Chen Xu remembered that when he was a child, whether it was harvesting wheat or rice, his mother would cook a pot of salted eggs at home during the busy farming season. It was very easy to cook at noon. Add salted eggs to rice pickles, and sometimes add a cold cucumber or sugar tomatoes. It would be a simple meal to deal with it.

This is most of the restaurants in rural areas during the busy farming season. Occasionally, they will make a large pot of pickled buns or steamed buns. The family can eat them for several days, and they will not stop until they finish the busy farming season.

Therefore, pickled vegetables, pickled vegetables, dried vegetables, pickled vegetables, are both an indispensable food supplement for farmers during spring and autumn harvest, and are also a reserve work that must be carried out during summer and winter storage, which is related to the harvest of the year. Because there is not much time to cook during the busy farming season, the simpler, more convenient, faster and better.

However, compared with the pickled vegetables made from various common fruits and vegetables, the properties of the peeled eggs are completely different, and the production process has completely risen to a mysterious chemical stage.

Although the peeled egg originated in China, China's understanding of pure chemistry has always been explaining it with the Eastern metaphysics of Yin and Yang and Five Elements. Even if the master of the Five Elements Zou Yan is brought out, he will never be able to say that there is a false world. At most, this thing is like agar, the color is like a moonlit night, and it smells spicy and fragrant. Eat it... Well, it is delicious, very delicious, and it is both Q and fun...

Well, these are all things Chen Xu is thinking about.

He was gently reminded by the water to make a peeled egg, so after thinking about it for a night of thought, it was roughly confirmed that the peeled egg was a pure chemical change. The protein in the duck egg slowly reacted with calcium hydroxide, potassium carbonate and even more chemicals in wood ash and turned into a solidified jelly-like substance.

Although Chen Xu could not control this chemical reaction process, he basically figured out the raw materials. Then he divided the ratio into different marinated five or six jars, and each jar was about thirty. Now, two months have passed in a flash. You can indeed open it and see if it is successful.

Two kitchen workers first opened the pottery jar that was pickled with salted duck eggs. When they opened it, a strong salty and wine smell came to the face. The salt water inside looked quite clear, with no signs of mold and deterioration, and only a layer of salt film on the surface.

Chen Xu took it himself, used a bamboo scoop to peel off the salt film, took out an egg from it, held it in his hand and shook it gently, without feeling the feeling of waving the egg.

"Husband, how should you eat this salted egg?" Shui Qingrou stood beside her, watching the eggs soaked in salted water in curiously asked.

At the beginning, she just asked casually what the peeled egg on the poker card was. Unexpectedly, Chen Xu threw the poker away and laughed and said that he had not made it yet. Then, just like thinking of a delicious food before, Feng Fenghuohuo called the butler to prepare the ingredients.

A hundred kilogram of eggs and duck eggs is definitely a big expense for ordinary wealthy families, and it is not easy to buy them. After all, in this era, the native chickens and ducks were not many. In the number of three or five eggs, the eggs laid were basically sold at the market to subsidize their household expenses. The supply of fresh eggs on the market has never increased. Moreover, with the rapid development of Xianyang's economy, a large number of restaurants and food houses appeared, and the living standards of people gradually improved, and poultry eggs have always been in a state of insufficient supply.

However, it was not a big deal for Chen Xu, because his farm started planning a chicken and duck farm and a cattle, sheep and pig farm a few years ago. The pond he met was a duck farm. He raised more than 200 ducks in total, and the eggs were enough for the family to eat. In fact, most of them were supplied to Qinghe Restaurant, and eggs were the same. Several farmers on the fiefdom were responsible for taking care of two chicken farms. Li Gui's parents and younger brothers and sisters did this. All the chickens were semi-free-range, enclosing a large area of ​​wild land, building chicken coops, then planting some vegetables, planting some fruit trees, making some pig manure, fermenting cow manure and fermenting some earthworms and insects, etc. Anyway, the chicken farm and duck farm have developed very well in recent years, and fresh eggs have always been sufficient. The servants in the mansion can eat eggs several times a month.

Therefore, the 100 kilograms of eggs and duck eggs were ready soon, but Chen Xu was a little hesitant before making the peeled eggs, so he made a large jar of salted eggs.

