In the end, the people who returned their bowls were not only the palace servants from the western kitchen, but also the managers of other departments, all of whom came to ask for a bowl of dessert.
And everyone brought back gifts.
The Bingzhang Bureau was the most simple. They simply bought a few black chickens and raised them next to the ducks.
Fortunately, the small kitchen and yard of the west kitchen are so small that we now have two ducks and three black chickens.
Other departments presented freshly harvested water chestnuts and lotus seeds, as well as two plump carps.
Silver carp in spring, carp in summer, mandarin fish in autumn and bream in winter.
This is the best time to eat fish in each season, but in addition to carp, there is also a precious perch.
It can be seen how much confidence everyone has in Su Wan's cooking skills. They all try hard to find all kinds of good ingredients, hoping that she can open a small kitchen when she has nothing to do.
As soon as I saw smoke coming out of the small kitchen chimney, I knew there would be something delicious.
Su Wan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
But there is no time now.
The first round of the five-day summer menu hasn’t been completed yet, she really doesn’t have time!
I made shaved ice today on a whim.
Xiaoyue, who had just finished eating, couldn't help but say, "I really hope you can be inspired every day."
Everyone couldn't help but nod.
that is!
Su Wan was interested for a moment, so they were in for a treat!
Su Wan also likes to make desserts to make everyone happy. So when she leaves the palace, can she open a dessert shop? It seems like a good idea.
Of course, for the time being, the money she has saved is not enough.
I have more than thirty taels now. If I want to rent a shop in Kyoto, I can only rent one in the most remote places, and I don’t think I can rent it for too long.
After finishing the dessert, Xia Ri naturally took a nap, Su Wan took a nap, and Xie Pei was superstitious in his hands.
During these days, he contacted his old subordinates, gained connections, and met with ministers. His invisible pressure increased a little, and he did not look like an ordinary teenager at all.
However, Xie Pei looked at the dessert bowl beside him and saw only a little bit of smoothie left.
This bit of ice made him look less cold.
After Su Wan woke up, she naturally started to make fried cold noodles and cold gluten for dinner.
But both of these are easy to do and she doesn't have to worry too much.
Moreover, the cold noodles have been prepared in the morning, so you can use them directly.
The Military Equipment Bureau also said that from now on, they would not need to prepare the cold noodles from the West Kitchen because they had taught them how to make them and they would do it from now on.
After these words were spoken, everyone in the west kitchen laughed for a long time.
This is also good. Washing face is indeed hard work. Someone will help me with it in the future!
For the people in the various departments of the West Outer Palace, the first day of the menu change was a surprise for them. After having this dinner, they naturally began to look forward to what to eat for the next meal.
June 2nd, the second day of the summer menu.
I had wonton noodles for breakfast. The soup was delicious, the noodles were tasty, and the wontons had thin skin and big fillings.
Many people are still praising it, saying that the fillings made by the Western Kitchen are getting better and better, and they are all delicious.
By noon, there were naturally twice-cooked pork, stir-fried pork with garlic sprouts, etc. While eating these meat dishes, the palace servants of the West Outer Palace clearly discovered something.
"Why are there more meat dishes today?"
"There were quite a lot yesterday, especially in the morning."
In fact, there was meat in the previous dishes, but the meat was not as solid as it is now, and you can pick out a piece at any time.
Who doesn't like eating meat?
Su Wan smiled and replied, "We have enough food for June."
After finishing her words, Su Wan added: "We have to visit the inner palace every month, so we can eat first. July shouldn't be too bad, right?"
The people in the palace also understood this principle and distributed the food once a month, and the food they distributed this time was all good.
Western-style kitchens are getting better and better nowadays. Not only are the meals delicious, but there are also more ingredients.
Many people secretly praised Su Wan, but Su Wan would always refute them whenever she heard them.
This is not her credit, but the work of the Western Kitchen's Shangshi Department.
Cook pork offal and vermicelli soup in the evening, and have scallion pancakes to eat.
It’s great to have meat, eating meat makes people happy!
The third day was no exception. I had fish porridge in the morning, roast chicken with chestnuts at noon, and cold noodles with shredded chicken and green beans in the evening.
