Chapter 51 Apprentice
The method of making Wufangzhai meat rice dumplings is also different from most meat rice dumplings.
The meat is cut into small rectangular pieces according to the horizontal stripes. Instead of soaking and mixing with soy sauce, salt, white wine, sugar and other seasonings are added, and the meat is kneaded with hands until small white bubbles form.
When soaking glutinous rice, the water should be reduced to prevent the glutinous rice from absorbing too much water and making it difficult to absorb the flavor of soy sauce and other sauces, and to ensure that the glutinous rice has enough flavor.
When cooking rice dumplings, hot water is needed to prevent the flavor of the rice dumplings from being lost.
Only when the meat rice dumplings are made in this way can the meat be truly fragrant and tender, the rice dumplings oily but not greasy, and you will never tire of eating them.
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The next morning, Xia Mingyue went to the butcher shop early.
I went to buy the meat I needed today and gave the chili oil over.
Butcher Hong weighed the meat for Xia Mingyue and accepted the chili oil. He was very grateful.
After Xia Mingyue left, Butcher Hong opened the stopper of the earthen pot and thought about what kind of meal he should cook for his wife Fang in the morning.
But before he could think about it, Fang rushed over from the backyard, sniffing the smell and asking urgently, "What smells so good?"
Butcher Hong , "..."
He just opened it and came over so quickly. Could this nose be that of a dog?
Bah, bah, bah, why are you talking about your own wife?
Butcher Hong laughed, "Don't you want chili oil? I asked Madam Xia to make a jar of chili oil for me. As soon as I brought it over, she came over."
Chili oil?
Fang's eyes were shining, she picked up the jar and sniffed it again and again, squinting her eyes intoxicatedly, "It smells so good."
"Ms. Xia's craftsmanship is definitely not bad. "Yes." Butcher Hong asked with a smile, "What do you want to eat in the morning?"
"Heat two first..." Fang walked to the backyard holding the jar, "Heat four steamed buns!"
It doesn't matter if it's a dish or not.
For something as fragrant as chili oil, you have to eat it in the most primitive and simple way to appreciate its wonderful taste.
You must eat four big steamed buns in the morning!
I have to eat four at noon!
If you eat so much chili oil at night, you may get a little angry. If you eat too much at night, you will easily accumulate food and feel uncomfortable. Just eat three.
Mrs. Fang had arranged her meal for the day, but Butcher Hong was frowning.
This lady doesn’t eat because she is worried. Let’s start eating. She seems to be worried too?
But since you want to eat, it means that your body is lacking this thing, so you have to eat!
And maybe the little girl in the belly wants to eat it?
As for why it was said that the one in Fang's belly must be a little girl, Butcher Hong was very confident about this. The sour boy and hot girl must be accurate.
What's more, there has been no girl in the family since his father's generation. Even he now has three sons. It's his turn to have a daughter...
Xia Mingyue explained after returning. Jiang Zhuguo chopped meat fillings, while she started making meat dumplings.
The soaked glutinous rice is drained of water, stirred evenly with the marinated meat juice, and then left for a meal, and then stuffed into the bamboo tube together with the meat.
When all the rice dumplings were finished, Jiang Erniu came to the door and started the first day of study.
Instructing Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu to light the fires on two stoves respectively, Xia Mingyue and Lu Shi began to instruct Jiang Erniu to knead dough and make cakes.
Jiang Erniu had made sesame seed cakes before and was very familiar with them. His dough kneading techniques were even more professional than those of Xia Mingyue and Lu Shi. But even though they are all cakes, this cake is different from the cake, especially this cake is the best cake sold on the entire West Street.
Jiang Erniu did not dare to slack off or be sloppy at all. He just followed Xia Mingyue and Lu Shi little by little and memorized them little by little. When encountering uncertainty, The ones are confirmed repeatedly.
Xia Mingyue admired Jiang Erniu's learning attitude. After explaining it several times, he let Jiang Erniu try his hand.
With the previous foundation and Jiang Erniu’s careful study, after making two or three pancakes, he was able to make them very neatly.
When Mrs. Lu saw this, she couldn't help but praise her repeatedly, "As expected of a sesame cake maker, this cake is much better than what I make."
After receiving the compliment, Jiang Erniu was very embarrassed, "Sister-in-law Lu, please don't Compliment me.”
If the cakes he made were really good, how could the previous hanging stove pancake business be so bad?
But even though it looks good on the surface, it’s still far from it in reality.
Jiang Erniu’s modesty was recognized by Lu and Jiang Zhuguo.
After finishing making the sesame cakes and rolling out the wonton wrappers, Xia Mingyue and others began to pack up and transport things to the stalls, starting today's stall business.
Jiang Erniu followed him and started doing chores at the stall, collecting and washing dishes, while helping to sell pancakes.
Most of the people who came to eat at the wonton stall were familiar faces, and many of them had bought sesame cakes from Jiang Erniu before. Now they were very surprised to see him selling cakes here.
"This is because the Diaolu Shaobing stall is closed. Are you going to do business with Madam Xia in the future?" Someone couldn't help but inquire.
Xia Mingyue explained with a smile, "The Diaolu Shaobing stall will no longer be open in the future, but it's not that you want to do business with me. It was Brother Jiang who joined my pancake, wonton and cold skin business. I want to open a stall in the city to sell it. If my place is far away and his place is close, I can eat there and the taste will be the same.”
When the person who asked the question heard this, he immediately became interested, "Where should I drive to? Is it on North Street? I have to run here to buy food all day long. It takes more than half an hour to go back and forth. I am really tired. It would be great if it opens there."
"This has not been decided yet. I will let you know when the place is decided. I will bother you all to come and support it when the time comes." Xia Mingyue said.
"Definitely, definitely."
They are all from the same county, and Jinqiu County is not big, so we can find connections in every twist and turn. It should.
The diners at the stall were chatting and laughing about Jiang Erniu’s future stall, asking if there would be any discounts or discounts in the first few days when the new stall opened.
When Jiang Erniu saw this, his nose suddenly felt a little sore.
He has been an apprentice and has seen other people's apprenticeships.
Almost all the masters have a condescending attitude, with the idea of teaching the disciples to starve the master to death. Even if the disciples pay enough money and do enough chores, they still look at him in every possible way. He is pleasing to the eye and makes things difficult at every turn, as if he is not an apprentice who comes to learn skills, but a slave who can be disposed of at will.
The scene where Jiang Erniu's dignity was trampled on when he was learning a craft is still vivid in his mind. Those wounds were not slapped on his body, but engraved in his heart, and they still hurt until now.
But Jiang Erniu knows that this is the way of the world, and this is also the default code of conduct that everyone must abide by.
Before joining Xia Mingyue's business, Jiang Erniu was fully mentally prepared and ready to endure such hardship again.
(End of this chapter)