When Mr. Su got the baking soda, he didn't believe it at first.
People say that the snacks he makes are old-fashioned. If he makes date cakes and peach cakes, wouldn’t they be even more old-fashioned?
Then he really thought about it.
Master Su took a bite of the peach pastry, and then took another bite.
Or is it the method of making peach pastry yourself? Why is it so crispy?
A lot crispier than before!
Mr. Su immediately started making it again, but this time he did not add the baking soda that Su Wan gave him. He followed the same steps and did it alone, and the time difference was only one hour.
Why is the taste so different?
The peach pastry with baking soda is so crispy that it falls apart, and your mouth is filled with fragrance. This pastry is very fluffy and ten times more delicious than the previous peach pastry!
One reason why old-fashioned dim sum like this is difficult to make is that every dim sum shop can make it, so it is difficult to get it right.
The same goes for the remaining date cakes. They are so fluffy that even an old lady without teeth can eat them.
No matter how I made the dough, controlled the time, or mastered the yeast, I always felt like something was missing.
Mr. Su even used this baking soda to make old-fashioned cake again, and it came out just as tasty and even fluffier.
Mr. Su looked at the baking soda in front of him and suddenly felt distressed. Why had he used up most of it?
What a pity!
This thing is so good, it can make something that is 70% good enough to be 90% good.
If I can make date cakes and peach pastries, I will definitely let him stay in Qingfeng Tower!
Master Su looked at the note sent from the palace again, and suddenly felt that something was wrong with the paper. After twisting it open, he found another piece of paper at the back, which read: "Limited to 300 portions per day. Please ask Third Aunt to pick up the baking soda once every half a month by car."
There are two more words below: "Apologize".
The words above indicate that baking soda will not be given in unlimited quantities. Three hundred peach cakes and date cakes are given every day, which is enough for half a month. No more.
But Mr. Su could understand very well.
It would be strange if such a good thing was not limited in quantity!
It must have cost Su Wan a lot to get it. This girl is also filial, and it seems like she did it all for her aunt.
The word "apology" is obviously a reminder of this matter.
Mr. Su had a headache. Why did Su Wan become like this? He never thought she had such a bad temper before.
Thinking of what Su Wan said before entering the palace, and looking at the paper that said her aunt had to take a car to get baking soda, how could she not understand Su Wan's meaning.
Everything depends on Third Aunt's attitude.
If the Su family treats the third aunt well, Su Wan will give her baking soda. If the family treats the third aunt badly, the baking soda will be stopped. Mr. Su now knows what is going on.
He definitely couldn't go to apologize, and Su Zheng's wife probably wouldn't be able to do that given her temper.
The Second Aunt has been causing trouble for the Third Aunt recently, so just let her go and apologize. Watching her apologize will eventually make things right.
After all, this stuff is so good.
Although Mr. Su, who has been making pastries all his life, is not very talented and has no mood to study them, he has been dealing with these things all his life and can see the ins and outs of them.
The most important thing is that he only saw that this thing was good, but he couldn't make it himself.
It’s not so easy for people to understand the principle behind the secret recipe of the palace.
Anyway, with this thing, he can return to Fengqing Tower and even increase his monthly salary.
It’s not that Mr. Su has never thought about changing jobs, but Fengqinglou is one of the most famous restaurants in Kyoto, and he has been here for many years. He won’t be able to adapt to the new place, so he might as well go back.
With what he has, all the previous things are no problem.
Mr. Su directly asked his eldest son to deliver the peach cakes and date cakes to Fengqing Tower, and asked him to go there quickly and deliver them while they were hot.
Less than quarter of an hour after the delivery, the owner of Fengqinglou returned with the eldest son. He was very friendly to Master Su at this time, calling him "brother" and "delicious" with every word.
Finally, he asked a question: "It's just an ordinary snack. How can you make it so well and with such superb skills? Why didn't you bring it out before?"
Master Su pretended to be mysterious: "How could my ancestors' abilities be bad?"
But after he finished speaking, Master Su also realized that something was wrong. It seemed as if Su Wancheng was his ancestor, so he simply kept silent: "Do you think these two things are easy to sell?"
