Chapter eight hundred and forty-eight goals in life
Han Kongque said with a smile: "Has the secret been revealed? So when you watched Jin Ping Mei, you focused on clothes and jewelry? Well, with your method, you should be able to find an unabridged version. Let's communicate more in the future."
"Rogue, who wants to share this with you?" Liuxu became angry with embarrassment.
Han Peacock burst out laughing, while Zhou Meiren kept the catkins and said, "Have you really seen it?"
Liu Xu said: "I was curious, so I looked for it and watched it. There was nothing good to watch. It was just like that. It was definitely not as good as the little movie Sister Zhou watched."
"Small movies are even worse. They can't capture the beauty described in the book, and they are even more boring to watch. I stopped watching them after watching them for a while." Zhou Meiren followed Liu Xu's words and directly revealed some secrets.
Han Peacock was completely speechless.
But Liu Xiu is even more tough: "It's true, the short movie is not as good as the description in the book, but I didn't find Jin Ping Mei very good, it just has more tricks."
Han Kongque said: "You two perverts, you actually pay attention to that one? How can Jin Ping Mei not look good? Get rid of those pornographic descriptions. Jin Ping Mei contains characters, clothes, tidying up, food, wine, tea, intrigues, camps, and a lot of life.
The description of trivial matters allows us to clearly see how the ancients lived at that time, which is very important for understanding the history of that period."
Liu Xiu was startled when he heard this and said: "So we are still superficial?"
Han Kongque said with a smile: "So when I say there is a difference between men and women, I am not mocking women, but it is a fact. When we read the same book or the same TV series, we often focus on different things.
Let’s talk about pickled crabs. Pan Jinlian’s pickled crabs fascinated the men in Ximen’s house. Mr. Lanling didn’t tell us exactly how they were made, so there’s no way to verify them, but this book tells us the origin of this dish.
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In addition, tracing the origin of pickled crabs in my country, people often quote the golden dragon and phoenix crabs recorded in "Qing Yilu": Emperor Yang was lucky to be in Jiangdu, and Wuzhong paid tribute to bad crabs and sugar crabs. Every time he entered the imperial palace, he would clean and wipe the shell surface with gold. Carved dragons, phoenixes, flowers and clouds are pasted on it.
"Mengxi Bi Tan" written by Shen Kuo, a scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty: In Daye Zhong, Wuzhong paid tribute to two thousand honey crabs... and He Yin was fond of sugar crabs. Most southerners are fond of salty food, while northerners are fond of sweet food. Add molasses to fish and crabs, which is convenient for northern customs.
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Lu You, a famous poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem "Recommending Sugar Crabs on a Golden Plate", Lu You's "Notes of Laoxue'an" Volume 6: Biography before the Tang Dynasty. Anyone who talks about sugar is bad for the ears. For example, sugar crabs and sugar ginger are both.
There is a discrepancy between Lu You's explanation of "Zao'er" and Shen Kuo's "Northern people are fond of sweetness. Fish and crabs are added with molasses, which is convenient for northern customs."
Most of them should belong to Shen Kuo's clerical errors.
So is Pan Jinlian's pickled crab drunk crab or sugar crab? This requires specific analysis. Suppose Pan Jinlian is the only one in Ximen House who can make pickled crab, which means that this pickled crab is not a simple pickling method.
Compared with the two, drunken crabs are relatively simple. The production of drunken crabs was very mature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The formula for making drunken crabs in "Tiao Ding Ji" is catchy: Thirty pieces of navel do not need to be pointed, so it is half a pound of salt.
Half a catty of good vinegar and half a catty of wine, please keep it until the end of the year.
The crab crab recorded in "The Complete Works of Household Necessities" is also relatively simple: wash the female crab, dry it, add glutinous rice flour, salt, and pickle it with vinegar for seven days.
We usually put the crabs in clean water for two days, then take them out of the water and leave them without water for a day, then marinate them with wine, add an appropriate amount of salt, cooking wine, green onions, ginger, and sugar, and put them into a small jar.
Cover and seal, place in the refrigerator to refrigerate, and you can eat it directly after a week. The basic seasoning wine, salt, green onion and ginger are roughly in line with the ancient way of drunkenness.
The 'sugar crab' is more complicated. Where does the sugar come from? The only seasoning based on fermented rice can be sterilized and stored. Using fermented wine to pickle crabs is more complicated. You must first make fermented rice, control the fermentation temperature, and sweetness.
, alcohol content, salt, onions, ginger, etc. are naturally indispensable when pickling crabs, so sugar crab is also a famous dish with complex flavors.
A poem by Su Shunqing, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, roughly describes the appearance of sugar crabs: Frosted mandarin sugar crabs are freshly fermented and delicious. When you are drunk, you realize that everything in your life is wrong?
The ancients often compared "shuang" to white sugar, "shuanggan" to the sweetness of sugar, "shuanggan sugar crab" means that the appearance of the crab is stained with white wine; "醅" refers to unfiltered wine,
Fermented Rice's wine-brewed juice for pickled sugar crabs is ready to drink, so making this plate of sugar crabs is definitely not that simple."
"You really know a lot about eating." Zhou Meiren was very impressed when she heard this.
Han Kongque said: "In life, there are two main things: food and clothing. If you don't study food and clothing when you have time, then what should you study?"
Zhou Meiren looked at Han Peacock and said, "Is this your goal in life?"
