Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 360 This Man Is Shining

Salt can enhance the sweetness of sugar and make the taste richer. This is clear with aging.

These two seasonings are like a pair of enemies, anyone can serve the other, and in the cooking of many ingredients, these two basically have to be put together with each other.

In this second experiment, Chen Nian removed the roselle flower, and then slightly adjusted the ratio of tangerine peel, and now Chen Nian plans to add some salt to it.

Then it was boiled strictly according to the steps just now. Although there was no watch in this period, the aging who had already been accustomed to ancient life also developed a unique skill of estimating time.

This is not the kind of novel where the brain can’t help counting forward according to a certain rule, but mainly based on certain experience to see the degree of burning of firewood, the degree of change of ingredients, and the angle of inclination of the shade in the yard.

Combining all these, even if you can't know the details, you can still get a general idea.

As for lighting, it is impossible to light lamps. Although it may be a bit extravagant to light candles every day with their current financial resources, they can still afford to light kerosene lamps, but those things are basically not very useful for aging.

Lighting a kerosene lamp is not as powerful as it is shown in TV dramas. For old people who are used to modern lamps, it is better not to light that thing.

Anyway, there is a firelight under the stove, so you can see things.

After another hour or so, Chen Nian made a pot again, uncovered the pot lid, took out the sour plum soup inside and filtered out all the seasoning ingredients with gauze to filter out the pure soup.

Although the light is very dim now, Chen Nian can still notice that the sour plum soup made this time is darker than the last time, mainly because the red color from the roselle flower is missing.

But even so, Chen Nian brought the filtered soup to the moonlight outside the courtyard, and the color looked pretty good. At first glance, the overall color was reddish brown. Although it wasn't that bright, it still looked appetizing overall.

Chen Nian poured part of it into a bowl to drink while it was hot, and poured the rest into another bowl. Then he went to the well in the yard to fetch a bucket of cold well water, and finally poured the cold well water that had just been dug up. Pour water into the basin so that it does not exceed the waistline of the bowl.

Finally found a cover to cover.

Just like this, Chen Nian sat on the steps in the yard, holding a white porcelain bowl, while sipping the hot sour plum soup, while being bitten by the sour teeth, while admiring the moon.

The ancients do not deceive me. At this moment, the old age seems to be able to understand the mood of the ancients admiring the moon alone.

If you can really calm down, this moon seems to be quite attractive, but the mood suddenly becomes full and delicate when you look at it.

And the more he looked, the more Chen Nian felt as if he could see a figure from above.

Red beans grow in the southern country, and a few branches grow in spring. I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong.

The old man was reciting poems alone in the yard, but just after he finished speaking, he found that something was wrong.

But sometimes people can't figure out what the correct answer is after falling into a misunderstanding of thinking.

After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't figure it out, so I simply didn't want to.

After finishing the big bowl of hot sour plum soup, Chen Nian finally sighed. Sure enough, it would be more enjoyable to drink it iced.

Then I went back to the house, and wrote the second experiment report on it with the fire under the stove still extinguished.

material y group

Variation: Dark plums are steamed, the roselle is removed, and the tangerine peel is reduced to five grams
Color: reddish brown, still transparent
Smell: The smell of plum is obvious, the smell of tangerine peel is reduced, and it can hardly be smelled
Hot drink: the plum flavor is obvious, the smoky taste is basically the same as that of group X, the sour taste is obvious, and the smell of tangerine peel is slightly lighter than that of group X (I think it is suitable)

After writing, due to the secretion of saliva, the taste in his mouth became a little weaker, Chen Nian went to rinse his mouth with water, and then brought out the iced sour plum soup that had been cooled in the well water.

Just holding this cool bowl in your hand feels much better than the previous bowl, so Chen Nian thought about removing the hot sour plum soup, anyway, I did it twice. It doesn't taste good when it's hot.

That is to say, there is no ice now, so I can only make do with it.

When it was out of the pot just now, Chen Nian sprinkled some sweet-scented osmanthus into it. Now that it has cooled down, the taste of sweet-scented osmanthus can fully enter this bowl of sour plum soup.

However, the sweet-scented osmanthus can only be put in at the end. If it is put in during boiling, the taste of sweet-scented osmanthus will not be stronger than it is now, but the taste of sweet-scented osmanthus will gradually evaporate after a long time of cooking.

That's a waste of food.

I leaned closer to smell it, and a faint smell of sour plum came straight to my nose. I took a sip and swirled it around in my mouth before swallowing it.

With a slightly smoky taste, the aging can also feel its mellow texture, the sourness of black plum, the sweetness of rock sugar, the faint medicinal taste of licorice and the fresh fragrance of osmanthus.

