Chapter 159: Porridge (2)

With the plan to make dim sum and sell it to big families in the town, this matter of making dim sum is not just as simple as satisfying the children's cravings, Cui'er and Mrs. Qian discussed that if you want to make this dim sum, you must make it distinctive, and make this business a long-term one.

The two of them combined to roughly divide the customers in the town into three classes, the first class is the number of large families in the town, for example, the original Qian family is one of them, in Mrs. Qian's heart, there are about seven or eight such families. They have a head, a face and a taste, and the dim sum sent by such people must be exquisite and rare, so that they can be sold at a better price.

The second class is the rich and rich, they yearn for the life of a big family, but the economic strength is slightly inferior, their requirements are not so high, it is enough to look good and taste good, and the price must be slightly lower to accept. Such a family, in the Shili Eight Village near Shili Town alone, there are about 30 households in Mrs. Qian's list.

As for the third class, it is an ordinary family that has the ability to improve and improve their lives, and such people can't buy much even if they buy dim sum, at most to coax their children to look better during the New Year. The purchasing power of a single group of people is very limited, but the number is huge, even if one of the ten households buys a pound of snacks for their children, they can sell hundreds of pounds, and the power of the masses is infinite.

Dividing the customers into such a group, what type of dim sum should be made, and how much each item is expected to sell, the two of them have a good idea in their hearts.

"Let's try the dim sum I made today, if I don't make it delicious, let's clean up and give it to the children as snacks, if it's delicious, our business will make a big difference!" Cui'er smiled and picked out the ingredients for making snacks, and turned back to Mrs. Qian and said.

"Sister, I know your craftsmanship, everything is delicious, I'm a little eager to eat the snacks you make!" Mrs. Qian smiled and helped Cui'er with her work. "But now that you're pregnant, I'll help you if you need to do anything, if you get tired. But it's not mine! ”

"Well, I'll take notice." Cui'er picked up the fruit with a smile, thinking in her heart whether to find someone to help if she really wanted to do this dim sum business.

Cui'er thought for a while, no matter what the business is going to do, what she eats at home is better to make three kinds of dim sum such as hawthorn cake, peanut walnut cake and rose bean paste cake, as for the soup and water, cook an eight-treasure porridge, which happens to be Laba immediately. This porridge is very suitable for the occasion.

After thinking about what to do, Cui'er's movements became more and more neat, first washing and peeling the raw materials such as glutinous rice, rice, kidney beans, red beans, mung beans, peanuts, jujubes, walnuts, etc., and then boiling a pot of boiling water. I put the ingredients used in the eight-treasure porridge into the pot.

This eight-treasure porridge is boiled for a longer time, the more fragrant and glutinous, Cui'er boiled this porridge before making dim sum, and when the dim sum is ready, this porridge must be boiled thick and thick, and it is soft and fragrant to drink.

After boiling the porridge, Cui'er began to work on the hawthorn cake. The three kinds of dim sum to be made, hawthorn cake is boiled, peanut walnut cake is boiled, and rose bean paste cake needs to be baked.

Cui'er neatly cut the red hawthorn and removed the seeds, and put it in a large bowl for later use. Mrs. Qian learned Cui'er's technique and helped Cui'er deal with the hawthorn together, and when she had made a big bowl of hawthorn, Cui'er made a fire under another pot and put the hawthorn in. Begin to simmer carefully.

"So you can make hawthorn cake?" Mrs. Qian watched Cui'er pour the hawthorn into the pot one by one, and then stirred it around the pot with a spoon, as if it was very simple.

"That's it!" Cui'er looked at Mrs. Qian's surprised look, nodded and replied. This hawthorn cake does not have too much technical content, you only need to boil the hawthorn until it is soft and rotten, add some starch into it, and then match it with the right sugar, it is very simple and convenient!

"If I had known it was so easy, I wouldn't have been hungry for so long! I think I ate hawthorn cake once in a restaurant in the county, and the sweet and sour taste was good, and I remembered it since then, and every time I went back to the county, I would buy two plates of hawthorn cake to eat! ”

Mrs. Qian pursed her lips, as if recalling the good taste of the hawthorn cake, and then sighed and said, "This hawthorn cake is delicious, but it is expensive, a small plate costs fifty yuan, and the meat I eat hurts very much!" ”

"A palm-sized plate costs fifty dollars? The restaurants in the county are so expensive! Cui'er looked at Mrs. Qian's plate and laughed, and her jaw was about to fall in shock, but Cui'er thought about it, this place is surrounded by mountains, even Bishui County is inconvenient, and this only little thing is expensive.

