After four nights of trial and error, Xiao Yao finally made three bases with basically the same flavor as in his previous life.
She excitedly asked the kitchen to prepare beef and mutton, various seasonal vegetables, tofu, tofu and sesame sauce, leek sauce, and then green onions, ginger and garlic.
She's going to make a hot pot feast.
She told Qiu Ju that she wanted to invite them to taste the food of their hometown, in order to make it more lively, she also called two cooks and two rough little maids, if it weren't for the fact that men and women in this era could not kiss, she also wanted to call two janitors.
Xiao Yao's feast was quietly held in the evening, Xiao Cui and the cook began to prepare after lunch, after these nights and Xiao Yao experimented together, Xiao Cui has won Xiao Yao's true heritage, she taught Sister-in-law Li to freeze the beef and mutton frozen outdoors last night, cut it into thin slices and roll it up and put it on a large plate, while directing the two little girls to peel the onions, peel the garlic and mash the garlic, Aunt Gu was picking vegetables and washing the vegetables on the side, Xiao Cui herself found nine small bowls to wash, and made dipping sauces for the nine people, she had asked the preferences of the nine people, Xiao Yao, Xia He, Qiu Yue and the two coarse maids asked for a dipping sauce for sesame sauce and garlic, Qiu Ju, she and Sister-in-law Li liked to eat leeks.
Because Xiao Yao specially proposed to let the two cooks, the two rough girls and the four big maids eat with her, which made the two cooks and the two rough maids who had never just hid in the corner of the kitchen to eat, and couldn't even eat at the same table with the second-class maids, both frightened and excited, and felt the unprecedented respect in their hearts and excitement, and they were grateful and liked this Miss Xiao who had no eldest lady's temper and was amiable to everyone.
Therefore, the four of them worked extremely hard.
Qiu Ju, Xia He and Qiu Yue also wanted to do something, so Xiao Yao asked them to vacate the round table in the room, put a large piece of paper on the tablecloth, and collected nine stools with different round, square, high and low from each room around the table, and put away the delicate objects in the room that were afraid of smoking and steaming. also asked Xia He to turn on the stove and boil a large pot of water.
After the house was cleaned up, Qiu Yue ran to the kitchen to see how Xiao Cui and the others were prepared.
She has eaten Xiao Yao's biscuits, potato chips, and chocolates, and she is very interested in Xiao Yao's hometown food, and she is full of expectations for tonight's food.
The work in the kitchen is almost done, Sister-in-law Li is washing a copper basin for washing vegetables, Xiaocui saw that Qiuyue was coming, so she asked her to go to Xiao Yao's house with her to serve dipping sauce, while asking the two little maids to send the dishes that had been washed to the house and sent them to the house, Qiu Ju and Xia He quickly picked it up, Xiaocui and Qiu Yue and they went to serve the dishes again, and the four of them ran two more times to finish the dishes.
Qiu Ju is a little bit, very weird-looking two large plates of beef rolls, two large plates of mutton rolls, one plate of tofu, one plate of bean skin, one plate of cloud cabbage, one plate of winter melon, one plate of white radish, one plate of cut white siad leaves, one plate of coriander.
There are eleven plates.
Xiao Yao asked Xia He to make a pot of charcoal fire flourish in the middle of the round table, and asked Xiao Cui to use it as a copper basin for washing vegetables, and poured the soup base they developed into the copper basin, plus the hot water and salt grains in the kettle on the stove.
Put it on a charcoal basin and cook it.
Xiao Cui added five or six slices of ginger, four or five green onions, and six or seven garlic cloves to the pot.
Soon the room was filled with an enticing scent.
It was getting dark.
Xiao Yao asked Xiaocui to call everyone together and said to them: "Tonight, it is me and Xiaocui who use the food in our hometown to thank everyone for taking care of us these days."
Tonight, no matter whether we are respectful or humble, don't be restrained, do what you like to eat, no one should serve me, I will do it myself like you, this is how we eat in our hometown, the picture is lively.
I just don't know if you like to eat or not, if you don't like to eat, you must say it, I have a snack here, you can pad your stomach, you must not be hungry.
Okay, everyone, sit down, you can eat well, don't push around, then I'll be angry.
