As soon as the old lady said this, the other nine ordinary people who tasted it couldn't help but help out, "You old lady is talking nonsense, the braised pork made by this cook is obviously the best I have ever eaten in my life. The most delicious braised pork, the old man, I have never eaten such delicious food in my life, but it is too little, obviously worth more points, more than 100 points, but you say that." The old man said, still He couldn't help swallowing his saliva, he still wanted to eat the braised pork cooked by this little lady.

The old lady snorted and said, "Everyone has different tastes. You can't force me to give her a 100. If I don't think it tastes good, it doesn't taste good. I'm happy to give it 10."

The young woman couldn't help but said: "Old lady, you resent the little cook for not wanting to sell you a piece of brown sugar cake for five cents a few days ago? At that time, the little lady brought brown sugar cake to eat, you My little grandson wanted to eat it, and asked the lady to sell you a piece for five cents. The brown sugar hair cake was a big piece, and it also used eggs, beef, red dates and raisins. The lady said that the cost is high. Ten pennies and one yuan, you are cursing and taking your little grandson away..."

The surrounding crowd suddenly realized that even the gentlemen who were selected couldn't help but finish a large piece of braised pork, so why did the old lady insist that it was not delicious?

"It's no wonder that this little old lady gave people such a low score. It turned out to be revenge for others. Although we didn't eat this braised pork, we couldn't stand it just by smelling it. I hope that in the future, the judges will Don't choose this old lady to taste food again, she is not fair."

"What kind of fart are you, lady." Of course the old lady refused to admit it. "Why does she sell such expensive brown sugar cakes? Besides, everyone has different tastes. I just don't think the braised pork she cooks is delicious!"

Just as the old lady finished speaking, her little grandson had already finished eating the braised pork, and then pulled her clothes and shouted, "Grandma, I want to eat braised pork, it's delicious, why is it so delicious, grandma, grandma, I want to eat the braised pork, I want to eat the braised pork made by her." The little bear child also recognized Xu Qinyu, knew that the braised pork was made by her, and pointed at her to grab the old lady's sleeve and wanted to go over, wanting to see the inside of the pot And is there any braised pork.

In fact, there are still two yuan, and was afraid of any accidents, so prepared two extra yuan, and there were still two yuan left in Xu Qinyu's jade pot, and left it for the guys who helped to run before and after.

Now there are still two pieces left, and the old lady is messing around and giving a low score. The old gentlemen in the selection have always decided that the remaining two pieces of braised pork will be re-selected by two people on the scene, taste them, and ask them to rate.

After ordering two people to taste the braised pork again, the two gave full marks after eating it, and said: "No wonder everyone said it was the best meat they had ever eaten in their life. I also think that the full score is only 100. Otherwise, I want to give thousands, ten thousand, no amount can explain the deliciousness of this braised pork, only you will know after tasting it."

The onlookers couldn't help but burst into laughter.

The old lady was ridiculed by everyone, and the little grandson saw that the last two pieces of braised pork were eaten by others, and began to cry. The old lady really had no face, and angrily pulled the little grandson to leave, but the little grandson tasted it. With such delicious braised pork, he was unwilling to leave easily, and was finally dragged away by the old lady.

Now it is the scores given by ten ordinary people first, and the judges have not yet given the score. The old lady made such a fuss, and all the judges also gave the score. Although the little cook is not very old, she did it. The braised pork is indeed impeccable, and it is also the best braised pork they have ever eaten in their lives, and they all gave full marks.

Xu Qinyu was also the first chef to get full marks in the first round. Yang Zhizhi, Xu Yunlan and Lianhua were overjoyed and applauded vigorously.

After Xu Qinyu finished the competition, she went down to stay with Lianhua and the others to continue watching the competition, and did not return to Xu Ji until nightfall.

Kong Kun from Zuixianlou has also been paying attention to Xu Qinyu. Seeing that she got full marks, his face is also grayed. It's not that this little cook knows a lot of recipes, but that her cooking skills are good.

He even knew in his heart that when this culinary competition is over, Xu Ji will truly become famous in the Southwest. At that time, Zuixianlou will really be unable to catch up with Xu Ji, but there is no other way... …

Also because of the old lady's matter, the selection will prohibit the old lady from being a spectator to taste the cooking skills of the contestants in the future.

After several days, the old lady was too embarrassed to bring her grandson to watch the competition.

Also because of Xu Qinyulu's tricks, many cooks have learned it, and went back to try to use the recipe of the little cook to make braised pork. Some recipes and heat have been noticed, and the taste is very good, and some do not pay attention to the proportion of ingredients. There is also the heat, the braised pork is a bit bitter, so can only try to practice more.

