MTL - Chang’an Small Restaurant-Chapter 40 The fate of porridge

After the winter solstice, it will be Laba in a few days. At this time, there was no grand occasion of eating porridge in the whole country in later generations. Only the temples and nunneries "cooked medicine and food" and distributed them to the families of benevolent believers. ①

There are several disciples in Guangming Nunnery who dispense medicine and food to the believers at the entrance of the main hall, and there are also special disciples who send the medicine and food to the high-level mansion where they come and go.

Because of the relationship between Shen Shaoguang and Guangming An, Jingqing got out of the car and put down a bowl for her when she was about to leave the workshop. Shen Shaoguang took it with a smile, and exchanged a few words of greetings. Seeing that Jingqing was in a hurry, knowing that she had to run many homes, he took out the money from the basket and put it in the basket with the porridge pot, and sent her out in person.

Jingqing felt embarrassed, "Why are you being polite like this? I usually have so many good things from you, this time I just want you to taste our medicine and food."

Shen Shaoguang smiled and said: "We also boiled some eight-treasure porridge here, which is similar to your medicine and food. I will send it to the nunnery later, and you can taste it when you come back, how is it compared to your medicine and food. "

Jing Qing smiled, "This is really worth a taste."

The two said goodbye at the door, and Shen Shaoguang watched Jingqing board the car and leave.

Shen Shaoguang, as she said, took a can of eight-treasure porridge and sent it to the nunnery.

This eight-treasure porridge is naturally cooked according to the customs of later generations. In the past life, like most young people, Shen Shaoguang didn't value these traditional festivals. Now he is a stranger in a foreign land, but he misses it very much.

Like Shen Shaoguang's jet-lagged classmates, when they were in China, they wanted more foreigners, but when they really went abroad, they drove from New York to Washington, shouting patriotism all the way song thing.

When I talked to Shen Shaoguang in the video, Shen Shaoguang laughed at her, do you have so much stock in your song library? Wouldn't it be a complete single loop?

The classmate smiled: "The key is to express my love for the motherland, okay?"

Shen Shaoguang is also full of love for the old time and space, and now he is the master of the house, and any festival will be celebrated as before.

The fruits and vegetables of today are not as diverse as those of later generations, but almost all of the grains already exist. Rice, corn, millet, barley, and red beans are all necessary. The lotus seeds, hazelnuts, pine nuts, walnuts, and chestnuts in the porridge and fruit are also indispensable. The most important thing is red dates.

It is said that the most exquisite cooking method of red dates is to peel and remove the core, and then add them when the porridge is cooked. fragrant.

Shen Shaoguang has never had such exquisite Laba porridge. The porridge she drinks is made of whole jujubes thrown into the porridge, so when she eats porridge, she often spit out a jujube pit, and occasionally a jujube peel sticks to her upper chest.

Now I cook it myself, Shen Shaoguang pondered, soaked the jujube, removed the core, then used a small grinder to grind the pulp, and then filtered the jujube skin out with a fine fence. children, but also solved the problem of skin and core.

This kind of eight-treasure porridge is very praised by Master Yuanjue.

The set porridge skin is filled with pine nuts, hazelnut pulp and other crispy and fragrant porridge fruits, all kinds, small piles, strangely beautiful. Stir it with a spoon and take a sip. The rice is rotten and the fruit is crispy. It can take care of both the tongue and the teeth.

Master Yuanjue laughed too: "Next year, our medicine and food will also be changed to this."

Shen Shaoguang felt the absurdity of "grandson returning to ancient times to teach grandfather". Laba porridge may have been transformed from the medicine and food at this time, but will it be replaced by this time? However, Haolai is just a nunnery, and Haolai is just a kind of food, so don't take it too seriously.

This Laba porridge is not only given to neighbors and Guangming Nunnery, but also to diners. Among them, there is one who claims to be his wife's favorite congee and wants to buy a jar. I didn't know it before, but now I know that this is from Lin Shaoyin's house. Shen Shaoguang gave him a jar just like he gave Guangming An.

Who knew that this pot of porridge gave Shen Shaoguang a chance to return to the "old house".

At this time, although there is no saying that "the year after Laba is over", in fact, people have lived like this for thousands of years. After Laba, the rhythm of the busy year has accelerated, and the taste of New Year's Yuanzheng is getting stronger and stronger.

The store has a lot of preserved vegetables, such as pickled meat, rice grains, wine and radishes, sauerkraut and other vegetables that can be stored for a long time. There is no need to wait until the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to clean the house, the store and the back house have already started the year-end cleaning.

Shen Shaoguang himself and A Yuan and their New Year's clothes were also sewn by someone else - Shen Shaoguang's needlework was mediocre, and A Yuan was even more so Yes, so when it comes to making clothes, you can only ask professionals to do it for you.

