border cook

After returning, Jiang Yanyi asked Yang Xiu to buy a pot from the antique soup shop opened by Laifu Restaurant.

Yang Xiu, Bing and Shao were arranged by Chu Changping after Jiang Yanyi closed the store, and not many people had seen them, so they would not be suspicious.

While waiting for Yang Xiu to come back, Jiang Yanyi took the okra and Bing Shao to deal with the bought meat first.Every family in the country slaughters a fat pig during the Chinese New Year, and smoking bacon is also a craft in every household, but there are some surprises in the way of smoking in different regions.

Jiang Yanyi used her father's old method of cooking bacon in her previous life, using a bamboo stick to poke small holes in the meat to make it easier to smoke and taste.Stir-fry the raw Zanthoxylum bungeanum in the pan, add coarse salt and continue to stir-fry. When the salt is hot, the aroma of the Zanthoxylum bungeanum also melts into the salt. Use this kind of salt to rub the meat, and the smoked meat will be more fragrant.

The step of applying salt is a technical task. If there is too much salt, the bacon will be too salty. If there is too little salt, it will be even worse, and the meat will rot.It was freezing cold, and the rough salt paste hurt his hands, so Bing Shao took over the job of applying salt alone, leaving Jiang Yanyi to check whether the amount of salt was appropriate.

Evenly smeared with salt, put the meat skin down into the large stone tank, turn it over every few days, marinate for more than ten days, and then smoke it with fruit charcoal pine and cypress branches to become bacon.

After Bing Shao rubbed a few pieces of meat on the pier, he gradually became able to control the amount of salt, so Jiang Yanyi went to chop the meat for the sausage.She and Okra were on the same cutting board, chopping with two kitchen knives each, and it didn't take long to prepare a pot of minced meat.

Jiang Yanyi plans to make sausages with three flavors: spiced, spicy and sweet.

Compared with the spicy one, the five-spice one has less cornel powder.In the era when there was no blender, spices such as aniseed, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, dill, and peppercorns could only be ground into powder with a stone mortar.

Jiang Yanyi had just divided the minced meat into three pots and mixed the seasoning, before he had time to deal with the casings, Yang Xiu came back.

The pot he bought was placed on the outside table, the soup in the copper pot was still boiling, and the packaged fresh meat and vegetables were all in the food box, ready to be boiled at any time.

Although the weather was cold, Yang Xiu still broke out in sweat after walking such a distance with a food box and a copper pot. He wiped his forehead with his sleeve and said: "The newly opened store under the name of Laifu Restaurant is called Laifu Antiques. Geng, today’s opening is very grand, and people were invited to perform a lion dance in front of the store, and many people went there to eat pots, and it took me a long time to finish the pots I ordered.”

Jiang Yanyi said that the owner of Laifu Restaurant is really shrewd. She has made great efforts to make the antique soup famous in Xizhou. Now that her shop is closed and there are many people who want to eat pot, the other party will open a shop specializing in pot , but not all the customers are attracted.

Because Yang Xiu took it away in a package, the bowls and plates of Laifu Antique Soup are naturally used to pack all kinds of ingredients. After eating, send the bowls, plates and pots back to others. This is unwritten but everyone tacitly understands it. rule.

Jiang Yanyi glanced at the dishes and smiled angrily.

The molds for the bowls and plates in her shop are made by herself, and there are no molds on the market.The Laifu restaurant is good, and it directly makes the bowls and plates in her shop, but because of its wealth and wealth, when firing porcelain, the outer wall of the bowl is burnt with flower and bird glaze, and the rim of the bowl is glazed with gold, which looks better than the bowls in her shop. The plate is much more refined.

The word "Jiang Ji" in Huiyin was also replaced with "Laifu".

It's almost like "coloring" the dishes in her shop directly!

Even Okra pointed to the bowls and dishes in Laifu Antique Soup Shop and said, "Huahua, these bowls and plates are similar to those in our store."

