Chapter 50 Chili Oil
Shopkeeper Qian read carefully, Jiang Erniu listened carefully, and nodded repeatedly at the end, "Ms. Xia has thought carefully and thoroughly, and there is nothing wrong with it."
< br>"I have also collected the silver that Madam Xia mentioned, and I have put my fingerprints on this receipt. I will give it to you tomorrow. Let's start learning the craft with Madam Xia. As for the location of this food stall, I'm also looking for it. Let's not delay, how about it?"
I have been busy collecting money these past two days to choose a place, Jiang Erniu's sesame cake stall. It is no longer open, the family has no income, and food and drink are all spent on the few money saved in the past.
The money box at home has bottomed out, and Jiang Erniu doesn't want to waste a day.
Xia Mingyue could feel Jiang Erniu's urgent mood at this time, and agreed wholeheartedly, "Then just do what Brother Jiang said." This contract is about to be officially fulfilled.
After agreeing on the content and time to learn tomorrow, Jiang Erniu continued to look for a stall suitable for business, while Xia Mingyue went to the butcher shop and selected a piece of fat and thin pork leg.
Nowadays, Xia Mingyue's food stall is doing very well, and she is buying more and more meat from the butcher shop. Before Xia Mingyue can speak, Butcher Hong has already lowered the price again.
When Xia Mingyue bought meat today, Butcher Hong still paid the lowest price, and the scale beam was raised to the sky, almost sliding down.
Butcher Qihong still thought it was not enough, so he tied up a small piece of meat next to it, "This small piece of meat is not easy to sell, so let's give it to Lady Xia as well."
On the food stall Xia Mingyue always gets up in the morning to get the meat, so what she comes to buy now must be for her own consumption.
Business is business, and favor is favor. No matter how cheap you are in business, others will think it is not enough, but if you give a little favor in favor, others will remember it for a long time.
Butcher Hong is used to doing business. He understands this principle and knows how to do it.
Xia Mingyue also understood Butcher Hong’s intention, pursed her lips and smiled, “Then I will benefit from Brother Hong today.”
"What kind words are you saying?" Butcher Hong smiled sheepishly, "But to be honest with Madam Xia, I really have something that I would like Madam Xia to do for you."
"What's the favor?" ?” Xia Mingyue said with a smile, “Brother Hong, let’s see if I can do it.” I like spicy food, but I'm very picky. If there are too few chili peppers in the dish, people say it's not spicy enough. If there are too many chili peppers, people say it's not spicy enough. Anyway, no matter what you eat, it won't taste good. "It's a delicious meal."
Butcher Hong said, "Didn't Madam Xia start selling Liangpi a few days ago, so I bought two bowls of Liangpi for my family. As a result, after finishing the Liangpi, no one came there. The chili oil in the cold skin is delicious, and it is very fragrant. Let me buy more. "
"I wonder if you can't buy this chili oil next to my house. I ate a lot, so I thought about asking Lady Xia to see if I could buy some chili oil made by Lady Xia..."
"If Brother Hong asks me about the things next to my mouth, I'm afraid it will be difficult to handle, but if it's something like eating, it's easy to handle." Xia Mingyue said with a smile, "I'll send a can to Brother Hong tomorrow morning. Put some crushed peanuts in it to make it taste better."
"Thank you so much, Mrs. Xia." Butcher Hong was extremely happy and wiped his hands again and again with the rag on his shoulder. Go get the money box, "How much does this can of chili oil cost?"
"Sister-in-law, just take it and don't talk about money." Xia Mingyue was quite generous.
The butcher Caihong added quite a bit of meat just now.
"That's okay!" Butcher Hong grabbed a lot of money and stuffed it into Xia Mingyue's hand without any explanation. Seeing that Xia Mingyue refused to accept it, he had to say, "Okay then, I'll give it to Xia Mingyue later. Madam, the meat here costs two cents per catty.”
As long as that person can eat chili oil, eat well to maintain her health, reduce prices and make less money, that's no big deal!
“Thank you, Brother Hong.” Xia Mingyue didn’t expect that Butcher Hong would make such a concession, so she agreed with a smile.
After leaving the butcher shop, Xia Mingyue bought some red peppers on the street and some oil.
It is best to use rapeseed oil for chili oil, but Jinqiu County is located in the north, and there are not many kinds of rapeseed. The oil here is squeezed from peanuts.
Peanut oil is a little less interesting when used as chili oil, but it has a rich and mellow flavor, which is just fine.
After arriving home, Xia Mingyue first worked on the chili oil.
Whole dried small red peppers, along with bay leaves, Sichuan peppercorns, etc., are slowly fried over low heat without oil. All the ingredients become dry and crispy, plus fried peanuts and white sugar. , salt, etc. are poured into the stone mortar together, and pounded little by little into powder.
Slowly simmer peanut oil with bay leaves, scallions, coriander, star anise, etc. to make a fragrant cooking oil. After it is warmed, scoop a large iron spoon of oil and pour in the mashed chili peppers. On the surface.
Stir the chili noodles thoroughly to ensure that all the chili noodles are coated with oil, then pour the oil for the second time, stir evenly, and then pour the oil for the third time...
After three splashes of oil, the aroma of the chili oil in the porcelain basin was completely stimulated, and the fragrant and spicy smell filled the entire yard.
Wu Jin was choked by the smell and sneezed, but he still couldn't help but poke his head in the direction of the kitchen, wanting to see what kind of delicious food Xia Mingyue was cooking.
But after sniffing again and again, Wu Jin lay back down beside the nest with some dejection.
There are some things that dogs cannot eat because they will feel uncomfortable if they eat them.
What an angry dog!
Lu Shi and Jiang Zhuguo were attracted by the fragrance and sniffled. After tasting the chili oil, they gave Xia Mingyue a thumbs up.
“This freshly poured chili oil is delicious. The chili oil made by my brothers and sisters this time is more delicious than the previous ones.” Lu said, “I don’t think you need to cook it at night, just heat it up. Just two steamed buns.”
But based on the amount of food for his family of three, two steamed buns may not be enough, and a pot of steamed buns may be needed.
“When I made chili oil before, I only put spices in the chili noodles but not in this oil. I tried adding some this time and it was indeed more fragrant.”
Xia Mingyue Said, "When the remaining chili oil is used up, make it into chili oil like this, and the cold skin will taste more delicious."
And she specially added some sugar to the chili oil, which not only enhances the freshness, but also neutralizes part of the spiciness, making the chili oil less spicy.
With this spicy and delicious chili oil, you will definitely be able to eat Liangpi every day during the summer!
Xia Mingyue became more and more confident.
After dinner, Xia Mingyue began to wash the glutinous rice, process the meat pieces, and try to make meat dumplings.
This time to make meat rice dumplings, Xia Mingyue plans to use the Wufangzhai meat rice dumplings recipe.
Jiangnan is rich in rice dumplings. Wufangzhai is known as the king of rice dumplings in Jiangnan. It is quite skilled in making rice dumplings. Its meat rice dumplings are famous for their glutinous but not rotten, fat but not greasy, tender and fragrant meat.
(End of this chapter)