Chapter 52 There is no writer who does not brag?
"Cut this fat into three pounds and set aside; Then take out three catties of this lean meat; This half has fat and thin, and then take another three catties. Li Kou leaned against the kitchen door of Miss Ma's house, instructed two sturdy women with quick hands and feet, and advised, "Eldest sister, don't get confused, three catties each, take it and call me." ”
The woman smiled: "Don't you dare to be the eldest sister of the young monarch, just call us by name." ”
"Even if you eat salt for more than ten years than me, how can you not be called this title." Li Kou said, "Then take ten catties of white noodles." ”
Is ten catties of noodles too much?
There are many people in this courtyard.
Miss Ma set up a chair under the porch and sat down, she wanted to see what this person could toss.
Li Kou asked for too much white noodles, and she knew what he wanted.
That's not going to work.
"You only do three or five people, just taste it, if it's really delicious, they can learn it," she said with a funny smile, "Are you afraid that someone will learn the stunt?" ”
You won't be able to make that taste even if you learn it.
Li Kou waited for the two women to get the meat and noodles, and then drove them out of the kitchen.
If nothing else, you guys are watching here, how do I take sesame oil thirteen spice chili powder?
And the salt.
Li Kou suddenly thought that this was also a lucrative business.
When he was a child, the salt he ate at home was also coarse salt sent from Qinghai or Shanxi Yuncheng, at that time there were pure coarse salt craftsmen in the village, and when he grew up, the village used iodized salt, selenium salt, salt, sauerkraut, but there was always no taste of the year, the younger brother who learned chemical engineering according to the craftsmanship of the salt washers back then, and added some of his own steps, it was easy to wash out the dirty salt, which was many times cleaner than coarse salt, and the tools used were nothing more than things that could be seen everywhere in the village.
But in ancient times, salt and iron were official monopolies.
Another reason to climb up!
Li Kou planned in his heart that his subordinates would not stop, so he first took a bowl and poured vegetable oil - Miss Ma's family uses more oil refined from animal fat, although there is vegetable oil, but there is little pitiful, Li Kou has dozens of barrels of sesame oil for fear of a thousand catties, that is the people in the village are used to eating local sesame oil, and some people want to get married to buy so much.
took another bag of salt and a bottle of vinegar, and simply changed the soy sauce, Li Kou held two kitchen knives and chopped them randomly, chopped three portions of meat into diced meat, and then blanched them in water.
It's just that the pot is difficult to change, Li Kou looked at the cauldron, and wanted to take out the pig iron pot in the village, thinking that this thing was too big to hide, so he had to give up.
When the meat is nine ripe, a large handful of chili noodles are thrown down, fried a few times and then spun a ticket of cold water, the pot is grunting tea, Li Kou changed the pot to boil water, looked at the gradually condensed cheeks, and finally felt a lot more at ease.
"The foodie nation, when you see the food, you can be quiet in your heart." Li Kou sighed, added three or five catties of flour to some alkaline noodles brought by himself, and grabbed a little corn flour and sprinkled it on the board, which is called flour meal, which prevents the noodles from sticking together.
The noodles didn't have to wait for a while, the water was boiling, Li Kou had the intention to find some green vegetables, and only found a Chinese cabbage and a few dry radishes, and when he looked for it again, he only found a little egg.
No leeks, no coriander.
How do you eat a bowl of hot noodle soup?
Even a little more fungus would be fine.
Li Kou flipped through again and found two pieces of tofu.
This meal really made Miss Ma anxious.
She only smelled the sour smell of vinegar, and then the suffocating smell came out of the kitchen, choking the two curious women to run to the corner, and when the smell dissipated, it was a very tempting smell.
"Can he really cook?" Miss Ma didn't believe it, and slowly stepped into the kitchen, where she saw Li Kou holding a bamboo stove filter, and was scooping a pot of white noodles into a basin of cold water.
It's just a pot on the floor, what's in it?