Jiang Yanyi can only sigh with emotion: "People are shameless, and the world is invincible."

She doesn't think it's a big deal if the other party imitates her marketing techniques, but when you open a shop, even the dishes and dishes are made according to her shop's, Jiang Yanyi's mood is very complicated.

She took a deep breath and asked Yang Xiu: "Did you see how his shop is arranged?"

Yang Xiu said: "Just like us, there are screens between the tables, but they are made of wood." It is also more exquisite.

Jiang Yanyi didn't want to talk anymore, she set her eyes on the copper pot beside her.

When cooking a pot, all the work is done on the soup base. She took a small bowl to ladle the soup and drank it, wanting to see how strong the other party was in making soup.If the pot itself doesn't taste good, it's useless to add more bells and whistles.

The moment the soup enters the mouth, the first feeling is that it is too fresh, as if it tasted a sip of boiled chicken essence.

There is a good saying, "Too much is not enough".

Jiang Yanyi quickly drank two sips of tea and pressed it down, and then boiled another piece of mutton to eat.

Because the soup is too fresh, eating shabu-shabu does not stimulate the taste as much as drinking the soup directly, and the body feels good.

Jiang Yanyi put down his chopsticks, and said to the point: "The chef who makes the soup is very skilled."

When eating clear soup pots, the soup inside is drinkable before the meat is added.

The other party made the soup so fresh, obviously they didn't intend to make the diners drink the soup, and all the focus was on the taste of the meat.

As soon as Yang Xiu heard Jiang Yanyi's comment, he said: "It is said that the master who makes the soup over there is from the capital. He used to work in Xiangyun Tower, and his ancestors went to the palace as an imperial cook. This method of making soup is used in the palace. "

Xiangyunlou is a famous restaurant in the capital, and the people who dine there are either rich or expensive.

Jiang Yanyi said: "It's no wonder that he is a businessman. The owner of Laifu Restaurant is really very shrewd."

Not to mention, the cook in the other shop has a signboard of "Imperial Cook" on his ancestors, which is very eye-catching. Even if some diners are not very interested in his antique soup, but when they heard that the emperor and the concubine We also eat these, how can we not have a taste of early adopters?

The most important thing is that with such a recruitment, it is impossible to slander the other party in terms of taste, even if it is a fact, if someone says "this is how the imperial dining room is done", they can give everything back.

Jiang Yanyi really wished that she now had [-] mu of peppers, and could make a red soup hot pot to show them what Wang Zha was, but the problem was that the peppers she cultivated were still young seedlings.

Jiang Yanyi was autistic for a whole day. Yang Xiu and the others were a little worried about her and thought about whether to tell Chu Changping about it, but when Jiang Yanyi got up in the morning the next day, she seemed to regain her energy and was full of energy in everything she did.

I also used the smoked sausage yesterday to make a pot of sweet sausage claypot rice, and the crispy rice under the casserole was eaten by okra and Yang Xiu Bingshao.

Jiang Yanyi was worried for a long time before going to bed last night. On the one hand, she was angry that Laifu Antique Soup copied the things in her shop, and on the other hand, she was eager to defeat the other party and win back her own customer base.

Maybe it's because she thinks about it every day and dreams at night. She has never dreamed of her relatives in her previous life since she arrived in this other world, but last night she dreamed of her long-lost grandfather.

The dream is the scene where her grandfather taught her how to make hot pot for the first time. The leaves of the banyan tree outside the old house are green and yellow.The old man taught her to make stir-fried red soup, hang the bottom of the clear soup pot, and her wrinkled face showed a calm and serene expression.

"Ayi, cooks pay attention to the harmony of five flavors in cooking. Everything has its own degree. If the ingredients are used properly, the dishes will be delicious. The same is true for people. Life is full of flavors. You can control it yourself. These days Only when you live can you have a good time, and you must calm down when cooking and being a human being."

