Chapter 106 Handmade Fish Balls
So, on the evening of the second day, everyone ate the delicious salted duck again.
And this time, the taste of the salted duck was better than the previous day because Xia Mingyue’s cooking techniques were more skillful.
Now, it's Jiang Zhuguo's turn to think about whether to buy a duck...
In her opinion, everything she eats and drinks here is influenced by Xia Mingyue and Lu There was no reason for the Guang family to only let them buy meat. She had to treat everyone to eat.
Moreover, she doesn't plan to take any more of the five hundred yuan a month from her home. She doesn't have any other expenses here, so keeping it doesn't seem to be of much use.
But just when Jiang Zhuguo was about to go to the street to buy ducks, the shopkeeper of the grocery store came to his door.
As soon as he entered the courtyard gate, his face was full of smiles, "Ms. Xia, I really made the oil paper cup you asked for. Take a look, does it look like this?"
Xia Mingyue took what he handed over and looked at it carefully.
It is six inches tall, about half the size of a palm at the bottom, and becomes wider toward the top. Its general appearance is about eighty-nine percent similar to the popcorn bucket in modern society.
It's just that not all of this oiled paper cup is made of oiled paper. The inside is made of oiled paper, and the outside is made of ordinary paper that feels very rough. In this way, it has the function of not leaking, but also has a certain degree of sturdiness.
“This oil paper cup is exactly what I want.” Xia Mingyue was very surprised, but a little worried, “I just don’t know how much one of these oil paper cups costs?”
"The price is really not that cheap." Grocery store manager He sighed, "One costs three cents."
In fact, you don't need much oil paper, and you can just use thinner paper, and the paper outside is also the worst and roughest. You can even see the textures of various straw and bamboo fragments on the paper.
But it takes a lot of glue to stick the two layers together, and there will be some paper loss. Coupled with manpower, the price will naturally go up.
When Xia Mingyue heard this, she let out a sigh of relief.
Three pennies, fortunately, it was within her affordability.
But he couldn't show too much on his face, he just said, "It's not cheap. I'll probably pay a lot more in the future. Can the shopkeeper make it cheaper then?"
"That's natural. "The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly, "If Madam Xia wants more, it will be cheaper, or at the worst, we can give you some extra."
As the quantity of all things increases, the price will naturally increase. Easy to say.
"Do you want Miss Xia now? How many of these oily paper cups do you need? Do I have to prepare them in advance?"
Both the oily paper and the employees need to be prepared in advance. Absolutely impossible.
"The shopkeeper will help me make a hundred of them first. I'll see how they work and then place an order for another batch." Xia Mingyue replied.
"Sure, I'll go prepare it right now." The shopkeeper of the grocery store responded repeatedly, "I'll just wait for the money to be given by Madam Xia during delivery."
"Thank you, shopkeeper. ”
"Ms. Xia, you're welcome..."
After sending the shopkeeper away, Xia Mingyue felt relaxed all over.
The bamboo skewers are in place, the oil paper cups are in place, and the seasonings are ready. What needs to be done next is to enrich the product types of cold pot skewers.
Needless to say vegetarian dishes, just use the current seasonal vegetables.
For tofu, you can use tofu skin, yuba segments, and vegetarian chicken slices.
For fungi, you can use soaked dried fungus and fresh mushroom pieces. You can also serve some gluten cubes that are washed and steamed on weekdays.
Meat dishes are relatively scarce. There are only tenderloin slices and pork belly slices. The types are relatively simple.
If you want to get the cold pot strings brand out, the novelty is one of the reasons. You need to have a brand name and excellent food...
Xia Mingyue thought about it and finally told Jiang Zhuguo went to buy two grass carp and came back.
Grass carp eats aquatic plants as its main food. Its meat is tender and tender, and it is very popular. Whether it is stewed or cooked in soup, it tastes good.
After receiving the order, Jiang Zhuguo did not hesitate at all and hurriedly went to the street to look for the grass carp seller.
There is a river to the south of Jinqiu County. There are many fishermen and there are also people who open ponds for breeding. There are many kinds of fish and shrimps, including carp, crucian carp, grass carp, etc.
Jiang Zhuguo made a selection and chose two large grass carp that looked very fresh and bought them to take home.
Scraping the scales, removing the gills, removing the internal organs...
After cleaning all the two grass carps, Xia Mingyue held a kitchen knife in her hand and sliced off the entire flesh of the grass carp close to the fish bones starting from the tail.
Put the fish fillets on the chopping board, gently chop the fish meat with the back of a knife, and then slowly scrape off the fish paste. Mix the scraped fish paste and egg white evenly, then filter it with gauze. Fully filter out the small fish bones.
After all the fish paste has been processed, season it with salt, pepper, and water soaked with green onions and ginger, then add some sweet potato gravy powder, and stir continuously in one direction until the fish paste is completely thickened. Until it becomes sticky and chewy.
Squeeze the meatballs out of the tiger's mouth and put them into the pot with cold water. After all the meatballs in the pot are put into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat and cook until they are cooked. Take them out and soak them in cold water. The white and tender fish balls are now ready.
Xia Mingyue used two different ways to eat the prepared fish balls.
One is to skewer them into skewers and soak them in the sauce used to make the skewers to make fish ball skewers.
The second method is to boil fish heads, fish tails and fish bones that are not used in making fish balls into fresh soup, and then re-cook the fish balls in the soup to make fish ball soup.
Both kinds of food were put on the table. Xia Mingyue asked Jiang Zhuguo, the Lu family of three, and the Zhou family and Song family who worked here to taste them.
The fish balls are chewy and smooth, and the fish meat is even more fragrant and delicious.
Due to the spicy and fragrant sauce, the fish ball skewers have a spicy and hearty taste. You will want to grab the second skewer immediately after eating one skewer.
The fish ball soup tastes light and comfortable in the mouth. It has a gentle breeze and is unhurried, but I have the urge to put all the fish balls, balls and soup into my stomach before I give up.
In short, the fish balls are delicious, and both the fish ball skewers and fish ball soup are very delicious.
They are so equally divided, it’s hard to tell the difference!
But after several people praised the fish ball skewers and fish ball soup, they felt something was wrong.
Since Xia Mingyue asked a few of them to taste it, she probably wanted to choose one to sell, but now they think both are delicious, doesn't it make Xia Mingyue more and more embarrassed?
"Brothers and sisters, it's not that we don't want to choose one, but these two things are really delicious, we really can't choose..."
As soon as Lu's words came out, she immediately received crazy nods from others. Agree.
But he looked at Xia Mingyue with even more embarrassment.
"It would be good if both are delicious." Xia Mingyue got the answer she wanted, smiling with crooked eyebrows, "In this case, you can sell both!"
(End of chapter)