Xiaocui, they are all eating for the first time, you tell everyone how to eat.
After speaking, Xiao Yao was the first to sit down and used gestures to ask everyone to sit down.
Although they were very frightened, no one wanted to make Xiao Yao angry, so they all sat down obediently.
The soup in the copper basin has boiled, and the water is splashing.
Xiao Cui agreed, first put chopsticks and their favorite dipping bowls in front of each person, then picked up a pair of public chopsticks, and demonstrated while talking: "Actually, eating this is very simple, sandwich the vegetables and meat, put them in a basin, and cook them for a while, just like this."
She picked up a chopstick beef roll and put it in the boiling soup bowl, and as soon as the meat changed color, she picked it up and put it in the dipping bowl in front of her, dipped it twice, and put it in her mouth to eat.
Everyone watched her demonstrate seriously, and when they saw that it was really simple, they all smiled.
Xiao Yao saw that everyone knew it, so he said, "Let's start eating!"
She took the lead in sandwiching the mutton and rinsing it, she knew that if she was the first to eat it, no one else would dare to move the chopsticks.
The hot pot banquet won the hearts of the people, there was not a single leaf left of the eleven dishes to eat, even the dipping sauce and the soup in the pot were eaten up and drunk, at first it was just Aunt Gu Li and the two rough maids scooping the soup to drink, and then Qiuyue couldn't help but drink it, Xiao Cui was actually the first time to eat hot pot, she gave people a very experienced appearance at first, all Xiao Yao told her bit by bit when she was doing experiments at night, Xiao Yao taught her one in order to let her be alone in the future, many times when she was inconvenient to come forward, Xiao Cui had to act on her behalf.
On the other hand, it also made everyone look up at Xiaocui, feeling that she was one with themselves, and did not dare to underestimate her.
Xiao Cui's rise to eat, with her eyes to ask Xiao Yao that she wanted to drink soup, Xiao Yao nodded with a smile on her face in agreement, and in the end, even Qiu Ju and Xia He also put down their identities as the big maids of the palace, drank the soup and ate the dipping sauce.
Xiao Yao was very happy in her heart, it seemed that the hot pot was very popular, she seemed to be able to see the silver flowing into her room, and her manor was in front of her.
After everything was cleaned up, Xiao Yao and Xiaocui washed up and lay on the bed, both excited and couldn't sleep for a long time.
Xiao Cui reminisced about the deliciousness of the hot pot and laughed at everyone's soup.
"Miss, you don't know, in fact, my stomach is already full, but when I saw Qiuyue and them drinking soup, I couldn't help but want to drink it too, but I didn't expect Sister Qiu Ju and Sister Xia He to drink it too, haha!
It seems that our hot pot will definitely make money..."
Xiao Yao lay in the quilt and smiled, listening to Xiaocui's nagging, while thinking: I will let the two little girls taste it tomorrow, whether the women like it or not, after all, the people who can go to the restaurant in this era are men, and if they want to let them quietly invite Zhao Ruiyang's personal servant and the housekeeper with a head and face to eat together, their evaluation is the most important.
The next day, Xiaocui and Aunt Li in the kitchen were busy all afternoon.
Early in the morning of the third day, Xiaocui brought good news: said that the big housekeeper Wang, who didn't give face to the two little guys last night and didn't bother to go to the banquet at all, barely came to show up under the stiff pull of Jia Si, the personal servant of the fifth prince, but as soon as he ate it, he didn't leave, praised the hot pot, and praised the two little guys for having him in their hearts, and they would promote them in the future.
Cao Zhong and Li Gui were going to kowtow to Xiao Yao early this morning, but they were stopped by her and asked them to do a good job for Miss in the future.
Xiao Yao was very happy to hear this, and praised Xiaocui for becoming more and more proficient.
Xiaocui said embarrassedly: "I learned from Qiu Ju and Sister Xia He, I used to know that I would make needlework for you, serve tea and water, it's not enough, I want to learn from them well, and be a big girl like them who can share the worries of her master." ” Xiao Yao was both moved and happy in her heart, Xiaocui is really a caring and smart child, and she will be of great use in the future!