"Of course it will sell well. Something that everyone likes must have its merits. And it's made to look better. I think it's not worse than those in the palace." The owner of Qingfeng Tower knew what was going on after looking at Mr. Su's expression.
It seems to be a prescription from the palace.
I knew his youngest daughter was in the palace before, so it seems like she was receiving some instructions.
Although I really don't want to use Master Su, his work is stable and now he has a good recipe, so what else can I say.
The monthly salary increase has to come too!
If Qingfenglou can launch such dim sum, it will naturally be able to regain some business.
The key is that the dim sum is really delicious. He has been in the restaurant business for so many years and understands this principle very well. Sometimes, a store can be supported by just one food, which serves as an excuse to attract customers.
As for what Mr. Su said about limited edition, that is naturally not a big deal. Limited edition is good, and it is more attractive.
After the owner of Qingfeng Tower left, Mr. Su's monthly salary increased from fifteen taels to twenty taels.
That’s five taels of silver more!
Needless to say, many people came for the peach cakes and date cakes.
This is not an exaggeration. For a restaurant, this amount of money is nothing as long as you can get delicious food.
Mr. Su looked at the remaining baking soda excitedly.
That's great.
Sending a daughter to the palace really brings a lot of good things, including monthly allowance and prescriptions.
However, thinking that now she has to rely on Su Wan to get the secret seasoning, she naturally cannot take her monthly salary.
Now it seems that Su Wan is actually hiding the truth from both sides.
The Su family thought she was using a prescription from the palace.
The palace thought that her craft was inherited from her family.
Among them, only Yan Pei and Wei Jun seemed to notice the difference.
But these two naturally didn't say much, not to mention Yan Pei. With Wei Jun's intelligence, he didn't ask a single question, not even to his master.
Everyone has their own secrets, and this is nothing.
Besides, he had eaten so many delicious foods provided by Su Wan, so he couldn't help but feel soft-hearted, so why should he think too much?
Su Wan has prepared the autumn menu and dealt with the troubles at home.
No one expected that Master Su would suddenly change and return to his original appearance. Not only was he even more arrogant than before, his monthly salary also increased. The incident of him molesting the boss's concubine before was no longer a big deal.
After eating the snacks newly made by Master Su, no one had anything to say. He originally wanted to chase away his two apprentices, but who would have thought that they just left directly, probably to find better jobs elsewhere.
Master Su is looking at you, and you still want his position? You’re dreaming.
The boss of Qingfeng Tower naturally went along with him now. He not only invited his son, but also let Master Su choose when he was recruiting apprentices to help.
The owner of Qingfeng Tower vaguely felt that the dim sum was different, so his attitude changed very quickly.
Sure enough, on the first day when peach cakes and date cakes were launched, Qingfeng Tower was ridiculed.
After spending so much time preparing the snacks, is this it?
Which dim sum shop can’t make it?
Then those who ate the peach cakes and date cakes were dumbfounded.
This texture, this cooking time, this flavor?
Is there such a crispy feeling?
Did they eat it right?
Is this really peach pastry? Isn't it just a different dessert?
Of course, there was no change. The snack was still the same, but the production process was slightly improved. Once everyone tasted the soft date cake, they were completely conquered.
Why are the pastries made by Qingfenglou so different!
When everyone wanted to buy more, they heard the boss say, "The daily limit is 300, and each person can only buy two. Our chefs have gone back to rest after finishing their work, so we can't have more."
"No? How can that be? My family hasn't tasted it yet."
"Yes, one serving of peach cakes with four pieces, one serving of date cakes with four pieces, a total of eight things. Who can eat them?"
"We are old friends, you can't do this to me, right?"
"I am a regular customer of your store."
The owner of Qingfeng Tower hadn't heard such words for a long time, and he knew that what he was doing was right.
It can really help them to improve their business here.
Those who didn’t buy dim sum are here now, so why not have a meal here? Those who bought dim sum will naturally sit down and enjoy them. At the very least, they will buy a pot of scented tea, right?
Anyway, it does bring a lot of business here.
As long as this business is still there, Boss Su will naturally still be here.
Soon, the news that Qingfenglou made old-fashioned pastries extremely delicious spread.
Everyone said that Mr. Su only knew how to make old-fashioned pastries. Now you are all dumbfounded, right?
The old-fashioned ones can also make flowers!
