The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty Chapter 58: Upgrade, canteen

Six almost identical yellow raccoon cats squatted together, with silk threads of different colors tied around their necks one by one.

A few days ago, the six kittens have been named Da Mao, Er Mao, San Mao, Si Mao, Wu Mao and Liu Mao, and were officially named Kaifeng House Rat Catchers. Rodent infestation inside and outside the three hospitals, he is a money and food officer from the Kaifeng government.

Moreover, the names from this to Liumao were actually coined by Bao Zheng himself, which made Yun Yanhui have nowhere to complain.

Although Bao Zheng may have started it casually, when he thinks that Zhan Zhao will come to Kaifeng Mansion in the future, and he will be designated as a royal cat, Yun Yanhui can't help but think: You are not forcing others to be "seven hairs" "Yet? !

Although Yun Yanhui's logic is a bit crooked, but at present, the arrival of these six Mao has been unanimously welcomed by the Kaifeng House.

Yunyan sewed a mat for them, and put it in her room for the time being until she got familiar with the environment.

And Liu Mao was not yet familiar with the environment, so a group of people came to the door and asked to let the mousetrap stay at their place. In particular, Shi Cao and Cang Cao demanded it strongly. There are many documents in Shi Cao, and many materials in Cang Cao, all of which are infested by rats.

Yun Yanhui could only send them off one by one. Now, after feeding Liu Mao, Yun Yanhui stood up again and looked outside. Well, the renovation of Kaifeng Mansion is in full swing.

The flowers and plants that were originally planted have been pulled up, sold, and replaced with various fruits and vegetables. Although it looks bare for a while, but soon after the vegetables grow up, they will be full of vitality.

Moreover, so far, Yun Yanhui has received three pieces of money from Bao Zheng. After spending it, not only do you not need to ask for it, but you can also go back and make up for it...

A lot of chrysanthemums were planted in Kaifeng Mansion before, and this alone sold a lot of money, and the money spent on fruit and vegetable seeds was left over. All the vegetables are grown by the people in the Kaifeng government office. There is no need for labor costs, just allocate a little money to buy fruit snacks and send them to everyone.

Everyone who is free now has to work outside. Because Bao Zheng was extremely dignified, this matter was also praised by Renzong, and even Yunyan's reply "to grow vegetables according to the order" spread, and the officials naturally did not dare to obey.

With the large number of people in Kaifeng, even if the government is busy occasionally, there is no problem of abandoned vegetable fields. Taking a step back, there are secondary administrative agencies under the Kaifeng Mansion, and there are still many people in the various workshops. The big deal is to borrow people to grow vegetables...

Nowadays, even Bao Zheng is working in the vegetable field to rest while handling official documents.

Let's talk about Yun Yanhui, he has always been a person who can spend money and make money. He dared to borrow money to buy pandas at a high price in his early years. After all, he is confident in his ability to make money.

The same is true now. The vegetables have been planted, the sweat of the big guy has flowed down, and Yun Yanhui is also thinking about how to improve his life.

Yun Yanhui believes that a good working environment can help mobilize the enthusiasm of employees, and it can also suppress everyone's resentment about planting vegetables before harvesting, and always work with relaxation.

Yunyan Hui suggested to Bao Zheng to improve the food of the public kitchen—that is, the office canteen.

After listening to Bao Zheng, he breathed a sigh of relief, "I have been thinking about when you will propose to improve the food..."

Yunyan replied: "..."

Facing Bao Zheng's words, Yun Yanhui could only say the last sentence: "The officials know me quite well." He still has some selfishness. The cafeteria in Kaifeng Mansion is really bad! These days, it all depends on the pickles that I brought.

According to the previous plan, the profit of the vegetable field can completely offset the cost of the canteen. What's more, Yun Yanhui also told Bao Zheng that he would not increase the cost of the canteen too much. Well, craftsmanship is more important than raw materials.

Gongsun Ce was listening, but he said smartly: "Is this the third thing?"

"It should be," Bao Zheng said, and then said, "it's the third thing, so what?"

"You can tell by looking at Ge'er Yan's behavior. If you come and go, you will come back. If you go out, you will come in. Even if the public chef changes the food list, who knows if there is any mystery in it?" Turning around, he said, "However, no matter how well you do it, can you still go to the food festival?"

Yunyan smiled shyly, "Mr. Gongsun also knows me very well. This is just an idea, and it may not be realized, so I didn't tell the two of you."

Bao Zheng was speechless, "I really have plans..."

Yunyan replied: "I have inquired about it, and the public chefs of various yamen are not delicious and can't do anything. They are all big pot meals, not all places are like Taixue."

The public chef's dishes are more than unpalatable, which is a more euphemism. On the modern Internet, canteen dishes are rated as the ninth largest cuisine in China, and the background of this era is the same in the Northern Song Dynasty.

As for Taixue's meat steamed buns, they are first-class, they are famous in Bianjing, and they have been praised by officials, so they are very popular among the people. Taixue students don't forget to bring some steamed buns back to their relatives and friends to try when they go home.

However, Taixue is also famous for a steamed bun, so people can't eat steamed buns every day, right?

Yunyan recalled that the cafeteria in Kaifeng Mansion could not be opened to the outside world, but it could satisfy the quality of life of the officials in this mansion while attracting officials from other yamen... This is also a good way to generate income!

When the fruits and vegetables have grown and the supply has kept up, maybe they don't have to be shipped to the market for sale, and the chefs will digest them directly.