In addition, a pinch of salt was added in the previous aging, but the taste of salt was not reflected at all when tasting, but it made the sweet and sour taste more gentle.

But this is just the flatter feeling of Chen Nian now. After all, he has already eaten tonight, and he has already filled a lot of sour plum soup in his stomach. It is not easy for him to taste these now.

However, he didn't drink all of the sour plum soup in the evening, he put some left over for the old man and put it back, planning to try it tomorrow.

Then he also recorded the taste of the cold drink in the booklet.

Cold drink: obvious plum flavor, a little smoky flavor, slightly sour, astringent in sweetness, light tangerine peel flavor (personal feeling is suitable)

I went back to the house and went to sleep after writing the old year.

Although the recipe will give some benefits to the old man so that even if he eats too much of the same food, it will not cause excessive accumulation of sugar and protein in those foods, but if he drinks too much water, he can still wake up in the middle of the night.

This night, Chen Nian felt that he was like that middle-aged man, getting up from time to time to take a dip.

So much so that in the morning he still had very obvious dark circles under his eyes.

However, Chen Nian, who is used to this kind of life of cultivating immortals, can survive it. After Chen Nian wakes up in the morning, he has breakfast and then goes to drink that bowl of sour plum soup!

Sure enough, drinking it again at this time, the feeling in my heart is already different!

After a night of watering, Chen Nian lost a lot of water in the morning. When he started to pick it up, Chen Nian took a big sip, but due to the coldness, Chen Nian couldn't help feeling a headache.

With a painful expression on his face, he held his head for a while before recovering.

Afterwards, he only dared to sip it in small sips, but he finished more than half of his work in a short time. At this moment, Chen Nian suddenly felt unsatisfied.

"This is what I want!" Chen Nian couldn't help but feel secretly happy. For a kind of food, if you can feel dissatisfaction, it means that the food is made successfully.

But Chen Nian always feels that this means that he still has some room for growth.

But now I don't care about the research, and quickly changed the description in the column of cold sour plum soup to make it more delicious, and then went to help make dim sum after Chen Nian.

As a result, in the morning, the few stores that Chen Nian had visited before did not agree to help with advertising, they also took the initiative to come to the door and said that they could help with advertising.

"Okay, okay, then trouble the shopkeepers." Chen Nian looked at them and said with a smile.

Although they didn't agree before, they were not too tough when they refused, but they were more tactful. Although it is the credit of this plaque that they came to the door today, they did not reach out to hit the smiling face after all.

Besides, the other party is willing to post their own advertisement, which is also a good thing for Lu Wanxing Dim Sum Shop.

After sending these shopkeepers away, it didn't take long for several shops to come to their door and offer to help with free publicity.

After inquiring, Chen Nian found that they were not even from this street, that is to say, no matter how much business his store brought to this street, it had nothing to do with them.

But since these people are willing to help with advertising, there is nothing wrong with old age.

After finishing the dim sum in the morning, Chen Nian went to the side to make posters. Due to his limited drawing skills, Chen Nian just wrote some words.

"Lu Wanxing dim sum shop, delicious and fresh, not overnight." This is the main title.

Then Chen Nian wrote in a line of small characters below: "Every day after You hour, the price will drop by [-]% every two quarters."

Just a few words.

Chen Nian didn't want to make it too complicated, after all, the main purpose of an advertisement is to penetrate the hearts of the people. In this era where publicity depends on the spontaneity of customers, Chen Nian intends to use this advertisement to win by surprise.

More than 20 of them were posted in those cooperative stores, and the remaining dozen were posted on the walls of the stores, so that customers can see them when they look up.

Finally, there are still a few old copies that I plan to go out to see where I can post them.

At that time, it will be posted outside so that passers-by can see it.

It's just that I don't dare to make random posts about this thing. If someone breaks a certain law and comes to the door, that would be bad.

God knows if the plaque outside can be used as a gold medal of exoneration.

If not, wouldn't it be necessary to sit in a house?
Although now Chen Nian feels that the sour plum soup he researched tastes much better than his cousin's, but he still doesn't rush to replace it, after all, it takes a process for customers to accept it.

Even if the taste has become better in my opinion, some customers are already used to the original taste, and the taste has changed, and the other party cannot accept it immediately, let alone I still feel that the sour plum soup is still delicious. There is room for improvement.

The continuous change of taste will only make it more and more difficult for customers to accept, so that they will go to other stores to buy.

After eating at noon, Chen Nian continued to try to make sour plum soup.

He went to the pharmacy again, but he didn't buy roselle this time, because he thought it didn't matter if it was available or not. A little reddish might look better, but the current reddish brown is also good, and it's closer to The true color of sour plum soup.

