Inari wants to live in peace
Episode 10 Autumn Festival in Nagayama Village (2) Stewed and Dried
I was supposed to open a cooking class on my own, but it seemed like I was eating cooked rice with grain added to barley on a daily basis, so I wasn't surprised.
However, I know not only the grain, but also the soy sauce-pickled boar meat that is finely chopped into it, and that it has a sufficiently low flavor is a drifting fragrance.
In addition, the rice as well as the wheat is mixed, and the potatoes that have been carefully washed beforehand, along with the bowl, are prepared carefully rubbed mellow, and sprinkled with rice without hesitation.
The inhabitants of the village at the foot of the shock were all screaming loudly.
I'm sure they thought so.This is definitely delicious.
Those who actually tasted it were very popular, so I did it privately.
The next dish, udon and soba noodles, also frequently appears in the period drama.
So I went out of my way to think that there was no need for me to teach, and I moved on to cooking silently without any explanation.
"From the ingredients, the flour is dumplings, not soba noodles!"
"Honda, how long have you been here?"
"It's from the tasting of grilled rice balls!"
In other words, I have been there since the beginning, but as the number of spectators continues to increase over time, it is no longer impossible to realize who does who.
I don't know exactly what's going on outside the village chief's house.
However, I can only tell from the sliding doors and wooden frame windows of the open entrance that a large crowd of people are gathered by inviting me to the delicious scent.
They took care not to disturb me and were fortunate to stay away from the kitchen lined with unknown ingredients and the latest cookware.
But I didn't think you'd come to Honda.
I don't think it's a bad idea for him to stick his neck in just because he's interested, but I thought there was a reason for that.
"I'm here to deliver what you asked for!"
As he looked behind him, several men with wooden boxes came out of the crowd and lined it up in turn in the corner of the kitchen.
I walk up to the immediate wooden box and open the lid to see what's inside.
There's some dried boiled potatoes.
After the fish were simmered, they were dried immediately.
If they were brought here raw, they would be damaged before that, so I asked the fisherman in the fishing village to process it locally and get the fresh product delivered quickly.
I can only thank Matsudaira-san for fulfilling my request.
(I don't know how much of this dried milk I keep.You'll be fine until the fall festival.)
Because there are no preservatives, the expiration date is short, no matter how dry it is.
But I'm sure you'll keep it up for the upcoming fall festival.
I start cooking again with a good temper.
"But I didn't think the Inari God could eat the little fish."
"No, I don't eat dried potatoes."
"What? Well, then, why do you want a sun-dried fish?"
If you add the underscore, it will replace the confectionery, but it will remain bitter as it is.
So I don't really like eating it.
It seems that it is not bad to eat as a side dish in a village where the fish of the sea are hardest to obtain, and that some villages make day-to-day dried braised rice into fertilizer for their fields.
But that's not what this is about.
I decided to give a demonstration to Honda, who leaned his neck with a jittery face.
I wish I had bonito.
"You, too, follow the instructions of Inari God.
We are nearing completion, but we need a little more time. "
To make dry goods, it is common for them to be dried in the sun.
However, since the fall festival is near and it is not possible to keep the weather dry in time, we tried to shorten the number of days by using firewood and straw like salmon and potatoes and smoke, and forcibly drying the cuttlefish.
And this worked so well that we were able to dramatically reduce the number of days until it became dry.
(I heard that it is good to put mold on the scalp.It could be harmful to the human body, and we have to take the time to find something harmless)
We can only expect local craftsmen around here, and there is still room for improvement.
I threw a circle at the scene, to put it bluntly, but it would be great if I could teach only the skeleton with my awkward future knowledge.
I don't think we can get to the finished form right away from the start, and the development of technology requires a stack of failures.
I hope we can find not only salmon and bonito, but also harmless mold as soon as possible, but if it's unfinished, it'll be in time for the fall festival, so I'll let you use it this time.
Incidentally, why do you know such strange knowledge? Because someone who was a family member in the future bought natural bonito.
Because of this, I was still a kid and I had to scrape the mold and dried bonito fillets every day.
