Chapter 148 Potato Banquet
Just when Li Anran began to pretend to be a chef and taught people how to cook potatoes, and the harvest work in the fields was also like tea. No, it should be in full swing, Cheng Chusi, who received the news, was stunned.
"Two...two hundred stones?!" Looking at his subordinate who came to report the news fiercely, Cheng Chusi asked, "Did you know if you read it wrong or heard it wrong? It really costs two hundred stones instead of two stones?!"
"I dare to use the head to guarantee it. This time the potato yield per mu is 200 stones instead of two stones." The hospital guard, who was also excited by the news he received before, almost put a knife on his neck to express his attitude.
Facing this life-guarantee answer, although Cheng Chusi still couldn't fully believe it, he was also very clear that his subordinates would never dare, and there was no need to talk nonsense about such things.
Cheng Chusi, who knew how important this matter was and how great it was, did not care about his guard duties at the moment, and directly led the two trusted subordinates to report the news to the direction of the potato field.
Before he could get close to the field, he was already hit by the potatoes piled up on the open space beside the field, which looked like a hill. However, this stick was a good fight for Cheng Chusi!
As soon as he arrived at the scene, Cheng Chusi got the specific yield per mu from Wang Youde, whose eyes were still red. Looking at the record of more than 20,000 kilograms, he was shocked and excited, but he still didn't dare to report it like this.
Now, one of my confidants has always been camping nearby, which is called training troops. Of course, in fact, it is indeed sending letters at the training camp, asking a team of troops to send over there.
After the news was delivered, the barracks, who thought something was wrong in the villa, sent people to the ground without saying a word. As a result, the order received was not to fight with people, but to take off their armor, put down their saber with them, and put on their farm tools and start working.
Although the captain of the neighboring army knew to obey orders, he couldn't help asking about such an arrangement. After learning that the yield per mu of potatoes harvested can reach 200 stones, the captain who almost starved to death when he was a child suddenly became as red as Wang Youde.
After the acre of potato fields were dug out at a very fast speed by the military men. After weighing the specific weight one by one, Cheng Chusi, who had indeed produced 200 stones per mu, was shocked by the sudden crying captain before he could even give a new order.
As the saying goes, men don’t cry easily, but they are not sad.
As the lieutenant cried, not long after a while, not only did the army Hanzhong cry a lot. Even the old and young men who were originally busy working hard in the fields began to wipe their tears again.
In the late Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos and wars were in full swing. I wonder how many people either eat or die in a foreign land because they had no food. How could the sadness and blood and tears in it not resonate with it?
It was precisely because Cheng Chusi, who knew what kind of suffering he had suffered, did not blame him for crying without image. He just patted the other party on the shoulder, then turned his head and issued two new orders.
The first order is very simple. Put two baskets of newly dug potatoes in the barracks and prepare two of the best horses in the barracks. The second order is to unite the barracks and the guards to surround the entire Xiaoyao Villa, and ensure that no news will be leaked. At least it cannot be leaked before you report this news.
After the second order was executed, Cheng Chusi then led a team of people and guarded the two baskets of potatoes placed on the air cavalry and ran towards Chang'an.
When receiving the news from Wang Youde about Cheng Chusi's order, Li Anran, who was in the kitchen and was having a potato banquet, was a little unhappy, but he didn't mean anything surprised. The yield per mu was 200 stones. Not to mention in the Tang Dynasty, even in modern time and space, it would be enough to cause a great sensation.
This kind of high-yield grain that can influence a country's strength is not comparable to gold and jewelry. In addition, he originally wanted to use high-yield crops to accelerate the change of the time and space of the Tang Dynasty, so he was unhappy, but Li Anran was not angry about Cheng Chusi's behavior.
As the saying goes, it’s not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, but it’s not too late for a villain to take revenge from morning to night. First, write down the account, and then there is time and opportunity to find the place.
After sending Wang Youde away, Li Anran, who was interrupted by the potato feast production process, continued to work hard in the kitchen.
Potatoes can not only be used as a staple food, but also as a staple food. For example, after peeling and cutting potatoes into a pot, steam them with tools, mash them into a paste, and finally use a strainer to press them and use corresponding seasonings to make mashed potatoes of different tastes.
If mashed potatoes are not considered as staple food, then noodles and vermicelli made from potatoes, and with different cooking methods, can definitely be considered a staple food that is both delicious and nutritious, and full.
However, compared to these ways of eating, one of the cooking methods that Anran has the most impressed by potatoes is a dish. A dish that is famous all over the country, stewed with potatoes.
The meat here can be beef, pork, chicken, goose, rabbit. As long as you are willing to try it, it can be flying in the sky, running on the ground, or swimming in the water, basically any meat you can do.
In order to experience the effect of this kind of potato that has become much larger after time and space travel, and the yield is even higher, it is also to enrich the recipes in his restaurant. Just the potato stew, Li Anran stewed it into six pots of different ingredients.
Later, I also made several Western dishes related to potatoes that I had been abroad some time ago. Among them, the most popular dish of Li Anran is the mashed potatoes with baked roots.
After cooking more than 20 Chinese and Western dishes and staple dishes related to potatoes, Li Anran, who made it smoothly, also made two snacks in later generations that were no less famous than potato stew and spicy and sour potato shredded potatoes.
Use professional kitchen utensils to cut potatoes into pieces into strips, then put them in the pan and cook them for a while, then take them out and dry them. After putting them in the freezer and freeze them, throw them into the oil pan and fry them golden brown and sprinkle them with a little salt. This becomes the most common delicious French fries in Western fast food restaurants.
If you cut large pieces of potatoes into thin slices, marinate them with different flavors of seasoning water, and then put them into the oven to dry and crisp, it will become a colorful potato chip. And it is the non-fried type, which is delicious and healthier.
After Li Anran racked his brains tossed out the dishes, staple foods and snacks he could make, he finally did not forget the farmers and soldiers who were still worried about harvesting in the fields.
Based on the principle that happiness is worse than happiness alone, and this matter is completely in line with the meaning of "Happiness and Bing", Mr. Wang asked every farmer who participated in the rush to pay a hanging of money as a reward.
As for the military men, I can only apologize. It’s not that Li Anran is reluctant to give up this reward, but that he doesn’t want to make mistakes like Chen Wansan. They are the troops of the True Dragon Emperor, and giving money randomly can easily lead to misunderstandings.
In addition to the reward, Li Anran also asked Zhao Qian, who had just learned and recorded the dishes, staple food and snack cooking methods, to cook the potato stew in batches with a group of cooks in a half-try and half-practice way.
It is necessary to ensure that every household can get a large bowl of potato stew, so that these hard-working and hard-working households can taste what this kind of "auspicious" tastes delicious and nutritious, and has a high yield.
This time, Li Anran did not treat him differently. In addition to the village households, there were all the soldiers stationed in the barracks not far away. As for the servants in the manor, there was naturally no need to mention them.
Just as the entire Xiaoyao Villa was immersed in the joy of harvest and deliciousness, Cheng Chusi had already brought the inner hall of Chang'an City Imperial Palace with the two baskets of potatoes that were guarded layer by layer.
Chapter completed!