For example, the legs and wings of chickens and ducks that can be seen in later generations, as well as chicken necks and duck necks, as well as some internal organs, such as chicken gizzards, duck intestines, chicken hearts, etc., can be done.

And then the price can be sold cheaper.

At this time, people's quality of life was generally not high, and the current Daqi Dynasty was not even as good as the later Daxia Dynasty.

However, the way these chicken and duck products is definitely not similar to pork, but Chen Nian has learned a lot of things before, and with his original knowledge level, it is not a problem to make these.

So after returning home, Chen Nian talked about his thoughts to Song San. Song San thought about it and felt that it was still feasible. After all, the price of chickens and ducks is cheaper than pork, and the price can be lowered at that time and can be sold as auxiliary products.

"But I didn't make much of these poultry before, at most I just made goose meat. Because goose meat is fat and has a lot of meat, Mr. Wang would occasionally kill a goose and take it to the kitchen to make it." Song San said. After saying that, he looked at Chen Nian again, "I will think about how to make it. Chicken and duck meat are different from pork. The seasonings you need to add may be different. If you want to make it delicious, you have to try it a few more times."

"Dad, then I will also study it together. In the past six months, I have already figured out the medicinal materials we can use almost all."

"Yes." Song San looked at Chen Nian with relief. He knew that it would be a good thing for young people to be willing, and his son's ability was also good. He could do that taste when he was beggar chicken for the first time. So when Chen Nian made this request, he agreed without thinking.

There is a waste of research on new ingredients, and his tolerance is even greater.

So in the next period of time, Chen Nian began to think about which aspect to try.

Every day, he not only visited the vegetable market, observed and studied different chickens and ducks, but also went to the spice shop.

These two kinds of things are basically in two or three directions for braised food. The first is to make Sichuan flavor, that is, to make it in that direction. Although there is no such crop as pepper, it can be replaced by dogwood.

Cornus also contains an alkaloid called capsaicin. After eating it, people will have a faster heartbeat, accelerate their secretion of saliva and sweat, and accelerate gastrointestinal motility. It also brings strong stimulation, causing excitement and increasing appetite.

This is also the reason why many people like to eat spicy food, but if you want to use dogwood, there is a problem that dogwood is now picked by wild, and after being taken back, it must be processed before it can be eaten normally.

This process is a little more troublesome.

Because I used dogwood before the ageing, I know how to deal with this thing.

But if you don’t make spicy, you can only make sauce-flavored.

"It's better to make the sauce-flavored flavor first. You can try the spicy flavor slowly in the future." Chen Nian thought to himself.

Moreover, during the market research these days, Chen Nian discovered a very important problem, that is, the current Daqichao does not have five-spice powder!

Chen Nian has also studied the origin of this seasoning that is well-known in later generations, but there are basically only two statements. One is that the five-spice powder was originated from more than 300 years ago and was invented by Shanxi people, and the other is that it originated from India during the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China.

Because Indian Buddhism did not eat beef and pork at that time, mutton became their main meat, but mutton was born with a savory flavor, so in order to solve this problem, monks at that time created plant seasoning powders for reducing savory flavor.

This seasoning is also the predecessor of the famous Indian spice Masala, so after Buddhism was introduced to China, Masala became five-spice powder after being followed by local customs.

But Chen Nian thinks that the feasibility of this legend is not very high, but no matter what, since there is no five-spice powder now, Chen Nian plans to make this seasoning.

The basic ingredients used in five-spice powder are ground into pepper, cinnamon, star anise, clove and cumin seeds, but with the development of the seasoning industry, some formulas include dried ginger, cardamom, licorice, pepper, tangerine peel, etc.

But no matter which formula it is, Aged firmly believes that as long as it tastes good, it will be fine.

Five-spice powder is the main seasoning used by Agedan to make braised pork, so in the next month, Agedan has been trying out the specific formula ratio of the five-spice powder.

Even if it fails, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, these are all seasonings, and you can use them as your own cooking, and it’s not a waste.

After a month of research, Chen Nian finally came up with three recipes.

These three formulas can be used in different materials.

When braised pork, you can use a recipe that is mainly made of large ingredients, and when making sauce-flavored braised chicken and duck, you can use a recipe that is mainly made of Amomum villoss.

In the last braised flavor with spicy flavor of dogwood as the main flavor, a recipe mainly consists of cinnamon and pepper.

However, in the last recipe, there are more than five seasoning spices in this five-spice powder. A total of eight kinds of seasonings were made into the aged ones.

But there are five of the four great kings, and there are actually more than seven Big Dippers. There are actually only one of the four masters and apprentices who go to the West to obtain scriptures and apprentices, so who says that eight kinds of seasonings cannot be used for five-spice powder?

After thinking about it, Chen Nian planned to try the sauce-flavored braised chicken and duck products.

In order to avoid wasting, the aged ingredients were used very little, and only small pots were used.

But at the beginning, I found that the completion rate was only 80%. Although Song San and Xu Erni praised it after eating it, the aged always felt a bit strange when they tasted it. This taste was not even comparable to many unique stores outside, let alone compared to those chain brands.

As for the difference between the old shops that specialize in braised food and the masters is even bigger.

"This is not possible at all." Chen Nian shook his head.

Song San comforted him: "Son, isn't this good? The meat is delicious and very fragrant, and it doesn't taste too much."

"Dad, I feel that this is not enough now, and it can be better. However, I have probably already got some directions. I will adjust the heat again, and the proportion of the seasonings also needs to be adjusted."

Song San looked at Chen Nian. Chen Nian had been repeating his work before. This kind of teaching with someone feeding next to him would basically not make any big mistakes as long as it wasn't too stupid.