In the next few days, Xu Qinyu didn't go to the city to watch the competition every day, because the braised pork she cooked in the competition attracted many, many guests who came to Xu Ji for dinner, some of them were not from Raozhou City People from other prefectures came here specially to watch this cooking competition, and they all came to Xu Ji for a meal, and ordered the braised pork, which Xu Qinyu cooked for himself, and after they tasted the braised pork, they finally knew why they all gave it to him. full marks.

This time, the braised pork stewed by Xu Qinyu was simmered in a casserole for an hour, making it softer and more glutinous. It really melts in the mouth, with a lingering fragrance on the lips and teeth, and the residual meat fragrance in the mouth.

After they ate all of Xu Ji's signs, they found that the little cook not only made delicious braised pork, but also every other food was delicious. They lingered in Xu Ji, and some of them didn't even want to go to the game. Stay in Xu Ji to eat morning and evening meals, and then go to the hot springs, see the beautiful scenery around, and listen to books. Xu Ji’s storytelling is also better than other places. .

In addition, there are a lot more fish balls, fish heads and braised fish bought at Xu Ji's gate than before, and they are all bought by ordinary people in the city.

After learning that Xu Qinyu is Xu Ji's owner and chef, the twenty judges all wanted to come and taste Xu Ji's food, but they were judges, and to avoid suspicion, they were not allowed to eat at the restaurant of the chef who participated in the competition before the competition was over. They all live in the same inn, and the food is also the same, and in order to taste the taste, their diet must be light these days.

Fortunately, the days passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, a few days later, the primary competition was over. In the end, only one hundred people passed the preliminary competition and entered the midfield.

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Braised pork was selected for the first competition, and the emphasis was on the red case.

Red case is a method of cooking meat and other non-staple food, that is, various dishes.

The halftime competition is the white case, the white case is to make pastries, all pastries and pastries are white cases, there is no cooking.

The white case in the midfield is also simple, just do two interviews, the same sweet and the same salty, whatever you want, as long as it is a pasta white case, in addition to flour, other requirements can also be put forward with the judges.

One hundred cooks re-draw lots to decide the order of appearance in the competition.

This time Xu Qinyu got eight in the draw. Basically, she can get her turn in the first round. She wrote down the ingredients and kitchenware she requested and gave them to the judges before returning to the city.

There will be a day off tomorrow, and the judges will prepare ingredients and kitchen utensils for everyone, and the half-time competition will start the day after tomorrow.

Xu Qinyu knew that even the midfield was the same as ten years ago, and the second game was a white case.

To put it bluntly, it is a pure test of the chef's skills in the red case and the white case, and a pure test of the chef's cooking skills.

Unlike some competitions in later generations, there are many tricks.

But even in later generations, the bigger the culinary competition, the simpler it is to test the chef's culinary skills and skills.

On the third day, Xu Qinyu went out early in the morning.

This time, apart from Lotus following, Yang Zhizhi and Xu Yunlan also followed as usual.

A few days ago, the mothers of the two families and their sister-in-law returned to Yuanbao Town after watching Xu Qinyu's test. Knowing that the two and Xu Qinyu were good sisters, they did not urge them to go back, and let them stay in Xuji and watch with peace of mind. It's not too late to go back after watching the finale.

The four of them drove the carriage to the street outside the Prefect's Mansion.

The midfield test is also simple. Each person is given five hours, that is, ten hours, which is basically a whole day. The time is very abundant. With twenty cooks participating at a time, the midfield test can be completed in five days. .

The reason for giving five hours is because many pasta, if making steamed buns, the noodles need to be fermented. The fermentation of pasta is also very important in the white case, and it can even be said to be the most important point, because if the dough is not fermented well, The taste of the pasta is totally wrong.

The fermented dough takes two or three hours in summer, and longer when it is cold.

The rules of the midfield are slightly different from the first game, and the top ten scorers can advance.

This time the grading will be more difficult.

After arriving at the scene, many people were already waiting. Everyone already recognized Xu Qinyu. When they saw her approaching, many people greeted her.

"Little lady Xu is well, what kind of pasta is Miss Xu planning to make today?"

"Could Mrs. Xu make Xu Ji's morning food? I heard that Xu Ji's morning food is delicious. What kind of custard buns, crystal shrimp dumplings, steamed simmered wheat, etc., I haven't tried them yet. If the little lady does Xu Ji's morning meal today, we might be able to follow along."

Xu Qinyu just smiled and didn't answer.

She didn't plan to make custard buns and Xu Ji's morning meals today. What she has to do is simple and simple, and complicated and complicated.

Soon, all the contestants arrived. The twenty contestants in the first round had prepared at least forty stoves, countless steamers, and other miscellaneous tableware.

Xu Qinyu asked for two large stoves, a lot of steamers, eggs, milk, two kinds of dried amaranth, papaya, pork belly, shallots, coriander and other ingredients, as well as a lot of condiments.