For a while, Mr. Su naturally kept flattering people, but he wouldn't tell anyone who asked him. He had to keep it a secret.
The Third Aunt became completely quiet, and no one in the Su family dared to disturb her anymore. She no longer had to do her laundry herself. The Su family's maid would sort out her things first every day, and then other people's things.
If the Third Aunt wanted to go out, the servant at home would open the door immediately without saying a word.
At first, the third aunt was a little scared, but gradually she got used to this kind of life.
She already had the small courtyard that Su Wan had fought for. Now she could eat by herself when she wanted to, and go to the living room when she wanted to. It actually seemed like she was living alone.
The Su family’s wife originally wanted to say something, but was directly scolded by Master Su.
If he didn't have the baking soda given by Su Wan, he would have been out of work now. In this case, he would have to make Third Aunt feel uncomfortable.
You are out of your mind.
Of course, Master Su didn't say this, because only Su Wan, Master Su, and the Third Aunt knew about the baking soda matter.
Auntie will definitely not harm Su Wan, that's for sure.
Master Su also felt that "stealing" things from the palace was a serious crime, and that his property might be confiscated and he might be exiled, so he didn't dare to say anything.
However, Su Wan knew that this thing actually belonged to her, so she was not afraid of leaking it out anywhere.
But now use this thing to restrain Master Su. As long as Master Su wants to use baking soda for a day, he has to be nice to the Third Aunt. Or he doesn't even have to be nice to her. Just let the aunt live alone in the small courtyard.
But if she wants to truly calm down, Second Aunt must also apologize.
Thinking of the fact that Su Wan had the thing that could increase his monthly salary, Master Su forced the Second Aunt to apologize, which left the Third Aunt at a loss.
After all this trouble, it has become clear who will be the master of the Su family in the future.
Anyway, the maids of the Su family have already sided with the Third Aunt.
Thinking about her daughter being in the palace and being so capable, she would definitely want to curry favor with her.
Although we don’t know what Su Wan did this time, but Mr. Su was able to go back definitely with the help of Third Aunt’s daughter.
Upon seeing this, the Third Aunt followed her daughter's suggestion and gave the Su family's maid some snacks and some cloth as a reward.
Of the only two servants in the Su family, one of them sided with the Third Aunt.
To be precise, it was towards Su Wan.
Su Wan first threatened to lose her job, then gave her some sweet treats, and then lured her with subsequent benefits. The Third Aunt had an extraordinary status in the Su family.
The servants were grateful for having monthly pay again and were only thankful to the Third Aunt, treating her like a proper master.
After Yan Pei passed on the news, Su Wan felt relieved.
She originally thought that a little money every month would buy her a safe life, but she didn't expect that Mr. Su would almost lose his job.
In that case, we just went with the flow, and that’s how we got to the current situation.
It sounds simple to plan, but it is a step-by-step process to carry out in detail.
Since Su Wan dared to do this, she must have known what was going on.
She knew what she was doing every step of the way.
It was definitely unrealistic to bring my aunt out of the Su family. Where would she live? She had more than three hundred taels of silver on hand, which was definitely not enough to buy a house in Kyoto, let alone a place with good public security.
Not to mention that buying is not enough, even if you rent, what happens next?
The safety of the Third Aunt and her future life will be full of troubles. Even if Su Wan is willing to overcome all difficulties, is that the kind of life that the Third Aunt wants?
No matter how bad the Su family is, she will feel more at ease staying in a familiar place.
Sometimes when doing something, it’s not about what you think is good, but about whether the other person feels comfortable. Su Wan has been in contact with the Third Aunt for so long and knows her personality.
Living alone in the small courtyard is the most suitable method. Su's wife has been married to the Su family for more than 20 years, and the third concubine was first a maid and then a concubine, also for more than 20 years. The outside world is completely unfamiliar to her.
It would be fine if her daughter was with her, but if she went out to live, she would be alone.
What's the difference between forcefully changing a person's living habits and those people who are full of control and claim they are doing this for your own good?
Yan Pei looked at her and said, "I envy Third Aunt so much for having someone who cares about her wholeheartedly."
"She is also thinking about me." Su Wan said. Of course, she couldn't treat the Third Aunt as her own mother, but she would naturally respond to her kindness.
