162 Tofu Feast
As soon as he entered Layue Jizhou City, there was news that Chen Xiancheng and those officials in the city who accepted bribes were severely punished.
Beheaded, exiled, even family members were implicated by them, and ended up in a miserable end for the rest of their lives.
An Chuxia sighed, maybe not all those family members are bad people, but they did use the money they obtained by looting the people's fat and oppressing the people.
Shaking her head, abandoning these things is not something she can control, at this time she only has the right to manage her own one-third of an acre.
Let the people of Weixian County go from being unfed and ragged to slowly becoming rich.
In the whole winter of northern Hebei, there are basically no vegetables, and the people have no money to buy meat, so they can only eat pickles.
An early summer will not whimsically grow any vegetable greenhouses here, coal in ancient times was very scarce, I am afraid that the vegetables grown are not enough to buy carbon money.
She is a fool to do the things that hurt the people!
Thinking of this, every family has a kang because they can't afford to buy firewood for the people to burn the kang, so they use the straw from their own grain to burn the kang for heating.
So it's also the cheapest way to get warm.
An Chuxia thought of a way to help the people improve their meager income, but he still needed to figure it out himself before he could teach them.
This day, An Chuxia told An Zixi to buy back two bags of soybeans, this can't be used as a staple food, and the stomach will bulge if you eat too much, and the fields can be planted, so the price is cheap.
500 Wen bought back more than 200 catties of soybeans, and on the day of An Chuxia, he asked people to buy a plate of stone grinding, customized a mold for putting tofu from a carpenter, and bought some gypsum for brine from the pharmacy.
After everything was ready, An began to go in early summer, poured ten catties of soybeans into the basin and put water to soak them to prepare bean sprouts, and soaked fifty catties of beans in the vat, ready to make tofu and dried tofu.
The next day, in early summer, Wu Po cleaned the grinding plate, and Zuo Wang and Da Zhuang were pulled to grind soybean milk.
Although they didn't know what An Chuxia was going to do, everyone still obeyed her instructions and did their best to do the things arranged.
Wu Po lit the fire, Liu Xiang helped, An Chuxia commanded the overall situation, and finally boiled the marinated soybean milk after a busy day, and was scooped into a wooden tofu box.
The tofu brain is put into the mold and filtered, and then pressed into the white-skinned dried tofu, sprinkled with some salt, and dried to make dried tofu.
Wait until the tofu is formed in the early summer to draw out a piece of tofu weighing about one catty, fifty catties of soybeans, thirty catties of tofu, and twenty catties of tofu.
One pound of soybeans makes about four pieces of tofu, and if a piece of tofu can be sold for two yuan, one pound of soybeans can be sold for eight yuan.
A pound of soybeans costs two pennies, and the cost of making tofu is less than that of labor, so there is still a profit to be made in this tofu.
Twenty catties of soybeans are almost pressed out of about fifty catties of dried beans, and the time for the dried beans to be less water should be longer.
There is the cost of sprinkling salt on it, and at least one pound must be sold for four or five cents to be profitable.
The bean sprouts have not been sent out because of the short time, so this will not be considered for now.
Everyone in the family saw that An Chuxia made beans, white and tender things, and they were very curious to come around.
"Cousin, what is this thing? Can you eat it? ”
An Chuxia took a spoon from the side, scooped a spoonful and put it on An Zixi's mouth, "Eat!" ”
"Can you really eat it?" An Zixi asked weakly, but based on his trust in his cousin, he still opened his mouth and ate it.
A smooth and tender feeling spread in his mouth, making An Zixi's eyes widen immediately, and after swallowing, he said, "Cousin, this thing made of soybeans is quite delicious!" ”
Out of curiosity, everyone else also wanted to try it, and An Chuxia didn't stop it, and everyone thought it was delicious after eating.
An Chuxia also ate a small piece and said: "This is called tofu, which can be eaten with shallots, or fried, stir-fried, stewed and eaten."
Later, I will write down some of the practices I know, Liu Xiang, you are literate and Wu Po will study them, and make a table of dishes made of tofu and dried tofu, and I will invite a few people to be guests. ”
"Yes, sir."
An Chuxia asked Xu Liangce, Luo Ruisheng, Ma Xiang, Du Lengshuang, Wei Yuncheng and Zhu Tiehua, who had donated food, to come to the house as guests.
What An Chuxia didn't expect was that his family's tofu banquet came relatively early, and after seeing the white and tender tofu, Ke Yi, who was very interested in this ingredient, made it according to the recipe she wrote.
Because of the lack of seasonings here, many of the delicious recipes for tofu can only be made by making a rough makeover.
Today I only made some home-cooked tofu, braised tofu, steamed tofu in pickle sauce, and finally bought a fish and made a fish stewed tofu.
Stir-fried shredded pork with dried tofu, vegetarian fried tofu, spicy dried bean, no chili peppers are put because there are no chili peppers here.
Although An Chuxia inadvertently bought chili peppers and watermelon seeds in Songjiang Mansion that time, he was busy and forgot to plant them this year.
Finally, there are a few dishes of fried tofu, tofu soup......
After everyone arrived, the guests and hosts sat down, and when they saw a table full of dishes that they had never eaten, they all looked at them strangely.
An Chuxia smiled and said, "Let's taste the taste and see if you can still eat it." ”
As the host, An Chuxia sandwiched a piece of soft and fragrant steamed tofu.
Only then did everyone move their chopsticks, Xu Liangce scooped a spoonful of tofu and stewed fish with a spoon to eat, and the salty, fresh and delicious taste conquered his taste buds at once.
Luo Ruisheng sandwiched vegetarian fried tofu, and he also liked the light and elegant taste.
Ma Xiang scooped half a bowl of tofu soup to drink first, and the delicious taste of the soup made him unconsciously scoop another bowl to drink.
Everyone else was also deeply attracted by the softness and tenderness of the tofu, and the salty, fragrant and tender flavor of the tofu.
After eating, everyone returned to the hall and served tea to everyone, and An Chuxia asked, "What do you think, how about the dishes made with tofu today, and can you still eat them?" ”
"Delicious!" Zhu Tiehua, who was very arrogant, gave the most pertinent answer.
Du Lengshuang gave her a white eye, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that Lord An's tofu banquet had a good connotation, and there was a kind of drunkard's intention not to drink.
Wei Yuncheng and Zuo Wang also nodded in agreement with Zhu Tiehua's words.
The tofu feast is very fond of cooking, and he bravely went to the kitchen to make it, and he didn't comment on it himself.
An Chuxia looked at Xu Liangce and Luo Ruisheng Ma Xiang with deep meaning, "What about you! Do you think the dishes made with tofu are delicious?
If you cook carefully in a restaurant or restaurant, do you think someone will order such a dish made of tofu? ”
Luo Ruisheng and Ma Xiang are also the richest people in Wei County, and they often go to restaurants and restaurants.
I really think that there is no difference between eating in a restaurant in winter and eating at home, except that the meat is some dry dried vegetables, and the few stored cabbages are also sold at sky-high prices in restaurants and restaurants in winter.
The two felt that if they went to a restaurant and could order such a delicious table of tofu dishes, they would definitely be willing.