Siheyuan: Starting at 52, I, He Daqing, will not run away

"Daqing is here!"

Guan Yushan was also very happy to see He Daqing coming.

However, when he saw what He Daqing was holding in his hand, he complained:"You say, kid, you come and you are here, what are you holding, I don't lack anything."

Although he complained, the smile on his face did not diminish, a typical example of saying one thing and doing another.

He Daqing laughed innocently and said:"Hey, it's not that I didn't drink enough yesterday, so I wanted to have two more cups with my second uncle!"

Hearing that his nephew wanted to drink with him, old man Guan was also happy. He glanced at Guan Ziqing standing next to He Daqing and said with some disgust:"What are you still standing there for? Why don't you go and cook two dishes to let your cousin see your cooking skills?"

Although we are not short of money, we cannot lose the ancestral craft.

So Guan Ziqing is also proficient in cooking.

This can be seen from the TV series that after he went abroad with his wife and children, he opened a Chinese restaurant in America.

After all, as a restaurant owner, the most important thing is not how proficient in business methods, but to understand cooking and be able to recruit a good chef, otherwise everything is empty talk.

In fact, this is also a backup plan that Guan Shan left for his son.

A chef will never starve to death in troubled times.

Even if there are changes in the future and his family is really ruined.

Guan Ziqing can have good cooking skills and can support his family and will not starve to death.

Therefore, even though Guan Shan's family is not short of money, he has never given up teaching Guan Ziqing cooking skills and has taught him to cook since he was a child.

"Don't worry, I have to do it today."

He Daqing stood up quickly after hearing this and recommended himself:"My cooking skills have improved a lot recently, so I want you to see if my cooking skills have improved in the past few years." He Daqing did not forget to check the cooking rating column in the system panel in his mind.

【[Cooking Rating: Lv6 (Experience Value: 1632/6400)]

His system cooking rating has now been upgraded to level six, which is about the same level as a level five chef in reality.

Although a 30-year-old level five chef cannot compare with those real culinary geniuses, he can definitely be on the table.

After all, the chefs in some time-honored restaurants are only at this level.

If he can be upgraded to another level, he can almost support a time-honored restaurant.

As for the level three chef in reality, he can already enter the state guesthouse.

Even if you have a special skill, it is not impossible to become a selected state banquet chef. It is definitely a famous chef.

So don’t think that He Daqing is only a level five chef now. Among his peers, his skills are definitely not bad.

When Old Man Guan heard that He Daqing took the initiative to volunteer, he recovered a lot of what He Daqing said about his cooking skills. He was also a little looking forward to it and wanted to see He Daqing’s real skills.

So he went with the flow and said,"Okay, Daqing, you will go to the kitchen this time, and let your cousin help you on the side."

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The kitchen of Guan's family is definitely much better than He Daqing's bun shop.

Especially some seasonings and kitchen utensils, which are rare good things outside.

As for the ingredients?

Not to mention, there are not only fish and shrimp, but also the best pork belly, old hens and ducks in cages, and many other vegetables, tofu, etc.

Although these things can be bought in the market today.

But if you want to prepare them every day like Guan Lao's family, it is not easy.

It can only be said that Guan Lao is really a master who knows how to enjoy and has money to enjoy, and he will never wrong himself.

What surprised He Daqing the most was that Guan Lao's kitchen even had an oven, and it was still built according to the standards of the back kitchen of a large restaurant.

However, considering that Guan Shan is his second uncle, he must have inherited the cooking skills of the He family, and he had previously run the business and returned to the building. It seems that it is not incomprehensible that the kitchen at home can have such a scale and layout. After all,

Guan Ziqing also has the opportunity to learn cooking. If the family has the conditions, it is natural to provide a good learning environment for the child.

When He Daqing saw the oven, he thought of the intermediate roast duck recipe that he had obtained for a long time but never had the chance to try. He couldn't help but look at Guan Ziqing who was standing beside him with a smile.

"Ziqing, please light up the oven first. Let's prepare the roast duck for our first dish."

""Okay, cousin!"

Guan Ziqing heard the order and didn't waste any words. He directly lit the oven.

He Daqing began to deal with the selection and processing of ducks.

To make roast duck

, it does not require any advanced technology. All you need is a good recipe, that is, the recipe for the sauce of roast duck.

As for slicing the roast duck after it is done?

Does this have anything to do with making roast duck?

To put it bluntly, it is just a show of knife skills. There is no need for a chef at all. As long as a chef apprentice who has practiced cutting can do it well.

After all, knife skills are knife skills, which are only one of the basic skills of a chef.

Although important, it cannot be directly linked to the cooking skills of cooking.

In fact, He Daqing has always been curious about the intermediate roast duck given by the system. Which one is better

, the Quanjude roast duck recipe or the real roast duck recipe of Quanjude. Note that what is mentioned here is the real roast duck recipe of Quanjude, not the roast duck that has been deleted and mass-produced by apprentices.

He Daqing knows that the real roast duck recipe of Quanjude has always been kept secret.

In other words, under the current circumstances, Quanjude cannot make the real Quanjude roast duck.

