flstandardbreds Chapter 118 Stay Out of the Kitchen
Chapter 118 Stay Out of the Kitchen
Yun Xi admitted her ignorance and humbly asked the system about the difference between sesame oil and sesame oil.
The answer is as follows: both sesame oil and sesame oil are made from sesame seeds. Sesame oil is a type of sesame oil, but not all sesame oils are sesame oil.
In other words, sesame oil is made by pressing or extraction, while sesame oil is obtained by grinding with a small stone mill and using water. Different processes will result in different products.
While communicating with the system in his mind, he did not forget to respond to Mu Sheng's questions.
"That's the wrong way to eat it! Who would drink oil directly? The fats we usually eat are not delicious when eaten directly. Let's use soybean oil to cook at night. Let's give it a try."
The old lady made the decision: "Let's try it. Soybeans can be eaten directly, and the soy milk and tofu pudding made from them are delicious. The oil squeezed from them should also be delicious."
Yun Xi took charge, "Then let me arrange dinner."
In the afternoon, Aunt Zhong had finished preparing the soybeans, and she started making sesame oil and sesame paste.
In the past, Yun Xi thought that sesame paste was a byproduct of making sesame oil, but the system told her that it was not! The residue left over from making sesame oil is called sesame meal, which contains substances harmful to the human body. It is a waste and cannot be eaten, but it is a good fertilizer. Sesame paste is a separate product, the original paste without oil!
Yun Xi said she had learned her lesson. She divided the sesame seeds into two parts, one part was made into sesame oil and the other part was made into sesame paste.
Making sesame oil is also very simple. First, wash the sesame seeds and drain the water. Then roast them until they turn yellow and the color becomes darker and darker. Grind the roasted sesame seeds in a stone mill to get a slurry of sesame seeds. Put the sesame seeds into an iron pot, add boiling water and stir constantly until a large amount of oil floats out of the surface.
When most of the sesame oil floats on the surface, you can use tools to skim the oil out. Of course, the skimmed sesame oil needs to be left to settle. This last process takes about 10 days.
The process of making sesame paste is the same as that of making sesame oil. The difference is that after frying, you only need to grind it repeatedly without adding boiling water to stir the oil.
The finer the sesame paste is ground, the better. In order to make the sesame paste less sticky, a little sesame oil needs to be added to it, but the sesame oil just made today is not edible yet, so Yun Xi had to add some soybean oil. That was already fragrant enough.
Oil is the main ingredient for dinner, so Yun Xi asked Aunt Zhong to make fried crispy pork, fried meatballs, and fried toon fish. The toon was picked and pickled some time ago, and it is also a common spring dish in this era. Once pickled, it can be eaten for a long time.
To relieve the greasiness, Yun Xi added some sesame paste and made some cold vegetables.
Yun Xi specifically reminded everyone: "Don't eat too much, it's too oily and hard to digest."
The Mu family members listened to the advice and ate some. After they had a basic understanding of the taste, they focused on the cold dishes. Mu Sheng and Mu Xuan also ate noodles with sesame paste.
Yun Xi suggested eating it cold after blanching, and Mu Sheng did so, and successfully ate sesame sauce cold noodles. Mu Xuan had a bit of "pioneering spirit" and insisted on eating it hot, so he ended up eating hot dry noodles. He thought it was delicious.
The next day, Yun Xi finally returned to her parents' home. The gift she brought to Yun's father was a jar of sesame oil that had not yet settled, which she left to settle at Yun's house, and a jar of sesame paste.
Fortunately, she went out early and successfully blocked Yun Dad at the door.
"Dad, why are you going?"
"I was just about to go to the manor to take a look, why are you back again?"
"How can you say again? I haven't been back for several days."
Yun Zhen said earnestly, "As a married daughter, you have come back often enough! It's been less than twenty days and you have come back three times. Xixi, it's not that Dad doesn't love you and doesn't want you to come back, but you are already married. You can come back once a month or so."
The rebellious Yun Xi came online instantly.
"No, I will come back more often. I have things to do. You don't go out yet."
"You don't even need to tell me that. How can I go out now that you're back?"
"Maybe. We can go out together."
Yun Zhen shook his head. "Don't bother. Go to the farm. It will be late when you come back. Your son-in-law will have to pick you up by then."
Yun Xi took his arm and said, "Just take it. I brought you something good today. I just made it yesterday."
"What good thing can you make?"
"Why do you still look down on others?"
"Okay, okay, then tell me, what did you do?"
"Sesame oil!"
Yun Zhen looked at his daughter who was waiting to be praised smugly, and his expression was a little hard to describe.
"Sesame oil?"
"No, it's sesame oil!"
Yun Zhen: “…”
What's the difference?
"Your father had seen sesame oil when he was in the war. We used it to light torches and sprinkled it on the enemy's food and grass. Then we threw a torch over and the fire burned so brightly!"
Yun Xi rolled her eyes.
"Mu Sheng told me that the sesame oil I make and the sesame oil you use are both made from sesame, but they are definitely different. When I was making oil at home yesterday, the aroma was so fragrant that the kids next door cried out of greed!"
"Who lives next door to the General's Mansion?"
Yun Xi: "..."
"I'm just making an analogy. I'm not really trying to make you cry."
Yun Zhen shook his head, "That's you bragging about yourself."
"I won't tell you anymore. You'll know after you try it yourself in a few days."
"How many more days?"
"It needs to settle. Just wait ten days. When you open it in ten days, you will know whether I am exaggerating or not. Just drop a few drops into the dish or soup for seasoning. It is really delicious."
"Okay, okay, I'll try."
He looked at the jars that Chunmei and Qiuye were holding and asked, "Are both jars sesame oil?"
"No, the other jar is sesame paste. You can eat it today. I'll teach Aunt Wang a few ways to eat it later. We tried it at home yesterday and it was delicious."
At noon, Yun Xi instructed Aunt Wang to make dumplings and wontons. After eating them at Mu's house last time, she had been thinking about going home to make them for Father Yun to try, and today she finally realized her plan.
Yun Zhen enjoyed the meal very much. He thought that this was the cooking skill that Yun Xi learned from the Mu family. In order to protect his daughter's face as the general's wife, he taught her implicitly: "You don't have to do these things. Go into the kitchen less often in the future."
He had heard a lot about wealthy families flattering the powerful and looking down on the weak. When his daughter was at home, she often went into the kitchen, which showed that she was hardworking, sensible and filial. Now that she has married into a wealthy family, if she still goes into the kitchen, she will inevitably be looked down upon by the servants.
He believed in the character of the Mu family, but with such a large population in the general's mansion, there was no guarantee that all the people were good people with high moral character.
"Got it, Dad."