Chapter Eighty-Six: Bald Butter
Liu Yifeng feels that life is really impermanent, and the large intestine encloses the small intestine.
He is now hiding on the island in the middle of the lake with his entire team, because the Maritime Safety Bureau is going to invite him to a dinner party. He could not refuse this kind of request, and the Maritime Safety Bureau was about equal to the imperial court in Dongshan Prefecture.
This news was brought by Zhang Jun, as a middle-level officer of the Dongshan Prefecture Navy, he was going to attend the dinner hosted by Lu Ge to welcome Song Yingxing.
Liu Yifeng is the most famous snack master in Yushan City recently, and the Maritime Safety Bureau naturally selected Liu Yifeng to make some snacks, but before he could inform Liu Yifeng, Zhang Jun first told the news after getting drunk at night.
On the spot, Liu Yifeng's face changed.
Zhang Jun didn't say that the protagonist of the dinner was Song Yingxing, but only said that he was welcoming the new manager of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau, but Liu Yifeng knew that the so-called new manager of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau was Song Yingxing.
Where did he dare to see Song Yingxing.
He is a folk husband, and he has only been in Dongshan Prefecture for a long time before he turned over and became the owner, and he also opened a snack shop, and it is not clear how he got free. Once Song Yingxing, or the three young people around him, became suspicious and began to investigate him, Liu Yifeng thought that his illegal sale of firecrackers might be found out.
So the next day, he decisively hung up the sign of looking for ingredients and closed down, and fled urgently with everyone, hiding on the island in the middle of the lake in Jicheng Lake, leaving only Zheng Zhilong to live in the city inn and inquire about the news at any time.
"Big Boss, how long are we going to hide?"
"Just for a few days." Liu Yifeng was also not very sure and said: "Didn't Zhang Jun's bastard say that the new official has just arrived, the reception banquet will definitely not drag on for too long, and we will wait for Lao Zheng's notice for the specific situation." ”
Liu Yifeng knows that it is also very painful, you must know that the gross profit of his store is now 25 taels of silver a day, and the net profit is 18-20 taels!
It's been almost 40 days since the store opened, and after so many days of promotion, it still paid back on the 14th day, and now it has earned more than 400 taels. Now everyone is hiding outside to rest, and they lose 20 taels a day.
Liu Yifeng has summarized that there are three main reasons for making such a profit:
The first is that the business is really good, and the main sources of customers are people in the commercial and fifty urban districts, and they are willing to pay for the slightly expensive snacks, which are slightly expensive for the people anyway, and they are very cheap for them.
The second is that the snacks made by Liu Yifeng are not only delicious, but also very novel.
Most of the food he makes is fried food on the street, and it seems that this kind of cooking was popularized in the Qing Dynasty, and many people have never eaten fried food at all, and they are very addicted to the special taste of fried food and the aroma of oil.
The third is that Liu Yifeng is a black-hearted businessman, and he will directly call the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to check in the future, and he will be accurate in one check.
The most expensive of his costs is grease, and his grease is reused, filtering impurities every night and continuing to use it. Anyway, it's all cooking in the backyard, and no one else can see it. In addition, although the oil that has been reused repeatedly is extremely unhealthy, it is undeniable that the oil already has the flavor of the ingredients left over from the previous use.
The old soup is dirty, but the old soup is definitely fragrant. This is what the director of "Tip of the Tongue" once said.
Of course, he doesn't use the oil when he eats.
"Head, hurry up and see if you want this batch of crabs?"
On the ferryboat approaching in the distance, Feng Shuo shouted loudly carrying a dozen crab pots he had just bought.
The lake is rich in products, and after the establishment of the city, immigrants brought hairy crabs from the south of the Yangtze River. It's just that there is no such thing as a "hairy crab" yet, so it's called a crab. After these hairy crabs were thrown into Jishan Bay and Jicheng Lake, they multiplied wildly in an environment without natural predators, and now they have become a specialty of Jishan City.
However, there are still many people who don't like crabs because they are extremely unpalatable. "Difficult" here refers to difficulty, not bad taste.
It was Liu Yifeng who asked Feng Shuo to go to the fishermen to buy crabs, today is the frost, and it is the fattest season for crabs. In later generations, he was a poor student, and he didn't eat much hairy crabs, but now he is going to let go of it, and he is going to make a dish that will be hyped up in later generations: bald butter.
There are about 400 crabs in 17 cages, of which Liu Yifeng picked out 158 with bulging bellies, and at a glance you know that there are crab roe and crab paste.
The 158 crabs were steamed in batches with ginger water, and the crab roe and crab paste were dug up separately and placed in a basin. The remaining crab meat was also dug out with chopsticks and knives. The crab shells are also kept, and they are poured into a hot oil pan to fry the crab fragrance. After filtering out the first pot of crab oil, pour in the soybean oil again and continue to fry the crab oil.
Every time he uses soybean oil, Liu Yifeng misses blended oil immensely.
The purification technology of this era is too poor, and there are many impurities in soybean oil, which has a bean flavor, which will mask the taste of the ingredients themselves to a certain extent.
However, the taste of animal fat itself is heavier, and Liu Yifeng has no choice but to use soybean oil.
The two pots of crab oil have to be slowly filtered with gauze at the end, after all, it is for yourself to eat, or to be fine.
On the other side, Feng Shuo led everyone to dig crab meat, filling two large pots.
The rest is simple, add crab fat and lard to fry crab roe and crab paste, add a certain amount of rice wine after seasoning, then pour in minced crab meat and the remaining crab oil, and fry until passers-by keep probing to see what this house is doing and how it is so fragrant, and the bald butter is ready.
It just so happened that Zheng Zhilong also came back, and Liu Yifeng ordered a meal, which was also the moment that this group of people under his command was most looking forward to every day.
Bald butter can be used as a seasoning, as a side dish, or even simply with rice and noodles.
What they eat tonight is bald butter soaked rice, minced crab roe, crab paste and crab meat, with mellow crab oil, no other dishes are needed, everyone can show off 3 bowls of rice.
"Lao Zheng, what's going on in the city?"
"I've inquired, a restaurant in Fifty Cities was chartered yesterday, and it is estimated that the dinner has ended."
"That's great, we can go back tomorrow." Liu Yifeng saw Feng Shuo beat another bowl of rice, walked to the pot with bald butter, followed by Ni Kantu and Aobai, the stomachs of the three of them were visibly bulging, but because they ate too fast, their stomachs didn't have time to feel the heaviness.
"Don't eat it! You're going to have to stay up until you can't sleep for 3 nights! ”
Many people who said this are a little weak-hearted, and the people in this courtyard, except for Zheng Zhilong, who have eaten good things in his hometown, have basically never seen the world in eating. Liu Yifeng personally cooked, and those wealthy businessmen rushed to buy it, let alone them.
Basically, every night, there are people who can't sleep.
If it weren't for Liu Yifeng's strict prohibition on stealing food during the day, it is estimated that many people would be unable to work during the day.
Liu Yifeng looked at Aobai, who had never been hungry for more than half a year, and his height had surpassed that of Nikantu, but the whole person was visibly round with the naked eye, and his eyes narrowed.
He was ready to start exercising his men's fitness.