"Zangzi, this is the real Zangzi." Li Kou said to himself, "You can taste it, compared to the noodles you usually eat, what is so special about this." ”
Miss Ma endured her salivation, and went over to look at the bowl of dishes on the board with her hands behind her back, and said, "What delicious food can be so gluttonous." ”
So she ate two large bowls of oily noodles in a row.
"It's delicious, but you have eaten all my ten years of laiphane, where can I find some vegetables before spring comes?" Miss Ma was very angry, as she spoke, seeing that Li Kou was only eating with her head down, she hurriedly shrank her lower abdomen, sat down in the depths of the chair, quietly bent down, sipped her small mouth on the edge of the bowl, gently took a sip of noodle soup, and the tip of her tongue rolled into her stomach, she straightened up and sat upright, and when the comfort brought by the hot soup disappeared, she angrily crusaded, "And the high-quality white flour and refined meat, you have to compensate me." ”
Li Kou raised her eyes to look at her, Miss Ma tried her best to widen her eyes, her hands couldn't help but prop up on the edge of the table, and said in a coquettish voice: "Da Lang always has so many methods, and he doesn't lose this one left and right, you, uh, oil splash noodles, how about you spare me to open a small noodle shop?" ”
Oh, a bowl of noodles changed from Shaojun to Dalang.
This is also a loss, Mo Jiao saw that the food was dignified and elegant.
Li Kou ate the noodles and poured the noodle soup into the big bowl, stirred the chopsticks a few times, stirred the bottom of the bowl, drank it in one gulp, and then wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
Miss Ma couldn't help frowning, remembering this action that she was very unaccustomed to.
She stared at Li Kou, hoping that he would nod generously and say the word "may".
Li Kou said: "You don't want to open a store, you just want to eat by yourself." ”
"How?" The horse girl's pretty face flushed, and she couldn't help but lose three points of momentum, but she was more angry, raising her eyebrows and staring at a pair of apricot eyes, and her small lower lip was on one side and her upper lip was on the other side, which was obviously quite cute, but she wanted to be fierce and vicious, like a female king who wanted to block the road and rob her.
Li Kou said: "Let's talk about it later, I have something to ask." ”
Oh?
Miss Ma suddenly felt full of confidence, even if you have the skill of killing thieves and cooking, don't you beg me to answer your questions?
"You say." She sat reserved and nodded slightly.
It's just that there was a smug smile in those eyes that already had a sly look.
Li Kou solemnly asked: "What is Sulforaphane?" ”
Didn't this guy mean to tease people?
Miss Ma looked at him carefully, but found that it was not.
He doesn't even know about Ryphane?
"It's so big, with green leaves and white stems, it's the one you fried in the dish." Miss Ma couldn't help but be discouraged, and said casually.
Turnip?
Li Kou consciously learned another term.
I don't know how to write the fennel word for fennel bean, but I know that radish was called sulforaphane in ancient times.
Li Kou said again: "Look at this big bowl of noodles, you can splash oil, you can mix dry, you can also add soup, with this big bowl, how much does it cost?" ”
Her eyes lit up as she talked about it.
"If it's not fifty dollars, don't sell it!" Miss Ma hesitated and felt that the price was low.
Li Kou was silent for a long time before he dared to speak: "Dare to ask what the face price is?" What is the price of meat? What is the price of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar? How much does it cost? ”
Miss Ma sighed after careful calculation: "It's not high or low, nine catties of meat, and the cost is about a thousand dollars......"
Li Kouda was surprised, he knew the fate of Su Dongpo and braised pork, so he remembered that the pork in the Song Dynasty seemed to be very cheap, how could it ......
Yes, there is a big gap between the Jin of the Song Dynasty and later generations.
But that's enough, a pound of pork is enough for seventy or eighty dollars!
"It turns out that the freedom of pork is only realized among high-ranking officials and nobles." Li Kou understood a truth from this, all the so-called ancient prosperity that was mainly boasted by literati actually ignored ninety percent of the common people.
Come to think of it, if pork is so cheap, how can there be so many civilians with yellow faces and thin muscles?
