Chapter 269: Formula
The next day, Gao Dian opened the door on time.
As soon as the chair was opened, Wei Qiaoyi walked in, still holding something in her hand.
"Coming? What do you want to eat today? ”
Gao Dian asked.
"What are you doing today?" Wei Qiaoyi said curiously.
Gao Dian hadn't written the small blackboard yet, but he had already thought about what to sell today.
"Today it's lily crisps, cat ears, and buns." Gao Dian said.
"Cat ears in City B?" Wei Qiaoyi asked.
"Yes, that's right, it's the cat ears of City B." Gao Dian replied.
"Knife-cut noodles and cat ears, these are all specialties of City B, how did you learn them?" Wei Qiaoyi asked.
"Knife cutting noodles is a coincidence, but cat ears were taught to me by Gu Tongzhou Gu Lao." Gao Dian replied.
"What did Gu Lao teach you? I remember that he attached great importance to the view of the portal, how could he teach you? Could it be that you have already worshipped him as a teacher? Wei Qiaoyi asked curiously.
This is indeed a little curious for her, how could Gu Tongzhou, who attaches so much importance to the portal, teach Gao Dian things?
You must know that in the circle of chefs, everyone still attaches great importance to the view of the portal, and basically you can't learn anything without apprenticeship. Of course, there are heavy and light views on the portal.
The lighter ones will teach some things to those who value them, but not much. And the heavier people are different, they don't teach outsiders anything.
Gu Tongzhou belongs to the kind that attaches great importance to the portal.
"Because of my teacher, I don't know how my teacher asked Gu Lao to teach me, but he did teach." Gao Dian said.
Wei Qiaoyi suddenly realized, if there is anyone who can make Gu Tongzhou break his insistence, then only his grandfather, although she doesn't understand the story very well, but he heard his father mention it once.
"I see, I know, then I'll eat cat ears." Wei Qiaoyi said.
Gao Dian heard this and went to the kitchen to make it.
Gao Dianxue's cat ears are actually like a mutated version of noodles, which is different from the crispy fried cat ears that I ate when I was a child.
Cat ears are not difficult to make, at least they are easier to make than ramen.
Soon, Gao Dian made a cat ear and carried it out.
Wei Qiaoyi tasted it slowly, and after a while she said, "It's delicious." ”
didn't have too much evaluation, even if it was Wei Qiaoyi's comforting words, Gao Dian himself understood.
The cat ears he made were of a good standard, so they weren't delicious.
Now with the improvement of Gao Dian's level, the standard for deliciousness is getting higher and higher, you must know that when he first came into contact with pastries, Gao Dian felt that the qualified quality pastries were delicious, and he now, good quality is not delicious.
This change is natural, not good or bad.
Cat ears, Gao Dian's practice is actually not much, but he can achieve good quality, this is because Gao Dian's cooking level is constantly improving, even if he doesn't practice so much, he can still achieve good quality.
Wei Qiaoyi, who finished eating cat ears, took out the piece of paper she wrote last night and said, "I'll use this to pay for dinner today." ”
"What is this?" Gao Dian asked curiously.
"You can open it later, you will know, I still have something to do in the store, so I will leave first." Wei Qiaoyi said.
"Oh, okay." Gao Dian responded.
Wei Qiaoyi pushed open the door and walked out, and he would be in his own store.
Gao Dian opened the piece of paper and was suddenly stunned.
I saw a recipe written on this white paper with a black pen, a recipe for dumplings.
This dumpling is called "White Jade Jade Dumpling", there are recipes for dumpling wrappers and dumpling fillings, Gao Dian held the recipe in his hand and didn't know how to speak for a long time.
Such a precious formula is too valuable, and it just so happens that Gao Dian needs such a formula at this time.
At this moment, someone interrupted Gao Dian's thoughts, "Boss, let's have a knife noodles!" ”
When Gao Dian heard this, he raised his head, and he looked over, it was the boy in the couple yesterday.
"I'm sorry I didn't have a knife to cut noodles today." Gao Dian said.
"And what do you have here?" The boy asked.
"You wait for me." Gao Dian said, picking up the small blackboard and writing.
After a while, Gao Dian pointed to the small blackboard and said, "That's it." ”
The boy frowned, hesitated for a moment, and said, "That..... Let's have four buns. ”
"Wait a minute, I'll be right here." Gao Dian said.
The buns were steamed in a steamer, and they were ready, so Gao Dian took out four, put them in a bag, and handed them to the boy.
