Fotiaoqiang belongs to Fujian cuisine. The cooking process is cumbersome and requires dozens of ingredients. The most important ingredient is seafood. Most seafood is made of high-quality dry goods, such as dried abalone, dried sea cucumber, shark fin, scallops, fish maw, and scallops. Wait, we also need fish lips, fish maws, turtle skirts, deer tendons, duck gizzards, pigeon eggs, pigeons, pork ribs, ham, pork belly, sheep knuckles, etc., and other parts of chicken, duck and fish, plus Mushrooms, bamboo shoots and other ingredients.

The process is so troublesome that it takes two days to complete this Buddha jumping over the wall.

These ingredients are cooked by frying, frying, frying, etc., and the soup is still needed. The soup depends on what the chef chooses to make the soup. It takes almost a day to prepare these ingredients.

Then, put these prepared ingredients layer by layer in a large wine jar, add the broth and Huadiao wine that were hung before, in fact, Shaoxing wine is the best, but there is no Shaoxing wine here, you can use Huadiao wine instead . After the mouth of the wine jar is sealed, put it on a slow fire and simmer for two to three hours, and finally unseal, put the remaining ingredients that are easier to simmer in the wine jar and seal it, and continue to simmer for two hours.

Even the charcoal fire for simmering soup must use good silver frost charcoal, the charcoal is as white as frost without black smoke.

There are also some subtle differences between the authentic methods of Buddha jumping over the wall. There are some differences between the ingredients and the broth, and there are some techniques for stewing the soup.

But basically it takes about six to ten hours to simmer.

These dried seafood are rarely sold even in Raozhou City. Mrs. Xu Qinyu Tuolu and the Zhou family caravan who helped deliver ham to the parents in the capital before asked them to help them bring them back from the south by the way. Seafood is naturally only available at the seaside.

Don't think about fresh seafood in this era, there is no such transportation condition.

The seafood that can be transported to other states are soaked, dried or cooked. It costs a lot of money to transport these dried goods back from the south.

Mrs. Lu also curiously asked what Xu Qinyu was eating, but Xu Qinyu didn't hide it, saying that she was jumping over the wall like a Buddha, and then briefly explained the method to Mrs. Lu.

Mrs. Lu was a little shocked when she heard that such a dish required dozens of ingredients, and it took almost two days and two nights to prepare it. After the shock, she couldn't help asking, "Ms. Would you like to add a signature dish?"

Xu Qinyu shook his head and smiled and said: "How can it be? The process is too cumbersome and the cost is too high. The price will be very expensive. It is not worthwhile to do this. I just get it for the family to try during the Chinese New Year. If I can go to Raozhou City Opening a restaurant may add such a signboard, but it must be booked in advance before it can be eaten."

The Buddha Tiaoqiang in many hotels in later generations is already a semi-finished product or a cooking package. In her opinion, the taste of that semi-finished product is not right at all, the taste is strange, and it is not the taste of the Buddha Tiaoqiang itself.

The real Buddha Tiaoqiang tastes like various ingredients and ingredients permeate each other, but when the Buddha Tiaoqiang is simmering, because it is absolutely sealed, there is no fragrance permeating out. , followed by the strong fragrance of various ingredients, the fragrance alone is already so rich that it makes people mouth watering.

The simmered seafood tastes thick but not greasy at all, and it is full of fragrance. Other meat tastes soft and not rotten, but also very soft and tender. Preempt the flavor of other ingredients.

Xu Qinyu, the later generation of Buddha Jumping the Wall, has cooked a lot of food, all diners want to eat, so book with her in advance, you need to book half a month in advance, she has to prepare the ingredients, which shows how difficult this dish is to make, and the preparation of all the ingredients before and after All must be dealt with.

If some ingredients are not handled well, it can affect the final taste.

In fact, in later generations, not only Buddha Tiaoqiang has cooking bags, but also semi-finished cooking bags that are used in many dishes, and even some hotels use these cooking bags, and guests heat them up when they eat.

But in Xu Qinyu's eyes, this is no longer cooking, but perfunctory.

Her Xu Ji Restaurant will never allow that kind of food package to appear, and the ingredients must be the freshest.

Mrs. Lu was so greedy, but she was too embarrassed to go to Xu's house to eat Buddha Jumping Wall during the Chinese New Year. She only hoped that Xu Qinyu would go to Raozhou City to open a restaurant soon.

So after Xu Qinyu came back, she was busy processing these ingredients for Buddha Jumping Wall.