Now that the matter is finally over, she can breathe a sigh of relief.
It's not that she hadn't tried to ask her aunt to move out, but walking from Chongnanfang to Lingtaisi to see her was the farthest journey her aunt had ever made in more than 20 years. So she decided to forget it. It was good enough like this now.
The Su family's affairs were put under control. After this incident, the situation of the Su family changed quietly.
Originally, the head of the family was Mr. Su, who had the highest monthly salary in the family. But now, the person at the top has quietly become Su Wan. What Su Wan gives once every half a month determines the family's income.
It was almost the first day of August, but Su Wan was not in a hurry to give the baking soda. She even sent a message back that the baking soda would be given a few days later.
That’s right, Su Wan was deliberately keeping Master Su in suspense to let him know that this thing was not so easy to get.
Only things that are not easy to get will be cherished and valued.
Master Su naturally had no choice. Now he relied entirely on Su Wan to do things. The Third Aunt was better off at home, and she also had more free time.
It is said that as time goes by, the people in power in a family will change. Now it seems that the Su family has begun to change.
Things outside the palace were dealt with, and the palace's autumn menu was also changed.
Several stewards who had already tried the dishes praised the new menu many times, making the palace people very much looking forward to it.
But for the Western Kitchen, there is another important thing, that is, in the future, the Shangshisi will no longer have to go to the Imperial Household Department to get things, but will be directly responsible for the Ministry of Rites.
The Ministry of Rites is the catering department that is responsible for the ingredients of Guanglu Temple and Shangshisi.
The expenses they incurred went directly to the Ministry of Households.
One is that the funds are more sufficient, and the other is that the people from the Shangshi Department do not have to deal with people who ask for money. They only need to make a reasonable menu and come up with a list of the necessary ingredients.
As long as it is within the budget and does not exceed the prescribed amount, there will basically be no problem.
If the people from the Ministry of Revenue want to make things difficult, they have to go through the Ministry of Rites.
Everyone followed the rules. The Shangshisi only had to cook well, and they were also given some autonomy every month, all of which was distributed as loose money to the Shangshenjian for emergencies.
I don’t have to go to the inner palace for meetings anymore!
No longer have to depend on the Imperial Household Department for your life!
The ladies-in-waiting at the imperial palace were happy, and the ladies-in-waiting at the temporary palace were naturally happy as well, and they prepared a lot of delicious food and sent it to the saint.
Except for Concubine Jiang who had calmed down.
The officials of the Ministry of Revenue were also severely injured.
What happened to the Imperial Food Department that was supposed to belong to them? The Grand Secretary of Zhongji Hall gave it to the Ministry of Rites with just two words!
Their Ministry of Revenue has money and grain, which is actually pretty good.
Having said that, the Minister of Revenue still had a good impression of the female official from the Imperial Food Department. After all, she had wanted to choose the Minister of Revenue in the first place.
At this time, after a big court meeting in early August, the Minister of Revenue congratulated the female official of the Imperial Food Department and said, "Now that the ceremony is complete, congratulations on your promotion."
The head of the Imperial Food Department smiled and said, "Thank you, Lord Shangshu, for your kind words."
"This is nothing, you should be promoted."
After all, it was under the Ministry of Rites. Although the names of many positions did not change, the chief of the Shangshi Division was already a fifth-rank official, promoted to a fourth-rank official.
As long as you do your job steadily, promotion to the fourth rank is just around the corner.
However, before reaching the third rank, the official uniform is still red and they wear a silver fish bag, but the patterns on the uniform are more complicated, making it look more imposing.
However, the chief of the Shangshi Division can also appoint two fifth-rank doctors, and their food, clothing and salary will change in the future.
So this promotion is real.
Many officials came to congratulate after the court session, and the superiors naturally responded to them one by one. Some of them felt that it was inappropriate for a woman to be an official of the fourth rank.
However, the promotion of the Chief of the Shangshi Department was also initiated by the Grand Secretary of the Zhongji Palace, and no one else dared to say anything openly.
The Ministry of Personnel was doing things in a traditional way and seemed to have no objections. The Ministry of Personnel was in charge of the promotion of officials, and they had no objection, so it was even more difficult for others to say anything nonsense.
