"Gege, we shouldn't have lost money in the first month, right?" Waochan wiped her hands, walked to the inside of the counter with a happy face, and asked Jinxi who was burying her head in calculating the income and expenses.
"Well, apart from all the expenses, we still made sixteen taels." Jinxi weighed the heavy money in her hands, turned back to Raochan and said with a smile: "You and Aunt Liu have the greatest credit, here, this is for you two.
A reward." In each hand, a small purse was thrown to Raochan, each containing half a tael of silver, which was regarded as payment for the hard work of the two of them after getting up early and working in the dark this month.
"Thank you for your reward! I will give it to Aunt Liu right now." Raochan happily carried her small purse into the inner hall to report the good news to Aunt Liu.
Jinxi shook her head with a smile, lowered her head again, and carefully studied the income and expenditure since the opening of "Guozhiyu" on June 19th.
As an accounting layperson, she looked at this running account-style income and expenditure report. Although she was not sure whether there were any omissions, the money she finally received in her hands was real.
Sixteen taels... one tael more than her cheap father's monthly salary, hahaha! Perfect!
Jinxi carefully collected this journal and planned to take it back to his home to show it to his parents. After all, the start-up capital of "Guozhizhiyu" was sponsored by his father. He has to see the good hope, right?
"Welcome to 'Language of Fruit'!" Hearing the jingling sound of the wooden fish and wind chimes hanging from the door, and Jiang Rui's novel welcome words outside the counter, Jinxi subconsciously raised her head and looked outside the counter.
.
The person who came was clearly Yinzhen.
"Welcome? What a unique welcome speech!" Yinzhen glanced at Jinxi with a half-smile, then walked around the cake shop, which was only about ten square meters in size.
The fresh milk cakes, which are the treasure of "Fruit Language", are neatly displayed on the clean and tidy glass window cabinets. There are about six or seven flavors, the big ones are as big as plates, and the smallest ones are only as big as the palm of your hand. Each one is decorated with
The colorful fresh fruits and jams really whet your appetite.
"...I've met Fourth Brother!" Jinxi sighed secretly and had to move out of the cabinet. Although he is young, it does not mean that he can not be polite when meeting relatives of the emperor.
Jiangrui also followed Jinxi to salute Yinzhen, and then returned to the inner hall to make tea.
"I didn't expect you to know this?" Yinzhen raised his chin, pointed at the fresh milk cake on the window cabinet, and praised with a chuckle. Although he had eaten a lot of cakes, he really didn't know how to operate it. He didn't expect this.
The girl can actually make cakes, not only cakes, but also various other Western-style pastries. However, due to the lack of materials, the condiments of the Western-style pastries are also different. For example, bacon is replaced with soy sauce, and salad dressing is replaced with ketchup.
Yes, haha... If I had known she was so capable, I would have roped her in to join Xiang Kee Tea House. With her as a new force joining Xiang Kee, the tea house business will definitely be much better. It's a pity...
"Haha..." Jin Xi giggled.
It was a rare occasion when she took time to go to the store to make a profit. She was bumped into by an acquaintance. Should I call it luck? Looking at the shota brother in front of her who behaved more like a grown-up than her, Jinxi tugged at the corner of her mouth weakly.
"Ahem... I didn't know beforehand that this shop was owned by your family..." Yinzhen waved away the boy behind him and asked him to guard the door. If a customer came in, he might as well announce it. The storefront was too small, so he could only stand.
We talked in the shop.
"That... was actually the idea that E Niang and I came up with, and Amma didn't know about it. You can't blame him..." Jinxi suddenly remembered the Qing Dynasty law that officials were not allowed to engage in business, and said that Yinzhen wanted to
To warn her about this, admit it before he opens his mouth.
"Oh?" Yinzhen nodded without surprise after hearing her explanation. "Since you and Fujin came up with it, that's even better. I want to make a deal with you..."
"Fifty taels to buy a cake recipe?" Jin Xi stared at Yinzhen in surprise and exclaimed. The other book friends looked at them normally: "It's not a buyout and prohibits us from continuing to open the store? Just to buy a cake recipe?"
In fact, making cakes is not difficult. You only need to customize a mold and bake the oven. Compared with some traditional pastries with complicated craftsmanship, making cakes is relatively simple.
If I spend fifty taels to buy a simple craft, is it too expensive?
"Do you think that my bid is too high or too low?" Yinzhen tapped Jinxi's head with the folding fan in his hand. He looked at the rich expression on her face, especially the tangled look when her eyebrows were furrowed.
, which made him laugh. It should be a good deal to buy a pastry recipe for fifty taels, right? Then why is she so entangled? Is it because she is not worth it for herself? This is interesting.
Jin Xi swallowed her saliva after hearing this, "...seriously?"
"Seriously." Yinzhen nodded with a smile. "If you agree, we can trade now." Yinzhen took out a purse, which contained fifty taels of silver ingot. He handed it to Jinxi, "I'm waiting for you.
formula."
"Here's it for me? Aren't you afraid that I'll cheat by taking the money?" Jinxi touched the fifty-tael silver ingot for the first time. She looked around excitedly for a long time, then carefully put it into her sleeve pocket and walked into the counter.
I wrote down the cake recipe on the inside, but I didn’t forget to mutter a few words at the end.
Yinzhen naturally heard her muttering and rubbed his nose in a funny way. Who dares to fool around with a prince's brother? If so, then it would be her.