The boy paid and hurried back.
Today's guests look better than yesterday, but they aren't hot at all.
Near noon, many guests came to eat knife-cut noodles by name.
A few of these guests had come to eat yesterday, and most of them had been introduced.
The knife-cut noodles here are so delicious that they are more expensive than those sold at other restaurants, but for the sake of the taste, anyone who has eaten them will find it worth the price.
It's not much, and most people can afford it.
It's a pity that everyone who came to ask, Gao Dian said no.
As for the reason, he also took the trouble to explain and recommend today's pastry.
Most people don't buy it, they just come for the knife-cut noodles, and now that the knife-cut noodles are gone, people don't want to eat here.
They turned and left, and Gao Dian did not hold back.
This is the principle, if it is broken today, it will be broken tomorrow, then this way of doing business that he adopts loses its meaning.
There are also some people who accept Gao Dian's recommendation and choose other pastries.
After a while.
There was an old woman on crutches, trembling over.
"Boss, I heard that you have knife-cut noodles here, can you take one and take it away?"
Gao Dian said: "Grandma, there is no knife noodles today, if you want to eat, you have to come another day." ”
"Why not today?" The old grandmother asked.
Gao Dian explained: "I have different things here every day, the knife-cut noodles were sold yesterday, and there are no knife-cut noodles today, so if you want to eat, you can only come another day." ”
The old woman was a little disappointed, and then she asked, "Young man, can you make one for me?" Thank you so much. ”
Gao Dian said: "I'm sorry grandma, I didn't prepare the ingredients for knife-cut noodles today, even if I wanted to make it, I couldn't make it." You can do it another day, there really isn't today. ”
The old man was extremely disappointed, and she said to Gao Dian: "Boss, thank you." ”
After saying that, he left on crutches again.
At this time, someone said, "Huh? Isn't this Mrs. He? ”
"This Mrs. He is also a hard-working person." One of his table mates said.
"Whoever said it wasn't, forget it, don't mention this."
Gao Dian listened from the sidelines and didn't say anything, when a guest came and ordered a cat ear, and Gao Dian returned to the kitchen.
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The next day's business was still not very good, and most of the surrounding merchants were waiting to see the jokes, losing money for two days in a row, how long could he hold on?
But Gao Dian didn't care, what he valued was not a temporary gain or loss, otherwise he would have used his own advantages to publicize it everywhere.
But does that work?
In the early stage, you may get money, just like many Internet celebrity stores, but in the back, when everyone comes to try it, the popularity slowly dissipates, and it is not far from going out of business.
This is what Gao Dian does not want to see.
Making some money, even though it can make him return to his capital quickly, but what is consumed is the public's expectations of him, which is not a very good choice in the long run.
Gao Dian still knows his fame on the Internet, and if he uses everyone's curiosity about him to promote it, he will definitely be able to become popular for a while.
But when expectations are greater than reality, only disappointment will be brought to everyone.
What Gao Dian hopes even more is that with his real cooking skills, he will do it step by step.
He hopes that the popularity of the small shop is because of his cooking skills, rather than because of the aura he carries.
When he got to the moment, he closed the door and studied the recipe for the newly obtained white jade jade dumplings by himself.
As for why Gao Dian closed so early, it was because these times were the time he left for himself to improve his cooking skills and practice pastry.
You can't waste your studies just to make money, because you will lose the opportunity to climb to higher heights.
Those recipes given by Wei Qiaoyi were carefully studied, and Gao Dian found.
This white jade jade dumpling focuses on the dumpling skin.
This dumpling wrapper is made by mixing two types of dough, one is glutinous rice flour and the other is flour with vegetables.
Eight ingredients are used in the dumpling filling, namely bamboo shoots, mushrooms, ham, shrimp, tenderloin, crab roe, chicken breast and duck breast.
Finely chop and mix the eight ingredients, whip until strong, add salt, green onion, ginger and garlic water, and add pepper to taste.
Finally, knead the stuffing into balls and put it in the refrigerator for about an hour.
Next, it's time to make the dumpling wrappers.
Mix the glutinous rice flour with water and knead until the surface is smooth, then add the flour to the vegetable juice and knead.
Vegetable juice is selected from seasonal vegetables, mainly green.
And out the vegetable dough is green.
After the dough has risen, put the two types of dough on top of each other and roll them out with a rolling pin to the thickness of the dumpling wrapper.
It should be noted here that due to the different extensibility of the two types of dough, special skills are required when rolling out the dough to evenly roll out the dough.
