Chapter 32 Fermented Chicken (2)

Author: Tang Yasong

Chapter 32 Fermented Chicken (2)

Three days later, before Zhuang Ming arrived, Chu Yunmeng got ready early.

She had a hunch that with the help of the giant Buddha Zhuang Ming, this glutinous rice chicken would definitely trigger a chicken-eating craze in Yingdu!

She plucked the feathers of the wild pheasant, removed the internal organs, and chopped off the chicken head, tail and two thick chicken legs, leaving only the chicken body. At this time, she thought of another way to eat it. She kept the chicken legs for another use.

Chop the chicken body into small pieces, heat a red copper cauldron, and add oil. After the oil melts and heats up, add the pheasant pieces into the cauldron and stir-fry until it is about eight or nine years old, then remove from the heat. Pour the prepared fermented glutinous rice into the cauldron.

Put it into the cauldron, sprinkle in an appropriate amount of wolfberry, and simmer over low heat for a quarter to half an hour.

As soon as the fermented chicken was cooked, Zhuang Ming stepped into Yunmeng Ju. At this time, there was only one seat reserved for Zhuang Ming in Yunmeng Ju.

Chu Yunmeng brought the box containing the fermented chicken to Zhuang Ming's case. As soon as she opened the lid, she felt peeping eyes from all around.

As soon as she turned around, all eyes quickly retracted into their holes like a mole that was discovered.

She smiled around and turned around to introduce to Zhuang Ming: "This is glutinous rice chicken. It is fresh and sweet and is the most nourishing. You can try it."

At this time, she used a voice that could be heard by everyone around her, which attracted many people to peep at her.

Zhuang Ming picked up the wood, picked up a piece of chicken and put it into his mouth. After chewing a few mouthfuls, his eyes lit up and his pupils dilated as his senses were greatly satisfied.

Then, he ate quickly without saying a word, and finished the fermented chicken in a few seconds.

"It is moist and sweet, with endless aftertaste. Compared with the original flavor of beggar's chicken and lotus leaves, surrounded by earthy aroma, it is more unique."

As soon as these words came out, the green eyes around him became even greener. The sound of swallowing saliva could not be heard.

"Shopkeeper Yun, didn't you say there was no chicken? Why can he still eat it?" Someone shouted, blaming Yun Mengju for being unfair.

Chu Yunmeng smiled at the diners: "This is the wild pheasant that Mr. Zhuang kept in our store, not an ordinary free-range chicken."

"When will we get chicken to eat?!" Someone was already on the verge of going berserk, and his tone began to sound bad.

"Our guys went and asked, and it will take two days for the chickens to arrive. We will announce the latest specific price tomorrow night."

This answer greatly appeased the grumpy hearts of the diners at the scene.

Zhuang Ming looked at Chu Yunmeng and lowered his voice: "I think you are not telling the truth about this, are you?"

Chu Yunmeng pretended not to know: "What did you say, sir? There really are no chickens for sale these days... unless you are willing to give me some more from your manor..."

Zhuang Ming stared at her and said slowly: "What's going on with the chicken farm by Yunmeng Mountain?"

Chu Yunmeng's eyes widened, then returned to normal and smiled: "What did you say, sir..."

But he stopped talking and changed the topic: "Sir, last time he said that he would tell me about the food of the prince's family today, but are you free?"

Seeing her fox-like smile, Zhuang Ming stopped exposing her and nodded: "Let's find a quiet place. It can't be in a place where people come and go."

Chu Yunmeng called Atian to take care of the lobby and led Zhuang Ming to the living room next to the lobby.

After sitting down, Zhuang Ming started talking, during which Chu Yunmeng asked some questions from time to time, especially about seasonings.

She was very concerned about whether, in this era, besides the five dishes Aunt Cong had told her, there were other dishes unknown to the public; besides salt, were there any other seasonings, such as soy sauce, vinegar, and chili peppers?

There is no spicy or sour seasoning.