The matter was done directly.
The upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival banquet will be hosted jointly by the Guanglu Temple and the Shangshi Bureau, and it is bound to be a grand occasion.
Concubine Jiang hasn't come out for a long time, and all the matters in the palace are handled by Concubine Chu.
Concubine Chu also sent a gift to the head of the Imperial Food Department for his promotion.
Although there is not much contact between the two, the enemy of this enemy is a friend, and the subtlety of this is naturally self-evident.
As for how many things Concubine Jiang broke, I won’t go into details. Anyway, it has nothing to do with the Imperial Food Bureau for the time being.
In the west kitchen of the palace, breakfast for the first day of the autumn menu has been finished.
Honey-roasted sweet potatoes taste really sweet.
Everyone has also discovered that, probably because there is an abundance of sugarcane, the Shangshi Bureau makes some sweet snacks when they have nothing to do. The palace servants working in the palace are all young and they all like the taste.
The West Kitchen also discovered that the ingredients sent from the Ministry of Rites were exceptionally fresh. As long as they were seasonal fruits and vegetables, they all looked very fresh.
Since the Shangshi Division had just been incorporated into the Ministry of Rites, everyone received preferential treatment.
Other departments that still have to look at the mood of the inner palace are extremely envious.
If it were a fair and efficient person in power, it would actually be fine, but everyone knows what the situation is now.
But this is not the key point. The key point is that no matter how well the inner palace does, she is just the head nanny and will become the head of a palace in the future.
But the Shangshi Division directly opened up a path for promotion.
What most people see is that the Shangshi Division has just changed its name, but in fact, the promotion within is the most important.
The matter has been decided, there is no point in talking about it anymore.
Among all the departments in the inner palace, only the Shangshi Department is special, and others cannot envy it.
Not to mention anything else, when Shangshi encountered that kind of thing some time ago, they were able to grit their teeth and handle it, and even seemed to be able to handle it with ease in the end. This is a skill. Can others do it?
Since it is not possible, there is no point in being envious, just eat well! The autumn menu of Shangshisi is out!
On the first day of the autumn menu, in the morning, we had honey-braised sweet potatoes, stir-fried crispy lotus root, and multi-grain porridge with a little sweet potato.
After eating it in the hot autumn, the whole person feels comfortable.
By the time of lunch, there was no need to talk about the power of the lotus leaf steamed pork. The doctor from the Ministry of Rites had successfully sneaked into the compartment and was eating and drinking for free every day.
He felt regretful while eating. After he finished his work in the palace, he would have to return to the Ministry of Rites. From then on, he would not be able to eat Su Wan's cooking, and he would not even be able to eat the meals from the west kitchen.
The people from the Ministry of Rites came to the Outer Palace for official business, so they naturally had to go back after finishing their work.
Originally thought to be a tough job, but every time colleagues in the Ministry of Rites saw this official named Cui Hucheng, they felt that he seemed to have gained a lot of weight recently.
Is the food in the western kitchen really that good?
They had all heard of the reputation of the Western Kitchen before, but now it was completely different from the rumors.
On the second day of the autumn menu, I had spinach pancakes with shredded carrots and rice porridge with salted egg yolks in the morning.
There is no need to mention the other dishes at noon, but the roasted pig's trotters with taro was highly praised.
This pig's trotter is boiled, fried and stewed in three steps. Everyone who eats it will praise it as delicious.
When Cui Hucheng, a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, heard everyone praising the delicious food from his hometown, he immediately took a few more bites. If he ate one piece less, he would eat faster!
Try to eat more before finishing your errand to make up for the loss!
In the evening, we shared pork offal rice noodles and crumbly sesame cakes, which were so delicious.
On the third day of the autumn menu, there are two flavors of buns, one sweet and one salty, as well as red date porridge and pickles provided by Zaliku. Breakfast is still very rich.
For lunch, we have taro and pork intestine chicken, which is usually called taro chicken.
This dish also uses taro, but it is obviously different from the taro we ate yesterday. This small taro has a very soft texture, but it also absorbs flavors.
The method is not simple, but the taste is excellent.
Blanch the chicken, pig intestines and taro separately. In addition to taro, add rice wine and ginger to remove the fishy smell. The chicken is easy, but the pig intestines must be cleaned, otherwise there will be an odor. Both the chicken and pig intestines should be cut into small pieces.