The rolled dough should be clearly defined, but glued together with each other.
Finally, the dough is pressed into round dumpling wrappers with a mold, and it is finished.
Gao Dian looked at the recipe and the steps of production, and felt that his head was big for a while.
This production method is inevitably too complicated, right?
Let's not talk about the filling of the eight ingredients, this one is made according to the proportions.
It's just that this dumpling skin makes people scratch their ears and cheeks.
Gao Dian is not a rookie, he is already at the level of a first-class pastry chef, although he has not started to do it yet, he already knows the difficulty.
The glutinous rice flour and the dough that come out are very sticky, and the ductility is not as good as the flour at all.
The two have to be rolled out, and in terms of operational difficulty, it is a headache.
There is also vegetable juice, although it can also replace the action of water to make the flour bind, but the vegetable juice and the dough will become less malleable.
According to the recipe, the two should be rolled to the thickness of ordinary dumpling skins, which requires that whether it is glutinous rice dough or vegetable dough, it needs to be rolled very thin.
For the two types of dough with poor ductility, this test is not ordinarily large.
Gao Dian has no ingredients in his hands now, and he can't start if he wants to experiment, so he can only wait for tomorrow to prepare the ingredients and try again.
Gao Dian rubbed his eyebrows, he cleaned up the shop, locked the door and went home.
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Wei Qiaoyi returned to her grandfather's house, and at this time Wei Lianzhang was sitting on the sofa dozing off.
"Grandpa, if you want to sleep, go back to your room and sleep, sit on the sofa and sleep, it's easy to catch a cold." Wei Qiaoyi said.
"Well, I know, I'll go back to sleep after I've finished reading the news." Wei Lianzhang said.
Wei Qiaoyi sighed, didn't say anything, Hui went back to the room and took out a blanket.
"Grandpa, cover it and look at it, if you fall asleep, you won't catch a cold." Wei Qiaoyi said.
When Wei Lianzhang heard this, he took it and covered it, staring at the TV.
The news ended quickly, Wei Lianzhang replaced the TV, he was not interested in the current film and television dramas or anything.
Wei Qiaoyi said at this time: "Grandpa, I gave the recipe of white jade jade dumplings to Gao Dian. ”
When Wei Lianzhang heard this, he said indifferently: "If you send it, you will send it, it's not a big deal." ”
Wei Qiaoyi pursed her lips and said, "Grandpa, don't you blame me? ”
Wei Lianzhang smiled: "What do I blame you for?" What I teach you, that's yours, and as for what you're going to give to, that's your own business, and I want to blame you for that. ”
When Wei Qiaoyi heard this, her nervous mood calmed down a little.
White jade jade dumplings are actually a very important recipe, and they are one of the secrets of Wei Lianzhang's core.
This is not an ordinary formula, and it is generally not allowed to be passed on.
Wei Qiaoyi gave it to Gao Dian, she was a little worried that her grandfather would be angry, although Gao Dian was his student, but he was not an apprentice after all.
Now hearing that grandpa didn't care, Wei Qiaoyi relaxed a little.
"White jade jade dumplings...... It's not perfect. Wei Lianzhang said suddenly.
"Huh?" Wei Qiaoyi was a little puzzled.
"The white jade jade dumplings were created when I was old, but because the ingredients are too complicated, the ratio and process are not perfect, I actually want to improve them, but I am old and weak." Wei Lianzhang sighed.
White jade jade dumplings are one of Wei Lianzhang's regrets, he didn't do it perfectly.
"Grandpa, it should be fine." Wei Qiaoyi said.
Wei Lianzhang smiled and said: "I just sighed for a while, you gave the white jade jade dumplings to Gao Dian, maybe it's also a good thing." If he improves the recipe, it will make up for my regrets. ”
Wei Qiaoyi was stunned, "Are you so optimistic about Gao Dian?" Do you think he could improve the recipe? ”
"Maybe." Wei Lianzhang said with a smile.
When Wei Qiaoyi heard this, he fell silent.
In fact, she didn't think about it in this direction, and now that she thinks about it, she also thinks it's possible.
Gao Dian's whimsy is too much, maybe he can really improve the formula.
As for why she gave Gao Dian this recipe, it was because Wei Qiaoyi's recipe was too difficult to learn, and she felt that Gao Dian could learn it, and the more people who learned it, the less risk of being lost.
Yes, Wei Qiaoyi didn't want this recipe to be lost.