After a busy day, she processed all these ingredients, frying, frying, cooking, stewing, etc., processed all the ingredients, and then piled them into the wine jar layer by layer and added appropriate amount of broth and Huadiao wine.

Similarly, the addition of soup and wine also requires the most suitable amount, and it must be added at one time, which is just right, otherwise it will also affect the taste.

Xu Qinyu has a natural talent for these.

After adding the broth and Huadiao wine, put it on the silver frost charcoal at night before going to bed, and simmer with the smallest simmer.

When you get up tomorrow and open the seal, pour the remaining ingredients into the simmer for two hours and you can eat it.

Simmer until noon, just enough to eat.

Next year is the new year.

Xu Qinyu planned to eat the New Year's Eve dinner at noon, and skip the morning meal, and eat the New Year's dinner at noon.

She has other dishes to prepare tomorrow morning.

But with this altar Buddha jumping over the wall, it is enough to prepare a few other home-cooked dishes.

She handles the ingredients of Buddha Jumping over the Wall, and no one else can help her at all. She can only do other work, such as sweeping the house and snow, and putting on new bedding inside and out.

It snowed a few days ago, but the snow was not heavy, and it had stopped in the past two days.

Even Wen and the others lived in the palace for half their life, they didn't know that there are such complicated dishes in the world, and it took two days and two nights to simmer them. Not only were they shocked, but they were also curious about the taste of this soup. I'm afraid it really is a fairy in the sky. The food is nothing more than that.

After the whole family washed up, Pei Weixuan helped move the big wine jar to the fire, Xu Qinyu looked at the size of the charcoal fire, and said to Pei Weixuan: "Fourth brother, that's it, let's go back and rest too. "

After two days of busy work, Xu Qinyu was also a little tired.

In fact, during the Chinese New Year before, she didn't even need her to do all the big and small jobs at home. She was the one who prepared the New Year's Eve dinner, and rested the rest of the time.

This year, it was also too troublesome for the Buddha to jump over the wall. She processed the ingredients for two days.

"Yu Niang also rested earlier."

Pei Weixuan glanced at Yuniang, the kitchen lights reflected on her cheeks, the lights were on and off, but her smiling face never changed.

Go back to the house to rest.

Xu Qinyu was lying on a soft bed, unable to fall asleep for a while, and now the family was not short of money, and the quilts in her room were all made of animal fluff. This kind of wood-carved bed was added with soft quilts, and it was comfortable to sleep. most comfortable.

This is the third year she has lived in this time and space, and the days are getting better every year.

She remembered that it was only the first year when she and Pei's family were so poor that they bought the yard in Osmanthus Lane and didn't have much money left on them. They all relied on her to sell meat buns at the wharf to make money. At that time, Sister Ning She still has the temperament of a princess, she doesn't want to do any work, and complains all day long.

Now that sister Ning has grown up, she usually comes back to help her with work, and when she sees good things outside, she will think of her and buy them for her.

Even the good mattress she slept on was bought for her by Sister Ning with the money she earned.

She is unfortunate, but also lucky, to meet the Pei family when she came to a strange time and space.

In fact, in later generations, although she is an orphan, she also has people who miss her. Some friends, the friends who grew up together in the orphanage are also very good friends when they grow up, and there are also teachers from junior high school and high school. She took good care of her, especially the Chinese teacher in high school. The old lady was very kind, very gentle and kind, and never used beating and scolding methods in educating the children. All the children in the class liked her.

Xu Qinyu often visited the old lady after graduation.

She has been away for more than two years, and she doesn't know how the old lady is doing. In the past, she would bring some food made by herself to see the old lady every year.

Xu Qinyu thought of her original body again.

I don't know if the original body is the same as her, went into her body, she hopes that the original body is still alive.

Thinking about it, Xu Qinyu felt a little drowsy, and before going to sleep, she thought of her fourth brother in a daze. The fourth brother is already twenty-two this year, and he has reached the age of getting married and having children.

It was a little late for the men in the Dasheng Dynasty to get married and have children at twenty-two. The early ones were usually sixteen or seventeen, and the late ones were eighteen or nineteen. There were very few people in their twenties who hadn't married yet.

Xu Qinyu wondered in a daze, should she mention it to the fourth brother and Wen Shi in the next year, and the two of them wrote the reconciliation letter, and they must not delay the fourth brother.