So it was not until now that he realized that his son was so persistent.

"But I feel that what you are doing is actually quite good now, and you can go out and sell it." Song San said.

"Dad, let me give it a try again. I think since this is something to be sold for money, I naturally have to do the best I can."

After hearing this, Song San suddenly said, "Well, you can rest assured that you can think of dad so much. Although we are doing business, we must be conscientious. When people come to us to buy things, every penny they spend is earned by hard work, so our things must naturally be worthy of the money they take out."

With Song San's permission, Chen Nian spent more time on this every day, and Xiaotao came to play with Chen Nian every day in recent times, because Chen Nian either stayed in front of the stove and looked at the fire inside, or wrote and painted something in a small notebook.

She also tried to look over, but after watching for a long time, she felt dizzy and had nothing else.

"So I don't know how to read!"

Only then did Xiaotao realize that he was illiterate and could not understand what Chen Nian wrote.

So after going back, I went to her parents and told me that I wanted to read.

However, Xiaotao's parents were more traditional and immediately rejected Xiaotao's request. On the one hand, they were not literate and only knew some simple words, and in addition, they could calculate.

On the other hand, they think that girls don’t need to read. Compared to reading and writing, they think that it is more important to do housework and be a female celebrity.

There is another last reason, because they are illiterate. If Xiaotao wants to learn, he has to send Xiaotao to a private school, but it costs money to go to a private school.

Their daily income now allows them to live a normal life, and save some more money in case of emergency needs.

Xiaotao did not get support from his parents and was very depressed. So when he went to find Chen Nian again, he told Chen Nian about these thoughts in his heart again.

"Want to learn words?"

"This is very simple, let's do it. I can teach you after I finish my work. But Xiaotao, I have to make a statement in advance. If you want to start learning calligraphy, you have to go home to do your homework every day, and the time you play will be greatly reduced. Once you start, I don't want you to give up halfway, so I will teach you if you agree."

Xiaotao seemed to realize something after hearing this. Although she didn't know the pain of doing homework every day, she heard that the time she played every day would be greatly reduced, which made her back in her heart.

As the drums became louder and louder, Xiaotao suddenly realized something.

"Why should I learn to recognize words?"

"Because I want to be closer to Brother Chen Nian!"

"Every day is to play with Brother Chen Nian. If you can learn to recognize words every day, then you will be with Brother Chen Nian. As long as you can be with Brother Chen Nian, isn't it the same?"

Then she nodded seriously, and her beautiful eyes seemed to be filled with stars: "Brother Chen Nian, I want to learn to recognize words!"

"Okay, wait a while." Chen Nian said, "By the way, Xiaotao, I just made some braised chicken wings. You can take them to eat them, just treat them as snacks for the afternoon. And there are some here, so you can take them back for your parents."

Before Xiaotao could react, he was stuffed into a small porcelain bowl full of braised chicken wings.

"Don't you eat the uncle and the aunt?" Xiaotao asked curiously.

"They..." Chen Nian smiled helplessly, "At first they ate, but then they didn't want to eat it."

"Why? The chicken wings are so delicious!" Xiao Tao asked in confusion.

"You go and ask them."

Then Xiaotao brought these chicken wings to the yard and asked Song San and Xu Erni: "Uncle, do you eat chicken wings? Brother Chen Nian just made it."

Song San now has a headache when he sees chicken wings. In the past, Chen Nian made it every day and tried it every day, but he was not satisfied with it every time. If he didn't sell the perfect thing at the original price, Song San and Chen Nian felt very uncomfortable.

But if you sell at a lower price, it will affect the future price.

After all, it used to cost three cents per chicken wing, but now you want ten cents. What if it tastes better? If the price is here, the buyer will always feel that he has lost.

So they can only stay at home and eat by themselves.

However, although the chicken wings are not many, the aged ones make every time, they can’t help but make two or three pots every day, so that they have to eat them in the morning, noon and evening.

Eat every day, eat every meal, no one can stand it.

Now Song San feels that the pipa bone on his back seems a little itchy every day, and it seems that a pair of chicken wings are about to grow out of it.

"If you don't eat, don't eat, take this thing away!"

Song San said.

Only then did Xiaotao believe what Chen Nian said.

In this way, the aged woman continued to adjust the proportion of seasonings through the comparison method. In addition to the five-spice powder, there were other things, and it was little by little that the completion rate was increasing.

But in the end, he could not get up again after reaching 95%.

"Now the heat and water volume and most of the seasoning ratio are no longer a problem, but there is still 5% left, which means that some of the things seem to be missing."

But Chen Nian couldn't even think about it even though he thought about it. For this reason, he also asked his father specifically, but Song San felt that the braised food made by Chen Nian was good enough, and in his opinion, there was no problem at all.

And he couldn't figure out why the aged person always felt that the braised meat was not delicious enough.

I even wondered if I had eaten too much, and I had psychological illusions or were too persistent, so I had this idea.

But Chen Nian couldn't tell the recipe. No one believed this thing in modern times, and no one would believe it in ancient times. If he really said it, his father might even think he was in a bad mood.

But then Chen Nian tried to add some other spices to the past, but after six or seven days of experimentation, Chen Nian still did not test it out.

"It would be great if I could go online. With modern and transparent information, I might find some clues."

There is no way, after aging, I tried it next while starting to make two other braised dishes.

Dogwood is not bad, after all, there is relevant experience in aging, so the dogwood is quickly processed to be used as a spice to add to the ingredients.

"Oh, after all, I'm not experienced enough." Chen Nian couldn't help but sigh.
Chapter completed!