Chapter 43 CASEFILE·4: Night Bandit (10)
"Do you know where the convoy's original destination was?" Andre asked.
Naxia shook her head. "I don't know. I never get involved in my family's business. All along, I just wanted to stay away from them, learn cooking skills, and live my own life."
Andre nodded. He didn't hold much hope in the first place. After all, if Chirsina had been able to get this job from Baron Neumann, she must have had some means of keeping it secret. It was unlikely that she would publicize something that concerned her life and property.
"Don't be too sad, I will do my best to save her." Andre said. He felt that Qiersina's life should not be in danger for the time being.
If they wanted to kill her, they could have just done it right there, leaving just one more body. They kidnapped her specifically because she was still useful.
For example, Qiersina knew the whereabouts of the black tent that had been taken away before.
The task of finding her suddenly became urgent, not only to save her, but also to find the evidence that the Baron had painstakingly hidden.
Andrei didn't even have time to eat lunch before grabbing his saddle and rushing out. Jiang You quickly caught up with him and handed him a small package. "Here, a lunch box! Come on, my lord knight!"
"Come on, Mr. Knight!" The customers in the store also poked their heads out of the windows.
Andre nodded heavily. The burden on his shoulders seemed to have become heavier, but his heart was warm. He felt that he could still keep fighting for these lovely people.
"Gee!" The black horse carried the knight away. The brewing workshop was quiet for a moment, and then returned to its original noisy state.
Nasha calmed down and returned to the kitchen to cook seriously, while Takumi hummed a song while restocking the vending machine for today.
Today Holly brought various edible mushrooms, so Jiangyou didn't plan to make bread cubes, she wanted to make mushroom chips.
Cut shiitake mushrooms and button mushrooms into thick slices, steam them, and then put them into an oven to remove moisture. After they become hard and crispy slices, put them into a bowl and sprinkle with salt, sugar, black pepper and other seasonings and spices. Shake the bowl vigorously so that the mushroom slices are evenly coated with a layer of seasoning.
After mixing well, divide the chips into two parts, and divide the extra half into small portions and wrap them with greaseproof paper.
If you eat too much of this kind of thing, it will feel salty and dry, so it is best to just taste it.
Reducing the portion size can lower the price per package and keep diners' experience of them at the best stage, which is a two-pronged approach.
The remaining small pile of mushroom chips was placed in a bamboo basket lined with oil paper as a snack for tonight's book club.
Jiangyou put the packaged mushroom chips into the vending machine and put a new notice on the vending machine.
Today's sale: Mushroom chips 1 nickel per bag
Seeking clues related to the robbers and last night's case! 】
"That's it!" She patted her bone claws and said with satisfaction.
For tonight's dessert, she chose mung bean soup. The plump, fresh mung beans, paired with seasonal lotus seeds and tender lilies, were a perfect combination. If possible, Jiangyou would have added dried tangerine peel... but unfortunately, dried tangerine peel requires citrus peel to be sun-dried for at least three years, with ventilation and drying in between. This process would probably be impossible to complete with the Crucible of Time, so he had to temporarily omit this ingredient.
After all, it's just a homemade sweet soup for the neighbors, so adding one ingredient or another doesn't really matter. Mung bean soup can be enjoyed in many different ways: just with mung beans, or with kelp, or with barley, or with lotus seeds and lily bulbs. For a more sophisticated take, add dried tangerine peel. You can add sugar or not, or even honey—it's completely up to you.
This is what Chinese aesthetics is all about. There is a way of living that is particular but also a way of being casual but also a way of being convenient. As long as you live a happy life, that's enough.
Different people have different preferences. For example, although Jiang You is from Guangdong, she still can't accept the mung bean and kelp drink. But accepting every traditional food equally, rather than being like a lightning rod, is the source of the profoundness of Chinese cuisine. This is the universality and inclusiveness of Chinese cuisine.
In a well-connected city, culinary traditions from all corners of the globe converge and collide. Gradually, these diverse culinary traditions assimilate and merge, ultimately creating innovative, flavorful dishes that blend seamlessly. Culinary culture is a collision and fusion of tradition and consciousness; blindly clinging to the past will not foster a new culture or future.
Of course, everything has the pain of trial and error on the road to development. If you feel it is too salty, add less salt; if you feel it is too spicy, add less chili. But how can you find the right recipe without trying it thousands of times?
Now, in order to make the traditional recipes of the previous life shine in the land of Huntington Duchy, Jiang You had to select ingredients according to local conditions and adapt to local conditions. He would reproduce what could be reproduced, improve and replace what had similar substitutions, and skip what he couldn't find... He was completely living like Liuzi.
There was a basket of mushroom chips and a pot of lily, lotus seeds and mung bean soup, but Jiangyou felt that something was missing. She thought about it and decided to make some gingerbread men.
Gingerbread men are small Western-style cookies. Besides the usual ingredients of butter, flour, sugar, and eggs, they also require ginger and cinnamon. Cinnamon is a common ingredient in Huntington, readily available in regular grocery stores. Gingerbread is also easy to make, requiring only dried ginger to be ground into a powder.
The dough for gingerbread men can be made into the shapes of small people with various expressions, or into trees, flowers, and hearts. Both the taste and the appearance are very popular among children.
The production method is also very simple. Mix and sift flour, ginger powder, cinnamon powder and other powders, add sugar and eggs and mix evenly, then pour in melted liquid butter and knead into a smooth dough. After proofing at room temperature for 30 minutes, roll the relaxed dough into a dough about 3 mm thick.
Now is the time to unleash your creativity and use various kitchen tools to create the perfect shapes on the dough: figurines, butterflies, hearts, flowers, bees, chibi skulls... whatever's cute, just do it your way. Finally, use a knife to carve out details like facial expressions, clothing patterns, and more.
Place the cut cookies of various shapes on a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper and put them into the bread oven for baking. Keep the high temperature of 180 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes, and the fragrant gingerbread will be out of the oven.
When the cookies were baked, the entire brewery was filled with the unique sweet and slightly spicy aroma of cinnamon and ginger. The diners who were still in the shop were so greedy that they surrounded Jiangyou and insisted on spending a lot of money to share the entire baking tray of gingerbread.
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