Bao Zheng: "Is this okay?"

"Let's try it..." Yun Yan replied indifferently, "Let's rely on the imperial city, what a good geographical condition."

All internal and external departments are under ban, and so many officials are potential customers.

Bao Zheng was confused again, "Although it's a good idea, will anyone really come..."

Gongsun Ce stared at the vegetable field that was being cultivated outside the house, and suddenly sweated, "Well, you'd better think about this with the thinking of Brother Yan."

Yun Yanhui found that Gongsun Ce had understood his own routine, so he smiled and said: "We are planting vegetables according to the order. When the vegetables grow, don't you want to invite the officials to eat vegetables?"

Bao Zheng: "…………"

Shameless... If it is said that Taixue steamed buns are famous because of the government's unconscious behavior, Yun Yanhui is deliberately designing it.

In this regard, Bao Zheng had to convince Yun Yan to return. He also felt that the recruitment of this person was really cost-effective, so he agreed to this matter and let him take care of it.

Yunyan got the approval, so she did a questionnaire survey and asked everyone about their tastes one by one.

But in fact, he doesn't care about the tastes of these people at all. There are no gourmets in the government office. He just took the opportunity to publicize it to inspire people, and also to guide public opinion.

Sure enough, all the officials didn't know the inside story. When they did the questionnaire survey, they were all grateful for Shaoyin's kindness. Although everyone is told to plant the land, they also plant it themselves. In the future, the benefits will not be used by themselves, but will be spent on everyone's food in advance when there is no income.

It turns out that Shao Yin is really just trying to improve everyone's life!

You must know that most of the staff of Kaifeng House are not staffed or even paid. They are either recruited or come to serve as errands. "Evil officials" refer to their group, because they have no money, so they abuse their power to make money.

Of course, after Bao Zheng took office in Kaifeng Mansion, his atmosphere became much clearer.

For unpaid servicemen, the better they eat, the more they seem to earn, and for the recruits, the treatment is improved, and their own expenses will of course be reduced, and the burden will be reduced. Also a good thing.

So, all of a sudden, everyone became more active in farming.

Seeing such a situation, Yun Yanhui also made a drastic reform to the public chef's dishes with confidence.

The public chefs of Kaifeng House are also divided into three places according to the three courtyards, and the names are also very uncharacteristic, namely, the canteen of the Silusi, the canteen of the Zuojunxuanyuan, and the canteen of the Youjunxuanyuan.

Different rank, the supply must also be different. Officials and small officials eat differently.

However, in general, two meals a day are provided, each person is limited, and there is no need to add more. If you are full, you can pack the rest. During the dog days, mung beans will be cooked to relieve the heat, the Dragon Boat Festival will have zongzi, and the Double Ninth Festival will have cakes...all of which come with the festival.

Yunyan has proposed new dishes, which are easy to make and delicious, instead of some old simple dishes.

For example, the original dried bean curd may be rough dried bean curd. Now it can be shredded and mixed with dried shrimp or shell meat and soy sauce, which is very delicious. Various other pickles have also been improved one by one, all of which are skills that Yunyan learned when he returned to the past or when he held a food festival.

Vegetables can no longer be as monotonous as they used to be. There must be several different kinds of vegetables in a day.

When making it, it is even more important to pay attention to the ingredients. For example, adding some fresh mushrooms or bamboo shoots in Taiwanese cabbage will taste better. The taro is simmered, add some cabbage hearts, just put a little soy sauce to reconcile it, it is much more delicious than the monotonous cooking.

There are other dishes that use meat oil or vegetable oil for frying, which have a great impact on the taste. In terms of staple food, it is even simpler. When cooking soup cakes, don't be too stingy, boil some broth.

After the basic dishes have been improved, some signature dishes are still needed, which will be more refined, but they can be supplied in limited quantities to balance time and cost.

A pearl shrimp ball, because it is "pearl", it must use white shrimp. After mincing, add some fenugreek powder, drizzle onion and **** juice, knead into shrimp balls, and then fry them in the pot. Like pearls, white and smooth, soft and slightly elastic. But you still need dipping sauce, you can dip in salt and pepper, or if you have enough time, fry the chili oil.

Because the Bianjing people love sweets, they also think about asking people to make Babao rice. At this time, the favorite food in the Jiangnan region in later generations, steamed glutinous rice with longan, red dates, lotus seeds, bean paste, etc., is sweet but not greasy, soft but not sticky, and looks good.

Although it was too sweet for Yun Yanhui, he cooked it for Zheng Ling, Zhao Yunchu and other indigenous people, and it was well received.

There is also a very famous one, which is also included in the "Suiyuan Food List", and the name is also very interesting, it is called "Duck Confused". It is to cook the fat duck until it is half cooked, cool it, remove the bones and break it into pieces, put it back into the soup, add rice wine, yam, and shiitake mushrooms to simmer.

The duck meat produced in this way is fragrant and mellow, with shape but not shape, like soup but not soup.

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After the preliminary menu improvements are completed, the cooks only need to follow the recipes. After all, there is no particularly technical work. In ancient times, they were very particular about keeping technical secrets, so Yunyan returned to teach, and these cooks were also happy.

According to Yun Yanhui's idea, the dishes will be gradually expanded and upgraded in the future, and some appropriate adjustments will be made in the selection of dishes according to the different functions of the officials of the three hospitals. Of course, these will depend on the follow-up development.

After the upgrade of the public kitchen of the third hospital, the officials of Kaifeng Mansion also gave a warm response...