When he woke up from the dream, it was already dawn, and Jiang Yanyi cried for a while before calming down.

It's her nature to be under the quilt when the sky is falling, and Jiang Yanyi also feels that she has become a little impetuous recently because she is worried about the difference in status with Feng Shuo and eager to make a career out of it.

She didn't get upset when it was so difficult when she first went through it, but now someone opened a restaurant exactly like her, so why bother, she can create a lot of hot pot restaurant features!

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When Jiang Yanyi went to deliver the "medicinal" meal to Feng Shuo, Feng Shuo probably also heard the story of Laifu Antique Soup from the people below. Seeing her red eyes, his brows frowned immediately: "Have you cried?"

Jiang Yanyi was afraid of being laughed at by him, so he stared and said, "No, it was smoked when the sausage was smoked!"

In addition to the "medicinal" diet today, Jiang Yanyi also cut up a plate of sausages and sent them over. There are spiced, spicy, and sweet ones. Because they are smoked with fruit charcoal, there is a hint of sweetness of fruit trees in the mouth.

Feng Shuo didn't expose his lie, he just said: "I've tasted the pot of Laifu Antique Soup, it's not as delicious as yours."

The taste is really amazing at the first taste, but it has been kept at that freshness. After a few more sips, the taste buds will feel tired, and the taste will not be tasted later.Unlike the pots in Jiang Yanyi's shop, the taste is always kept at a just right level, and the taste buds are always sensitive.

Jiang Yanyi said: "I don't mind if the other party opens a shop to sell pots, but everything comes from my shop, how can you be so shameless?"

After she finished speaking, she was afraid that Feng Shuo might misunderstand something, so she said, "I'm just talking to you, you are not allowed to intervene in this matter, I can solve it myself."

He opened the shop rightly and did nothing wrong, if Feng Shuo ordered someone to seal up the shop directly, he would only bear the stigma on himself.

Feng Shuo asked her: "How do you want to solve it?"

Jiang Yanyi raised his eyebrows and said, "I have my own way."

Seeing that Feng Shuo had finished eating the "medicinal" food, Jiang Yanyi packed up the food box and was about to leave, but Feng Shuo suddenly called her: "Don't leave in a hurry, I have something for you."

Jiang Yanyi looked back suspiciously, and saw Feng Shuo dragged out a large wooden box from the side, "Open it and have a look."

Jiang Yanyi stepped forward suspiciously. After opening the lid of the wooden box, he saw a box full of various antifreeze skin care creams, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

This way of giving gifts... like a nouveau riche.

Feng Shuo didn't notice anything wrong, and said: "I saw your lips were dry and cracked at the Han Mansion the other day. I heard that using some lip balm can prevent frost cracking. I don't know what style you like. Let's ask someone to collect these. You Just take it back and pick up what you like and use it.”

Those who can afford antifreeze skin care products in Xizhou are from wealthy families.Ordinary people usually cut a ball of sheep oil and apply it to the cracked area, as a "medicine".

Therefore, this box is full of skin care ointments, the boxes are made extremely exquisite, and you can smell the fragrance inside before you open it, which is obviously expensive.

Jiang Yanyi said: "I think... I'm afraid I won't be able to use up so much."

Feng Shuo thought she was trying to refuse, and said directly: "You can throw it away if you can't use it up. Anyway, I gave it to you. You can't return it."

In the end, the box of skin care cream was sent to Jiang Yanyi's home by the servant of the Fengfu.

Okra squatted beside the box and sniffed: "Huahua, it smells so good."

It's not the smell of food, but the smell of powder, but it smells much better than the low-quality powder she used to smell in the brothel.

Jiang Yanyi thought, even if she and okra used it together, these skin care creams would not be used up in a few years, but it would be a pity if they were afraid that they would break after a long time.

Or... She launched a winter event to eat hot pot in the store and give free skin care to young girls or wives?