Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

"The pot over here is simmering, let's prepare the spicy soy sauce for the hot and sour noodles."

Use another pot and put vegetable oil in it. When the oil is hot, add ginger slices, scallions, shallots, onions and coriander.

After frying all the ingredients until they turn brown, add two comfreys for coloring, then remove all the spices.

When the oil is warm, add a handful of sesame seeds, chopped dried chili peppers, coarse chili powder, fine chili powder, salt, star anise, white button, amomum villosum, cinnamon, tangerine peel, fennel, cloves and other seasonings.

Then add white vinegar, high-proof liquor and honey and mix well.

At this point, the soul chili sauce of hot and sour noodles is ready.

The rich aroma made Wu Erping and others who were watching almost drool.

"It smells so good!"

"Yes, it smells really good. I think Second Aunt's recipe will definitely make money."

Zhang Xinsheng has gained a lot more self-confidence.

"Okay, now the soul chili sauce for the hot and sour noodles is ready. You can make more at a time. It won't go bad for half a month. Let's make the garlic water next."

Take the peeled garlic and crush it with a garlic mortar. Make sure it is finely crushed, otherwise the flavor of the garlic water will not come out.

You can add some water and salt to the garlic mortar and mash them together.

After crushing it, pour it into a basin and add some water.

"The garlic juice will come out, and it can be stored for two or three days. Finally, we will make the sour part of the hot and sour noodles, which is the vinegar water."

Vinegar water is also the soul of hot and sour noodles.

Pour water into the pot, then add white pepper, cardamom, bay leaves, cinnamon and cumin.

Bring these to a boil, and when the aroma comes out, add rice vinegar and balsamic vinegar and bring to a boil again.

Remove the residue from the vinegar water and the vinegar water is ready.

"To make the hot and sour noodles taste better, let's prepare some meat sauce."

Put the meat in the pot, add the bean paste and stir-fry until the oil turns red, add the ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then pour in some minced meat that has been chopped in advance, half fat and half lean.

After frying, add salt, sugar, a little soybean paste, soy sauce, and a little white wine.

The rest is to fry slowly, fry the fat and make the meat a little more charred. This will make the taste more fragrant.

The minced meat fried sauce is ready.

Zhao Yuanzhen also fried the peanuts and set them aside.

Next is the fried soybeans.

The soybeans taste better when fried until crispy.

All the ingredients for hot and sour noodles are ready.

"The ingredients for the hot and sour noodles are ready. Next we are going to make the crumb cakes."

The biggest problem with the crumb cake is that it needs to be baked, but there was no oven, only a kiln, so Zhao Yuanzhen used a kiln instead.

This is very simple, similar to making pancakes. Just add a layer of pre-mixed meat filling on the pancake and then bake it in a kiln.

"The crumb cake is ready. You can bake it in your home kiln in advance and then put it next to the stove for cooking hot and sour noodles so that it won't get cold. Let's start making hot and sour noodles now."

Zhao Yuanzhen put the sweet potato flour into the pot of bone broth that had been simmering for a long time.

The sweet potato flour is soaked and softened, so it cooks quickly.

Zhao Yuanzhen ordered 15 servings of hot and sour noodles.

After a while, it's cooked.

Took out 15 bowls.

Put two tablespoons of broth at the bottom of the bowl, then add sweet potato flour, put an appropriate amount into the bowl, add meat sauce, chili sauce, peanuts, soybeans, vinegar water, garlic water, coriander, and chopped green onions.

"Okay, the hot and sour noodles are ready, you guys can try it."

The peppers selected by Zhao Yuanzhen are spicy, a little spicy but not too spicy.

Several people looked at the big bowl of red and fragrant hot and sour noodles.

The aroma had already tempted me so much that I was drooling, so I quickly took it and started eating.

"Mmm, sour and spicy, so fragrant!"

"Wow, this soup is delicious, sour and meaty."

This is a soup made from big bones.

"Don't be impatient, sit on the chair and eat slowly. There are also crumb cakes here, you can try them."

Zhao Yuanzhen brought them all to the table and gave them some crumb cakes to eat with the hot and sour noodles.

"This pancake is crispy and crunchy, and with the meat filling, it's delicious."

A mouthful of hot and sour noodles, a mouthful of soup, and a mouthful of crumbly pancake.

Enjoy it!

"My dear Lao Er, your recipe is really good. This sweet potato noodle tastes much better than stewed. It is sour and spicy. It not only warms me up, but also whets my appetite."

The weather in November was so bad that they were sweating.

Very sour and refreshing.

"Yes, mother, this hot and sour rice noodle will warm you up after you eat it."

The other people did the same, eating in silence.

"Second Aunt, this recipe is really good. I think it will definitely make money. It's just that we don't have many of the ingredients."

After eating it, Zheng Shuang'er also felt that this fresh food, the hot and sour noodles, would definitely make money.

She saw that they didn't have many of the materials that Second Aunt had put there.

"Don't worry, I will provide you with the materials when the time comes."

Many ingredients and spices are not available on the market.

"Okay, then I'll have to trouble Second Aunt again."

"No need to bother. I'll prepare the ingredients for the spices and seasonings for you. You can just put them in. You already have onions, ginger, garlic, coriander, peanuts, and soybeans. Just prepare them yourself."