When she asked for milk, dried amaranth, and papaya, many of the judges were curious and wanted to know what the little cook wanted these things for.

I am also worried that she is not doing well in the white case. There are many cooks. The red case is doing extremely well, but the white case is not good at all.

The leader they want, whether it is a red case or a white case, must be the most outstanding. If this little chef is not good at the white case, they can only reluctantly let her out. After all, they are so young and have such talent in cooking There are too few people, not to mention that she is still a little lady, which is really amazing and surprising.

When the selection process started, Xu Qinyu ignored others, and she started to meet in a hurry.

Many other cooks still add water and flour several times when kneading dough. Otherwise, there is too much water or too much flour, and the dough is slowly mixed out.

Xu Qinyu was completely different. She adjusted the ratio of water to flour at one time, and poured a large bucket of warm water into several prepared bowls of flour. In addition, she poured an appropriate amount of milk and beat it Put the eggs into the flour, and then pour the soaked amaranth water into the flour in proportion.

Before she softened the dough, she had washed and soaked the two kinds of amaranth for a while. The soaked amaranth was boiled in two small pots, and the pigments in it were boiled.

There is also amaranth here. Amaranth has the most natural red and blue pigments in it, which can color the dough.

In addition, she also squeezed out the papaya juice and poured it into another smaller pot. The flour in this small pot was relatively small, adding a little water, an egg, and then the papaya juice. Soon the dough in this pot became into a light orange-yellow color.

After the boiled amaranth water is cooled, pour it into the other two basins and the flour respectively. One has more flour and the other has less flour.

In addition to these three colors of dough, there is another kind of ordinary dough, which is made by adding flour with warm water, and nothing else is added. The mixed dough is directly put into the old gnocchi to prepare for fermentation.

Whether it was the selection or the crowd watching below, they were a little stunned. They felt that Mrs. Xu was amazing, and she didn't know what kind of pasta she wanted to make.

The judges were also apprehensive in their hearts. Seeing that this little chef is so skilled at making noodles, she doesn't need to add water in batches. She must be able to make pasta and white cases, but why did she make so many colors of dough, and there were even some in it. Some of them also add milk and some add eggs. It's really strange. What does she want to do?

Xu Qinyu put several pots of kneaded dough with old gnocchi for fermentation, and then put it in a steamer. There was no open fire in the stove, only a few pieces of charcoal, and the residual temperature of the charcoal was used to ferment the dough.

Because it is already autumn, the weather is a little cold, and the fermentation of the noodles is very slow. If you use the residual temperature of the charcoal fire to ferment, it will be much faster. Just be careful not to over-ferment, or use too much charcoal fire to steam the dough. Just do it.

When it was time to make a face, the big guy had nothing to do, just wait by the side, but it was a little boring, and Xu Qinyu didn't start preparing for the next process.

The two kinds of pasta she is going to make are also simple, but not simple either.

Two kinds of pasta, sweet with eggs and milk, can be considered milk buns, but they are not simple milk buns. She is going to make 'Guoshentianxiang', which is peony flower buns. It is necessary to test the craftsmanship of the pastry chef to make peony. It was very troublesome to make noodle skins, so she didn't put such complicated and cumbersome milk buns in Xu Ji, but she handed it over to Da Niu in private. Da Niu has a talent for making pasta, and now all kinds of exquisite pasta patterns are very good , When he is more skilled, Xu Ji can also add these delicate and beautiful pasta.

The remaining one is salty, and she plans to make flower rolls. The practice of flower rolls is simple, but if you want to taste good, you have to adjust the filling.

Now that the dough is not fermented, she is not in a hurry to adjust the filling. It is good to wait for the pasta to ferment and prepare to adjust the filling.

The 20 cooks have basically made the noodles and prepared the fermented dough. The rest of the time is waiting, and the people below are also talking about it.

"What is Miss Xu planning to do? Why did you add amaranth juice and papaya juice? I think the dough is green, red and yellow."

"It must be the same as braised pork. Although the method is strange, it tastes good."

"That's right, Miss Xu's way of cooking food is weird, but it's really delicious."

"Then we'll wait."

Many people are still looking forward to what Xu Qinyu wants to do.

The same is true of the 20 consecutive selections, who pay more attention to Xu Qinyu than others, and almost all eyes are on Xu Qinyu.

In this way, everyone rested for at least two hours, and the dough fermentation was completed one after another.

Some people don't know the fermentation status of the dough, so they always open the lid every hour to check the fermentation status of the dough.

Xu Qinyu was completely different. After about two hours, she sniffed the smell and knew the fermentation status of the dough. When she opened the lid, she could see that all the dough had been fermented, and the dough had swelled a lot. Tear it apart, but it is a dense honeycomb shape inside, and the resilience is also very good.