The three ingredients take different times to cook, so you also have to keep an eye on the pots separately. Fortunately, there is no shortage of manpower and pots in the big kitchen, so this blanching method is relatively convenient.
Once everything is cooked, the next step is to fry it until fragrant.
Regular star anise and cinnamon are definitely needed. As for peppercorns, it is best to choose the green peppercorns from Sichuan and Chongqing. This kind of peppercorns is very fragrant and also has a spicy taste. Before the appearance of red peppers, many places used green peppercorns to enhance the flavor of spiciness.
But now both green pepper and red pepper are used!
Add the bean paste and stir-fry until fragrant. After stir-frying these ingredients for a few times, they will be full of fragrance and refreshing and appetizing.
Then pour in the chicken, pork intestines, and taro in turn. These things are all cut to similar sizes and there is no distinction between the main and the secondary because everything in them is delicious.
Just add the taro last, otherwise it will melt.
Simmer over high heat for a while, and when it’s almost time to serve, add the taro and a little salt.
When collecting the sauce, keep some for soaking the rice.
Pour a little of this fragrant soup on rice, or use it to dip steamed buns. You don’t even need to eat the vegetables, just eat the soup with the rice!
Other palace servants who came to the West Kitchen to collect slop said that there was very little leftover food in the West Kitchen now, which was too amazing.
Any leftovers?
Everyone wanted to lick the bottom of the plate clean!
The dinner on the third day of the autumn menu is naturally pickled mustard greens and shredded pork noodles. Although the preparation of this noodle is simple, it tastes delicious.
Su Wan was so hungry that she wanted to make kimchi by herself.
You can start doing it in late autumn or early winter.
It is the best time to make kimchi in autumn and winter, and to make various sauces around February.
It's only August and Su Wan has already made arrangements for what to do next.
It’s a good time to eat any time of the year!
Autumn menu day 4 day 5.
Sometimes I eat mustard greens and pork dumplings, sometimes I eat mushroom and shredded chicken noodles, and in the morning I have ham rolls and yam crackers, and in the evening I have red bean paste pies and spicy tofu noodles.
But the most popular one is the pine nut corn!
Corn can be harvested in August, and there will be more and more of it in the future. Eating corn in autumn is a seasonal food and is good for the body.
Pine nuts are also available in autumn. Combining these two delicious foods makes the pine nut corn that both adults and children love to eat in later generations!
Su Wan still remembers the first time she ate sweet pine nut corn. She was so amazed that she pestered her mother to make it many times.
Later, when she was older, she also learned how to cook this dish.
When we were deciding on the autumn menu this time, the first dish we decided on was actually pine nut corn.
Everyone likes sweet and fragrant pine nut corn, right?
This dish is simple to make, and it makes full use of the original aroma of pine nuts and corn. You don’t even need to add sugar to add sweetness, just use the original sweetness of the corn.
But this requires very high standards for corn. If you don’t choose the right corn, the taste will be very different.
Like many sweeter pine nut corns nowadays, they are basically fried with canned corn, so the taste will be more stable, which is understandable.
Modern canteens also pursue a stable taste for their dishes.
But if you work in the Ministry of Rites' Western Kitchen, you don't have to worry about this at all. If they write glutinous corn on the list, it will definitely be glutinous corn, so you don't have to worry about it at all.
Su Wan made it once in the small kitchen, and then made it several more times when practicing the demonstration in the big kitchen. It tasted just as good every time.
First, cut the carrots and cucumbers into cubes. You can omit them if cucumbers are not in season. If corn is in season, you can use more corn.
It is best to cut the cubes into pieces that are about the same size as corn kernels.
Put the cucumber aside and boil the diced carrots and corn kernels in boiling water for a quarter of an hour. You can add a little salt to the boiling water to make the sweetness of both come out faster.
After it is cooked, remove from the dish and set aside. Heat oil in another pan and fry the peeled pine nuts first, then fry the cucumber until fragrant. Finally, pour in the cooked carrots and corn kernels, fry until the moisture inside is dry, thicken slightly and add a little salt, then remove from the pan and serve.
