ebookland Chapter 120 Making Chili Sauce
Chapter 120 Making Chili Sauce
"Let's eat first." Huang Mulin shook his burning hands and said, "You can take the chili meat to the kitchen and deal with it later."
"The seeds need to continue to be roasted and dried, but they cannot be cooked. Once they are completely dry, collect them and store them in a dry place. They will be ready for Cousin Zhiyuan and Cousin Yuzhen to plant in early summer next year."
Huang Jinlin took the chili meat downstairs, found an unused ceramic jar, cleaned it and wiped it dry with a clean rag, planning to store the chili peppers in it after dinner when the jar was completely dry.
The family was eating and listening to Huang Mulin talk about what he did during this trip to Bofeng County. He was full of admiration for his daughter/sister.
They are already planning to go to school in the county town, and they are still happy about the achievements of their current workshops, bakeries and canteens.
It is such a blessing to have a forward-looking weather vane at home.
After the meal, Huang Jinlin immediately asked Huang Mulin how to deal with the chili peppers.
"Well, keep some raw chili peppers for cooking, and make the rest into chili sauce, which can be stored for a longer time."
The family returned to the kitchen and watched Huang Mulin teach them how to make chili sauce.
She set out to make the simplest, most classic chili garlic sauce.
Put garlic, chili, vegetable oil, salt, sugar, soy sauce, and rice wine on the stove.
Huang Jinlin followed Huang Mulin's instructions, washed the garlic and chili peppers, wiped them dry with a rag, and then chopped the garlic and chili peppers.
At the same time, Huang Mulin heated oil in a pan, added some peppercorns, bay leaves, cinnamon, etc. to the oil and stir-fried them, then scooped out the spices and put them in a bowl aside.
After Huang Jinlin has finished processing, pour the hot oil on the chopped garlic and chili in several batches and stir with chopsticks.
Add appropriate amounts of salt, sugar, soy sauce and other seasonings, pour in a little rice wine and stir well.
Finally, put the peppers into a water-free and oil-free, clean ceramic jar, pour clean water into the groove to seal it, and then put it in a cool place, write a label and stick it on to remind Dengda and others not to make mistakes.
She estimates that the fermentation time will be about twenty days.
“It takes about the same amount of time as fermented bean curd.”
Huang Jinlin took note of it silently.
"Twenty days is an estimate. In the summer, it probably won't take that long. I'm not afraid of fermenting it for a few more days, but I'm afraid it won't taste good if it doesn't ferment long enough."
"understood."
After preparing the peppers, the brothers went to review their lessons, and later went downstairs to practice martial arts with their parents and sister.
After exercising regularly over the past few months, the whole family is now lighter and stronger than before.
Hard work pays off.
On the second day, Huang Bo went to tell Jiang Dayou that the peppers had been successfully grown and the seeds had been collected. When the climate was suitable next year, Huang Mulin would teach Jiang Zhiyuan and Jiang Yuzhen how to grow them, and asked him to give a message to the two children.
Jiang Dayou happily agreed.
That night, the two children of the Jiang family were so happy that they hardly slept.
On the second day of December, the Tang family sent a group of people to the Huang family for training.
He reacted faster than the Song and Ge families. He had the confidence and the courage.
Tang Jide wrote to Tang Qian, saying that the owner decided to take over 20 stores first and gave 6,000 taels as franchise fee.
When Huang Mulin received the banknotes, she smiled so hard that she couldn't open her eyes. Her family members also laughed when they saw her like this, and at the same time they sighed that this girl was too good at making money.
Like a fortune-bringing boy.
Dong Lin is very busy. He has to arrange and check the baking of bread in the store every day, and train new pastry chefs.
The pastry chefs sent by the Tang family didn't pay much attention at first when they saw that the person teaching them how to make bread was a little girl. But when Dong Lin showed her skills and made several new shapes of pastries in a short time, they immediately didn't dare to underestimate her.
Dong Lin noticed the initial attitudes and expressions of these masters, but she remembered what Huang Mulin said: as long as you become strong and capable, the voices of doubt will gradually fade away.
So she just needs to do her own thing.
In addition to the pastry chefs, there were also many servants, who were assigned to Huang Xuan, Huang An, and Huang Jie. They first taught the servants some basic etiquette and terms at the place where they stayed, and then sent them to the bakery in batches to follow the actual practice, and soon they all learned it.
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Song and Ge families brought their people to Linhai Town at the same time.
It’s still Song Jinxian and Ge Songhao.
When they learned that the Tang family had already trained a group of people and had returned to prepare for the opening, they were all very surprised.
It turned out that Tang Jide left first last time, not to go back to his family to seek advice, but to deal with the layout of the shop, and would open it only after signing the contract and receiving training!
Both families missed the best opportunity.
Fortunately, the shops run by their three major families are not in the same place, and now they can see the benefits of not allowing cross-regional operations.
The Song family joined fifteen companies and the Ge family joined sixteen companies.
The Huang family received another 9,300 taels.
Dong Lin and others started a new round of busy work.
The master taught diligently, and the apprentice learned diligently, and it took the Song and Ge families five or six days to learn the art. The two families also said goodbye and set off to return to the provincial capital, and they thought they would be able to make it in time for New Year's Eve.
Yes, the New Year is coming.
At this time, Tang Jide brought a merchant caravan to the border.
Half a month ago, he received a secret letter from Yu Zhenzhou and was shocked and went to find his father Tang Zhongguan.
Tang Zhongguan also read the secret letter, hesitated for a while, and asked Tang Jide what he thought.
"Dad, I want to go."
Tang Jide felt that this was an opportunity to truly get involved with the Zhenguo Mansion.
"very dangerous."
"Dad, you always said before: Fortune and wealth are sought in danger." Tang Jide smiled and said, "And I believe in the Duke of Zhenguo."
Since his son said so, and thinking that if this matter was accomplished, their Tang family would have a real connection with the Duke of Zhenguo, he did not stop him.
Tang Jide burned the letter in front of the visitor and said that he would immediately arrange for a caravan to go to the border.
The visitor bowed and left.
As soon as Tang Jide arrived at the border, Yu Min secretly took him to Yu Zhenzhou's residence.
It’s still the same small courtyard as back then.
"Sorry to trouble you to come here."
"I don't deserve it. It is an honor for the Tang family to have the opportunity to serve the country."
The two of them did not exchange false pleasantries and just got down to business after a few words.
This time, Yu Zhenzhou plans to go in person.
He let Tang Qian lead the team, and he and his personal guards hid in the caravan. Under the pretext of wanting to exchange some grassland wine, wool products, and horses, they left the border with a lot of food.
Before leaving, he asked Yu Min to get some things and distributed them to each of his personal guards, asking them to carry them with them and to attack if the bandits came within three feet of him.
One day, the spies sent out by Bars' elite soldiers came back and said that they saw a caravan heading into the grassland, carrying a lot of supplies.
The elite soldiers knew their mission this time, so they drew lots to decide.
Three long and one short bamboo sticks.
The short team is the vanguard.