Zheng Wei knew the severity, and he would not let Xue Pan really go to the kitchen to suffer from the fireworks, he had already placed a fierce coal stove in the yard, and put a long table of green wood, which seemed to be used to kill pigs before, and today the pulp was extremely clean and spotless, and there were many things on it, Zheng Wei introduced, "This is Jinhua's ham, which is the best two-headed black front leg from the old mountain in Lanxi, and it has been made for three years." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Lao Shanzi is an eighty-year-old ham master, the ham is the most famous in the world, such a famous person, the most quirks, a year only in the winter after the beginning of winter to make dozens of hams, and only use two black front legs, only use the coarse salt of the Qiantang River produced in Haining, the wood of the smoked ham must be chestnut wood, Rao is so hypocritical, countless dignitaries and nobles flock to it, but prefer to admire it.

Zheng Wei picked up the ham and presented it to Xue Pan, Xue Pan only saw that the lean meat of the ham was bright red, the fat was light yellow, the fat and thin were mixed, it was very bright, and he smelled it slightly, and smelled a salty and fresh taste, "How is it three years?" Xue Pan asked, "What's so special about this ham?" ”

"Back to the uncle's words," Zheng Wei said, "this Jinhua's ham, because it is located in the south of the Yangtze River, our places are very humid, if the ham is hidden for too long, it must attract insects, if it is a ham for more than three years, then it is necessary to add a lot of salt, as well as spices to avoid insects, so that the true taste of the ham has been diluted, and the ham of one or two years is still more oily, only the ham of these three years is the best." ”

Xue Pan nodded, "Then that's it, cut off the best parts, and prepare them to make a honey fire recipe, I can use my hooves and feet here." ”

I looked at a few more ingredients, all of which were the freshest, such as the old hen, bamboo sun, and conpoy, "The conpoy is the conpoy used outside the Guan, and it is also last year's goods." This year's conpoy will not be available until August, and now it can only be used," Xue Pan looked at them one by one and nodded, "It's okay, it's just borrowing the umami of the conpoy, not to eat the conpoy, Steward Zheng, the things in our kitchen, I'm afraid it's other places in Jinling, and they can't be compared." ”

"What the uncle said is very true," Zheng Wei looked proud, "There is nothing good in our family, just eat and eat alone in Jinling City, the little one dares to say so, and he is not afraid of others saying that we are bragging!" ”

So Xue Pan personally supervised, first slaughtered the old hen, cut and cleaned it for later use, cut off the hooves of Jinhua ham, and soaked it in rice water for half an hour, and then put it in a large clay pot, filled with water, first stuffed the old hen's stomach with a few pieces of ginger, a few red dates, a handful of mung beans, ginger is warm, red dates nourish blood, mung beans clear heat, the ginger here is spicy, so just put two pieces, and wiped the whole body of the old hen with Shaoxing daughter red, and then put it into a large clay pot, filled with water, first boiled with a fierce fire, skimmed off the blood foam, and then turned to medium heat, at this timeBlanch the ham hooves and pork ribs respectively, remove blood and impurities, and then carefully select them with cool well water, and put them into the clay pot together with the scallops, and stew them together over medium heat, then take out the ginger and shallots in the old hen's belly, add cooking wine, and then slowly boil them for three hours over low heat.

The matter here is basically over, Xue Pan clapped his hands and prepared to leave, and ordered, "Chop the lean meat on the back of the pork into minced meat with a knife, and also use chicken breast to chop it into minced meat, mix it into a paste with water, and prepare it for me to come back at night. ”

After the order, Xue Pan washed his hands and went out to have a treat, the first one was naturally to invite Zhen Baoyu, Zhen Baoyu agreed, last time since he got the appreciation of his own Lao Tzu, not only the elders and daughters of the family have added a few points to their pampering, but also in front of the father outside, it will not be like a mouse seeing a cat in front of his father, so he is really grateful to Xue Pan in his heart, "It just so happens that Brother Shi is coming, I was originally going to invite Brother Shi to dinner, but now I am biased towards Brother Shi, but what to prepare, I will ask someone to help." ”

"Brother Shi can come in person, it is my greatest blessing," Xue Pan said with a smile, "I don't need anything else, I took the best four-gill plum blossom sea bass from Tong Shu, and I specially prepared a good dish myself, a good dish that I have never seen outside, and I came to entertain Brother Shi, and Brother Shi will come when the time comes." ”

Zhen Baoyu was a little embarrassed, "There is something that is going to trouble Brother Shi, my mother heard that Brother Shi has a younger sister, thinking about when to meet, it is all my mouth, I really shouldn't tell Shimei's whereabouts." ”

"What's this? Speaking of which, it is also a blessing for me and my sister," Xue Pan said with a smile, "After a few days, it will be the May Festival, and then I will let my sister personally go to your mansion to greet my ancestor and wife." ”

"That's the best," Zhen Baoyu was very happy, and patted her chest to promise, "With me, I will never let my sister be wronged." ”

Xue Pan smiled secretly in his heart, I'm afraid it's not your wife who wants to see my sister, but he doesn't say anything, but with a knowing smile on his face, it makes Zhen Baoyu's face flushed, and he is very embarrassed.

He came out again, went to Tong Shu's residence, and said about it, this matter has been said several times, Tong Shu thought that Xue Pan was unwilling to make friends with himself, but he didn't expect Xue Pan to do what he said, and he was about to come to treat him, Tong Shu hurriedly agreed, and on the second day, the four-gill plum blossom perch in Songjiang was sent to Xue Pan's house with a cart, filled with Xiaoyue Creek's stream water in a wooden barrel, Xue Pan hurriedly accepted it, and prepared it for the day after tomorrow, which pot of soup happened to be cooked at home was about the same, but it still needed to be boiled slowly, Xue Pan instructed Zheng Wei again, " Tell someone to keep an eye on it, don't put out the fire, and don't burn the pot dry! ”

The day after tomorrow, it is the day of hospitality, this day is the host, dress should not be too simple, the etiquette of this dynasty is not too strict, when keeping filial piety, there is no need to avoid meat, and there is no need to wear coarse cloth clothes, just don't do indescribable things, don't go far away, officials should abide by the system, Xue Pan is not an official, naturally there is no need to abide by the system. Therefore, Xue Pan wore dark purple pine, bamboo, and plum kan shoulders and narrow waist arrow sleeves on this day, and wore a goose-yellow robe outside, and tied his hair with a bright silver eight-treasure crown embellished with round southern pearls, wrapped a rosin-colored sweat towel around his waist, and stepped on soap-bottomed official boots on the soles of his feet, which was very good-looking.

On this day, Xue Wang's family also happened to invite a few close wives to have fun together, in the end, filial piety, can not wantonly carry out entertainment activities, originally wanted to pass on the opera team, but then Xue Pan thought about it, or just, don't be so high-profile, so only in the east cross courtyard on the edge of Xue Wang's main courtyard, two tables were arranged.