Basically, this dish does not require any seasoning; salt is enough. The remaining sweetness comes from the corn kernels, carrots, and even the pine nuts. At the same time, it has the fresh fragrance of cucumber and the mellow aroma of pine nuts.
With just the ingredients, this dish can be delicious.
And the colors are beautiful too, red, green and yellow, very pretty.
When you scoop the soup with the spoon, your mouth is filled with the original aroma of the ingredients.
Pine nut corn is not only popular among modern people, but also immediately conquered all the palace servants in the West Outer Palace as soon as it appeared.
The five-day autumn menu is perfectly made!
Another menu that everyone is satisfied with!
Deputy Prime Minister Xi also discovered that Su Wan was becoming more and more adept at preparing recipes, taking almost every aspect into consideration. Over the past few days, there were both exquisite dishes and home-cooked dishes, as well as local specialties.
Sometimes, Deputy Prime Minister Xi would think that Su Wan had such a great talent, but her family was so blind that they didn’t take her seriously at all.
Fortunately, they got a bargain in the west kitchen!
After finishing the five-day menu, it was already the fifth day of August, and there were still ten days until the Mid-Autumn Festival.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival when the moon is full, palace ladies inevitably miss their families. The Imperial Kitchen can’t do anything else, so they can only work on mooncakes.
But for mooncakes for thousands of people, the Dessert Department of the Miscellaneous Storehouse must prepare them in advance, and they also need to transfer staff from various kitchens. This is what they have done in previous years. Even the Western Kitchen, which has fewer staff, will have to transfer a few people there.
The mooncakes for the palace servants were one type, and there were also mooncakes given as rewards to ministers, princes and nobles in the court, which also came from the Miscellaneous Storehouse.
The former requires large quantity and sufficient filling, while the latter requires exquisiteness, so more manpower is needed, and it also needs to be made and delivered in advance.
Therefore, the palace servants must be transferred in advance.
It was fine in the past. Whoever was given by the Western Kitchen would be hired over there. Anyway, they would just help out there. Mooncakes are a delicate job, so the important steps still need to be done by experienced people.
But today, Deputy Prime Minister Xi could guess who the Dessert Department would want this year with his eyes closed.
It must be Su Wan.
Zaliku has been thinking about this for a long time. They will definitely take Su Wan away while the mooncakes are being made. There is no reason for them in the west kitchen not to let her go.
No, I'm not leaving, I'm being seconded.
Once the mooncakes are made, they must be returned.
When Su Wan heard about this, she naturally had no objection. To be honest, she was really curious about Zaliku!
The storage room is roughly between several kitchens, but she seems to have never been there?
Before, when I needed something, I would ask others to help me get it.
The reason for being curious about the Zaliku is simple. That place has the wine-making department, the ice storage, and the dessert department, which are completely different from other departments of the Shangshi Department.
Deputy Prime Minister Li inside seemed to be a wonderful person, but he was in the palace now. Even if he went there, he would have to work with the right director of the Miscellaneous Treasury.
There must be a lot of good stuff over there. If they just pick some, they can still eat pickled mustard greens and shredded pork noodles now.
If you think about it, you will know that they also bear the heavy responsibility of making kimchi and soybean paste, but these tasks are classified throughout the year and do not need to be done everywhere.
Therefore, there were not many people there on weekdays. For example, there were eighty people in the west kitchen before, and then another forty people were transferred over, making a total of one hundred and twenty young palace maids.
There are one hundred people in the Miscellaneous Affairs Library.
The three areas are also classified, but you can basically go to whichever place is busy. For example, for making kimchi, you can make a large amount in the fall and winter for more than ten days, and check it from time to time during the rest of the time. The same is true for winemaking. The ice in the ice will gradually decrease in August, so you don't have to be too busy in other seasons.
Zaliku is a relatively loose place, with many older maids working there, and only the sauces and kimchi produced by them can be so well controlled.
It is absolutely correct to say that among the four places in Shangshisi, only Zaliku is the most special.
It's normal to be curious about places like this, right?
It is definitely not possible to transfer her completely there. She still prefers cooking, so it is okay to transfer her there for a period of time.
However, this time, it was Chunxiang who went to the dessert department with Su Wan instead of Yu Shu.