Because the real Quanjude roast duck recipe comes from a roast duck chef in the imperial kitchen, which is a kind of palace dish.

Palace dishes.

As we all know, there are many particularities.

From the selection of duck species, to the combination of sauces, the year of origin, to the design of the oven, the choice of charcoal, and the temperature of the fire. Careful control, etc., all have standard processes and need to be completed meticulously.

This is just like He Daqing's Jinwu medicinal tea eggs. If you really follow the roast duck recipe strictly, you can't make a profit even if you sell it for 888, let alone 8 yuan.

So the Quanjude roast duck you see on the market is definitely not the real Quanjude roast duck, even if these Quanjude roast ducks are all out of the Quanjude roast duck oven.

Making roast duck is a slow process.

He Daqing prepared the duck and put it in the oven. It took at least an hour, and he had to turn the roast duck over every ten minutes.

But these things must not be watched by He Daqing himself. , but asked Guan Ziqing to watch over it, while He Daqing started to cook other dishes.

Because the materials are complete and there is plenty of time.

So this time He Daqing showed his true skills and selected a few home-cooked dishes from the classic Tan family dishes passed down by the old He family.

Of course, He Daqing chose to cook Tan family dishes because he found that there were many Tan family dishes seasonings and ingredients in Guan Laotou’s kitchen. Unlike outside, even if you want to make two Tan family dishes, it is difficult to get the relevant materials together.

Because the ingredients used in Tan family dishes are not only difficult to buy, but also very expensive.

There is a saying:"Tan family dishes, Tan family dishes, bird's nests, shark fins, mountain delicacies and seafood, are all specialties. A living room, three dining rooms, antique shelves, exquisite bonsai, elegant rooms and fragrant flowers, extraordinary equipment, utensils made of ancient porcelain, furniture made of rosewood and red sandalwood, and famous calligraphy and paintings on the walls. Anyone who has eaten it will say that it is not in vain..！"

Therefore, although Tan's cuisine is praised by people for its delicious taste and tender texture, the price of Tan's cuisine is beyond the reach of ordinary middle-class families.

Even the family dishes in Tan's cuisine are cooked slowly and carefully, unlike the dishes in ordinary restaurants, which are mostly cooked quickly due to business needs.

The seasonings are original.

The cooking requires sufficient heat, a lot of ingredients, and the dishes are soft and rotten.

Therefore, the taste is delicious and the texture is tender.

This is also the reason why there are few Tan's cuisine outside.

Ordinary restaurants, even if they have the recipe of Tan's cuisine, dare not make it easily. The high production cost of the dishes is definitely prohibitive for most people.

And knowing the true situation of Tan's cuisine.

You can also know how unreliable the so-called three generations of hired farmers in the original book are.

Because Sha Zhu himself said that when he was young, He Daqing taught him to practice Tan's cuisine at home.

If three generations of hired farmers really had to buy the seasonings and ingredients needed for Tan's cuisine? (To read the most exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

He Daqing even doubted that the Guan family kitchen had prepared so many Tan family cuisine seasonings and related ingredients for Guan Ziqing to practice his cooking skills.

The only pity is that the kitchen ingredients lack precious ingredients such as bird's nest and shark's fin. Otherwise, he really wanted to practice his skills by making a few signature dishes of the Tan family cuisine.

After all, Tan family cuisine without bird's nest and shark's fin is soulless.

In Tan family cuisine, there are more than a dozen ways to cook shark's fin alone, such as three-strand shark's fin, crab roe shark's fin, casserole shark's fin, clear-boiled shark's fin, thick soup shark's fin, sea-braised shark's fin, braised shark's fin, etc.[]

From this you can know the importance of bird's nest and shark's fin in Tan's cuisine.���dish.

Unfortunately, in those days, even the Guan family did not have the luxury of eating bird's nest and shark's fin every day.

He Daqing felt a little sorry, but his hands were not idle.

After preparing the roast duck sauce, he picked up a big carp and started to prepare it, but he was preparing to make the five-spice fish in the Tan family cuisine. Five- spice fish is a traditional famous dish in the old city, belonging to the Beijing cuisine. The basic characteristics are: salty and fresh taste, rich five spices.

The five-spice fish in the Tan family cuisine has made great efforts in the freshness. It is more delicious than the ordinary five-spice fish method, and people will praise it after eating it.

After removing the scales, fins, gills and internal organs of the fish, wash it, split it in half from the spine with a knife, and then cut it into small pieces with an oblique knife. Marinate it with salt, green onion, ginger, vinegar, soy sauce, cooking wine, etc. for half an hour.

Then fry and stew it.

Bring it to a boil over high heat, and simmer it over low heat until 70% of the sauce is absorbed into the meat and it is crispy.

At this point, a five-spice fish is ready.

He Daqing was doing two things at once. While making the five-spice fish, he also took out an old hen and started to prepare it, preparing to make a soft fried chicken from the Tan family.

At the same time, he asked Guan Ziqing to cut the pork belly into pieces and prepare it for the braised pork later.

It was a rare visit to Old Man Guan's place, and there were so many ingredients.

He Daqing naturally wanted to have a good meal.

Chicken, duck, fish, meat, none of them could be missing.

