The Red Mansions

Chapter 33 Opened
Before dawn, Jia Yun came to the shop with Jia, Cuihong, and Xiu'e.

As soon as he entered the store, Jia was busy moving the ingredients from Jia Yun's house down the trolley.

Cuihong and Xiu'e also had good eyesight. One carried a bucket to fetch water from the back of the house, and the other took a broom to sweep the floor.

It is very convenient to get water here. There is a back door on the wall behind the storage rack.

Through the back door, there is an open space of less than [-] square meters behind the house. The original rice shop owner ordered a well to be dug in the open space for fire prevention, which made Jia Yun take advantage of it.

After a while, the store was cleaned up, and all kinds of ingredients and utensils were neatly arranged, which made people feel comfortable.

To open a thriving stewed soup shop, the focus is on stewed soup. Today, Jia Yun didn't know if the business was good or bad, so she just brought a pot of stewed soup in a jar.

Lighting a large wok in the stove hole, Jia Yun lifted the jar and poured the marinated soup into the pot, saying to Jia:
"This is stewed soup. I will prepare it specially. You can go to my place to get it every day from now on."

To put it bluntly, stewed and boiled, it is a pot of dead flour pancakes and various stewed pigs.

This delicacy originated from the court dish Su Zao Rou. Su Zao Meat was created by a chef named Su. It is made from pig heart, lung, liver, tripe, and fat sausage, and is made from traditional Chinese medicine clove, licorice, cinnamon, etc. Also known as "medicinal diet".

After improvement, the roasted and stewed pork intestines and lungs were cooked together, supplemented with fried tofu slices, marinade, garlic juice, soy bean curd juice, coriander and other auxiliary materials, which gradually became popular among people.

Among them, the braised soup is made with salt, star anise, bay leaves, nutmeg, pepper, green onion, cinnamon, ginger, pepper, watercress, yellow sauce, fermented bean curd, soy sauce, rock sugar and other ingredients, and has a strong fragrance.

The stewed soup poured into the pot was still hot, misty and full of color and aroma.

When he came to the store during this period, he mainly took Jia Ji to run it for a few days, and the very important thing was to teach them all the processes except making the stewed soup.

"It smells so good, it makes my mouth water!" Jia took a deep breath and exclaimed.

Cuihong and Xiu'e on the side also sniffed, their eyes sparkling, and they secretly swallowed.

Jia Yun chuckled and said, "Don't worry, it will be ready later, you can eat as much as you want, anyway, you made it yourself."

Put the stewed soup into the pot, and then Jia Yun led three people to clean the pig's intestines, lungs, head and face, etc., blanch the water to remove the fishy smell, and put it into the stewed soup while it was hot.

"When you deal with these pigs in the future, you must clean them up. This is very important!" Jia Yun said solemnly.

In fact, there are ready-made Luzhu in his space, but in order to teach Jia and the others, he had to be more patient.

After the pig was put into the pot, Jia Yun cut the pork belly into large pieces and put them in together.

Jia Yun said: "The most basic price of stewed stew in our store is [-] yuan a bowl, and the baked cake is [-] yuan a piece, white meat is added for [-] yuan, tofu is added for [-] yuan, and pork lung is added for [-] yuan. Pennies, and adding pig intestines would cost fifty pennies.”

The authentic stewed fire is not something that everyone can consume frequently in later generations, especially in ancient times.

After finishing the stew, Jia Yun took Jia to start making Huoshao, which is white flour pancakes.

Jia Yun cut open a bag of flour, made a large pile with a bowl and poured it on the chopping board, slowly poured boiling water into the flour, and stirred it with chopsticks to form flour floes while pouring.

"The fire used for stewing must be dead noodles, preferably half-hot noodles, which are soft and chewy when eaten." Jia Yun explained.

Dead noodle cakes are unfermented noodle cakes. The advantage of stewed noodle cakes is that the cakes will not be soaked, and the dead noodle cakes taste hungry.

After handling, add an appropriate amount of water according to the water absorption of the flour, knead it into a dough with a certain degree of softness, put it in a copper basin, cover it and wake it up for two quarters of an hour.

Taking advantage of the time of waking up, Jia Yun asked Cuihong to light another stove hole and prepare to make some chili oil.

A bowl of stewed and boiled, must have a fragrant oily chili, which is fragrant, especially for people who like spicy food.

The oily chili should be freshly made to be fragrant, and some dried red chili should be cut into small pieces.