The four young palace maids who entered the palace together were Su Wan, Yu Shu, Xiao Yue and Chun Xiang.
Among them, Su Wan is the youngest, twelve years old, and Yu Shu is the oldest, fourteen years old.
Yu Shu has the best relationship with Su Wan. The reason why she cannot go to the dessert department is that she follows Su Wan in cooking. She is already the best in the western kitchen. Even without Su Wan, she has to lead everyone in the autumn menu.
The only thing left is to choose between Xiaoyue and Chunxiang. The current right-hand man thinks Chunxiang is relatively stable, so he lets her go. Xiaoyue is a little too nosy.
Xiaoyue was shocked that she was not selected for such a reason.
Although the Western Kitchen has not stated it explicitly now, everyone understands that following Su Wan has many benefits. Just look at Yu Shu, isn’t she an example?
She is now working hard to study cooking and also helping Su Wan. As long as she does her job well, she will definitely be the candidate for the head palace maid.
This is partly because of Yu Shu's hard work, and partly because she follows Su Wan.
So not everyone can do the job of helping out.
Chunxiang was very excited anyway. She was only one year older than Su Wan. When she first came to the palace, she was taller than Su Wan. Now they seemed to be about the same height and looked very cute with her round face.
A total of twenty people were sent from the West Kitchen, led by the fifth sister, one of the senior palace maids, to the Miscellaneous Storehouse with a group of palace servants.
Although the miscellaneous storehouse is located in the middle of the three kitchens, it is relatively far away from them.
The Western Kitchen is located to the west of the outer city of the imperial palace. To the south of the imperial palace are the guard gates and places like the Temple of Heaven, so naturally there are no departments there.
So you have to cross the south city wall and walk to the east side of the palace.
The lowest one on the east side is the South Kitchen, and the highest one is the North Kitchen.
In the middle is the Shangshenjian and Zaliku, and the Guanglu Temple is also nearby.
Otherwise, why would people say that the west kitchen is remote and deserted? Just look at the locations of the various departments and you will know.
The number of offices in the West Outer Palace can be counted on one's fingers, while the East Outer Palace is full of various departments.
When Su Wan went there, it was still a familiar place. She first went to Guanglu Temple. Turning around Guanglu Temple was the office of Shangshenjian, the Shangshisi.
This time, we not only went inside the Shangshenjian, but also walked past the Shangshenjian and continued to walk east. The courtyard over there was extremely large, much larger than the government office. One side of the courtyard was surrounded by trees, and the other side was empty. It looked like a good place to dry sauce, pickles, and brew wine.
The bottles and jars in the yard are neatly arranged. I guess after making mooncakes, we will start preparing for next year's kimchi paste.
It seems that the library is quite busy.
But the maids and servants here are very efficient and do not need to be told anything. They all work quickly. No wonder only 100 people can handle so many things.
The palace maids in the west kitchen looked amazed.
This cannot be blamed on them. Most of the maids and nannies in Zaliku are not planning to leave the palace. They have been here for at least ten years.
Most of the palace maids in the kitchens have to go home after six years, so their levels of proficiency are definitely different.
When Su Wan and the others arrived, the palace maids from the north and south kitchens had already arrived, so they were closer.
In addition to the large courtyard, Zaliku also has three different houses, namely the wine-making, ice-making and dessert workshops.
All the palace maids who were transferred from the North, South and West Kitchens were at the door of the Dessert Department, a total of one hundred people.
But today everyone was not as quiet as usual, especially the palace maids in the north and south kitchens, who were all looking towards the west kitchen.
Because they all want to see where Su Wan is!
"Have you seen Su Wan?"
"No, I heard she is very small."
“And she’s very good-looking.”
"He must be very good."
"What a well-behaved and lovely child, and his cooking is delicious. No wonder our ladies praise him so often."
You haven't seen her yet!
Why are you starting to brag like that?
When Su Wan heard the discussion, she immediately hid beside the chief palace maid, the Fifth Sister.
In this situation, everyone would have some social anxiety, right?
The head maid of the west kitchen, Sister Five, smiled, but a nanny came out of the dessert department in a hurry. The nanny had thick black eyebrows and raised them excitedly, "Is Su Wan here? Let me see her."
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This is even more embarrassing!
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