"Brother Si, this is the recipe. Listed below are the required materials and equipment. As for the equipment, the blacksmith shop I found before is pretty good. I've written down the name of the shop here. You can send someone to order it and try it.
Of course, there must be more talented people in the palace, and maybe someone can actually develop a solar oven..." The last sentence was just a whisper from Jinxi, and it is unknown whether Yinzhen heard it.
But from the half-smiling look in his eyes, we can imagine that he must have heard it.
"By the way, I asked Brother Si to take these back for tasting. Please keep them. It's delicious. Come back next time!" Jinxi asked Jiangrui to wrap up a piece of cake and snacks of each flavor and put them on a double-layered plate.
In the box, he handed it to Yinzhen and said with a crooked smile, "Book fans also like to read: If those in the palace have tasted the sweetness of Western pastries, they will definitely come to visit "The Language of Fruit" from time to time.
"Okay." Yinzhen did not refuse and asked the boy to take the food box and leave. What he was thinking about was that the little carrots in the palace liked these sweets and cakes very much, so he just brought them to give them a taste.
.The next time the restaurant chef makes a fresh milk cake, it will be a good comparison so that we can keep improving.
As soon as Yinzhen said "The Word of Fruit", Jinxi went back to the counter, took out the fifty-tael pure silver ingot, turned it over and over and admired it for a long time, then put it in her purse, and started working on what she would launch next in the store.
new style Western pastry.
Western pastries can be divided into five categories according to their cooking methods: snacks, cakes, puff pastry, qigu, and mixed puff pastry. Aunt Liu and Rao Chan have been taught how to make several famous cakes and snacks before. After a month of trial operation,
, the effect was very good. Therefore, she decided to develop puff pastries. I believe more people will like the pastries produced by "Guozhiyu". Because there are few people who don't like puff pastry.
The materials required to make puff pastry are similar to those of cake. The only difference is that more butter is needed to make puff pastry.
When Jinxi was making cakes, she extracted butter by the way. Since there is no butter supply in the shop now, she needs butter to make cakes and snacks, which she makes ready-made.
In fact, it's not difficult. Just stir the fresh milk vigorously, scrape off the thick layer of milk skin floating on the top of the milk, filter it through a fine mesh cloth and stir it twice, and the result is purely handmade.
Made from pure natural butter.
Although it doesn't look very good on the outside, the effect is the same as the butter she is familiar with, and the finished product is more crispy and crispy.
After drawing up several popular pastry or mixed pastries, such as egg tarts, butterfly pastries, abalone pastries, and soy sauce center pastries, he also listed a list of ingredients that need to be used, so that Raochan could prepare them in his spare time.
I came to teach her and Aunt Liu how to make it.
At first, Aunt Liu and Raochan were very surprised that Jinxi could come up with so many strange snacks and cakes. In the end, they spontaneously attributed it to Jinxi's hard work. According to the gossip revealed by Mo'er, their own Gege family had a lot of success.
She sleeps with a palm-thick encyclopedia of restaurants that Fujin bought for her from Liulichang, observing and studying. Can the ideas she comes up with be good?
Hearing these speculations, Jin Xi naturally covered her mouth and snickered.
That encyclopedia, which is as thick as a Kangxi dictionary, is not an encyclopedia of restaurants taken from Liulichang. It is a collection of Chinese and Western delicacies that she wrote or drew with her own hands.
Although many modern recipes are still popping up in her mind, there is no guarantee that they will be forgotten one day. So, while her memory is still clear now, she simply takes advantage of the gap between practicing calligraphy and painting to cook all the delicacies.
They are all organized into volumes by category, and finally, the cover is made of cardboard wrapped in fine yellow silk cloth, just like a popular book that is selling like hot cakes in the market.
"Gege, we also need to buy flour and sugar. There are still two baskets of eggs. I have already told Liangzi that he will go to Xiaotangshan early tomorrow morning to buy goods. By the way, he will bring back some jam." Raochan checked what was missing in the kitchen.
Or if you are running out of ingredients, please return to Bingjinxi.
Liangzi is the son of Manager Lin. He is fourteen years old this year. He used to work as a boy in the Meishan Villa. Jinxi saw that he was quite smart and asked Fei Yanggu to come over. He was doing errands and purchasing at "Guozhiyu". Good job.
Fortunately, you can also get some rewards, which is much better than hiding in another courtyard.
No, the fresh fruits harvested from the orchards of other courtyards are no longer exported. Instead, the forest manager organized the spare hands of other courtyards to make large altars of jam and store them in the warehouse. "The Language of Fruit" needs
Use as much as you need.
Liangzi goes to Xiaotangshan two or three times a month, firstly to pick up jam, and secondly to collect eggs. Fortunately, Jinxi has asked Manager Lin to negotiate the purchase price of eggs with nearby farmers in advance.
It's a lot of work, so it's cheaper than the wholesale ones in shops. Every time Liangzi goes there, he mainly weighs, pays, and collects the goods from the warehouse.
In order to prevent the eggs from being knocked and broken on the way, Jinxi specially asked Liangzi to customize a large number of large wooden boxes full of grids, and each grid could only hold one egg, and placed thick soft pads between each layer of wooden boxes.
of cotton felt, sealed a box with ten layers, and wrapped the outside of the box with old rags to prevent shocks. The effect was amazing. After the first three eggs, only a few eggs had cracked shells and inner membranes.