She told Wen that she didn't plan to get married before the age of twenty, but in fact, she didn't have any plans until the age of twenty-five.

In the grand dynasty, if a twenty-five-year-old girl is not married, she will be drowned by spit and stars, but she doesn't care, she has never met someone she likes in this life, so she can never get married for the rest of her life.

Twenty years old is still a little girl in her heart, how can she endure the pain of childbirth.

Thinking about it, Xu Qinyu fell asleep.

...

Early the next morning, Xu Qinyu got up. The Buddha Jumped over the Wall on the kitchen stove had been simmering for just three hours. She went over to uncover the wine jar.

As soon as the sealed jar was opened, the aroma was fragrant, and the aroma of the wine mixed with the rich aroma of the ingredients instantly attracted the greedy worms in people's stomachs.

Xu Qinyu was not hungry at first, but when she smelled the umami, she couldn't help swallowing her saliva, and her stomach began to growl.

Pei Weixuan, who got up at about the same time as her, also came into the kitchen and couldn't help but move his Adam's apple when he smelled the fragrance. People who don't usually have heavy appetites are a little greedy, but one can imagine how appealing this Buddha jumping over the wall made by Yu Niang is.

He somewhat understands why this dish is called Buddha Jumps over the Wall.

Xu Qinyu poured the ingredients into the wine jar, and quickly sealed the mouth of the jar, and the fragrance was also sealed inside.

But just for a moment the scent has overflowed.

At about this time, the surrounding neighbors were already up, preparing to work on the New Year's Day, and they all smelled the strong fragrance.

"What's the smell? It smells so good?"

"It's really fragrant. Isn't the owner of Xu Ji who lives next door? Is it the chef of Xu Ji next door who cooks the morning meal?"

"It should be, but what kind of food is this? The fragrance is so appealing, I have never smelled this kind of fragrance before."

"Hey, the scent seems to have faded again, which is strange."

Not long after, Wen Shi and Ning Jie'er also got up and started to help.

Pei Weixuan was busy writing couplets and blessing characters and pasting couplets.

Ning Jie'er and Wen's help Xu Qinyu in the kitchen.

In addition to Buddha Jumping Over the Wall, Xu Qinyu also plans to cook a few home-cooked dishes.

Fried winter bamboo shoots with ham, steamed sweet-scented osmanthus fish, small fried duck, steamed pork ribs, and a sweet soup, a Eight Treasure Rice, two small stir-fried dishes, the stir-fried dishes are hot and sour shredded potatoes, stir-fried lotus root slices, and a fried sweet potato balls .

These potatoes and sweet potatoes were brought back by the fourth brother years ago. Besides the potatoes and sweet potatoes, the fourth brother also brought back some dried peppers, either cornel or peppers.

These are the crops that the fourth brother brought back with the caravan last year. They have already been planted. Potatoes and sweet potatoes can be put in, so they are all fresh to eat. However, when the peppers are ripe in autumn, they will be picked and dried. Chili, so the fourth brother brought back only dried chili.

This chili is the kind of long thin strips with a moderate spiciness.

Xu Qinyu didn't know what kind of chili pepper was.

After all, in the future generations of peppers, don’t know how many varieties have come out.

The fourth brother brought back not many potatoes, sweet potatoes and peppers, so there was only one meal, because there were not many seeds brought back from the sea. Now we have just started planting, and the first wave has been planted. The increase is usually not enough for large-scale planting until the third year, so the fourth brother brought back not many, three potatoes, three sweet potatoes, and a handful of peppers.

These are even secretly given to the family to taste, and no one else can know.

It is even more impossible to add it to the recipes of restaurants, unless every household eats these after a large area is planted.

Potatoes are naturally made into hot and sour shredded potatoes, and sweet potatoes are fried into sweet, glutinous and soft sweet potato balls with glutinous rice noodles.

The spicy hot and sour potato shreds is the addition of dried chili shreds.

There is also a small fried duck, which is also added with chili.

Small fried duck is also a home-cooked dish. Choose tender duck, cut it into cubes after slaughtering, then soak it in Huadiao wine and warm salt water to remove the fishy smell. After soaking for half an hour, take it out and squeeze out the water, add salt After marinating with pepper powder, it can be fried in a pan.

Put oil in the iron pan, when the oil is hot, add the marinated duck meat and stir-fry until the duck meat is burnt.

