Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

Because there are so many people, Li Yu is still taught separately.

The hot pot and barbecue team started to stir-fry the hot pot base. Under the supervision of Mr. Xiang yesterday, they basically memorized the recipe. As for the amount of each seasoning, if you are not sure, use a scale first.

Seasonings are expensive, so it’s better not to waste them.

Before asking these people to do it, Li Yu demonstrated it first and then let them start.

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Next is the milk tea and snack team.

Yesterday Li Yu divided them into three groups, and today they will follow yesterday's division of labor.

The dozen or so people who had been wielding farm tools all afternoon were making fried chestnuts and fried hawthorns.

I memorized the steps for making potato chips and wolf tooth potatoes. I made potato chips in the morning and wolf tooth potatoes in the afternoon.

Are they bad at knife skills? That's not a problem. Let the private kitchen team help cut first.

In addition, there are a dozen people making milk tea. Today, Li Yu taught them how to make orange milk tea and rock sugar and snow pear milk tea.

Since this was still the easiest, Li Yu taught first, and waited until they started to work before going to the last private dish team.

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The private cooking team has the most to learn. Li Yu knows very well that they will not be able to learn it in the short term, so he plans to teach them a few simple but delicious dishes that can be served on the table.

She has already ordered the dishes, including golden shrimp balls, steamed glutinous rice chicken wings, peacock fish, a house full of gold and jade, braised lion head, tofu stuffed with meat, nine-turn large intestine and sweet and sour pork.

There are two other delicate dishes, one is boiled cabbage and the other is Wensi tofu. Wensi tofu is the most challenging for knife skills, so the six people with the best knife skills will learn it first.

Today is the first day, and the farm just slaughtered a pig, so Li Yu first taught them how to make braised lion's head, and then in the afternoon when the pig is cleaned, they will make nine-turn large intestine.

She wouldn't wait here for these people to cook perfectly before going home, she would teach them the steps first so they know how to make it and how to season it.

What they can accomplish afterwards depends on their understanding.

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Mr. Xiang feels that private dishes are a bit difficult and take a long time to learn. It is better to just make hot pot. As long as you remember the recipe and control the heat, everything else will not be a problem.

"Why not split off half of the people who make private dishes and let them learn how to make hotpot."

Li Yu was cutting meat. Hearing this, he put down the knife and turned back: "Mr. Xiang, do you know the target users of private dishes?"

Mr. Xiang: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince told me that it was aimed at high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants."

Li Yu: "There are many officials under King Hui who love to eat. As long as the private restaurant is opened and famous, there is no need to worry that they will not go there to eat. Sir, you should know that the wine table is not only a place for enjoyment, but also a place for discussion."

Mr. Xiang: “…” He understood that Madam Li wanted to turn the private restaurant into a place to get information.

but......

"A hot pot restaurant should also be fine."

Li Yu shook his head. "Although many dignitaries like to eat hotpot, they don't like to eat it in restaurants because they find it too noisy."

Mr. Xiang: “…”

Li Yu: "And the prices of private dishes are high. For example, boiled cabbage, when it is cooked and sold in the store, it will cost at least five taels of silver per serving."

Mr. Xiang stopped making any comments at all.

Seeing this, Li Yu continued, "Sir, you also know that hot pot is easy to learn, so when these dozens of people have learned it, they will be able to teach me without me."

Mr. Xiang: "I was not thoughtful enough and was too narrow-minded just now. Madam Li, please continue with your work. I will go and see the others."

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Listening to his footsteps fading away, Li Yu took a piece of meat and put it on his chopping board.

Then she asked everyone else to take a small piece each.

The meat for making lion's head cannot be all lean meat, but should be 30% fat and 70% lean. Chop it into minced meat, then add chopped green onion and ginger, sauce, salt, and pepper. If you like to eat it with spices, you can add a few more spices ground into powder.

After mixing these seasonings with the minced meat, add an egg and beat in one direction until firm.

Finally, knead the beaten meat into a ball.

In modern times, there are two methods. One is to fry the lion head in an oil pan, and the other is to boil it in water.

Li Yu decided to teach them how to fry it first, and after they learned it, he would teach them how to boil it in water.

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In the huge garden, dozens of people were chopping stuffing at the same time, which was quite spectacular.

Princess Jianing found what she heard very interesting, so she had tables and chairs moved to the garden and she watched while eating snacks.

During the meal, she wanted to drink milk tea, and a brave woman in the milk tea snack team took the initiative to make her a cup.

The woman was probably a little nervous and didn't cook it very well. She boiled the tea leaves for too long and they tasted a little bitter.

Princess Jianing took a few sips, explained the situation directly to the woman, and then rewarded her with two gold leaves.

"Making milk tea is not something that can be done immediately, don't be impatient."

The woman was overjoyed at her reward and went back to try again.

This time she managed her time well.

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Li Yu taught for about an hour, and spent the rest of the morning going around giving instructions.

By noon, she was full even before she had eaten.

She tried a small piece of the lion's head made by dozens of people in the private restaurant. There were also fried chestnuts and fried hawthorns. She drank almost two bowls of rock sugar snow pear and orange milk tea.

This was the first time she had eaten so much since she traveled through time.

The afternoon will probably be about the same as the morning, Li Yu thought, and slightly quickened his walking pace.

She ate too much and had to walk to digest it.

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In Hujia Village, everyone was busy.

Outside Dingjiazhuang, King Hui's spy was sitting on a tree branch, bored.

Today is the third day that they have been watching her. During these three days, Princess Jianing has not left the house once. It is said that she is sick and cannot go out.

"What good doctors are there in this manor? Since she is sick, she might as well go back to the palace early and let the imperial physician see her." A tall spy complained, "The weather is getting colder and colder. I almost froze to death at night."

"I'm cold too. Look at the sky today, it's gray and looks like it's going to snow." Another short spy said, "If it does snow, we'll have to find a place to live."

"I don't want to live outside." The tall spy said, "Let's go find a house in the village now."

"That won't do." The short spy stopped them, saying, "There's no inn on this farm. If we rush over there, we'll attract too much attention. If we're discovered, we'll be in big trouble."

"What should we do then?" the tall spy asked, "Are we really going to freeze to death outside?"

The short spy thought for a moment and said tentatively, "Princess Jianing is sick anyway, and she will not come out after the snow. It is useless for us to watch her. Why don't we secretly find a place with an inn to rest, and come to see her during the day. When Princess Jianing leaves, we can go back to the capital."

The tall man thought it was okay and nodded immediately: "Let's go, it will be difficult to walk if it really snows."

After a few breaths, two figures jumped off the tree and quickly moved away from Dingjiazhuang.

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Li Yu didn't know the situation in Dingjiazhuang. Because there were too many things to do, she only had some free time after five days.

In the past few days, she has been busy, either teaching how to make double skin milk here or teaching how to make fried chicken there, and her feet are sore from walking.

Fortunately, her efforts paid off. After several days of intensive training, everyone in the hot pot and barbecue team and the milk tea team could basically make some delicious food.

That morning, Li Yu asked the private kitchen team to make tofu stuffed with meat, while she and Mr. Xiang went aside to arrange where to go for everyone except the private kitchen team.