Chapter 406 Preparing Wedding Ingredients
Xia Juanjuan opened the list and took a look. There were quite a few things she wanted.
Autumn and winter are the seasons for eating beef and mutton. The first item on the list is two top-quality beach lambs. If they are not available, they will be slaughtered fresh at the market and delivered on the morning of the banquet.
The beef they wanted was not from live cows, but they wanted beef that had been freshly slaughtered at the market, weighing 30 kilograms.
I need six pork elbows, twenty pounds of pork belly, and ten pounds of bacon and chicken.
I want six mandarin fish, six each of other crucian carp, carp, etc., ten kilograms of small fish, shrimps and shellfish, twenty kilograms of large shrimps, and twenty kilograms of crabs.
I want six old hens, six young chickens, and a hundred eggs. I also want six ducks.
Vegetarian dishes such as radish, cabbage, celery, spinach, bean sprouts, tofu, bean curd skin, mushrooms, fungus, bamboo shoots, lily, green and red peppers, etc. also required ten to twenty kilograms.
Other ingredients include flour, glutinous rice, glutinous rice flour, red dates, peanuts, rice cakes, red beans, longans, lotus seeds, apples, pears, white fungus, rock sugar, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other auxiliary materials.
He also asked for the best fruit wood and firewood, probably intending to roast the duck.
In addition, Xia Juanjuan also prepared white wine, Arctic Ocean soda for the female guests and children, as well as wedding candies and melon seeds before the banquet.
Xia Juanjuan took a rough look and was not in a hurry to do anything. On the morning of the wedding, she and Li Zhan went to the courtyard in advance and took out all the things from the space.
The two sheep were alive, of course, and tied in the yard outside the kitchen. There were also other chickens, ducks, fish, crabs, etc., all alive, kept in cages or basins in the yard.
The kitchen here is in the back yard, and the banquet is in the front yard, separated by a wall. When the dishes are served, they go through the corner door on the side, without interfering with each other. It doesn't matter if there is a little chaos.
The chef's apprentices arrived after a while and did some preparatory work first. When everything was almost ready, the chef came in!
The apprentices counted the things Xia Juanjuan had prepared, checked their freshness, and were filled with amazement.
"Big sister, where do you get these ingredients? They are fresher than the ingredients delivered to our hotel before dawn every day! They are freshly picked from the vegetable fields! The meat is also freshly slaughtered!"
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "I also went to the countryside outside the city to ask people, and they picked the meat in the middle of the night and sent it over overnight. The meat was also sent to the slaughterhouse, and the farm made an appointment with them in advance."
At that moment, the disciples began to kill chickens and sheep, and they were very busy.
Xia Juanjuan and Li Zhan did not stay here to watch, but went to Yue Sizhu's house.
Although the judgment of the father-in-law and mother-in-law has not been officially made yet, their control has been relaxed a lot, so Fu Nanzheng took them both over this time.
Seeing Xia Juanjuan coming over, Yue's father and mother smiled and said, "Sizhu is in the room, go in and find her."
Yue Sizhu had already put on light makeup and had her hair tied up with a red velvet flower stuck on one side.
She was wearing a bright red modified cheongsam skirt, which accentuated her slender waist. She also had a bridal velvet flower pinned on her chest.
Seeing Xia Juanjuan, Yue Sizhu smiled and pulled her back, saying, "Juanjuan, I'm so nervous."
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Third sister-in-law, don't be nervous. Besides, haven't we already practiced on the island?"
Yue Sizhu couldn't help but blush after hearing this: "I'm so nervous, and you're still teasing me!"
Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. I brought you some snacks. Please take a seat first. I'm afraid you won't have time to eat today."