Ma Niangzi said slowly: "High-grade white noodles, a pound is more than 50 Wen, as for the oil, of course, it is more expensive, a pound of vegetable oil is not less than 120 Wen, and the market supply is not enough to buy it, if you want lard mutton fat is slightly cheaper, but it also needs about 100 Wen, plus the spices are expensive, I am afraid that this big bowl of noodles will also cost 50 or 60 Wen to return to the capital." It's just that the price is too expensive, I'm afraid that a good store won't want it, and I don't dare to ask for a mat, and it's just a good meal for three or five days at home. ”
Li Kou is not discouraged, he can see the future prospects.
What makes him even more optimistic is the price of goods in this era, white noodles are so expensive, oil is so expensive, and seasonings are so expensive, there is a lot to be done here.
If we take the thousands of acres of fertile land in the suitcase as the foundation, we will gradually control more land and promote food and cash crops......
His heart was bright: "At that time, I will unify the road and even half of the grain market with a price war, even if I send three major to the world where the emperor is willing to send the Zhao family, I have people's rations in hand, and people's hearts must not help me." He thought again, "However, at this time, you must be controlled by power, and if you have no power in your hands, you will not be armed, and only in the barrel of a gun can you have power, and even if you are rich in the world without power and guns, it is only to make clothes for others." ”
Looking up at Miss Ma's jade hand tapping on the edge of the table, she was also thinking.
Li Kou then smiled: "The price of this bowl of rice is too expensive, so let's change it." You don't have to rush to find a way, let me ask you, if I have a way to beat this chicken-ribbed meal for business to the price of cabbage, how sure are you that you can win the signboard of the No. 1 grain merchant on Jingyuan Road? How long will it take to dominate the food market inside and outside Weizhou? ”
Miss Ma was startled and sat upright again.
This guy has such a big ambition!
But he really refused to be just a businessman.
She just asked, "Is there any cheaper pasta for Da Lang?" ”
Many!
Cool skin and meat sandwich buns, if there are more fruits, there will be a drink to replace Bingfeng.
When you can find fluffy grass, you will make ramen.
It's just that the cattle of this era cannot be harmed, and Li Kou is reluctant to treat the precious cattle as a meal.
But lamb is always fine, right?
It's better, he can make those snacks in Shaxian County one by one.
As for any high-end products, such as the Manchu and Han Buddha jumping over the wall, he has never eaten or seen anything.
Forget it, I believe that the foodie people's talent for eating will definitely be developed.
As soon as Li Kou said that there were many more words, Miss Ma said that it was difficult: "If Da Lang is really ambitious, he is willing to believe me, we might as well be a partner, this grain merchant on Jingyuan Road is not difficult to deal with, they are all some people who are stupid in the grain supply of the Western Army, and they will definitely be among the nine major grain merchants in three years with a strong foundation." She persuaded, "However, if you want to unify the diet industry, you must have extremely rich food, and you can only raise pigs and chickens with surplus grain, and it is not difficult for Dalang to raise a hundred people, and it will not be difficult for a thousand people. ”
Li Kou said: "That's going to grow cash crops - tell you later, you help me hire someone to build this snack truck, and I'll go to the market to see the prices." As for cooperation, I have other plans, but I will not treat you badly, and I must rest assured of this. ”
Miss Ma smiled and said, "It's okay, I want to see what else you have to toss." ”
She glanced at the big bowl a little greedily, and wanted to ask when Li Kou would come back.
Return?
Miss Ma's heart jumped slightly, and she hurriedly shook off this strange thought.
She simply said that she was a little greedy: "I don't know what delicious food I want to see Da Lang at noon?" ”
Li Kou smiled: "It's simpler at noon, how about cold skin, how about the cake sandwich?" If not, a bowl of sour soup noodles is fine. ”
Aren't you just thinking of some home-cooked food snacks?!
He really knows how to do this, and some of them are really good at it.
Li Kou thought in his heart and just smiled: "If you eat a fat beauty, who will you settle accounts with?" ”