"Second Aunt, what is this crispy pickle?"

"This is pickled mustard tuber, which I brought back from the south. I still have some here, so I'll give it to you. When we get back to the village, we'll have a workshop, and it will be much more convenient for you to buy it then."

Zhao Yuanzhen just remembered that she could set up a pickled mustard workshop.

This is a great accompaniment to rice.

"Okay, Second Aunt."

"Well, like chili sauce, meat sauce, vinegar water, peanuts, and soybeans, you can prepare more at a time and put a spoonful of it in each bowl of hot and sour noodles. This way, it can be used for a long time, saving time and effort."

"Okay, sister-in-law, we'll listen to you."

The more Wu Erping looks at Zhao Yuanzhen, the more she likes him.

"There is also this kiln fortress. Big brother, see if you can make it. If not, I will ask someone to make one for you later."

"Yes, I've seen that and I know how to do it."

Baking kiln fort is quite simple and easy to make.

"Okay, big brother."

Several people were slurping hot and sour noodles.

Zhao Yuanzhen didn't urge her and just wrote a prescription on the side.

She wrote down all the proportions in detail.

I went to the warehouse again and mixed the various spices for the chili sauce and meat sauce according to the proportions.

Just use it directly when the time comes.

Thinking that it was winter and Wu Erping's family had no coriander, I gave her a big bag of dried coriander. It tasted the same after soaking in water.

There was also a large jar of pickled mustard tuber.

This will last for several months.

The main thing is that the amount in one bowl is not much.

One spoonful is totally enough.

After preparing all this, Zhao Yuanzhen returned to the restaurant.

Wu Erping and the others have finished eating.

He even drank the soup cleanly.

It was so delicious.

"Sister-in-law, I have prepared all the necessary materials. You can just take them when you go back. I have also written down the recipe. It is all here."

"Okay, okay, we'll go back and prepare, and then we'll set up the stall tomorrow."

Wu Erping can't wait to make money.

"Okay, you two go back and prepare the ingredients, and Xinsheng and I will go to the city to buy some tables, chairs, benches, bowls and chopsticks."

Since you are setting up a stall, tables, chairs, benches, bowls and chopsticks are naturally indispensable.

"Brother, you don't need to buy dishes and chopsticks. I have them here. I'll get you 100 sets."

When we had workers working at home before, we bought hundreds of those large white bowls and tableware, and they are all unused.

I asked someone to get 100 sets of those big white bowls and chopsticks as well. I got a lot, probably about 200 pairs.

There were no tables and chairs, so they had to buy them themselves.

"Okay, thank you, sister-in-law."

Wu Erping was extremely happy.

There is some money left.

Several people were also anxious to go back and prepare the materials.

Zhao Yuanzhen did not keep them, but packed up the leftovers she had cooked and gave them to them so that they could compare the tastes.

The old family thanked again and again and took their things and went back.

After returning home, I took two large bones and planned to start making soup.

This bone is the same pork bone that Zhao Yuanzhen brought before.

First, I studied the recipe and memorized its proportions.

So they started making it.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law divide the work and cooperate with each other.

Sun Zhang went to work in the instant noodle workshop.

Only Wu Erping, Zheng Shuang'er and Zhou Hong, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, are left.

Wu Erping was responsible for lighting the fire and making the soup.

Zheng Shuang'er prepared chili oil, vinegar water, meat sauce, fried peanuts, soybeans, etc. as ingredients for the hot and sour noodles.

Zhou Hong chopped the stuffing and mixed the dough to make the crumbly pancakes.

Several people were working hard in the kitchen.

Zhang Zihu was in charge of building the baking kiln outside.

Originally, this was supposed to be made by Zhang Qingshan, but Zhang Qingshan forgot about it for a moment and went to the city to buy furniture. Zhang Zihu was also a child who grew up in the village, so he could do this kind of simple work.

Just now he had carefully studied the baking oven at his second grandmother's house. It was very simple.

So I started to build it with mud.

It was cold in winter, so Zhang Zihu built this baking oven in the kitchen and started building it in a corner of the kitchen that would not get in the way.

By the time Zhou Hong had finished making the crumb cake, he had basically finished building it.

After several people worked hard for half an afternoon, all the ingredients for the hot and sour noodles and crumb cakes were ready.

Several people tasted them one by one and found them to be almost the same as those made by Zhao Yuanzhen.

It worked!

call!

With a sigh of relief.

The heart that was originally hanging in the air finally settled down.

I was afraid that the hot and sour noodles would taste different.

Just follow the recipe to make it.

Wu Erping carefully put the prescription away.

Several people who knew the recipe were called into the main room, and a rather serious meeting was held. No one was allowed to reveal the recipe, and it could not be told to anyone, not even to the daughter-in-law's family.

If it were leaked and she knew about it, she would divorce him and leave the Zhang family immediately.

After hearing this, the two daughters-in-law nodded like quails and said that they would not leak it out.

They have been married into the Zhang family for so many years, they won't be that stupid. Only when the Zhang family is doing well, their lives will be good.

Don’t think about anything else, you should always think about the child you carried in your heart for ten months.

Of course they would not disclose the recipes of the hot and sour noodles and crumbly pancakes.