily, and the liquid in the pot gurgled. The aroma of green onion, ginger, white pepper, and braising ingredients mixed together and spread in the kitchen, making this cold kitchen look full of vitality.
Jiang You's hands are nimble, and he moves around the kitchen several times, making various preparations in an orderly manner. Like all experienced chefs, Jiang You doesn't prepare each dish one by one, but completes all the preparation steps at once, maximizing time and optimizing the flow of food.
Wash the vegetables and meat that need to be cleaned at one time; cut the materials that need to be shredded, sliced or cubed at one time, put them in different basins according to categories, and cover them with clean gauze to keep them fresh and dust-proof.
The fermented dough and meat are sent into the bread oven together and placed near or far away from the heat source for baking according to different temperature requirements.
At six o'clock, the butler Richard appeared mysteriously and took away the menu.
By seven o'clock, the first batch of bread, roast duck, and roast ribs were out of the oven. The beef shank was also stewed and was taken out of the broth by Jiang You and immersed in the marinade.
When baking bread, Jiangyou also stuffed some leftover dough into the oven. Now is the right time to take it out, cut it into small pieces and put it back into the oven to bake until it is dry and crispy. After taking it out again, let it cool, put it in an oil paper bag, and crush it with a rolling pin to get very good breadcrumbs.
Cut the pork belly into steaks, loosen and flatten them with a meat hammer, sprinkle with salt, pepper, cooking wine and a little soy sauce to marinate, then coat them with flour, egg liquid and breadcrumbs in turn, then repeat the process of frying with your left and right hands in slow motion, and then you can fry them in the pan.
The pork chops need to be fried twice. The first time, fry until golden brown and cooked through. Then, place them aside to drain the oil. When customers place their orders, fry them again quickly to ensure that they are crispy and tender on the inside when served.
The main breakfast options are only submarine sandwiches and hand-rolled noodles, but the fillings vary, including pork chop sandwiches, tender roast beef rib sandwiches, braised beef tendon sandwiches, boneless roast duck sandwiches and scrambled egg sandwiches. The hand-rolled noodles include beef noodles, beef rib noodles, pork chop noodles, roast duck noodles and tomato and egg noodles.
All meals can be topped with eggs, whether fried, scrambled or poached.
In addition, there is the British favorite breakfast platter of fried bacon, fried sausages, fried eggs and tomatoes and white kidney beans - Jiangyou thinks that the people of Huntington will also inexplicably like this classic dish.
——Knock knock.
There was a knock on the kitchen door. Andre stood at the door and took a deep breath of the aroma from the kitchen.
Before he could finish his daily routine question, "Is there anything for breakfast?" Jiang You took the initiative to ask, "Hand-rolled noodles or sandwiches, which one do you want?"
“…both?”
Jiang You glanced at Andrei's sweaty arm muscles and asked, "Did you just finish your morning exercise?"
"Yeah, I ran around the villa." Andre nodded. "This villa is very big, occupying the entire mountain."
——No wonder you eat so much, your energy consumption is huge.
Jiangyou understood everything and read out the menu items one by one. Andrei's eyes wandered over the golden pork chop on the table: "Pork chop sandwich, and beef rib noodles with a fried egg."
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