Thanks to this, it is now useful, but I felt nothing but struggle at the time.It is good or bad to stick to completely pesticide-free and natural materials.
Turning to the real world, I boiled it up and took it out of the boiling water and put it on a small plate.
"Are you sure you want to throw away the dried stew?"
"If humans eat it, the bones will be stronger, and it can be used as fertilizer in the fields, so I won't throw it away."
Honda is surprised, so I will tell her that I will not throw it away.
At the same time, I think about when the culture of collecting broth will spread, and it doesn't matter, at best, while proceeding with cooking.
So I ask him what I doubted.
Speaking of which, I heard there was dumplings and soba noodles earlier.
"Tsukimi dumplings made with flour are a staple for the fall festival.
If it's soba flour, it's the only way to eat it. "
Fumu, the village chief supplemented me with a bowl of neck, and told me that the soba noodles had no taste, so it was only when there was nothing else to eat. Others were porridge, and I meditated on the taste and inflated my stomach.
Although it is grown in the village at the foot in preparation for famine, it is not very delicious, so I don't want to eat it that often.
On the other hand, I kept moving without stopping cooking while having a conversation.
I hope that even those who are not good at making soba noodles will be somewhat easier to eat by mixing and connecting the flour with the soba flour.
At the same time, udon noodles are also hit with a specially ordered noodle stick, but they need to be put to bed for a while.
(There are no clocks, measuring cups or weights, so I'm worried about the scale.)
I practiced making it like this for now, so please cook it for three minutes, and remove the udon and soba noodles from the wooden box that I made in advance and put to bed.
I laid it on the cutting board.
Then, after stretching it flat with a noodle stick, grab a knife and cut it from the soba noodles.
It would be easier with a noodle-cutting knife, but I can't say luxury.Since the line can bend along the way, it will slide appropriately without hesitation.
It is lovely that there is a difference in thickness.
"Don't cut too long and thin."
"Udon noodles and soba noodles are eaten by Inari gods by chopsticks after being put in the juice."
All I have to say is that I will not allow any objection.Even if you are actually asked a question, you will have trouble answering it, so I apologize that this is the case.
But anyway, it's only at first glance, so transfer the warm dashi juice made from soy sauce and dried boiled sauce to the bowl.
Instead of monkeys, the soba noodles are quickly crumbled and placed in a small bamboo basket to easily drain the water.
The soba noodle restoration is just a matter of completion.
"While it's warm, please."
First of all, I will teach you how to eat it myself with real food.
Then everyone will follow it half-heartedly.
When I nodded realizing that it was deeper than the taste because it was dried, I now boiled udon and concentrated on the task of separating it into small bamboo baskets.
What you hear from behind is just a heartless, cheap sound of soba noodles.
Instead, it's okay because it's like this.So, like some gourmet show, I'm honestly delighted to be able to recreate another original Japanese meal.
"I've never had an elongated soba noodle before, but this is a good one!"
"In addition to soba noodles, there are also cooking methods that add ingredients.But we don't have enough food right now. "
"Whoa! What! Soba has endless possibilities!"
After serving something that turned into a thin boiled udon noodle to Mr. Honda, his samurai, and other gathered villagers, he began to rinse his mind again.
Soba and udon schools were born here in this world.
The struggle will never end as long as time passes.
I don't know what I've done, but this will appear in the times drama, so this level of flying is divided into errors.
Besides, it might be better if the ramen didn't come out.
It should be noted that there are many other issues besides this one, but this point will not be touched upon.
I also made miso field raku, oden, and boar pans, but I was somewhat satisfied personally.However, they were all far from complete.
However, because there are not enough ingredients, it can't be helped, and it is not delicious compared to the future, but it is an absolute delicacy for people raised in the Sengoku period.
In addition, it was an unknown cooking method and flavor that had never even been imagined before.
Anyway, now that we've practiced a dish that is easy to cook with the ingredients currently available, all we need to do is remind them how to cook by the day.
I think that if we split each into groups and concentrate on just one dish, we will be able to manage.
The only person who knows the finished form is me as a taster and cook, and I'll show my face over there.
As a result, I didn't have time to rest until the fall festival, and I was busy all day long.