Chapter 17
As soon as the sky was dawn, the roosters in Zhaojia Village began to thrust their loud voices, showing their singing voices one after another. When the first rooster crowed, Li Anran woke up again from the mysterious practice state of forgetting things. Not only did he not sleep for a night, he was not sleepy but became more energetic.
After getting up from the bottom, Li Anran did not rush to practice swords by the river.
"How come three out of ten of the runes that appeared again when practicing last night, those nodes that seemed to be acupoints light up?"
Recalling the strangeness he discovered when he was practicing before, Li Anran thought for a long time but could not come up with any reasonable explanation. He could only remember it in his heart for the time being. After washing up, Li Anran changed back to his Taoist robe, carried a whisk and carried a long sword to the open space by the river not far from Zhao Er's house, and began to practice swords.
After fighting a set of Pure Yang Swords, Li Anran immediately felt that his strength, speed, bounce and nerve reactions had improved a little. In particular, he felt more sensitive. When practicing swords, he found something was wrong in the grass on the other side of the river, but it did not show it.
After hitting the Chunyang Sword back and forth several times, Li Anran, who had completed the morning class, did not rush back, but instead walked along the river with his "magic weapon" mobile phone.
I have to admit that the ancient environment was indeed very good. Although Zhaojia Village is not a scenic spot, it can be regarded as a beautiful place in later generations. After turning on the forced flash, Li Anran took a photo and then nodded with satisfaction, stuffed his phone into the treasure bag, and turned around and left.
By the time they returned to Zhao Er's house, Zhao Er and his wife were already busy. They fed chickens and cows, and the pigs that Li Anran specially asked Zhao Da to buy from the county town yesterday.
During this period of the Tang Dynasty, ordinary people basically only ate two meals a day. However, at Li Anran's request, Zhao Er's family changed to three meals a day.
After putting down all the Taoist robe and sword, Li Anran, who changed to coarse Tang suits, took advantage of Zhao Er's family to make some white flour and knead it on the kitchen table. With the previous experience of snow sugar and processing meat products, Zhao Er and Zhao Er's wife are not surprised by this unique real person at home.
But I was quite curious about this method of kneading dough that I had never seen before. There is no way, but the authentic Lanzhou ramen has not yet appeared in this era.
In order to have noodles to eat the next morning, Li Anran not only asked Zhao Da to buy the white noodles, but also went to the wild field to make some weeds, dried them and burn them into ashes. Then he put them in a basin to make a weed ash solution. After a night, it became a key thing to make authentic Lanzhou ramen, such as ash water.
Traditional Lanzhou ramen emphasizes "three times of water, three times of ash, nine times of 81 times of kneading". After improvement, the water and ash are directly mixed and dissolved, which makes the effect better.
If you want to talk about the method of Lanzhou ramen, it was learned from the Lanzhou roommates in the same dormitory when Li Anran was in college, and even secretly learned some beef soup recipes. In addition to the noodles being chewy, the most important thing is the soup base and side dishes. Unfortunately, in ancient times, oxen were all plowing oxen, and it was strictly forbidden to kill and eat it.
Especially during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, due to the influence of the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it caused great harm to agriculture. All regions were resting and recuperating. Whoever dared to kill cattle would be a serious crime. Fortunately, although there was no beef on hand, the soup made on the first day of the big bone soup made for ramen was also very suitable, especially the soup that was added with spices and simmered overnight on low heat, which was so fragrant that it made people drool.
Taking advantage of the convenience of summer, Li Anran, who quickly woke up the noodles, used the dazzling technique of Zhao Er and his wife to pull out a handful of noodles as thin as hair.
In normal Lanzhou ramen, noodles are also very particular. Not only are they selected flour and grass grey, but they also have many types of noodles.
As the name suggests, the capillary is like hair, but it is actually a bit as thin as the thin vermicelli, which is the noodles that Li Anran pulled out at the moment.
