Chapter 175: Last-Minute Success
In the following time, Wang Yong was actually making soup. The budget was obviously a bit overrun, so the rest of him was his own money. For chefs, the most valuable investment is not to buy land, buy or sell people, or anything, but to invest in their own cooking skills!
Cooking skills are the foundation of life, as long as you improve your cooking skills, you can gain fame, status and money! The manor has been followed up by Wenming and has begun to be built rapidly. Yesterday, we also began to draw up poultry cages and barns, and in the future, we will not only raise sheep and pigs, but also cattle, if conditions permit.
"Test No. 10 is about to go out...... The twelfth is also coming! Guo Jia acted as a helper, and in the process of boiling the soup, he was also rapidly accumulating an understanding of umami.
Even when she has free time, she works on her strength, and yoga doesn't stop. At the end of the year, the construction during this period of time will be temporarily stopped, and it will not work for the next ten days. The barracks also left only the necessary patrol and guard soldiers, and the rest took turns to rest.
If you have conditions, go to the surrounding counties to play, and if you don't have conditions, go around Xu County.
"The taste is still a little discordant, and there are still problems with the control of the heat...... "After draining the No. 10 work, Wang Yong tasted it, and after the previous seven or eight times of trial and error, he has found the most suitable scale for the soup, and then began to improve, but this time the improvement seems to have failed.
As Xun Yu said, if you can't put your own mark on the soup, then it is a substandard product.
On the basis of pork and chicken, Wang Yong chose several materials and tried in different directions. For example, add duck or lamb, or even fish. Or make a soup with pig's trotters, mutton, fish and old hens. This is the most basic animal protein stock.
On this basis, there are also vegetable broths, such as soybeans, carrots, tomatoes, etc., which are sweeter and more umami-flavored.
Finally, there is the spice stock, which is based on the original soup and added with suitable spices to enhance the flavor. For example, pepper, such as tangerine peel, green onion ginger, etc......
Obviously, if he really wants to find, all three directions can lead to the right path, and the key is which path he chooses to take. Vegetables, meat or spices. Behind each road, there are countless forks, which means that he doesn't have the extra energy to go through them all.
The No. 10 work is the result of adding mutton and fish, but the proportions are not correct, and the flavor becomes weird. And if you add mutton, I feel that the lean pork does not need to be put in.
In this process, it is necessary to constantly find out the optimal ratio, just adding one more material, it may take more than ten days of exploration, after all, the four-hour boiling time cannot be reduced.
"The twelfth is ready to come out of the pot!" Guo Jia reminded him, and Wang Yong also began to try. This is the result of seasoning with spices, the aroma of pepper, the sweetness of tangerine peel, and I don't know what the result will be.
"The proportions are not right, but they are very close to the finished product!" Wang Yong tasted it and immediately smiled. In the soup on the three pots, only this is the recipe that is closest to the finished product. After a pause, he looked at Guo Jia, "Continue to pay attention to No. 11, keep the formula on No. 10, and then slowly experiment in the future, focusing on No. 12!" ”
Not long after the feast, the first thing to do is to have a soup that can be obtained, that is, a soup made with pepper, tangerine peel, and a little green onion and ginger! Caution at the beginning is still beneficial, too much seasoning will make the built fragrance out of balance.
I remember that in an episode of a certain spirit, it was said that different spices are constructed, and the compound fragrance can indeed have the effect of enhancing each other. However, it is easy to suppress the characteristics of each individual, leading to the collapse of the balance. Theoretically, the maximum upper limit of spices is 20, although it is not known whether this data is correct.
In other words, the real strength of the Grand Cru is to build a balance of 21 or even 22 spices...... Having said that, it seems that a certain spirit has not been updated until it crosses by itself.
"I suddenly felt that in the world of cooking, I was just an ordinary newcomer...... "I can only feel the pressure when I really devote myself to this world and not be a member of the previous 'cooking club'."
There is no such pleasure as cooking before, but it is like a traveler walking in the desert, taking the next step with difficulty, and no one knows whether it is right or wrong. If you make a mistake, you will never recover.
"Then, let's start simmering the soup from the thirteenth to the fifteenth! Prepare the materials, and go to the house to buy if you don't have enough! Wang Yong immediately gave an order, and several cooks around him immediately got busy.
During this period of working under Wang Yong, whether it is knife work, seasoning, or material selection and heat, they have made great progress, and even have an understanding of umami, which is a completely unknown field.
Sometimes everyone knows that eating shrimp or seafood will be very 'sweet', but this sweetness is obviously not 'sweet', and we don't know what it is. Until now, I didn't know that it was called 'umami'.
Thirty minutes later, the soup on the 11th was successfully boiled. This soup is made with not only carrots and soybeans, but also several pieces of seaweed, which is the part of the root of the kelp, and the umami is several times greater than that of the kelp itself. It is also said that MSG is extracted from this.
Regardless of whether it is or not, umami is undoubtedly the source of plant umami, so I tried to add it to the soup.
The sweetness of carrots is similar to tangerine peel, but it is different from tangerine peel. There is no doubt about the unique oil and umami taste of soybeans, and tomatoes ...... It can also be used in soups, but it is not suitable for the current recipe.
Perhaps, if there really is a high-speed separator or something, only extracting pure colorless tomato juice...... Forget it, Wang Yong never considers things that are too high-end.
"The umami of the sea head is too strong and the taste is too special, which directly destroys the balance of the soup...... In fact, there was a problem with the direction from the beginning, and instead of adding animal protein stock, you should directly use kelp and other ingredients to make vegetable stock! Wang Yong sighed, this is the most failed recipe for soup.
"Then let's explore more deeply for the Twelfth, time is running out!" Guo Jia nodded.
"Prepare a few more proportions of soup, you must prepare it today!" Wang Yong nodded.
Seeing the time pass little by little, finally, the early hours of the morning have passed, and it is theoretically now a new year. There is no Spring Festival Gala year, and naturally no one will specifically count down, and there is no timer accurate to the second in this year, and the water leak is not so accurate.
"Seventeenth soup, perfect!" He tasted the latest No. 1 soup, took a sip, and immediately announced.
"Hooray!" Guo Jia and the other cooks immediately cheered when they heard this, they have been busy for so long, and they finally have a harvest!
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