Chapter 34 Business Opportunities
Jia Yi tore a piece of the bread in his hand and put it in his mouth, only to feel soft and a little tough, and the torn bread was a little drawn. After tasting it carefully, there is still a gap between it and the bread in the previous life, it is not so fluffy, the innermost part is harder, the shell is a little dry, and it is a little burnt.
And even if you don't add eggs or milk, the taste is worse, and you lack the flavor of milk, no sugar, salt is added, it tastes salty, and it doesn't feel as sweet as it feels, especially there are no snacks here, so you are more and more yearning for sweets. I don't know if it's made of sake lees, so the aroma of the wine is relatively strong, but the aroma of this wine is not offensive, but it tastes unique.
Although there are still such and such shortcomings, I don't know how much better it is than the original black bread, and I feel like I have been thrown out more than a dozen streets. Jiayi also ate the beans, the beans were cooked glutinous, and the taste in the mouth was just right, which just decorated the slightly monotonous taste of the bread. Of course, this is just Kaichi's own opinion, Erica and Donna can't be satisfied with this white bread anymore.
"What smell, so fragrant?" At this time, Gary pushed open the door and walked in, he smelled the fragrance in the yard, and couldn't help but come in to see.
Erica tore the bread in her hand and gave it to Gary in half, and Gary took the bread and squeezed it lightly with her hand, and it sank down. His eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but take a closer look at it, and after smelling it, he only felt that the aroma was tangy, and after putting it in his mouth and tasting it, he couldn't help but ask: "Jiayi, did you do this?"
"yes, that's what I did. I heard from the teacher that everyone in the imperial capital uses ale to make bread, which is very delicious, I tried it, and it was successful. Jia Yi explained that Yao Lao is already omnipotent, a universal backstabber. If Yao Lao really has such omnipotence, at least it is also a hidden world-class BOSS level.
He deliberately understated it, as if it weren't a complicated matter.
After tasting the bread he made, Kaichi continued to bake the rest of the bread. He felt that his oil was a little too low, and the surface of the bread was a little dry, and a little baked, and it was charred in some places. The second time he baked it, he brushed the bread with a mixture of oil, water and flour and turned down the heat.
This time, it was brown bread that was baked. After baking, the surface has a caramel color, and the heat feels better than the first time. Only this time it was black bread, darker in color, and I almost didn't see that it was overbaked, but fortunately I realized it at the last minute.
For black bread, everyone generally said that it was not as delicious as white bread, but Jiayi actually felt that the taste was similar, but the black bread was coarser but the flavor was stronger. Maybe everyone's aesthetic views are different, after all, a person who has survived for more than 20 years in an era of extremely abundant means of production.
After making the bread, it was almost time for dinner.
Jiayi packed a few pieces of bread and some boiled beans, which were left over from the time he was making bread, and walked together with him with a medicine home.
When he came to Yao's hometown, Yaolao was taking back the medicinal herbs that had been exposed to the sun. These medicinal materials were collected in the mountains some time ago, and there is also Jiayi's contribution in them, but the proportion is a little less.
Medicinal materials are not all sun-dried, sun-dried is only the most basic, and what is steamed after drying, frying, drying, calcining, fermentation, and treatment to make it condense a layer of frost on the surface, etc., etc., according to different treatment methods of different medicinal materials, and even according to the different treatment methods of different medicinal properties.
Seeing Yao Lao, Jia Yi said to him, "Teacher, the newly harvested wheat is ready to eat." I made some bread for you to taste. ”
"Oh!" Yao Lao was very surprised, in the past, he shouted directly, teacher, the meal is ready, come and eat, but today is different, he proposed to make his own bread, is there any way to say this bread.
Yao Lao took the bread and saw that it was white bread, and it was quite big, but it was not easy to bake through, I don't know how it tasted, the last time I went to the town, this kid bought flour, and probably thought about making bread at that time.
He smelled the bread, put it to his nose and smelled it, and smelled a strong smell of bread and wine, and felt that it smelled better than he had tasted before when he had traveled. He asked Jia Yi curiously, "Is this what you made? Is it so fragrant?" ”
Jia Yi saw that Yao Lao was also surprised by this bread, and said proudly: "You taste it first, teacher, and see how it tastes." Although he said that he was asking Yao Lao to taste it, he was actually waiting for Yao Lao's exclamation.
Seeing that Jia Yi couldn't help but be proud when he said it, Yao Lao became even more curious. When he came to the living room and sat down, he took a piece of bread, and found that although the bread was large, it was quite light, and it was very soft when he pinched it. Tear it open, and you can see the dense holes inside the bread, no wonder the bread is so light.
When you eat it in your mouth, the dense texture makes you feel that it doesn't feel like a thing compared to the bread on the market, especially for an old man, the friendliness to the teeth is simply off the charts. Although the teeth in Yao Lao's mouth are still there, they are indeed not as strong as when he was young.
He tasted the bread carefully, and couldn't help but nod his head as he ate, and let out an affirmative sound of "uh-huh" from his mouth. After eating half of the bread, he looked up and asked Kaichi, "Did you make this with wine?" Well, no, sake lees! Did you ask for sake lees last time in town just to make bread? ”
Jia Yizheng was nibbling on the black and white bread he had made, while observing Yao Lao's expression, Yao Lao's surprised look gave Jia Yi a great pleasure. At this time, Leng Buding listened to Yao Lao's words, and was so surprised that he forgot to close his mouth.
"Old, teacher, how do you know?" Now it was his turn to eat a pound by himself.
"The last time you bought both flour and wine lees, this bread has such a strong wine flavor, it's easy to guess. How did you come up with the idea of making bread out of wine? ”
"Teacher, you are so amazing, you can guess so easily. When I saw that the inside of the sake brewed was bubbling, I thought about adding it to the flour and letting it bubble in the flour, and the bread would become soft. After trying it, sure enough, the bread made was even fluffier and tastier. ”
Hold the grass, Jiayi is again, if you don't be reborn, you know how to make bread, make a ball!
"I'm not as much as you!" Yao Lao couldn't help but sigh, although making fluffy bread is not a great achievement, but it is also an achievement that no one has done before, especially since flour can be fermented like this, what about other things! Although there is only wheat near Duomu Village, there are other food crops in other parts of the mainland, such as rice, sweet potatoes, and so on.
"Jiayi, don't make any more salt for the time being, teach your mother to make bread, go sell bread. Yao Lao suddenly said this to Jia Yi.
"Huh, selling bread?"
"Don't you want to sell that thing when you make salt lately, if someone knows about it, something will happen, selling salt is the financial pillar of the territory, and the lord will not let anyone who can threaten his monopoly on salt go to the next place. ”
"So, is it okay to sell bread?"
"Of course, is your bread easy to imitate? I can guess the wine, and it is not difficult for others to guess with the taste of your wine, so the lord has no interest in this. Just like selling alcohol, although the wine in the territory is theoretically not allowed to be privately brewed, most of the alcohol people buy nowadays is brewed privately. It is impossible for the lord to forbid people to cook and eat for themselves, nor can they take away all the food. Yao Lao explained to Jiayi that it seemed that bread was indeed much more reliable than making salt.
"I know, teacher, thank you, teacher!" Jia Yi is very grateful to the teacher for his care, although he doesn't say it, but he pays attention to his every move.
"If you want to sell bread, be careful of the merchants in the town, they may ask for your recipe, but it won't be a big merchant, this bread, try a little more methods, you can always try the right recipe, they can also add nuts and raisins to enhance the texture and taste. ”
"Teacher, you know a lot. I see, I'll pay attention. Kaichi promised the teacher.