Finally, he showed off his knife skills and made a dish of sour and spicy tripe.

The tripe was cut with a flower knife, cutting more than four-fifths of the tripe, without breaking. A large piece of tripe was cut, and only a thin skin was left when it was picked up.

This is also the dish that best reflects the knife skills among the traditional famous dishes of the Four-Nine City.

As for Wensi tofu?

All right.

He Daqing was self-aware and knew that with his current knife skills, he could not make real Wensi tofu, so he did not make this dish to embarrass himself.

After all, to make real Wensi tofu, the tender tofu must be cut into pieces as thick as hair, evenly thick and even enough to pass through a pinhole without being cut. Cutting is a test of the chef's coordination of hands, eyes, and knife.

The tofu made in this way is like a blooming chrysanthemum, and tastes extremely fresh and smooth.

Without cooking skills and knife skills above level three, it is impossible to make real Wensi tofu.

An hour later.

Under He Daqing's reasonable time control, five dishes and a plate of peanuts were ready.

Not only are the colors attractive, but the aroma also drifted more than ten meters away, directly luring old man Guan into the kitchen.

However, when he came to the kitchen and saw the six dishes made by He Daqing, the corners of his mouth twitched

".Boy, you are here to eat the rich."

"It's really amazing. Among the six dishes, only one plate of peanuts is vegetarian. The other five dishes, chicken, duck, fish, meat, and tripe, are all made from the few ingredients I saved in my kitchen."

"If this doesn't taste good, I, an old man, will not be happy."

When Lu Shan saw the dishes on the chopping board, he was completely speechless and didn't know what to say.

He Daqing heard this and smiled cunningly:"Hey, I have to cook a few dishes just to let you, my second uncle, appreciate my family's cooking skills better."

"You can't just stir-fry some cabbage and radishes to get by, right?"

"That's just fooling people."

Seeing the prey, he was so happy that he wanted to treat himself and prepare some delicious food.

He Daqing didn't agree with this statement.

It was obvious that he didn't want to disappoint his second uncle Guan Laotou's earnest expectations.

"I'd rather you fool me with fried cabbage and radish."

Hearing He Daqing's quibbling, Luan Shan said unhappily.

As he spoke, he walked towards the chopping board and carefully looked at the six dishes made by He Daqing. He saw that all six dishes were delicious, and even the fried peanuts were tempting.

Seeing this, Luan Shan nodded with satisfaction and said,"Not bad, although I haven't tasted it yet, but from the perspective of color and fragrance, it is barely qualified, and is not worse than the dishes in Fengze Garden. I don't know what it really tastes like."

After speaking, he did not forget to direct He Daqing and the others,"Let's go, what are you still standing there for, I, the old man, have asked people to set up the dining table, and I'm waiting for you to serve the dishes."

He Daqing was not angry when he heard Luan Shan's evaluation, and smiled and said,"With your evaluation, I am already satisfied. You go ahead, Ziqing and I will bring the dishes to you!"

In fact, in terms of He Daqing's basic cooking skills, he is definitely a little bit inferior to the chef of Fengze Garden.

But you can't help but think that he has the recipe of Tan's dishes.

Most of the dishes made this time are Tan's dishes.

So it is normal for Old Man Guan to say that the dishes he made are not worse than those made by the chef of Fengze Garden.

It's just like playing a game. Basic attack is enough, and skills make up for it.

The basic skills of cooking are basic attack, and the special dishes in the recipe are skills.

With the blessing of skills, the damage dealt by He Daqing is increased by one level, which is normal.

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All six dishes were served.

Guan Yushan was the first to pick up his chopsticks. He ignored the four Tan dishes and peanuts, but picked up a piece of roast duck and dipped it in the sauce to taste.

These four Tan dishes are the inherited cooking skills of the old He family. He naturally knows how they taste.

On the contrary, this roast duck is not included in the old He family's cooking heritage, so Guan Yushan must taste it first.

However, when a piece of roast duck entered his mouth, Guan Yushan was instantly shocked.

Because this roast duck is not only beautiful in appearance, plump and full, but also bright in color, and reddish in color, and it is paired with two different sauces.

It even tastes crispy and tender, delicious and crispy, fat but not greasy, and lean but not dry.

Finally, paired with these two sauces that are either salty and delicious, or spicy and fragrant, it directly gives people an unprecedented experience, and the taste is excellent and fragrant

"Where did you get the recipe for this roast duck?"

"With the sauce, it tastes just as good as the ones made by Quanjude chef himself."

"If the owner of Quanjude knew about this, he would not be able to sleep well at night unless he got your recipe."

Guan Shan commented with a smile, and praised the roast duck recipe in He Daqing's hand, and gave some hints.

He Daqing heard this and shamelessly took the system's gift as his own credit, saying:"Hey, of course, it was my nephew who figured it out. In fact, the hanging oven technology of this roast duck is not much better than that of ordinary roast duck. It's mainly the configuration of the sauce."

"As long as you prepare the sauce well and slightly adjust the oven-hanging technique, the duck you make will not be too bad."

"I wonder how much my duck is inferior to the roast duck at Quanjude Palace."

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