Food: How come this boss knows everything?

Chapter 199: Boil sugar, dip in sugar, and throw sugar wind!
Eat a good breakfast and you will have a worry-free day.

The customer who had eaten mixed braised food last night came to the shop again after a nap, just to pursue the taste of his dream.

"Boss, I just ordered a meat pancake with a cup of soy milk, can I take it away?"

"Sure, just scan the code to pay. Xiao Han, pour a cup of soy milk."

"okay."

A ramen chef who doesn’t know how to make the noodle roll is not a qualified braised food chef.

Li Rui took out the prepared pancake batter, brushed it with oil, scooped out a spoonful and spread it on the pancake griddle.

Wheat flour has extremely strong plasticity.

The batter made by adding water and eggs is spread into a circle slightly smaller than the pan with neat edges as the bamboo dragonfly moves regularly.

Waiting for the mixed aroma of oil and wheat to slowly dissipate and small bubbles to appear on the dough.

Turn over and brush with sauce.

Continue the same operation.

The pie crust made in this way does not have the thickness of a thousand layers.

But it is softer and thinner, suitable for sandwiching meat and vegetables.

"Look at the side dishes. Do you want any? Lettuce, shredded potatoes, shredded kelp, and spicy noodles."

“Put a little of both.” They accepted all the customers.

Li Rui used tongs to take out the shredded potatoes and kelp and stuffed them under the pancake skin to heat them.

Lettuce is placed at the bottom and spicy strips are sprinkled directly on top.

Next came a few pieces of braised meat that had been soaked overnight. They were reheated in a small pot, sliced, and neatly placed on the vegetable leaves.

When the other side of the crust is almost cooked, add the shredded potatoes and kelp back on top of the braised meat.

The high temperature of the griddle, even for a brief contact, gives the two side dishes a burnt and fragrant taste.

And due to the addition of a small spoonful of braised pork soup,
The pancakes must also be stacked tightly.

Boss Li’s basic requirement is that the soup can soak the ingredients and the crust, but it cannot flow out of the pancake.

"The meat pancake is ready. Be careful, it's hot. The soy milk is over there."

"thank you boss."

The customer left the shop satisfied, holding soy milk in one hand and a pancake in the other.

The warm touch in my hand kept urging me.

The customers started eating as they walked.

The pancake has a perfect balance between softness and toughness. The texture is just right when you put it in your mouth, but you still need to put a little force when biting it.

The flavor of the noodle sauce and fermented bean curd sauce is the richest, and it is the salty and fresh base flavor of the meat in the pancake.

The small pieces of pork belly are fat and lean, soft and tasty, and taste very fragrant.

For a middle-aged man with thinning hair, this breakfast is not too greasy.

Some small side dishes add rich texture and flavor to the meat in the pancake.

To make the meal more complete,

Just take one big sip, then another big sip.

Just when the middle-aged man wanted to open the bottle of soy milk to moisten his mouth.

The phone rang.

It was his colleague: "Master Zhou, are you at work? You have to come in at 7:50 to change shifts."

Master Zhou replied: "I'll be there soon. I'll be at the entrance of the subway station."

In the afternoon, Li Rui and two shop assistants bought hawthorns (red fruits), strawberries, oranges, and glass cabinets from the market and started making candied haws.

"Xiao Han, the hawthorns you picked are very good."

After Li Rui tasted one, he found that the hawthorn was very juicy, sour and sweet, and very fresh.

"The local hawthorn, mountain red, is what our family used to grow." Xiao Han replied.

"Xiao Qingshan?"

Xiao Han nodded.

"That's great. Next time I go back to pickle some sauerkraut, I'll bring you some."

At this time, Xiao Ma came over after washing the strawberries and said, "Boss, can you make candied haws?"

Li Rui: "To be honest, before I opened my shop, I was selling candied haws at a stall."

The two employees looked at each other.

The boss has a lot of experience in setting up stalls, and this explanation is very convincing. Wash the oranges, strawberries, and hawthorns and string them into strings.

Strawberries and oranges are easy, just be careful not to rip them.

Hawthorn requires a little effort, but for a pony, it doesn't seem to be necessary.

Watching the two employees threading the skewers, Li Rui suddenly remembered that when he was doing barbecue, he also had to thread the skewers every day.

Physical work can be handed over to employees, which is very suitable.

Candied haws are a typical northern snack, as the weather is colder in winter and the sugar coating is easier to set.

Now it has become a snack that can be found everywhere in the country.

However, making good candied haws is not an easy task.

Boiling sugar, dipping sugar, and shaking sugar are all technical jobs.

Pour sugar into the pot.

Although it is called candied haws, it does not necessarily require rock sugar.

In fact, rock sugar and white sugar are the same thing. They are both purified products of sucrose.

In the past, the process of producing white sugar was cruder.

Rock sugar is made by melting and recrystallizing white sugar syrup, so the purity of rock sugar is higher than that of white sugar.

White sugar also has more impurities.

Therefore, it is said that white sugar causes heaty stomach, but rock sugar does not.

In terms of sweetness, people often think that rock sugar can be eaten with the mouth, while white sugar is too choking.

This is because the two dissolve at different rates in the mouth.

If the same mass is dissolved in water and both are made with sucrose, it would be difficult to even taste the difference.

Today's food technology is very advanced.

The difference between white sugar and rock sugar can be seen from the ingredient list on the back of the product packaging.

Refined white sugar that meets the standards is no less pure than rock sugar.

Therefore, whether to use rock sugar or white sugar should be considered more as a matter of daily usage habits.

Return to the pot.

After adding the sugar, add water until it covers the sugar.

Turn on low heat and do not stir. The sugar will slowly melt in the pot and become more and more viscous.

At first, the bubbles in the pot will be relatively large, but as the sugar boiling process continues, the bubbles will become smaller and denser.

As the color deepens, the aroma of sugar will also waft out.

Xiao Ma and Xiao Han stood behind Li Rui, one on the left and one on the right, watching Li Rui's operation intently.

"Boss, that's enough. I see the color has become darker."

Li Rui dipped a little syrup from the pot with chopsticks, and then inserted it into the cold water next to it.

"Give you a taste?"

Xiao Ma took the chopsticks, sucked the ends of the chopsticks, and then said, "It's sticky. It's not good enough."

"Then just wait a little longer."

The aroma of sugar gradually becomes stronger and the bubbles become more and more dense.

Li Rui took out another chopstick and repeated the previous operation.

But this time he handed it to Xiao Han:
"Come, Xiao Han, try it."

In fact, the sugar had already been cooked by this time. When Li Rui put the chopsticks into the cold water, he could clearly feel the syrup becoming hard and brittle after being cooled.

But now there are two employees in the store and we have to take care of both.

Just like coaxing a child.

After tasting it, Xiao Han nodded and said, "It's ok now, boss."

Li Rui turned off the fire and shook the bubbles in the pot slightly.

"Come on, let's start dipping in sugar. Who goes first?"

"Me!" Pony brought over the scalloped strawberries.

"Just dip the surface, a thin layer, and then throw it on the oil paper like I did." Li Rui took a bunch of hawthorns and showed them.

Use your arm to exert force diagonally downward to throw the excess sugar from the surface of the hawthorn onto the paper, forming a small sugar piece.

"The candied haws thrown in this way will have a hard and crisp surface."

(End of this chapter)