Many people also say that it is good that the nobles in the inner palace are not in the palace. Everyone can eat and drink as usual, and as long as they do their own things, everything seems to be peaceful.
There is no previous sense of urgency.
Apart from the heat, there's nothing bad about it.
But in the afternoon, all kinds of summer-relief soups are made in different ways, and occasionally you can even have apple soup!
We heard that this was a personal award from a powerful person, and everyone was very grateful.
When Su Wan heard Concubine Jiang's name mentioned, she naturally said nothing. It was okay to praise her in private to others, but she couldn't complain about her.
Deputy Prime Minister Xi is the best example.
These past few days, Su Wan had been really busy in the kitchen. Sometimes she could only take a break in the Guandi Temple for a while, mainly to eat eggs.
There are too many people in the kitchen, and it would feel weird to eat the eggs I bought myself, so it’s better to eat with Yan Pei.
Yan Pei naturally would not refuse, and the two of them ate an egg every day, and they followed the principle very well.
On the fourth day after the menu was changed, we had steamed dumplings and noodle soup in the morning, and a few stir-fried dishes at noon, one of which was garlic pork ribs. Although each person could only get one piece, it was already very precious to the palace people, and they ate it with gusto.
In the evening, we had chewy and flavorful sliced noodles with the fried meat sauce making it extremely fragrant.
Wei Jun, who secretly tried Su Wan’s cooking, said that the taste of the knife-cut noodles was somewhat similar to the stir-fried noodles, but it was delicious anyway.
Speaking of stir-fried noodles, it seems like it was a long time ago.
It was also because of that bowl of stir-fried noodles that the deputy chief steward of the Imperial Household Department knew about Su Wan’s cooking skills, which led to the current situation.
However, Su Wan still asked: "Your chief steward has gone to the palace. Did he say when he will be back?"
"I don't know. We'll have to wait until the summer heat is over before we know for sure." Wei Jun said casually, "The palace is a remote place, but it's also cool."
Yes, there was no air conditioning back then, so I had to go there to escape the heat.
On the fifth day of changing the menu, I had fried buns and corn porridge in the morning, as well as two stir-fried side dishes.
For lunch, I had noodles with beans, pork belly and kelp soup.
In the evening, I had minced meat pancakes, loofah and egg soup, and Tai Chi taro paste.
No one expected that the most popular dish would be the braised noodles with green beans.
The noodles were steamed until they were greasy. Actually, there wasn’t much pork belly in the noodles, but the aroma of the pork permeated into the noodles, and the sauce was thick at the end. The noodles looked golden in color and shiny on the outside.
It tastes fresh, salty and soft, with a unique aroma of beans and pork.
One person can eat two big bowls!
When serving food, each person gets a generous portion, along with refreshing kelp soup, which looks clear but is actually delicious.
After five days of menu, everyone will love the food.
And after eating for five days, everyone seems to have just discovered something.
That is the five-day menu of the Western Kitchen this time. In the five-day menu of today and spring, the meals are never repeated!
Even the porridge was not repeated!
And every dish is delicious, how can it be so amazing?
Not only that, each dish is very different from each other, which shows that Su Wan is very familiar with these menus and can even use any ingredients at will.
When making the summer menu, summer flavors were also taken into consideration.
The ingredients are mostly summer seasonal dishes, which are not only cheap but also taste fresh. It is definitely a good idea to eat seasonal ingredients.
Many palace servants in the West Outer Palace still couldn't believe it. Even though they had eaten so much food, the changes in the West Kitchen were so fast that it was simply unbelievable.
Believe it or not, once the food is in your mouth, you can’t spit it out!
After the five-day menu is over, some people are still ranking the food they have eaten and which one is the most delicious.
But it is difficult to satisfy everyone, and there are still some arguments among the palace people. It’s also because there is really little time in the palace now, so they chat about these things to kill time.
While Su Wan was busy in the west kitchen, she didn't know that a portion of the pancakes and cold noodles she made had been secretly taken away.
The man seemed to be a palace servant of the Shangbao Supervisor. He secretly brought the food from the west kitchen out of the palace and gave it to the three people carrying the tea bottles.
