Chen Xuanxuan finally saw clearly that she was just an ordinary person before. After traveling through time, she was still an ordinary person. She didn't have three heads and six arms, nor did she become omniscient and omnipotent, and it was even more impossible for her to make glass and cement.
However, she was still better than those illiterate people in and outside the village.
Even her cooking skills were much better than these people.
After all, after she became rich, she was willing to spend a lot of money on food.
There was oil and salt in each dish, and a lot of seasonings. It tasted naturally delicious.
Just after Chen Xuanxuan fell asleep in a daze, Gu Yanzhang had prepared the duck in the kitchen.
Seeing the thoroughly cleaned fat duck in the big jar, Gu Yanzhang and his six children couldn't help swallowing.
Duck!
This duck costs hundreds of coins!
Many poor people who lack food and clothing cannot even eat a bite of meat all year round.
But today, their family has a good fortune.
Thinking that this duck was caught by Gu Dazhu, Gu Yanzhang thought about it and said to him with a smile, "Dazhu, when your mother is in better health later, she will cook a pot of duck for us."
"Your mother told me a few days ago that this duck is a treasure from head to toe. The duck head and duck neck are all good things. These few days, we can eat duck blood vermicelli soup, duck intestine vermicelli, and eight-treasure duck that you have never heard of."
"After eating this duck, you can go find your cousins and go to the river beach to look for wild ducks there."
Gu Dazhu nodded heavily, "Dad, don't worry. I will definitely find more food when the time comes." Gu Yanzhang smiled when
he heard Gu Dazhu's assurance. He said "OK" several times.
After asking Gu Dazhu to guard the door and keep an eye on the movements outside, Gu Yanzhang quickly prepared all the ingredients.
After a quarter of an hour, Gu Yanzhang tiptoed into the innermost bedroom.
He lowered his voice, moved closer to the bed and called, "Wife, the duck and everything are ready..."
When Chen Xuanxuan heard this, she quickly reached out her hand and asked him to help her up.
"Okay, then I'll go cook the duck now."
"By the way, Yanzhang, after we make the duck, you have to be careful. Don't let your uncles take it outside and let your relatives eat it."
"If your relatives knew that we ate duck during any festival, wouldn't they be furious?! By then, everyone in the village will know that we are hiding at home eating duck. Those who don't know our family's financial situation will definitely think that we have a lot of money and we can't finish eating all the duck..." After
hearing this, Gu Yanzhang nodded in agreement, "Don't worry, wife. I'll keep a close eye on my parents later."
"Also, after you cook the duck, I will scoop a few spoonfuls of duck soup into their rice. As for the duck meat, I won't give much..."
He knew his father's character very well. He
loved face. He
attached extraordinary importance to it. People outside looked down on him.
As long as those outside said something nice to him and praised him a little, he would be very proud. His butt would stick up high. He dared to say anything outside.
If there was one or two taels of silver at home, he would dare to tell outsiders that there were ten taels at home. If
there were ten taels of silver at home, he would dare to tell outsiders that he had several dozen taels at home.
In order to save face for himself, he would rather slap his face and pretend to be fat.
With this kind of personality, it was not particularly obvious when he was poor before.
But in the past six months, after the conditions at home have completely improved, he has become very good. Some
time ago, his family obviously did not eat meat, but they just put a few more spoons of oil in the pot when cooking. While he was eating, he cursed at him and his wife, muttering that they were wasting things and did not know how to live.
But after eating, he secretly dipped his finger into the bowl of oil in the cupboard. After smearing oil all over his mouth, he ran to the homes of those relatives in the village to show off.
Facing those relatives who were troublesome and loved to take advantage of others, his father said seriously that he had eaten a big bowl of meat in the morning.
Moreover, the meat was all fat and greasy. After the children of those relatives cried and shouted that they also wanted to eat meat and the fat meat, he went home contentedly.
However, this time when he came back, a lot of followers followed him.
Because those relatives who came wanted to see if his family had stewed meat so early in the morning...
Thinking of the farce that morning, it was all caused by his father. Gu Yanzhang thought that it was better to have less trouble than more, so he said to himself that he would just let his parents continue to eat buns.
Why eat ducks!
The ducks are for his wife to replenish her body.
Just when Gu Yanzhang made up his mind, Chen Xuanxuan washed her hands and began to teach the children how to make the delicious Eight Treasure Duck.
This Eight Treasure Duck is the best dish to nourish the body in autumn and winter.
Eight Treasure Duck was once a famous dish in Suzhou restaurants in Shanghai. The original method was to remove the duck skeleton, put it in the stuffing and steam it.
Later, with the development of the times, hotel owners in many places made certain improvements based on the tastes of local diners.
However, the cooking of this dish remains the same, and the general process steps are actually similar. However, the ingredients inside will be slightly different. The chefs who cook each dish have different control of the heat.
Its core is to use a certain method to remove the duck skeleton. The whole duck is steamed with eight ingredients including chestnuts and ham.
Chen Xuanxuan didn't have many seasonings on hand. Especially the eight ingredients used in the Eight Treasure Duck, she was short of a lot of them.
The eight ingredients used in the Eight Treasure Duck at the beginning were ham, chicken gizzards, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, scallops, shrimps, lotus seeds,
and green beans. After Chen Xuanxuan's hands, she used mushrooms, shrimps, lotus seeds, red dates, a little fried tofu skin, peanuts, crab roe and green beans...
In order to make such a Eight Treasure Duck, Chen Xuanxuan worked for nearly two hours beside the steaming stove.
When the pot of Eight Treasure Duck, which was rosy in color and full of fragrance, with crispy duck meat, was finally ready, everyone in the room started to growl in their stomachs.
Because it smelled so good.
After the duck was cooked, Chen Xuanxuan did not waste any of the bones that she had taken out of the duck.
She directly cooked all the bones, along with the chopped duck intestines.
After stewing them into soup, Chen Xuanxuan told everyone in the family, "Starting tomorrow, we will eat noodles with duck intestines as toppings."
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