Chapter 846 - 786: Doesn’t Seem Made Up
Gurgle, gurgle.
A large iron pot contained beef stacked in the shape of a pyramid, the pieces jutting out just a bit as the hot water bubbled around the sides of the beef, occasionally surging, while steaming more heat into the air.
The chunks of beef were each about the size of four fists, gently rolling in the simmering water.
Beef of this size cooked very slowly, but the meat inside would be extremely tender. If you extravagantly peeled away the outer layer of meat, leaving two fingers’ thickness behind, what remained inside essentially became like what’s called "low-temperature, slow-cooked" in modern cuisine.
Jiang Fuzhen would occasionally adjust the positions of the beef. He loved inviting people over for meals and enjoyed the process of preparing food on this large scale.
If it were just Jiang Fuzhen and Jiang Yuan eating together, they wouldn’t be able to finish even one of these chunks of beef, let alone a whole pot. Besides, who would they give the discarded two fingers’ thickness of outer layer to? Jiang Fuzhen, who had known hardship, would never indulge in such pure wastefulness.
Even when it came to dogs, Jiang Fuzhen only allowed Jiang Yuan to feed beef to the police dogs. Stray dogs were given only the scraps of the scraps, and that was only when he had enough produce of his own.
However, with enough people, food would be consumed very quickly. Jiang Fuzhen planned to cut two pieces of beef today, one he would not split but cut into large slices— after poaching, it would be served with dipping sauce. The other piece, he would take the core, simply sprinkle salt over it, not even adding pepper, savoring the pure taste of the beef.