Making soup is a science, and there are many ways to do it.

For example, the meat and vegetable selection of ingredients are different, which can be divided into meat soup and vegetarian soup.

For example, through the use of civil and military fire, the color of the soup is also different, and it can be made into a milky white thick soup, or it can be made into a clear soup that is as clear as water.

For example, through the combination of ingredients, the soup has different effects, and there are many classifications, such as nourishing soup, de-fire soup, milk soup, diuretic soup...... Wait a minute.

On the ability to make soup, the people of Guangdong Province have a lot to say.

Xu Tongdao didn't learn Cantonese cuisine before, and he couldn't cook too many kinds of soup, so there were only a few kinds of soup he was good at, among which he had a little experience in making mutton soup.

Anyway, the people who drank his mutton soup, he hadn't heard anyone say that it was not delicious.

He believes that the most important point of making mutton soup is that the mutton selected has no smell in itself, which is the most important thing.

After all, in the process of hanging mutton soup, you can't use chili peppers, nor can you use cumin powder, which can mask the smell of mutton.

It's best not to even put cooking wine.

Some other spices can also be left unput, otherwise the umami of the mutton itself will be destroyed.

Under the constraints of so many conditions, it is definitely not an easy task to make a pot of mutton soup full of aroma, delicious and delicious, but without a trace of smell.

Green onions and ginger can be used.

In addition, it mainly depends on the control of the heat.

Blanched sheep's head, feet, bones, haggis...... Wait, put it in a stainless steel vat, put in green onions and ginger, directly from the faucet, after connecting half a bucket of water, Xu Tongdao put the pot on the stove and boiled violently.

For more than an hour, he did not put a lid on the big vat, and let the water vapor of the boiling soup noodles steam, until the steaming water vapor could no longer smell the mutton, and then he changed the fierce fire to a small fire and closed the lid of the barrel.

That's his trick to getting rid of the smell.

By heating over a fierce fire, all the qi in the mutton and lamb bones is stimulated, and the water vapor in the soup noodles is volatilized.

After that, it will be simmered slowly, and the stew will have a richer and stronger aroma.

He hung this pot of soup from morning to evening, and continued to hang it on a simmer.

In the afternoon, he fished out the sheep's head and instructed Xu Tonglin to use chopsticks to remove all the meat on the sheep's head, which had been stewed to a sparse extent.

After the sheep skull and mutton were removed, he threw them into the soup bucket and continued to hang them.

In the afternoon, when the three women Huang Mei, Cao Min, and Fang Fang came to work, they smelled the obvious aroma of mutton soup as soon as they entered the door.

As evening approached, everyone who passed by their door, young and old, almost subconsciously sniffed a few times, and then followed the source of the aroma to the kitchen of their store.

It's so fragrant!

Some people eat mutton for the first time, and they eat mutton with a strong taste, and then they never dare to eat it again.

I thought I couldn't stand the smell of mutton by nature.

In fact, they were all cheated.

It's like the first time some people try to read a book out of curiosity, but the first time they read that book, it's rotten, or boring, and then they subconsciously think that most of it is like this, and they never touch any of it again.

The principle is the same.

Of course, there are also those with heavy tastes, that is, they like the smell of mutton, and they don't feel like eating mutton without smell, which is another matter.

But most people still can't eat mutton with a strong smell.

Xu Tongdao opened the door to do business, so he naturally had to take into account the taste of the public.

When he noticed that every passer-by outside the store was attracted by the aroma of the mutton soup he hung today, he had a lot more confidence in tonight's business.

In order to welcome the evening diners, at half past four in the afternoon, Xu Tongdao announced that he would open the meal and eat the staff meal.

Let everyone fill their stomachs first, which is also a habit in the catering industry, otherwise when the meal arrives and the guests come one after another, the chef and waiter will have no time to eat.

They had just brought the dishes of the staff meal to the table here, and Xu Tongdao hadn't even picked up a mouthful of the food in his mouth! A rich little old man passed by outside their store with his hands behind his back and his waist bent.

The old man was well-dressed, with a pen pinned to the breast pocket of his new tunic and a pair of black leather shoes on his feet.

None of this is the point!

The point is that when he passed by the door of the store, he walked and walked, his steps became slower and slower, and others were walking forward, staring at the direction of the kitchen in the store but never retracting their gaze.

Just walked like this, the doors of the two stores, and when he was halfway there, he swallowed his throat, suddenly forgot his original intention, and suddenly turned into Xu Tongdao's store.

"Hey, what's burning in your shop?

To be honest, this old man suddenly turned in, and Xu Tongdao and the others didn't expect it.

After all, at this time, their store has not yet started to serve customers, and in their impression, there are few old people of this age who eat barbecue.

Therefore, when the old man suddenly walked into the store and suddenly asked out loud, Xu Tongdao, Ge Lianghua, Xu Tonglin, and the three women who had just gone to work today were all a little confused, and they couldn't react for a while.

Then the first to react was Huang Mei, who was arranged by Xu Tongdao to wash dishes in the back kitchen.

The aunt was the first to show a warm smile, and replied in a loud voice as soon as possible: "Oh, it's mutton soup! It's the mutton soup stewed by our boss himself, it's fragrant! Old man, do you want a bowl? It's really fragrant!"

"Mutton soup, mutton soup is so delicious?"

The old man's two gray thick eyebrows frowned, and he turned around slightly, as if he wanted to leave.

The left foot stepped out, but he stopped again, looked back and asked, "How do you sell it?"

"This ......"

Huang Mei couldn't answer, she didn't know, so she subconsciously looked at Xu Tongdao.

"Free ......"

Ge Lianghua opened his mouth and was about to say that it was free, but Xu Tongdao suddenly raised his hand to stop him.

Yes, he decided to send mutton soup for free.

But from this afternoon to now, the reactions of those passers-by who passed by the door of his store, as well as the uncle in front of him who was attracted by the aroma, made him feel that it might be too wasteful to give away such a fragrant mutton soup for free.

Such a fragrant mutton soup can be used as a new signature in his store, and it should have a price that matches its identity.

Therefore, he temporarily changed his mind and raised his hand to stop his cousin Ge Lianghua from blurting out "free".

Then he got up and smiled kindly at the uncle, and smiled really kindly, "Grandpa, it's not expensive! Originally, we sold it for three yuan a bowl, but today is the first day of our store's business, so we sell it cheaply, only one dollar a bowl! There are mutton bones, haggis and mutton in the soup! Would you like to try a bowl?"