It is thin, this one is slightly thicker than the thinner cap, about as thick as the incense head.
Second thin, this one is a bit as thick as ordinary fried noodles.
The three thin ones are slightly thicker than the two thin ones, and they taste like eating thick vermicelli. However, if the noodles are more vigorous, this one will feel the most chewy.
Leek leaves, as the name suggests, this kind of noodles is as wide as leek leaves.
Dabian, this kind of noodles is as wide as the wide powder you eat spicy hot pot.
The benefits of thin noodles are not only that they have a smoother texture, and they almost don’t need to chew it after entering. The biggest advantage for merchants is that this noodles are very easy to cook. You only need to rinse them in a boiling water pot and you can get out of the pot, which can save a lot of firepower. But if the noodles are not well pulled, the thinness will melt as soon as they are put into the pot.
If it were the past, Li Anran could not pull the noodles as well as it is now. However, after the coordination between strength and body has improved a lot, it was natural.
Knowing that Zhao Er and his wife would be very busy today, Li Anran first put a bowl of capillaries for each of them. Then he used big bone soup to make soup, and then cut some bacon, chopped scallions, coriander and diced side dishes to make toppings. Is this delicious? Zhao Er and his wife didn't say too much before they tasted it, but just from the appearance, this side can definitely arouse people's appetite.
"Eat slowly, there is not enough. Tell me, how does this noodles taste?" Seeing Zhao Er swallowing the bowl with a big face, Li Anran smiled.
As Zhao Er felt the delicate noodles melting in his mouth with the fragrant soup, coupled with the chewy teeth of the bacon and the refreshing side dishes, he really didn't know what to describe it, so he only wrote one word.
"good!"
Although the praise of this word is far less pleasant than the gorgeous words, for Anran, this kind of praise from the bottom of his heart is his favorite.
After feeling the big flashing eyes of Goudan, Li Anran did not waste time anymore. Haha, she started to work hard again.
"I'll go! This is so delicious!!"
After Li Anran squatted outside the kitchen with her face and sucked a big mouthful, she was also relieved by the delicious, strong fragrance and smooth taste.
After eating it happily, I didn't stop my mouth. When Li Anran wanted to give him a bowl of noodles, she realized that the large dough he had kneaded had already been eaten up.
"I don't know if my appetite has improved, or if the ingredients in ancient times and spices are purely natural varieties, the taste of this side is better than I did before."
"The taste of bacon is still a little worse. If I can match my best roasted char siu and then make spicy oil, the taste will definitely be further improved."
"If you take this out, you may not make a big profit in a short period of time, but it is absolutely fine to make a long-term business as a long-term business."
"It's a pity that there are still too few people who can use it at the moment. I have to make snow sugar and barbecue. If I have to make this Lanzhou ramen, I will be too busy at all."
"And now, chili peppers have not been introduced from abroad. If you want to eat spicy food, you can only use pepper and dogwood instead, and the taste will be much worse."
Thinking of this, Li Anran could only temporarily put the idea of Lanzhou ramen coming out in advance. At this time, the Zhao and his wife rushed over.
Seeing that everyone was here, Li Anran was not polite. He first asked Zhao Dada to peel off the soil pits that had been simmered all night yesterday and set off the burned charcoal.
There are two types of charcoal, one is pine charcoal and the other is bamboo charcoal. It is said that the best way to use the charcoal with barbecue is fruit charcoal, but unfortunately, there is no fruit charcoal now, so you can only use it. After the charcoal fire is ignited and put it in the oven, Li Anran took out the meat that had been marinated for the night and put it on the iron hooks he bought on the first day.
A circle of meat was quickly hung in the square oven. During the demonstration, Li Anran did not forget to mention some precautions, while Zhao Er and the others learned it very seriously. Grilling char siu with charcoal fire was a method that Li Anran accidentally learned from a chef. Unlike ordinary char siu, this kind of roasted char siu not only lasts longer, but also tastes very good.
Chapter completed!