"What's the price of a restaurant! The hawthorn cake is said to be made by a chef from the provincial capital, and it is the only one within a radius of 100 miles, which is expensive...... Sister, you said you would make hawthorn cakes, if you make it as much as he did, we will make this money! Thinking of selling dim sum to make money, Mrs. Qian's smile became bigger and bigger.

"Then we'll have to see if I'm doing well!" Cui'er replied with a smile, but in her heart she didn't care about the chef who was said to be from the provincial capital, such a simple thing as hawthorn cake was really nothing in the previous life, and it was estimated that in this ancient big city, it should not be ranked, that is, in the countryside like this Gushantun and Shili Town, it is a new thing, so it seems expensive.

"En, I also learn the craft from you, I can't love this hawthorn cake, but I can't make it without this craft!" Mrs. Qian saw Cui'er's disapproval, and her heart became more and more expectant.

Cui'er smiled and didn't speak again, but concentrated on boiling the hawthorn, this boiling hawthorn is a technical job, the fire is big and there is a mushy smell, the fire is small and can't be cooked thoroughly, you have to check the color of the hawthorn at any time, and you have to stir the pot at any time, so as not to stick to the bottom of the pot and burn a pot of hawthorn.

When the water in the pot was almost dry, Cui'er added a lot of sugar to the pot, and then mixed a small amount of water starch in a small bowl, gently poured it into the pot along the edge of the pot, and stirred it quickly with a spoon.

Cui'er's movements were very fast, only to see the silver glittering spoon flying up and down, the original pot of independent and complete hawthorn, gradually turned into hawthorn blocks, after a while, it became hawthorn mud, red bright in the pot bubbling up, exuding a sweet and sour aroma.

"Oh, it smells so good!" Mrs. Qian smelled this smell and couldn't help but sniff hard, "This smell feels better than what the county chef made." ”

"It's good or not, you have to become a model to know!" Cui'er smiled and spoke, but under her hand she scooped up the hawthorn and poured it into a small copper basin covered with gauze and greased.

The hawthorn paste was slowly poured on the snow-white gauze, bright red and translucent like a fine agate, and the warm luster and sweet and sour smell made the whole kitchen come alive.

Scooping the hawthorn paste into the copper basin, Cui'er lifted the four corners of the gauze with both hands, and shook gently with both hands, watching the hawthorn paste slowly fall into the copper basin through the gauze, full of patience.

"What is this doing?" Mrs. Qian can cook a lot of dishes, but it is limited to home-cooked food, and this simplest way of filtering is fresh in her eyes.

"This is to filter out the impurities in the hawthorn paste and leave it on the gauze, so that there will be something in the hawthorn cake." Cui'er had already filtered the hawthorn paste almost at this time, and pinched the gauze a few times with her hand, feeling that there was nothing left in it, so Cui'er put the gauze aside and concentrated on leveling the hawthorn paste.

With the back of a spoon, the hawthorn paste was gently compacted and smoothed into a flat pot, and Cui'er covered a curtain on it, and put the hawthorn paste pot into her own "snow box" outside, where the temperature is relatively low, and it will not fall ash, which is a good place for iceberg hawthorn cake.

"This hawthorn cake is finished?" Mrs. Qian couldn't help but be amazed when she watched Cui'er's flowing movements, and when Cui'er put the hawthorn pot outside and came back, she came back to her senses and couldn't help asking.

"Well, just wait for the hawthorn cake to cool down for a while." Cui'er nodded and said, looking at Mrs. Qian's surprised expression, she didn't know what she was surprised about.

"That's too easy, isn't it? Then wouldn't my original fifty dollars for a plate be spent in vain! Mrs. Qian lamented emotionally, she regarded this hawthorn cake as a precious thing, and she couldn't ask for it, and she had to eat it every time she went to the county, although she was distressed, she felt that it was worth it.

Now seeing that Cui'er made a pot of hawthorn cake in less than half an hour, the raw materials are only the most commonly used things in the family, Mrs. Qian couldn't bear it with her heart, and said with a bitter face, "For so many years before my feelings, I went to the town to be the wrongdoer!" ”

"Sister-in-law......" Cui'er really didn't know how to answer this, saying that she was not wronged, a small plate of hawthorn cake cost three catties of meat to buy, it was really a loss, to say that she was wronged...... Looking at her bitter face, Cui'er really couldn't bear to say it.

"Sister-in-law, it's okay, if we make this hawthorn cake this time, we will sell it to those rich families in the town for fifty yuan a plate, and we will earn back all the money we spent at the beginning!" Cui'er thought about it for a long time before she came out with such a sentence, isn't this hawthorn cake expensive? If you make your own and sell it expensively, you should earn back the capital for Mrs. Qian!

"That's right!" Mrs. Qian's eyes lit up when she heard Cui'er's words, "It's so decided, our snacks are also expensive!" ”

ps:

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