She took out the dough and began to knead the dough to prepare the petals.

"Did you pay attention, Mrs. Xu did not lift the lid during the whole process. When the lid is lifted, the dough has already fermented."

"Yes, Mrs. Xu seems to be good at pasta too."

"Did you see, what is Miss Xu doing? Why didn't she knead the dough and cut it into pieces, she kneaded the dough like this, rolled the dough like this, and made the edges wrinkled with chopsticks, she is this What do you want?"

"So what is Miss Xu planning to do? Why can't she see that she is really making pasta?"

Xu Qinyu didn't hear the whispers below, all her attention was in front of her.

Roll out the layers of petals, and then roll out the edge of the dough thinly to carve the pattern of the petals, a large piece of purple petals, and then the thin orange-yellow stamens, and then the fingers do not know how to wrap these petals Living in the stamen, shaking gently, a gorgeous and elegant peony flower appeared in front of everyone.

In addition to such a whole blooming peony flower, Xu Qinyu rolled out the leaves from the green dough, and then used a knife to carve the pattern of the leaves on the green leaves. .

A 'national color and heavenly fragrance' is completed.

The crowd below was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say, and thought they were hallucinating.

Everyone was stunned, and after a while, someone finally stammered: "This, isn't this a peony flower?"

It is still such a realistic and vivid peony flower, with its petals layered on top of each other, graceful and graceful, delicate and beautiful, as if a real peony flower is presented in front of their eyes.

"I, am I really dazzled? How can I make a peony flower? Can a steamed bun still look like a peony flower?"

"My God, my life is really worth it, I have even seen such a pastry."

"God, it's the first time I've seen this kind of pasta. It's just pasta, right? It's not like I picked a peony flower in front of us, right?"

Even the judges were dumbfounded looking at the peony flower made by Xu Qinyu, and the other contestants were even more dumbfounded and stopped doing their work, staring at the peony flower in front of Xu Qinyu.

Xu Qinyu didn't care about other people, and started to gather flowers quickly.

She was extremely fast, obviously very skilled, and the graceful and luxurious peony flowers appeared in front of everyone.

Soon, Xu Qinyu made a few steamer peony flowers. She made thirty-five flowers. In addition to the ten random selections on the spot, there could be a few more flowers.

When she put the peony flowers in the pot and started to steam, she began to mix stuffing and make flower rolls.

The other cooks basically didn't move much, and almost all their attention was on Xu Qinyu. When she put the peony flowers on the steamer and started to steam, they all recovered and started to work. Everyone already knew in their hearts that this was I am afraid that the little cook is full of marks again.

Kong Kun, who was off the field, kept watching. Until this moment, he knew that he had not lost wrongly. Even if he had never tasted it, his skilled pastry craftsmanship alone was unmatched. His white case was average in the past. It was because of the white case that he lost. In the past ten years, he has also practiced the white case hard, but now he finds that he can't even compete with this little cook who is less than 20 years old.

Kong Kun sighed softly, his father also said that he was very good at cooking, so he didn't need to worry, and said that this time the leader would definitely be him.

But there is a genius like Xu Xiaoniang, where can it be his turn.

However, seeing the craftsmanship of Miss Xu, he was convinced.

Xu Qinyu is still making stuffing, and making flower rolls is even easier. What he makes is pork and shallots, and he also adds oily peppercorns and pepper powder made of cornel, as well as five-spice powder and salt that he just grinded himself. Spread the good stuffing evenly on the dough, then roll up the dough, cut it into fist-sized pieces, press it in the middle with chopsticks, lift the sides up, and a flower roll with pepper and hemp pork filling is ready.

She prepared a lot of flower rolls, at least three layers of large steamer, one layer can be steamed twenty or so, a total of about seventy flower rolls have been steamed.

Because she was hungry herself, she could also distribute more to Zhizhi, Yunlan, and Lianhua.

When the rolls start to be steamed, the peony flowers over there have not been steamed, and such a large steamer needs to be steamed for a quarter of an hour.

When the smell was almost the same, Xu Qinyu unloaded the firewood from the pot, and the air was filled with the sweet smell of milk and noodles.

Before the flower rolls were steamed, Xu Qinyu did not open the steamer on the side of the 'Peony Flower'.

When the flower rolls were also steamed, and the aroma of meat mixed with a strange peppery and numb aroma and the fragrance of green onions came out, Xu Qinyu knew that the flower rolls were also steamed, and unloaded the firewood here.

She opened the peony flower pot first, and everyone stretched their necks and looked into her steamer. Even if the steamed 'peony flower' steamed buns were not soft and slumped, they were still full and blooming as before the steaming, and the lid was lifted. Open, the sweet taste is more and more intense.

Everyone was amazed, they didn't know what to say, and they only fell to the ground in their hearts for the admiration of Mrs. Xu.