The fresh egg is made with simple technology, just soak it in salt water with sufficient concentration. If you are afraid of mold, you can add wine to sterilize it and enhance the flavor of the fresh egg. As for the long insects, it is impossible. The dragon can be choked to death under the concentrated salt water prepared by Chen Xu.

Salted eggs, salty eggs, that means they must be salty enough.

Chen Xu also considered the preparation of salt eggs, which is to provide a long-term high-protein food for future navigation. Pickled cabbage, pickled cabbage, dried cabbage, will be the main dietary structure of navigation in the future.

If the peeled eggs can be successfully developed, then there will be more delicious.

"The salted eggs need to be cooked before they can be eaten. Take out a few more to cook, and try how they taste later!" Chen Xu smiled and used bamboo scooters to pick out more than ten pieces in succession, and told a kitchen worker to take them to the kitchen to cook.

After getting the salted eggs, Chen Xu went to see the pickled eggs.

To be honest, Chen Xu is very unpredictable at the moment.

There is a piece of hemp pulp paper on these clay pots, with different ingredients written on it, and the marinating time is several days apart.

But this is not important. It is an experimental nature anyway. Chen Xu ordered the chef to open the first jar and take out a semi-wet coating wrapped in a mixture of chaff and wood, lime and salt.

The raw materials of the seven or eight clay pots are similar, but the amount of various ingredients has changed greatly. Some have more ash in the wood, some have more lime, and some have added white wine and alkaline water, etc. Because it was just an experiment, Chen Xu didn't know which formula could succeed.

However, for the wealthy Hou of Qinghe, Zuo Gong and Taishi of the Qin Empire, the most precious thing is money, and the least fear is waste. At most, more than 100 eggs and duck eggs are wasted. Even the housekeeper was afraid that Chen Xu would get less. According to Chen Xu's idea, he would pickle three or five of each type to see the effect, but when the housekeeper and the manager of the kitchen yard were marinating each type, he had to pickle a can of each type.

"Mr. Marquis, what does the peeled egg taste like?" A young chef asked carefully while working.

"It's hard to describe it. If you succeed, you will know..." Chen Xu smiled and used millet grass to wipe off the mud bran on the surface of the skin egg in his hand, then wiped the surface of the eggshell with a piece of linen cloth and then gently broke it and peeled it off slowly.

A layer of light brown material, translucent jelly-shaped, but it did not solidify completely. After peeling off the shell, it began to deform and flow like melted glass. It quickly became a yellowish-brown mud together with the egg yolk.

This peeled egg obviously did not succeed, but it already had the smell of peeled egg. Because the moment he peeled it, Chen Xu had already smelled a unique smell of peeled egg. In order to determine his own feelings, he even licked it with his tongue and found that it was indeed very similar to the mature peeled egg.

"Mr. Marquis, is this a peeled egg?" The chef next to him looked at the egg peeling and turned into this strange appearance. Chen Xu licked it and suddenly felt some scents in his stomach rolling and he wanted to vomit.

"Why, it looks very exciting? Actually, it tastes very good. But this can didn't work. Maybe it was because there was not enough time. Seal it and continue marinating for a while before looking at it."

Chen Xu threw the unpickled egg in his hand into a pottery bowl, and then instructed the chef to open the second pottery jar.

In the following time, Chen Xu opened all the clay pots next to each other, but he did not disappoint him. Two of them were completely successful. Except for the slightly different color of the peeled eggs, it was indeed no different from the peeled eggs that Chen Xu had eaten in later generations. The taste was Q-flavored and had a strange fragrance. After Chen Xu encouraged him to put them in the water, he also tasted them all over and over again, thinking that the peeled eggs were indeed unique in flavor.

Since he succeeded, Chen Xu was completely relieved and asked the kitchen workers to take out the two cans of peeled eggs that were successfully dried with mud, seal the remaining cans and continue to marinate for half a month before opening them. If they are not successful, they can be discarded. Then, they use a gourd ladle to carry seven or eight cleaned peeled eggs to the kitchen.

The marinated ripe eggs can be eaten directly, and of course they can also be fryed, fried, fried and made into various unique dishes.

There were two more famous recipes for peeled eggs in later generations, one was cold-fried peeled eggs, and the other was peeled egg and lean meat porridge.

