Chapter 145 The spiciness of chili peppers and the numbness of peppercorns
Yun Niang is a native of Suijin, and her specialty is all kinds of soup cakes and noodles.
If she wanted to cook fish and meat, she might as well have turned over the recipe book to Song Liyun.
She needs to cook these two fishes herself.
Since Mr. Xiao wanted to eat spicy food, Song Liyun was going to make a dish of boiled fish.
This is what makes everyone salivate when they see it in the recipe, but the ingredients are always missing.
The commonly consumed condiments in the Wu Dynasty included chili pepper, pepper, and cumin, but no Sichuan peppercorns.
Song Liyun discovered this problem when she ate grilled lamb chops for the second time in Qili County last time.
She remembered that Sichuan peppercorns were not only food, but also medicine.
So she went to the drug store in Qili County to find it, and not only bought the coveted peppercorns, but also the medicine "kelp".
Zanthoxylum bungeanum has many functions. It warms the body and dispels cold. It can relieve symptoms such as abdominal pain caused by the usual lack of yang energy and the invasion of cold evil, aversion to cold and cold limbs, and loose stools after eating less.
If used externally, it can also repel insects.
Of course Song Liyun is not used to cure diseases. She needs the numbness of Sichuan peppercorns to make the spicy and delicious flavor of boiled fish.
In addition, she also has a killer weapon.
That is "kelp", which is a marine plant in the same family as kelp.
Before the end of the world, every household's favorite condiment was probably MSG, a magical item that turned plain water into fresh soup.
The earliest flavoring ingredient was kelp powder.
Kelp is an amino acid that can be dissolved in water. Grinding it into powder can make it taste delicious.
Using kelp powder to enhance the flavor is only Song Liyun’s superficial need.
Kombu also has an important role, that is, it contains trace elements such as iodine.
Yunzhou is located inland, so there is no habit or opportunity to eat seafood, and most of the salt eaten is well salt.
Xiaoan's physical and mental development is poor, and Song Liyun is worried that it may be caused by insufficient thyroid function.
You can’t get tested here, and you can’t eat Shanghai products. You can only season with iodine-containing kelp. Everyone can supplement with iodine, killing two birds with one stone.
With the "help" of Xiao An and Hei Jin, Song Liyun scraped off the scales of the three fish, cut them into fish bones and fillets, and then seasoned them to taste.
When the fish bones were being fried, Yun Niang screamed in distress as she watched.
There is no such method as deep-frying in the cooking recipes of the Wu Dynasty.
This method consumes too much fuel.
Wait for the fish bones to simmer out of the pot and cook them with various side dishes. Finally, put the fish fillets coated in starch evenly into the pot.
When the snow-white fish fillets were floating up and down in the pot, the spicy aroma made Xiao An and Hei Jin drool.
Seeing that these two guys were really greedy, Song Liyun chose the slices of meat without thorns, and then took some leek, bean sprouts and acorn tofu at the bottom and let them eat them next to them.
He put the fish fillets, soup and vegetables into the big rice pail that Zhou Xiaoqi brought over.
Then put the chili noodles, peppercorns, green onions, and garlic into the rice bucket. Finally, heat the oil again and pour the boiling oil on the meat slices.
With a squeaking sound, a strange aroma rose into the sky. Before the smoke could dissipate, Song Liyun quickly covered the rice pail.
I sighed in my heart: What a pity, the boiled fish is just as refreshing as the oil just poured on it.
It smells very good at this moment, and I don't know what's going on inside when I send it to the health center.
Zhou Xiaoqi sent two people to wait in the front yard. When Song Liyun was done, he took the rice bucket out and asked them to take it away as quickly as possible.
The two of them took the rice pail, got on their horses, and hurried back to the camp.
Looking at this somewhat familiar scene, Song Liyun blinked.
She seemed to recall a certain occupation that was already very vague in her memory, waiting outside other people's shops to deliver meals to those in need.