Stir-fry the duck meat until it is burnt, add the bean paste, diced garlic, ginger and dried peppers and continue to stir-fry. Finally, add soy sauce and some seasoning powder to increase the freshness and continue to stir-fry. Stir-fried, delicious and spicy, it goes well with rice.

In fact, some fresh green and red peppers should be added at the end to enhance the taste, but there is no, so we can only give up.

Xu Qinyu had been busy all morning, and when these dishes were ready, the Buddha Jumping Wall on the stove had already been simmering.

It happened to be the middle of the day, and it looked like ten o'clock in the morning, and it was almost the time for the morning meal.

Prepare the dishes, Zhu Taishou and the others will also drive the carriage over.

This year, Zhu Taishou and Mrs. Zhu still did not bring their sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren over for the New Year’s dinner. Although the family’s sons and grandchildren wondered why they had eaten the New Year’s dinner in Yuanbao Town for two consecutive years, they also knew that their grandmother was not in good health. Well, it's also because of the comfortable food in Yuanbao Town that health is better, but won't ask any more questions.

I wish the prefect went to Osmanthus Alley first to pick up my younger sister and my mother.

The old lady has woken up now, her spirits are not bad, but she has no strength.

The prefect Zhu got out of the carriage with his mother in his arms, and entered Pei's house.

The dining table in the main room was already full of food, and the wine jar Buddha jumping over the wall was placed in the center of the round table, and thick bamboo sheets were placed under the jar to prevent the table from being scalded.

Seeing Taishou Zhu entering the house with Mrs. Zhu in his arms, Pei Weixuan took his great-grandmother from his arms and placed her on the wicker chair covered with mattresses.

Xu Qinyu said with a smile: "Great-grandmother, come and try this Buddha Jumping over the Wall I made. It is specially made for you, and it is also called Fushouquan." She also briefly talked about how many ingredients are needed to make this Buddha Jumping Over the Wall, Hearing that, Zhu Taishou and Zhu's eyes widened.

As Xu Qinyu said, she opened the sealed wine jar, and the aroma of the wine inside was mixed with the aroma of the ingredients, and it came out in an instant, and the room was full of strong meat aroma.

"It smells so good," Zhu murmured.

She had never smelled such a strong meaty smell in her life, and she couldn't tell what kind of meaty smell it was, only she knew that she kept swallowing her saliva.

Even Mrs. Zhu became more energetic when she smelled the fragrance.

Xu Qinyu started serving soup for everyone, and she filled everyone's bowl with ingredients.

There is a lot in her jar, and each person can share two bowls.

The first one to hand it was naturally Mrs. Zhu.

Zhu Shi took care of the old lady by the side, helping to blow the soup and feed it to the old lady.

When Zhushi blew the soup, his saliva was almost a little embarrassing.

I tasted the soup for Mrs. Zhu first, and Mrs. Zhu was stunned after tasting it. I thought it was rare to eat the five flavors of life "sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty" dishes that Yuniang prepared for her. Now Know what is really worth it.

In fact, Mrs. Zhu also felt that she didn't have much time. She was already very satisfied. She lived for more than a year, accompanied her daughter, and ate the food made by Yu Niang for more than a year. How could she be dissatisfied? Yes, but unexpectedly, at the end of her life, Yuniang would prepare such a healthy meal for her.

She smiled and said: "Yu Niang's craftsmanship is really amazing, my wife is worth it all my life." She really felt that it was worth it, and she really didn't leave any regrets.

Tears flashed in everyone's eyes.

After everyone tasted this Buddha jumping over the wall, they finally understood the meaning of the name of the dish.

‘The fragrance of meat and meat from the altar wafts around, the Buddha heard the abandonment and jumped over the wall’①

And the neighbors around did smell the rich meaty aroma. Needless to say, how greedy they were, even their own morning food became tasteless.

"Hey, this fragrance must be made by Xu Ji's owner. Early in the morning, what delicious food did Xu Dong's family make? I can't stand it anymore."

"Me too, what the heck is there to eat? I've eaten morning and evening food in Xuji before, but I've never smelled such a scent."

"This is still eating from the morning. I feel that I can remember the taste of the New Year's dinner at night. I am afraid that I will not be able to eat the New Year's meal. Tell me, how can Xu Ji's owner not open a restaurant during the New Year, so we can Go to Xu Ji Ding for the New Year's Eve dinner."

"You're not trying to exhaust other people's Xu Dongjia. If you are celebrating the new year, you must have a good rest for a few days."

"Too."