After in-depth understanding, I found that the food culture of this era is indeed backward and is too limited by the seasons.

Apart from the five vegetables, the only vegetable Zhuang Ming knew was water chestnut, which he heard from a certain folk song.

Chu Yunmeng was relatively familiar with the Book of Songs, and at least knew about vegetables such as shepherd's purse and mao cauliflower.

However, these only vegetables, except for leeks, green onions and shepherd's purse, have been passed down to later generations. As time goes by and productivity develops, the others are gradually lost in the smoke and dust of history.

Regarding the sauce, the answer I got from Zhuang Ming was very different from what Aunt Cong told me. It was basically the sauce made from meat by the princes and princes, and there was no soy sauce.

According to Chu Yunmeng's scattered memories of reading history books, soy sauce seems to have appeared during the Three Kingdoms period or something.

Hearing this, Chu Yunmeng probably knew that her greatest competitiveness and trump card in the future would be soy sauce.

The hot and sour flavors have long been available in this era.

It's just that it hasn't been popularized yet and ordinary people don't know about it. Officials and ministers know about it, but not everyone may be interested in eating and drinking.

The restaurant also deals with the general public and does not want to spend too much time on seasonings. Either there is no need to add them, or it is very arrogant and messy.

This is also the reason why the diet of this era seems very backward.

For example, although there is no spiciness in chili peppers, it does have dogwood.

"Book of Rites Nei Ze" records the practice of "using water chestnuts for three animals". "Lotus" is Cornus officinalis, which is a plant with a pungent taste.

It can be seen that dogwood as a spicy seasoning has been popularized in the court of the Zhou Dynasty at least.

In addition to dogwood, there are three "five pungents" in the ancient traditional diet: "garlic, onion, xingqu, leek, and scallion" in this era.

It's just that in this era when ingredients are relatively scarce and new ingredients have not been discovered, these condiments are simply eaten as vegetables.

What Chu Yunmeng has to do now is to fully extract the spiciness he needs from the known materials.

And sourness is not unobtainable in this era. Rice vinegar already existed as early as the Zhou Dynasty, but it also faces the problem of not being widely used among the people.

And she wants to be the messenger who popularizes all kinds of tastes from the palace to the people, taking advantage of the asymmetry of knowledge to get rich quickly and expand her influence, and obtain the intelligence and information she wants.

Thinking of this, Chu Yunmeng asked again: "Mr. Zhuang, do you have any books here that write more about vegetation?"

Although she has some past life memories, they are not clear, so she still wants to have some written guidance, such as "Chu Ci", "Book of Songs" and so on.

"Well... there are some records in "Poetry"." Zhuang Ming thought for a long time before blurting out.

No more? No "Chu Ci"? No "Shen Nong's Materia Medica"?

Chu Yunmeng was a little unwilling to give up and continued to probe: "Are there any works on poetry or medicine that have been written about it?"

For example, "The Songs of Chu", such as "Shen Nong's Materia Medica"... Chu Yunmeng recited silently in his heart.

However, it didn't.

She and Zhuang Ming stared at each other for a long time, but the other party still looked at her: "It's really gone. Although some famous doctors have appeared so far, they have not circulated medical books related to plants. Today's medical books basically talk about plants.

Pathology, acupuncture, and meridians.

As for Ci Fu, well, Chu folk songs do mention some, but they are all about herbs and the like, and have nothing to do with the way of eating..."

"Sir, do you have any books recording Chu folk songs?" Chu Yunmeng heard this and immediately interrupted him.

Well, maybe there is no book with the title "Chu Ci" yet, so the next best thing is to have a "Chu Ci", which at least can be of some help in terms of spices.

"This... no..." Zhuang Ming's words completely cut off Chu Yunmeng's hope and interrupted her inner self-comfort.

Oh my god, my earth, do you really want to develop new ingredients and sauces based entirely on memory and instinct?

Although she has the ambition to live again and is doing well, it would be too difficult to pass the level!

God, can you give yourself a plug-in?

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