Chen Xu worked hard in the kitchen for a while, and soon, with Shui Qingrou, he took a plate of cold-salted eggs and a scoop of salted eggs to the restaurant.

"Go and invite the two ladies and a few young masters!" Chen Xu ordered the maid to invite Ying Shiman and Meng Wan. Soon, surrounded by a group of maids, Ying Shiman and Meng Wan took their daughters and Yu Ji and Chen Xi to the restaurant one after another.

"Husband, have you just had lunch?" Ying Shiman asked curiously before she sat down.

"Wow, Brother Xiaoxu, what is this black plate?" Yu Ji's eyes were sharp-eyed. When she entered the door, she couldn't help but shout.

"Hehe, this is what I mentioned last time. I remembered it today and found that it has been successful. It is better to have fun than to have fun alone. Although it is not time to have dinner, let's taste this unique dish!" Chen Xu said with a smile, pointing at the cold-salted egg with chopsticks.

"How could the Clay Dan look like this? It looks so... so terrible..." Yu Ji's face shrank back slightly with a little white look.

"The color is very strange. The egg white looks like brown soap, and the egg yolk is like black mud... The smell is also very strange..." Meng Wan picked up a piece of brown egg with chopsticks and watched carefully, then sniffed it gently and threw it on the plate.

"Dad, Xi'er wants to eat peeled eggs!" Xiao Chen Xi didn't know what peeled eggs were at all. She only heard her father say it could be eaten, so she pulled Chen Xu's sleeve and started yelling.

"Okay, give Xi'er a piece!" Chen Xu smiled and picked up a piece of peeled egg, dipped it in a little seasoning made of sauce, vinegar and garlic paste to feed it to his daughter.

"Yeah, dad, the egg is delicious, Xi'er wants it..." Chen Xi swallowed it in a few mouthfuls, licking her mouth and thinking about her toes, constantly looking at the plates on the dining table.

"Okay, Daddy will give you another piece!" Chen Xu fed Chen Xi another piece.

"Dad, I still want to eat!" Chen Xi looked at the plate with a long eye after eating.

"The peeled egg is sour and astringent. Children should not eat too much. Take a salted egg and eat it!" Chen Xu took a salted egg from the gourd ladle and handed it to his daughter.

"Thank you, dad!" Chen Xi took the salted egg and went to find the maid to peel the eggshell. With the example of Chen Xi, Ying Shiman Meng Wan and Chun Xia Qiu Dong and a group of maids surrounded him. After discussing and observing for a while, Ying Shiman couldn't help but hold up and eat a piece. Then her beautiful eyes lit up and her face looked surprised.

"It's so strange, the taste is smooth, especially the egg heart has a strong fragrance and a hint of astringent feeling, but it's very delicious..." Ying Shiman, who loves food the most in the Hou Mansion, gave her own evaluation.

"Everyone come and taste it!" Chen Xu smiled and picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth. Meng Wan and Chun, Summer, Autumn and Winter, each picked up chopsticks to taste it. The taste and taste were commented on each, but they all changed their view at the beginning. The peeled eggs looked ugly, but they tasted very special and fragrant. They were different from any delicious foods that Chen Xu had invented in the past. The only thing was fried stinky tofu and comparing them with each other.

"Except for being ugly, it tastes really good. It's rare that my husband has been doing it for almost two months!" Meng Wan praised Chen Xu with a smile on her face.

"Hehe, several cans have broken!" Shui Qingrou couldn't help but cover her mouth and smiled, her eyes almost unable to open.

"It's not just that it's broken. It's just that the recipe is not right and it may take longer to pickle. This peeled egg is more resistant to storage than salt eggs. You can make more meals in the future. In fact, it is mainly prepared for Brother Yu and Miss Xia. A large amount of this kind of resistant food is required to sail on the sea. It's not enough to eat rice, flour and dry food. If you spend a long time, you will get bad blood... How does this salted egg taste?"

Chen Xu smiled and put down the chopsticks, picked up a salt egg and smashed it and peeled it, revealing the snow-white egg white egg yolk inside.

"Husband, the salted egg looks no different from the cooked eggs on weekdays!" Ying Shiman also picked up a salted egg and smashed it and peeled it.

"The egg white is very salty, but it's very appetizing!" Meng Wanye's maids all picked up a salted egg and started to taste it.
Chapter completed!