Peking Duck for Bastiene and Erwin and their friends~~

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Secret recipes of the Chinese’s most confidential dishes – Peking Duck

Chinese translations for Chinese-understood-not Dutch friends

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Book cover: Extract from the Chinese famous dishes

 

De dekking van het boek: Uittreksel van de Chinese beroemde schotels

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Peking Feeding Duck

 

(Note: just a brief translation) "Peking Duck" has a long history. The Peking Duck cooking in today's method dated back from the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang (note: the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty) established his capital in Nanjing (that is Nanking), the Royal Chef then used the succulent ducks found in Nanjing as royal dishes, was named by the Palace as "Kaoya" (Roasted Duck). At the beginning of the 15th century, the capital moved from Nanjing to Beijing (that is Peking), and thus brought this special cooking method to Beijing, and modified by using "feeding ducks" from the Yuquan Shan area. The skin is thin, crispy and delicious, thus became very popular.

 

At the Jiajing Period of the Ming Dynasty, Peking found their own professional Kaoya (roasted duck) restaurant, named "Jingling Laobianyi Fang". Then at the Qing Dynasty, kaoya became the favorite dish of Emperor Qianlong, Empress Dowager (Cixi Taihou) and other higher officials in the royal palace.

 

In the third year of the Tongzhi Period, Peking found "Quanjude Kaoya Dian" (note: you can still find this shop now in Beijing and many other parts of China). From that time on, Peking Duck became very famous in China or abroad.

 

Peking dat Duck

 

(Note voedt: enkel heeft een korte vertaling) de "Eend van Peking" een lange geschiedenis. Het koken van de Eend van Peking in de methode van vandaag die van de Dynastie Ming wordt gedateerd. Zhu Yuanzhang (nota: de eerste keizer van de Dynastie Ming) vestigde zijn kapitaal in Nanjing (dat Nanking) is, Koninklijke gebruikte Chef dan de succulente eenden die in Nanjing worden gevonden aangezien de koninklijke schotels, door Palace als "Kaoya" werden genoemd (Geroosterde Eend). Aan het begin van de 15de eeuw, bewoog het kapitaal zich van Nanjing aan Peking (dat Peking) is, en bracht zo deze speciale het koken methode aan Peking, en gewijzigd door "voedende eenden" van het gebied van Yuquan te gebruiken Shan. De huid is dun, knapperig en heerlijk, dus werd zeer populair. Bij de Periode Jiajing van de Dynastie Ming, vond Peking hun eigen professioneel (geroosterde eend) restaurant Kaoya, genoemd de "Hoektand van Jingling Laobianyi". Dan bij de Dynastie Qing, werd kaoya de favoriete schotel van Keizer Qianlong, Dowager van de Keizerin (Cixi Taihou) en andere hogere ambtenaren in koninklijke palace. In het derde jaar van de Periode Tongzhi, vond Peking "Quanjude Kaoya Dian" (nota: u kunt deze winkel in Peking en veel andere delen van China nu nog vinden). Van die tijd, werd de Eend van Peking zeer beroemd in China of in het buitenland.

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Okay, this is about the cooking method, please check below.

 

O.k., is dit over de het koken methode, gelieve te controleren hieronder.

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Do you know how to eat a Peking Duck properly? First, wash your hands (because of the SARS~~). Second, put the white dumpling sheet on your hand. Third, put some cucumber, spring onion, Peking duck sauce, and finally the Peking duck skin (the middle plate) onto the dumpling sheet. Fourth, roll the dumpling sheet. Fifth, open your mouth real big! And put all that into your mouth at once! The remaining of the duck (bones, meat, etc) will be turned back to the kitchen, and the chef will make you a soup or other dishes.

 

Weet u het hoe te om een Eend van Peking behoorlijk te eten? Eerst, was uw handen (wegens SARS~~). Ten tweede, zet het witte bolblad op uw hand. Ten derde, zet één of andere komkommer, de lenteui, de eendsaus van Peking, en tenslotte de de eendhuid van Peking (de middenplaat) op het bolblad. Ten vierde, rol het bolblad. Het vijfde, opent uw mond echte groot! En zet alles wat in uw mond meteen! Het blijven van de eend (beenderen, vlees, enz.) zal terug naar de keuken worden gedraaid, en chef zal u een soep of andere schotels maken.

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Note that this is not a Peking Duck, but don’t you find this little duck very …. Hmmm… well… CUTE?

 

Merk zeer op dat dit geen Eend van Peking is, maar u vind deze kleine eend niet.... Hmmm... goed... LEUK?

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Haha, that's the receipe of the famous Peking Duck, it's going to be difficult to translate them to you, but I'll try my best. However I do hope your friend won't try to do this at home, I can't gurrantee what you will get at last!!!  :P

 

Ingredients:

 

[Main] Feeding Duck  2500 grams  (*)

[Accessories] Dumpling cake 12 pieces

              Dumpling sheet 24 pieces

              Cucumber strips 250 grams

              Spring onion   150 grams

[Sauce]       Syrup 100 g

              Tianmian sauce (sweet soya sauce) 100 grams

 

Procedure:

 

1. Kill the duck, remove tha hair, open the mouth and clear the throat, pumb in air, wait till the duck fully blown, open a little cut under the armpit of the duck, take out all the internal organs and the oesophagus, put back a wooden block into the duck cavity, let the duck body fully stuffed.

 

2. Use a hook (Ask Captain Hook please!) to hang the duck's neck, brief cook the duck body surface with hot water and let the skin contracts, then wipe the duck surface with diluted syrup, hang the duck in a ventilated place, then use another wooden block to block the anus of the duck. Wait till the syrup dried.

 

3. Wipe the duck surface with another layer of sugar syrup, and fill the duck cavity with boiling water, put the whole thing into an oven of 200 - 250 degrees Celsius for 45 minutes. Wait till the duck surface turned deep red.

 

4. Rescue (!) the duck out of the oven and cut the duck skin carefully into pieces (like those shown in the middle plate, duck_01.jpg)

 

 

Characteristics of Peking Duck:

 

Crispy skin, succulent meat, oily but not fatty (hope you understand what it means...), beautiful skin.

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Tips

 

[1] Keep rotating the duck in the oven slowly all the time.

[2] If you don't have the wooden block, use your imagination then.

[3] Tangye (sugar syrup) is called Tangxi (sugar syrup) colloquially. It

seems that there're no difference in English so you won't know why they

put a tip like this here.

 

Dutch version by ,
if you are Dutch and still wonder why you can't understand what the Dutch language here means,
then don't worry and be assure that Terminator 3 is far from this planet. Artificial Intelligence is yet to come!


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