It turned out that the three of them finally figured out what was going on last time, and finally understood why the two eunuchs of the Shangbaojian did not ask them to buy food.
But after returning, the three were still unwilling to give up.
There are many delicious foods in the palace, everyone knows that.
But it would be fine if others didn’t know, but the three of them knew it.
The food in the west kitchen has always been bad. I have heard the palace maids in the Shangbao Supervisor complain about it countless times before.
How could it be changed in such a short time?
So the three of them pooled together a few taels of silver and asked someone to help bring it out.
The person who brought the food did have some dealings with them before, and he helped this time, but seeing the cold noodles and pancakes with vegetables being taken away by them, he felt very sad.
Fortunately, hot and sour soup is not easy to carry, so he had already drunk it.
But this is not enough, let’s go have some braised pork rice.
The three people who got the cold noodles and pancakes with vegetables have not yet opened the two oil paper packages.
After all, it was something shameful, so he just ran to one of the men's house with the oil paper bag in his pocket.
The three of them looked at each other.
The three of them are crazy to do such a thing.
But when they thought that the reward money from the two general managers of the Shangbaojian would no longer be there, the three of them were unwilling to accept it.
Even if I become a ghost, I must be a clear-headed ghost.
Since you can't make this money, you need to understand why!
But is this thing really delicious?
But the moment you open the oil paper package, the aroma of the pancake and vegetables comes out immediately.
Last time in the small kitchen, Su Wan asked someone to buy some braised meat. But when eating in the big kitchen, there would definitely be no meat, but you could choose three out of six kinds of vegetarian dishes.
The little eunuch who came out with the bag picked the bean skewers with green peppers and bean sprouts.
The three of them took a closer look and while it smelled good, they were not too surprised.
But this pancake is really good.
In order to buy food for the chief steward of the Shangbaojian, they also did some research on gourmet food.
I opened another oil paper package and first smelled a refreshing fragrance, then a kind of food I had never seen before. The eunuch said that this thing was called cold skin, and it was topped with cucumber shreds and a delicious sauce.
It seems that both foods don’t have a strong aroma, but they are able to capture people’s hearts?
It's so hot now, it's not easy for them to go out and do something, and they just get this?
Even so, one of the three people suggested, "How about trying it?"
Then try it!
Let’s see what’s so special about this delicacy that is loved by the two eunuchs of Shangbaojian.
But the pancake needs to be cut into pieces and divided equally among three people, while the cold noodles can be taken with chopsticks.
First, there is a bite of pancake. Isn’t it just a pancake with vegetables inside?
!!! ?
This cake is extraordinary, the taste is so different! It's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, but the layering of the cake is so strong.
If there are no layers in the pancake, it would not be surprising to just put some vegetables in it. There are such restaurants in Kyoto.
But if the layers inside the pancake are stronger, it will absorb the soup of the dish better. The soup is inside the pancake with excellent taste, and it will be crispy and fragrant when you take a bite.
Three people shared a cake and it was almost gone in two bites.
I thought I had eaten the pancakes and vegetables quickly enough, but it was even more terrible when it came to the cold noodles.
After just one bite of the cold noodles, the table is no longer a table, but a battlefield!
If three people share one serving of cold noodles, how can there not be a huge fight over it?
After eating, the three people looked at each other again.
This is just a simple meal in the western kitchen. If the food is of this standard, it’s no wonder that the eunuchs of the Shangbaojian are unwilling to come out.
The three teapot carriers sighed.
It seems that they can't make money from the palace.
But one of them, named Gan Xing, had a bold idea in his mind.
Although he didn't know how to make this cold noodle, since it could be supplied in large quantities to various officials in the palace, it should not be a precious ingredient.
Since it is not expensive, can he cooperate with the people who make the cold noodles?
It seems to be a little palace maid named Su Wan?
If they cooperate, they will definitely make a lot of money, and he won't have to ask for any rewards.
It’s not that Gan Xing is confident, but the food is too good. In the hot summer weather, I always feel that this bowl of cold noodles is more refreshing.
Judging from his experience with tea bottles, this food will surely become popular throughout Kyoto!
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