But after buying ebony, black dates, tangerine peel, licorice and other medicinal materials, Chen Nian suddenly saw a small drawer with red cardamom behind the shopkeeper of the medicine shop.

Red cardamom is a well-known medicinal material that has been used for a long time. Generally, it is called galangal, and it is also used in many hot pot bases.

About the taste of red cardamom, aging also understands.

He suddenly wondered if this medicinal material could also be put in it?

Thinking about aging in this way, I bought some more red cardamom.

Of course it's just an experiment.

After going back, Aged Nian continued to make according to the previous steps, and this time Aged Nian added a piece of red cardamom, and then added a small piece of licorice, and at the same time slightly increased the proportion of salt.

Basically tweaks.

After the fire was boiled, Chen Nian turned it to a low fire and went to take a nap. After sleeping for about half an hour, Chen Nian got up and went to the stove to watch for a while.

After some operations, and after a while, the third sour plum soup is ready.

Although Chen Nian is making sour plum soup here and Lu Ke is also making sour plum soup, the two of them do not cook in the same pot. What Chen Nian made is now an internal experiment.

After a while, the two of them made it at the same time. Lu Ke turned his head and found that the sour plum soup that Chen Nian made at noon today seemed to be different from the one he made last night, and it seemed to be better than his own.

She didn't drink what Chen Nian made yesterday for the second time, so at first she thought that what Chen Nian made was the same as the first time yesterday.

If it was that kind, although Lu Ke said it was good, he would not feel that the version made by Chen Nian was better than his own.

But this time it seems to be a little different.

And after she finished, she put it in the bucket of sour plum soup, and put it in a bucket for old age, went to the backyard well mouth and hung it down, and soaked it in the well water like this.

"Your method is novel, but if you can drink such a bowl of cold sour plum soup in summer, it will be more refreshing. After you finish it in a while, remember to bring me a bowl too."

"No problem." Chen Nian said.

……

Days passed like this, and because of that plaque and many shops on this street that posted advertisements for Lu Wanxing Dim Sum Shop, the business in the shop was very good every day.

However, it gradually stabilized later on, and the customers who came every day basically came from the same range, but every time they were making snacks in the afternoon, they would still make more.

Because there are also a group of fixed consumers for the discounted dim sum after You hour every day, and they basically come to buy it at this time every day because it is cheaper.

And those who do more are basically done for them.

The aged sour plum soup has made progress in stages. Regarding the ingredients, he has completely determined the ingredients and quantities that need to be used.

But at this time, he felt that he should be able to continue to improve the overall time and steps.

But Chen Nian thought about it carefully. If you want to work hard on time and steps, you must first determine the steps, and then reduce or increase the time of each step as appropriate, and try slowly.

This is a delicate job that requires many experiments, so aging is not too urgent.

It's better to understand the life here first. After all, when I was in Yangzhou, most of the people I met were ordinary people in the city, but now it's different. Many people I met were high-ranking officials and dignitaries.

Therefore, it is necessary to observe carefully in terms of etiquette, speaking skills and communication methods, so as to avoid making mistakes and inadvertently offending others.

Most of the people I meet now are talkative people, and it is inevitable that I will encounter those who are not talkative or deliberately difficult in the future.

Even if there is a plaque bestowed by the emperor on his head, but his identity is still a commoner, so those who are officials will not be scruples at all.

After all, speaking of it, their officials were also promoted by the emperor himself, so as long as they think about it, there are plenty of ways to punish themselves and their cousin.

What's more, Chen Nian suddenly thought that he was still in Chang'an City now, if he went outside, if the recipe continued to be upgraded in the future, and he made some palace dishes, wouldn't he have to enter the palace?
So it is necessary to familiarize yourself with these in advance.

But this kind of thing can't be done overnight, so Chen Nian is not in a hurry, some can just ask his cousin at home, and some Chen Nian thinks that Fu Xin should understand better.

What's more, I have been in Chang'an for a while, and now the weather is getting warmer. Chang'an City sometimes needs to wear more clothes, but sometimes only single clothes are enough.

It was a sunny day, sunny and sunny.

The servants of Fu's mansion came to buy dim sum again, the other party wanted to buy some dim sum and take it back directly, but after Chen Nian learned that Fu Xin could only come back at night, he said that he would come to the door with the dim sum himself later.

The servant suddenly thought that he seemed to have indeed heard the master and wife say that they plan to invite Chen Nian to the mansion in a few days to have a good reunion these days, to do the best of the landowner's advantage.

And when I came out today, I seem to have heard from my wife that the master has no important business these days. Although there are some things that are more worrying, they can't be figured out overnight.

So he nodded: "Master Lao Chen is there, why don't I go back and talk to the steward, and I will send a carriage to pick you up then."