Perhaps those who are officials are busy with the year-end performance summary report, and those who are engaged in business are asking for bills—or hiding their bills. , A Yuan, and A Chang calmly prepare for the New Year, and occasionally also buy and sell steamed cakes.

Since the Qixi Festival flower cakes have become famous, when it comes to the festival, when gifts or sacrifices are needed, some people come to buy flower cakes. A while ago, they made some for the winter solstice, so that Shen Shaoguang made a small profit Pen.

New Year Yuanzheng is naturally not comparable to the winter solstice. After the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, there will be many New Year's gifts. If you know Shenji flower cake, you should put two more boxes for the occasion.

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Shen Shaoguang asked him to speak.

"My wife drank the porridge from your shop that day and thought it was very good. When I think about it today, I asked the cook to imitate it, but I can't get the taste. I wonder if your shop can cook it instead. Bo, the fee can be calculated as much as possible."

Cooking eight-treasure porridge is a labor-intensive job. Shen Shaoguang was about to explain to him when the servant explained in a low voice, "Today's lunch, Mrs. Tai didn't come in much."

So you want it now?

Shen Shaoguang pondered, "The lotus seed and eight-treasure porridge won't come out for a while, but there is a sweet porridge that can be a little faster, and the taste is not bad, and it is more suitable for spring and autumn. Ladies eat." Shen Shaoguang was talking about walnut cheese.

Shen Ji, whether it is jade-pointed noodles, cakes, hot pots, or meat and vegetables, they all suit Mrs. Tai's appetite. This servant trusts Shen Shaoguang quite a bit. The solution, "That will trouble the little lady. When will you come to pick it up?"

work.

At this time, I heard the servant's words, and suddenly I had other thoughts: "The time is not easy to estimate, it will never be later than the evening meal. The guests will not be used to fetch, then we will Just send it over."

After the servant left, Shen Shaoguang handed over the task of decorating the cloud cake to Yu San, and began to peel walnuts, pick jujube pits, grind rice milk, and prepare to make walnut cheese.

Yu San was a little puzzled about why Shen Shaoguang was cooking a bowl of porridge, but then he thought, such a bowl of porridge might be sold for the price of a pot of cake, the little lady would It's weird to refuse...

Shen Shaoguang was thinking about the former residence. I came to this workshop, but I haven't been in it yet. That "home" is just what it looks like in my memory and in my sleep.

Although Shen Shaoguang can't tell if it counts as his own home, just like he can't tell if Shen Qian and his wife and Shen Zhiwen—the boy named A Zhang are his parents and brothers, but Shen Shaoguang still wanted to go back and have a look, especially after A Yuan came back and talked about what he saw in that house.

Shen Shaoguang threw the peeled walnut kernels into boiling water while thinking about the old things. In fact, microwave heating is the same, but there is no microwave at this time.

In the era of these kitchen appliances, walnut cheese is simply too easy, but now it can only be "pure handmade".

To make eight-treasure porridge, you need to peel and remove the core to get the red date meat, and also need to make walnut cheese. But now Shen Shaoguang didn't have soaked jujubes, and only made a small bowl, so he didn't have to use the rough method, just peeled the red dates with a knife.

She picked up beans not far away, and in the open kitchen door behind her, A Chang was guarding the stove, and was taking a nap little by little. Yu San smiled and went in to see the fire in the stove, but he didn't wake Achang.

The walnuts were peeled and the dates were cleaned up. Together with the soaked rice, put them on a small mill and grind them into a pulp, then cook them in a pot.

In a short time, the sweet smell of jujube rice permeated the fireside.

A Yuan came over and sniffed, "It's really fragrant."

Shen Shaoguang smiled, the store had the aroma of rice cakes and meat, and it was hard for her to smell the light porridge.

"Shall I deliver it?" Yuan asked.

Shen Shaoguang pointed to the extra bowl, "Go and share with Achang."

A Yuan agreed with a smile.

Yu San glanced at her, "Just let them go."

Shen Shaoguang blinked, doesn't the child just want to be vertical?

Regardless of the third princess, Shen Shaoguang took the food box and left the store.

I wanted to come to the servant and greeted the Renren. Shen Shaoguang mentioned it, and the Renren let her in.

The bamboo is much thicker than I remembered, and the begonia tree has grown, but the flowers carved on this corridor are still the same as the old days.

Shen Shaoguang raised his eyes and saw Lin Shaoyin at the end of the corridor, dressed in white robes, like the breeze and the moon.

The author has something to say:①Tang Dynasty Laba has reference materials, some are made up, and no research is required.

The complex cooking method of Laba porridge and the pile of porridge and fruits on the skin refer to Mr. Tang Lusun's article "Reminiscence of Laba in the Cold Weather and Twilight", and the walnut cheese section refers to Mr. Liang Shiqiu's article.