And this neighbor is also a prophecy. When it comes to the New Year's dinner in the evening, they can't forget the rich meat fragrance at noon. New Year's meals are tasteless and tasteless.

Xu Qinyu's family is still eating the reunion dinner.

In addition to this Buddha jumping over the wall, other dishes also have their own tastes.

After eating hot and sour shredded potatoes, although it is only a very simple stir-fry dish, it is also a hot and sour appetizer, as well as the little fried duck, everyone knows what is really spicy and spicy, which is completely different from the spiciness made by cornel.

The fried sweet potato balls are also soft, glutinous and sweet, and Feng Ge'er and Chian sister like it very much.

Ning Jie'er also liked it very much, and ate several in a row.

He also asked Xu Qinyu, "Fourth Sister-in-law, what is this food for?"

Xu Qinyu smiled and said: "Sweet potato, but I can't say it out. The yield of this thing can be several thousand catties per mu. It is the crops that your fourth brother brought back from the sea with the previous caravan. It should be the first crop now. It will take two years to plant a large number of them. After three or four years, basically everyone can eat sweet potatoes, and this thing is easy to store. It is a problem to keep it for more than half a year. It can be ground into sweet potato noodles or made into vermicelli. stored longer."

Ning Jie'er was a little shocked, she actually had several thousand catties of grain per mu, right? Wouldn't it mean that even if it is a disaster year, there will be no disaster victims going hungry? can survive?

In the future, people can also eat this soft, sweet, glutinous and glutinous thing, which is really good.

Prefect Zhu is not surprised, it seems that Pei Weixuan should have told him this earlier.

Naturally, Pei Weixuan concealed that these crops were brought back by him, just as he told his family.

It's not yet the time, he can't tell everything to Prefect Zhu.

A fitting moment is needed.

This year's New Year's dinner was eaten early. After the New Year's dinner, Mrs. Zhu and Mrs. Wen went to the kitchen to wash the dishes and Xu Qinyu accompanied Mrs. Zhu in the main room.

After a while, Mrs. Zhu was a little sleepy, and went to the guest room to rest. Mrs. Zhu went to accompany the old lady.

Prefect Zhu and Pei Weixuan went to the study to discuss things, and Xu Qinyu also went back to the room to rest for a while.

In the evening, Xu Qinyu cooked a table of simple home-cooked dishes. The whole family ate them, and they didn't go out to the night market. They stayed in the main room, talking and laughing around the charcoal basin, and the whole house was full of laughter.

...

The family at the Pei family's New Year's Eve dinner is warm and cozy.

The winter family has been deserted this year.

Dong Qian already knew that his father had given birth to a child in the outer room, and there was no smile on his face these two days.

On the evening of the New Year's dinner, the Dong family, the eldest son, the second son, and the youngest daughter, plus the eldest daughter-in-law and granddaughter, were all alone.

The New Year's meal is also made by the eldest son and the second son.

Seeing that all the family members have arrived, Dongshi said, "Let's eat."

Yue Xi couldn't help but mutter, "What's the matter with my father? Every year I go to pay homage to my grandfather and grandmother. It would be better if I go back to pay homage to my grandparents once every three years. I should also accompany us to celebrate the New Year." Accompanying them, he still complained a little.

When Dong Shi heard this, the hand holding the chopsticks trembled.

Thinking of her husband eating New Year's dinner next to another woman at the moment, and the family of three being so close, her heart seemed to be bleeding. She had been together for more than 20 years, and it would be false to say that she had no feelings.

Dong Qian frowned and said, "Brother Xi has eaten."

Yue Xi didn't say anything, but couldn't help but glanced outside the door. He remembered that when he was a child, his father would accompany the family to have New Year's dinner every year. When he was about seven or eight years old, his father would go back to his hometown to pay homage to his grandfather and grandmother every year. .

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Xu Ji opened for business.

Donglaiju usually opens on the eighth day of the first lunar month, but every year when Donglaiju opens on the eighth day of the first lunar month, two other chefs and helpers are busy, and Yue Weimin usually has to wait until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month before returning.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Dong family was able to keep their temper, and Donglaiju opened as usual.

Dongqian had returned to Xu Ji a few days ago to continue working as a helper. He also thanked Xu Qinyu privately, but he didn't say anything about the family situation, only that his father had not returned.

This evening, it was almost the end of the evening meal.

Pei Weixuan came to Xu Ji in a hurry and told Xu Qinyu, "Mother Yu, great-grandmother passed away."