When Chen Nian heard this, he quickly waved his hands: "Don't, don't, I won't, I'm just a commoner, how can I bother your master's carriage to come over to greet me? Besides, the distance between us is not too far, I will walk there by myself .”

Unexpectedly, the servant smiled and said: "Young Master Chen, don't be modest. Our master always said that you and him are like brothers, and you have a good relationship as if you were one person. Besides, when the master was still studying, didn't you I live with you, and I often make some jokes like "seeing it as my own". Let His Majesty personally bestow the word?

And it seems that Prince Jing often comes to your side, and now there are rumors that Prince Jing and you are friends, so although we have not met you, we all respect you. . "

The other party's attitude made Chen Nian very useful, after all, who doesn't like to be praised?

But even if it is so old, it still can't say at least not let Fu Xin leave any handles outside.

In the end, he still rejected the other party's proposal, but before the other party left, Chen Nian still brought the other party a cup of the cold sour plum soup he had just picked up from the well, then packed some snacks and stuffed them into the other party's arms, and watched him go.

In the evening, the number of people on the street gradually increased. Some of them finished work and were going home, some had an early dinner and went shopping, and some were busy during the day and planned to go out for a walk at night. , There are also some sons and buddies who come out purely to find flowers and ask willows.

There was nothing else going on in the store today, although after talking to Lu Ke, he packed some snacks and brought a big pot of sour plum soup and headed towards Fu Xin's house.

This time he went directly to the side door.

He knocked on the door, and soon the servant ran over to open the door, obviously waiting here.

But after opening the door this time, what he said was still the same as before, but his tone changed a lot: "Mr. Chen, please excuse me to walk through the main entrance. Last time I was a little ignorant. If you go through the side door again this time The master is going to scold me when he comes in."

These words also cut off Chen Nian's insistence on entering through this door.

Just happened to come to the main entrance again, and at this time the other party also ran over, opened the door, and invited Chen Nian in.

Then Chen Nian was brought into the main hall, and he saw Xiao Mudan and Fu Xin at a glance, and the table was already full of wine and food.

"Brother Fu, why are you so aggressive?" Chen Nian couldn't help but sigh, this Fu Xin's battle is too big, at least seven dishes can't be eaten at all.

As for wine...

From the perspective of aging, these wines are Tu Yile.

"What do you mean by going to war? It's just that I haven't been in Beijing for a long time. My previous salary has set up a shop on the street, and I have to pay the servants monthly money. Otherwise, I have to make a big deal for Brother Chen." Reception banquet." Fu Xin said with some shame.

Chen Nian saw that the other party was telling the truth.

Then he went straight up and sat down, and as soon as Chen Nian sat down, Little Mudan was about to get up and leave.

"Where are you going?" Chen Nian asked curiously, "Is there any food?"

"I'm going to eat inside."

As a result, when Chen Nian heard these words, his face immediately turned serious, and he looked at Fu Xin: "Well, you Fu Zhuangyuan, where did you learn this from?"

But Xiao Mudan quickly explained: "Mr. Chen, don't blame the master. It's just that you two haven't seen each other for a long time. As a woman, I should avoid you two talking about the old days. Our master also told me not to mind these things, but this It’s in the capital, so there are some things to be wary of.”

But Chen Nian disagreed with this statement very much: "Isn't this saying outrageous? Which of the three of us doesn't understand who? When we were poor, we used to climb trees to watch theaters every day. I take Brother Fu If you are a brother, then you are a sister-in-law, everyone is a family, why not sit at the same table and eat, don’t say that men are superior to women, this world can’t live without men, and it can’t live without women.”

Fu Xin was greatly touched when he heard these words, and this is what he admired most about Chen Nian. Whenever, regardless of Chen Nian's status, no matter where he is, listening to Chen Nian speak, he can always feel that this man seems to be shining .

"Yes, madam, you can sit down and eat together. Brother Chen and you had a kind relationship before, so if you leave like this, wouldn't you let your benefactor down?"

In the end, Little Peony had no choice but to sit down again, but she looked at Chen Nian with more respect.

She had only heard such words from Chen Nian.

From the very beginning, she felt that Chen Nian was different from other people, as if he was aloof from everyone else, with a clear identity, but everyone seemed to be equal, and at this moment, she was very grateful that her husband had made such a good friend. friend.

　It was recommended on the Internet today, thank you sister Huya!Thank you, readers, for your support!

　　I added an update today, and put all [-] words together. I originally wanted to write [-] words, but now I’m talking with the insurance company about the mother-in-law. I plan to sue directly later. I don’t plan to find a lawyer, so it’s more troublesome. a little.

　　But tomorrow is still [-] words. Those who have tipped in the past few days will thank you in the past few days. Good night everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)