After looking at the two maids in front of him who were pretending to be elegant and calmly saluting and leaving, the head maid's heart was full of serpent-like mockery. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Shameless little bitch, you dare to deliberately make your skirt short, although she doesn't show her legs, but you think this girl can't see it?

With that kind of workmanship, when you get to the king, the range of action is slightly larger, and there will be a tight-fitting effect.

Appearing in front of you like this, don't think that this girl doesn't know what you little want to do. ”

The head maid turned around and returned to Chen Xin's side to continue serving, while spraying this venom in her heart, "This girl just likes your kind of look that wants to strangle me to death, but you don't dare to show the slightest abnormality." ”

Finally, he glanced at Chen Xin's empty teacup, picked up the teapot and began to refill the cup, "Hmph, the king has already issued an order, as long as this girl is here, don't think about taking a step beyond the thunder pool if you little smash it." ”

Chen Xin was not aware of the confrontation between the servants just now.

However, as the lids of several small dishes on the round table were opened, a refreshing aroma rushed to the tip of Chen Xin's nose.

He couldn't help but turn his head curiously, and saw a few dumpling-shaped things with white skin like snow, thin as paper, translucent, and vaguely visible in the filling in a small steamer, so he asked, "What is it?" It's so fragrant. ”

The head maid set up the dishes, pointed to the first small plate and said, "This is a crystal shrimp dumpling."

The ingredients required are shrimp, starch, bamboo shoots, secret stock that has been boiled overnight, sugar, sesame oil, pork, water, corn starch, etc.

Here, the head of the shrimp should be cut off, and the shrimp line should be picked off with a thin needle in the penultimate section, and finally cut into granules;

The bamboo shoots should be cut into two types, small dices and slices;

Pork should be cut into small cubes;

Mix the shrimp, pork, diced bamboo shoots, salt, secret stock, sugar, sesame oil and cornstarch, and marinate for 20 minutes;

Beat the marinated filling repeatedly on the cutting board until the filling becomes sticky and strong, and set aside for later use;

Mix the flour with boiling water to form a complete dough;

Next, it's time to test the chef's basic pastry skills, using the mixed dough to make dumpling wrappers, fill them with fillings, and knead them into beautiful shapes;

Put a layer of bamboo shoots in the steamer, put the wrapped shrimp dumplings on top, pot under cold water, bring to a boil, and heat for 8 minutes.

The whole process is extremely tedious and meticulous, and requires a high level of pastry skills. ”

Chen Xin was dumbfounded when he heard this, he just wanted to know the name of the food, he didn't expect the head maid to have such a good memory, and he could even remember things that were not her own job so clearly.

After a while, Chen Xincai said the word "good", and he didn't know whether he was saying that the shrimp dumplings were good or that the maid was good.

The maid smiled reservedly, then gently grabbed a shrimp Jiao and sent it to Chen Xin's plate.

"Please taste it."

"The dumpling skin is pliable and the filling is delicious and delicious. There is no fishy smell of shrimp, only the umami of shrimp. Yes, really, very well. This chef's skills are really good. ”

The head maid first chimed in: "The chef's skills are naturally excellent. ”

Then he changed his words and said, "However, thanks to the fact that the palace is not far from the mouth of the sea, the fresh shrimp caught at sea can be delivered to the palace in the freshest time, otherwise, without good ingredients, no matter how capable the chef is, he will not be able to make good things." ”

Chen Xin thought thoughtfully: "This fresh prawn, I'm afraid it's very expensive now, right?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the former Joseon Kingdom has a large population and little land, and a large number of fishermen catch seafood in the offshore areas to make a living, and in addition to the lack of food in the kingdom in recent years, we have also carried out large-scale fishing, so there are no good things to catch in the offshore waters.

Due to the lack of preservation technology, distant-water fishing vessels can only barely break even by raising the price of seafood. If it weren't for the fact that there is a special distant-water fishing vessel under your name to maintain this business, I am afraid that the kingdom will not have achieved much in distant-water fishing. ”

The maid chief was right, the preservation technology of this era was not perfect, so ocean fishing became empty talk.

The open sea is already windy and rough, and small boats cannot travel, but when a large ship goes out, the loss of labor, supplies, ship repairs, etc., is not a small amount.

If you wait for a long time to catch a fish, and wait until you catch enough fish in the open sea, the first seafood caught in the boat will already stink and no one will want it.

However, if you catch a net quickly, the catch can be kept fresh, but if it is not enough to load the boat, the quantity of the catch is less, and the unit price of the catch remains high, and ordinary people cannot afford it.

But if the price is raised, the rich will not have such a large consumption, after all, it is an ocean-going fishing boat, and it will be at least tens of thousands of catties under a net.

As a result, large distant-water fishing vessels will lose money.

Unable to make a profit, the private sector is naturally reluctant to invest in the development of distant-water fisheries.

However, Chen Xin knows how abundant seafood can be caught in the ocean in this era, which is an untapped treasure trove, so even if it is a loss, Chen Xin has been working hard to maintain a small distant-water fishing system, constantly developing various technologies and training personnel.

The focus is still on the generator, and the prime mover of the generator must be miniaturized on the existing basis, and the steam engine is too heavy as the prime mover.

When the generator driven by the internal combustion engine appears, then the large ice reservoir on the distant-water fishing vessel will also be settled, and at that time, with the current distant-water fishing system as the fulcrum, a huge distant-water fishing industry chain can be quickly developed, adding a way to prosperity for the kingdom.

The most important thing is that the huge school of marine fish in the ocean can greatly alleviate the food crisis in the kingdom, increase the nutrition of the people, and enhance the physical fitness of the people.

While eating this delicacy, Chen Xin conceived the development of distant-water fishing in his mind.

Chen Xin didn't pay attention at all, he actually inadvertently finished eating 3 shrimp dumplings, and the head maid had already replaced it with another snack.

Suddenly, he felt the taste in his mouth change, and a sweet taste that combined with the creamy fragrance, jujube fragrance, and smooth feeling rushed straight to his taste buds.

It seems that inside here, there is still a little fragrance of osmanthus.

"What is this?"

"Your Majesty, at this time, jujube paste yam cake.

It is mainly made of steamed and crushed jujubes, yams, concentrated milk, and special osmanthus sugar, which are rolled layer by layer in a mold. ”

Only then did Chen Xin notice that this jujube paste yam cake was still in the shape of a beautiful and small flower.

Sandwiched the remaining small piece of jujube paste yam cake on the chopsticks, and looked at it carefully, Chen Xin was surprised to find that there seemed to be a series of small characters on the top of the pastry.