"Yes! Do you have a great goal in life?" Han Kongque looked at Zhou Meiren and asked.
Zhou Meiren lowered her head and thought deeply. After thinking for a long time, she did not think about what her life goal was, whether it was greater than Han Peacock's life goal.
"Let's not talk about it. Come on, since it's a crab feast, let's bring another catkin to eat, otherwise she will feel unbalanced." Seeing the two women deep in thought, Han Peacock didn't want to ruin a good banquet.
, so immediately born to break the silence.
"What else?" LiuXu asked.
Han Peacock said: "I just talked about drunken crabs. Since the more complicated sugar crabs have come out, drunken crabs are naturally indispensable, so the next step is drunken crab stewed chicken. We eat crabs, and you eat chicken with catkins."
"You have so many tricks up your sleeve, but how much does it cost per table to eat crabs like this?" Liu Xu asked.
Han Kongque said with a smile: "You can't live without three to five thousand yuan, so the life goal of the two of you can be to make money, because only when you have money can you enjoy all this. Most people now are like this
The goal in life is mine too.”
This plate of Drunken Crab and Chicken Stew can be eaten by three people, so the table is even more lively. The three of them are using their chopsticks non-stop, and they almost finish the plate of Drunken Crab and Chicken Stew. In fact, the plate of Drunken Crab and Chicken Stew is not much.
, there were only two crabs and seven or eight pieces of chicken in it, so a flat plate was already filled.
"This drunken crab is also delicious." Zhou Meiren said.
Han Peacock said with a smile: "That's natural. The method of making sugar crab has been lost. It's not without reason. Sugar crab has disappeared from traditional recipes. The complicated production is the fundamental reason. In addition, the shelf life of sugar crab is longer than that of drunken crab.
Short and easy to deteriorate.
After the Qing Dynasty, drunken crab basically dominated the world. It is characterized by simple preparation and long shelf life. At the same time, drunken crab delicacies such as drunken crab stewed chicken and other drunken crab dishes were derived. Drunken crab has a special aroma. Drunken crab stew can be made into soups, cold dishes, and fragrant.
tasty.
There are only three of us today, so this crab feast is not fully cooked. When Liuxu gives birth to the baby and the whole family is together, I will have someone prepare a real crab feast for you."
Zhou Meiren said: "This is already very good, any more would be a waste."
Liu Xu said: "I have eaten a lot of deer tail and chicken, and the smell of grilled fish is a bit off. I can't do it anymore. I want to save my stomach for grilled fish."
Han Kongque said: "Eel has the function of nourishing the body and nourishing the blood. If you can't eat it, I can do it for you. Now I also need to nourish the blood."
Zhou Meiren said: "Eels are indeed good things. You can eat them often in the future. You must know that in the Wandao area, people regard the Double Ninth Festival as an eel-eating festival. This is to tell everyone that eels are a symbol of longevity and that eating eels can promote health and longevity.
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After eating the saury and a bowl of eel-topped rice each, the three of them were already full. Of course, Han Peacock ate the most, Liu Xu and Zhou Meiren only finished a bowl of rice each.
Others only tasted a few symbolic pieces, but even so, they were already very full.
Looking at the plate that Han Peacock had eaten clean, Liu Xu said, "The chef hasn't eaten yet, has he?"
Han Kongque said: "Don't worry, no one will be hungry, and the chef will not be hungry either. You go down and eat!"
"As long as Mr. and Mrs. are satisfied with their meal, it will be fine. We still have a lot of leftovers in the kitchen, so it's a good time to go back and eat them," said the chef standing nearby.
"Leftovers?" LiuXu frowned.
The chef hurriedly explained: "It's not what Madam imagined. The leftovers we are talking about are the leftovers after the dishes are served, not the kind of leftovers left after eating."
"Ah! Then go and eat quickly!" Liu Xu said.
After all the cooks had gone down and the soldiers standing guard around them had also taken turns, Han Kongque and the other three stood up and slowly patrolled the deck.
"I really didn't expect that in just a short time, your achievements have already astonished me." Liu Xu looked at the boats that appeared in front of them from time to time. She knew that those people were employees of Han Peacock.
It has been less than a year since she met Han Kongque, but Han Kongque's strength has expanded to a level that most people cannot reach in their lifetime.
Han Peacock looked into the distance and said, "What kind of achievement is this? In my mind, this kind of thing is not as meaningful as finding sugar crabs from the Golden Ping Plum."
When Zhou Meiren heard this, she immediately said: "Is a piece of art not as good as a meal for you? Has anyone said that you are just an out-and-out vulgar person?"
Liu Xu chuckled and said: "If you are not a vulgar person, why can't you be used to drinking red wine? You know, good people, even if they are not used to drinking, will still pretend. Han Peacock doesn't even pretend."
Zhou Meiren immediately followed up and said: "There is also clothing. Look at him wearing a camouflage uniform. With his size, following the two of us, others will definitely think that you are our bodyguard."
Liu Xu immediately laughed: "Yes, if he makes some intimate moves towards us, it is definitely an affair between the bodyguard and his employer's wife."
Although Han Kongque was very eloquent, he could only listen to the continuous attacks on the two women because he had no place to interrupt.
Finally, when the two women had said enough, Han Kongque smiled bitterly and said, "You two women are too mean, aren't you? Am I as bad as you say?" (To be continued...)