In order to prevent the oil temperature from being too high when frying chili, soak the small pieces of dried red chili in warm water for a while, remove and dry the water, and put it in a large bowl.

Heat up half a bowl of hot oil in a wok until it smokes slightly, and pour it on the surface of the small pieces of dried red pepper while it is hot.

With the aroma overflowing, a bowl of fresh and fragrant oil chili is ready.

After making a big bowl of chili oil, Jia Yun said to Jia with a smile: "In the future, a small bowl of chili oil will be placed on each table. Some people like spicy food, so let them add it by themselves, including vinegar. Put a china pot on the table."

After a pause, he added: "By the way, there is also coriander. Brother, you must be patient."

"Every time a guest comes, you ask if you want to add coriander, because some people like it very much, and some people can't smell it."

For people like Jia Yun who like to eat coriander, it is soulless to eat stewed food without coriander.

The oil and chili are ready, and the dough is almost ready.

Jia Yun sprinkled an appropriate amount of dry flour on the chopping board, kneaded the dough evenly again, pulled out two or two pieces of dough, reunited them and pressed them into small cakes one centimeter thick and fifteen centimeters in diameter.

After rubbing a small amount of soybean oil on the inside of the pan, Jia Yun said: "When the pan is hot, you can put the pancakes in, and bake until golden spots appear on both sides, and it's almost done."

The stewed soup in the big iron pot was boiling, the heat and aroma filled the whole store, and gradually spread to the street, the fragrance wafted for miles, making the street stalls and passers-by curious about what the food was like. Fragrant.

Put the baked and deep-fried tofu slices into the stewed soup, cook on a low heat. This kind of hot noodles are not afraid of cooking, and the standard is to cook them thoroughly.

Jia Yun's movements were extremely fast. After making seventy or eighty pancakes in one go, she stopped and told Jia to learn how to make pancakes.

A huge stewed pot, boiled until the meat is fragrant and mellow, exuding the rich aroma of pig intestines, lungs, and pork belly. The fried tofu slices are full of soup, and the fire is also cooked to the fire. You can smell the stewed meat from a distance. Cooked aroma.

From time to time, people came to the store to inquire, but when they heard the price, they hesitated, shook their heads and left.

Jia Yun was not in a hurry at all, the customers of this stewed pork fire were not ordinary civilians, but those with a little wealth.

These ordinary civilians on the street still have a lot of unsatisfactory food and clothing, and they simply can't afford the stewed fire he made.

Jia Yun watched Jia, Cuihong, and Xiu'e making pancakes, giving pointers from time to time.

After all, the three of them were all born poor. They could cook some simple meals since they were young, and they learned very quickly.

Time passed slowly, and when it was almost dawn, there were no guests.

Jia and the others panicked.

Jia Yun looked at the three of them, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, we've just started this business, so it will naturally be quieter. After a long time, I'm afraid you will be too busy."

He has never doubted the Chinese people's pursuit of delicious food. Besides, his braised stew has been tested by the market for hundreds of years, so he is not worried about bad business at all.

Of course, there are many factors that affect the quality of business, but Jia Yun has never been a person who looks forward and backward. Now that a project has been selected, it will naturally not easily affect her mentality.

Time passed slowly, the sky was getting brighter, the sun came out of the hills, and there were more and more passers-by on the street, but the shop was still deserted.

Quite a few curious people came forward to inquire, but after hearing the price, they all pouted and shook their heads, as if they felt deeply expensive.

The three of Jia were worried and restless.

Jia Yun smiled secretly, but did not persuade them anymore, because this is what they must experience and face.

Until the sky was bright and the sun was shining into the store, Xiren came to the door of the store at some point. After seeing Jia Yun, he wanted to enter but was too embarrassed to enter.

After a moment of hesitation, she finally walked in.

The aroma lingered in the nose, Xiren walked to the soup pot, took a small breath, and finally couldn't help but said: "Ah, it smells so good!"

"Eat?" Jia Yun asked with a smile.

Xiren blushed, nodded and said, "Eat!"

Jia Yun laughed and said, "How many bottoms do you want?"

"How many bottoms?" Xiren asked in confusion, bewildered.

Jia Yun pointed to the fire burning in the pot, and said with a smile: "This is fire, and asking how many bases you want is just asking how much fire you want."

"Fire? Isn't this just pancakes? By the way, you are just stewing, cooking everything together." Xiren was puzzled at first, and then suddenly said.

(End of this chapter)