It's just that one rides a motorcycle and the other rides a horse.
As she spent more and more time in the Wu Dynasty, there were no mutant beasts, no worries every day, and the memory of the apocalyptic war became clearer and clearer in her mind.
Campuses, stadiums, swimming pools, movie theaters, and bars filled with books all flash around. I can go home on weekends and eat a meal cooked by my mother.
At that time, it was the real peaceful age.
At this moment, Yun Niang's panicked voice in the courtyard interrupted her memories: "Xiao An, what's wrong with you? There's black gold, black gold... girl, girl!"
Song Liyun suddenly woke up, turned around and hurried back to the courtyard.
At this time, a bowl of fish fillets had been pushed far away. Xiao An stuck out his tongue, salivation, and his face turned red.
Black Gold, on the other hand, scratched his mouth and jumped around, roaring.
Yun Niang was frightened by their actions. She called Song Liyun and patted Xiao An on the back and chest.
Song Liyun was also shocked and hugged Xiao An quickly: "What's wrong with you, Xiao An?"
Xiao An had tears in her eyes, pointed at her mouth and said, "The bug is crawling!"
Hei Jin also rushed over and opened his mouth to show Song Liyun. The always lawless monkey was now so frightened that his eyes were straight.
Song Liyun suddenly realized it, and laughed so hard that tears came out: "That's Sichuan peppercorns, it's hemp!"
People in the Wu Dynasty had never eaten Sichuan peppercorns, and what Xiao An ate was just the flavor of the soup base.
The first time he tasted numbness, he thought there were bugs crawling in his mouth.
Song Liyun asked the two guys to rinse their mouths with water, and the numbness disappeared quickly.
With Xiao An and Hei Jin reacting in front of them, Song Liyun was afraid that no one would dare to eat the pot of fish on the stove, so she could only ask Yun Niang to stew another pot of beans for later use.
As for the bucket of fish that Wei carried away... Song Liyun had just explained to them that he only hoped that adults would have stronger tolerance and not make such a joke.
Song Zhenping and Han Ming returned from the fields soon.
The two of them had washed their hands and faces, and before they started eating, Song Liyun first said that there was pepper in the fish.
"Zanthoxylum bungeanum? Is it the one you said can cure frostbite if you spend it with chili pepper?"
Song Zhenping looked at the black round particles floating on the fish fillet. He remembered that Song Liyun bought it from the Qili County pharmacy and asked Yun Niang to boil water and soak her hands.
Song Liyun nodded: "Yes, this stuff tastes like numbness, and it is also medicine when put in vegetables. It can drive away cold, and it feels good to eat."
When she said this, Song Zhenping was a little afraid to eat it.
Han Ming had confidence in Song Liyun's words. If Miss Song said he could eat it, he would eat it.
When a large piece of fish entered his mouth, Han Ming's eyes lit up. He sucked the fish meat and spat out the fish bones. He suddenly said happily: "This taste is really so..." He could not describe the spicy and delicious taste.
Anyway, I only have one feeling: delicious!
This is a taste that makes your lips tremble and your tongue tremble.
Song Zhenping didn't have such a good taste, Song Liyun didn't force it, she just ate her food happily, and Han Ming next to her was eating her chopsticks like crazy.
When Yun Niang served the stewed meat with beans, Song Zhenping couldn't resist the aroma of the boiled fish, so she tried to eat it again.
Spicy is addictive.
When the palate accepts this stimulation, every bite will feel like heaven.
Song Zhenping was sweating profusely after eating, but still couldn't put down his chopsticks.
Xiao An carefully ate the fish meat that Yun Niang had picked out the bones, but also had runny nose and tears.
Hei Jin ate so hard that his eyes were red from the spicy food, and he was squealing and jumping up and down, but Song Liyun wouldn't let him eat, so he rolled his eyes and stared at others.
At this time, in the canteen of the health center, a large bucket of fish had been divided into several pots.