Jiang Quan went to Zhenzai and bought ten pounds of icing sugar and several jars.
The second aunt said that the prepared preserved fruits should be stored in jars, so he bought them back for a rainy day.
Can you pick apricots after that?
Choose apricots that are medium to medium-ripe, and do not ask for those that are overripe and have worms.
Then wash and remove the core, then marinate it with icing sugar, adding a little salt when marinating.
After marinating for a few hours, the apricots will ooze juice. At that time, pour them directly into the pot and bring to a boil.
Don't cook it for too long, otherwise the apricot flesh will not take shape.
Immediately scoop out the apricot meat and soup, leave it for an hour, then take out the apricot petals from the soup, place them one by one on a bamboo board, and then put them in the sun to dry.
After two or three days in the sun, the apricot flesh becomes as chewy and chewy as a persimmon, with a bright yellow color, sweet and sour taste and is very delicious.
The dried fruits can be stored in jars and sealed for a long time.
The soup of Chengdong is thick, sour and sweet. Not only the children drank it, but also the adults praised it.
Yingbao didn't have much interest in preserved apricots, but she really liked the sweet and sour juice of boiled apricot leftovers.
If you add some ice cubes, it will be so refreshing to take a sip on a hot day.
Yingbao looked at the apricot trees and made up his mind.
"Second brother, let's pick all the apricots on the tree."
Yingbao asked Jiang Quan and said, "Give some of the ripe ones to people in the village, and let's make apricots from the half-ripe ones. Don't throw away those apricot pits. They can be used to grind almond powder in the future."
She had drunk almond tea in her life, which was made by boiling almond powder, rice milk and milk, then adding some caramel, and it was fragrant.
But one thing is, almonds are poisonous, especially the skin of almonds is highly toxic. If not handled properly, it can be life-threatening, and children should not even touch them.
But she has a pupil spring. When the almonds are soaked in the spring water, a lot of the poison will be removed.
Jiang Quan opened his eyes wide and said, "Yingbao, there are so many apricot trees. How many preserved apricots can I make? If I can't sell them, I'll lose all my money to buy the candies."
"It will sell." Ying Bao was not worried at all.
At best, it would be better to earn less and give it to the vendors instead of having so many apricots that turn red and rotten.
Yan Ru said from the side: "Why don't you give the apricot preserves to the dried fruit preserve shop in the county? Although the profit is small, it can still make an income. At least you can get the frosting money."
Her advice coincided with Yingbao's.
"Okay, second brother, let's go to the county town after all the apricot preserves are made." Yingbao was full of confidence.
It just so happened that Yingbao really wanted to go to the county town to take a look at her new house and see what the shortcomings were so that she could buy something better for herself.
"Er Auntie, can those peaches be used as preserved fruit?" Ying Bao asked.
Yan Ru: "No, the process of making preserved fruit from peaches is similar to that from apricots. Is it possible to make some."
"Then let's make some peach preserves. Don't throw away the peach pits. If the peach kernels are used as medicinal materials, we can sell them to the drugstore." I guess the price won't be high, but you can get back some of the cost.
Jiang Quan was still unsure: "How much sugar will it cost?"
"Let's go ahead and show off. We bought a lot of sugar. We can talk to the store and the price will definitely drop."
Whether Yingbao has done business in this life, I know a little bit about the twists and turns there.
Yan Ru also nodded: "Go to the big store in the county to buy candy. If you buy more, you can really save a lot of money."
"All right."
Jiang Quan scratched his head and asked, "When will we go to the county seat?"
The fruit on the tree doesn't wait for anyone, and it makes me feel sad to see it ripen and rotten day by day.
Ying Bao was speechless and was frowning in thought.
We have so many fruit trees, and seeing that the vines and grapes are about to mature, we will definitely not be able to eat them all, let alone sell them in the countryside. I would give them all away, but I would be reluctant to part with them.
It's very sad.
I thought I could earn some money from the fruit trees I worked so hard to plant, but unexpectedly they became a burden.
If you don’t agree, let your second cousin go to the county town to open a shop specializing in selling preserved fruits.
I have more than three hundred taels of silver in my legs, so buying a shop shouldn't be a problem.
With a shop, you don't have to give them low prices for your preserved fruits and fruits. When the rare grapes and grapes come to the market, the shop is likely to become the focus of the county town.
Even if the fruit is out of market, there are many golden fungus and snow fungus. However, the second uncle Yanru is very good at making fragrant powder and rouge, and she sells it in the shop.
Yingbao has already sown many flower seeds on the brown soil of Dongfu, such as roses, dandelions, peonies, peonies, honeysuckle, impatiens, sapphire, red and blue flowers, etc. She soon scattered some lotus seeds by the pond.
, then small round lotus leaves had grown.
But is it a difficult question, how should I position my store?
Their shops are all specialized in business, such as Shengde Pastry, Fengrun Grain Shop, Jinxiu Cloth Shop, Qianji Gold, Silver and Jade Shop, etc. Even the bamboo ware shop specializes in bamboo bamboo ware.
Your own shop sells a variety of goods, but it cannot be called a grocery store.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind.
Please call it a local specialty.
Although Qinchuan County is not an eastern county, there are a lot of tourists coming and going. Since our home is known as a local specialty, those visiting relatives and friends must be willing to buy some to take away.
Because there are specialties in other places, such as Langqiao wooden comb, Luoyang pineapple, Qi persimmon, Yanli, Wushan tangerine, Nanzhong tea seeds, etc. When travelers go to the local area and don't buy something, they always go to Buluo.
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However, Qinchuan County seems to have no specialties.
There is no tea, no silk embroidery, no ink stones, no rare medicinal materials.
It's just a small, unremarkable county, and most people make a living by farming.
However, Qinchuan County is located in a hilly area, with very little fertile land for planting, and the taxes are not low at all. It is strange that the people in the east of Zhitou are not in poverty.
In the past, the imperial court stipulated that each man could be allocated a hundred acres of land, but when he arrived, he was allocated sixty acres.
The sixty acres are not all fertile farmland, there are quite a few mountainous areas.
Ru Ming cannot even get sixty acres, because there is no land left to divide in the countryside.
My eldest cousin will be seventeen next year, so he should have been allocated a field long ago, but there has been no movement in front of him until tomorrow.
Not only do we not do anything right, but the land in our hometown is basically divided, and the rest of the land is just a rocky wasteland where no grass grows.
If those wastelands were given to the people, it would be equivalent to forcing the people to die.
I wonder who can afford the tax on a field that can’t even grow a single grain of grain?
So Ying Baoqiu decided to take a different approach and create a way for the first cousin, second cousin and others to make money.
The golden fungus and snow fungus we own are the only ones in Qinchuan County. Even the Wen family sent people to wait for the purchase. It is not too much to make them a specialty of Qinchuan County.
After that, it would be logical to add the names of preserved apricots, peach preserves and pear preserves as Qinchuan specialties.
Wrong, I have a lot of grapes and tsubo. Although they are not specialties of Qinchuan, they can be sold incidentally.
Having made up his mind, Ying Bao smiled and said to Jiang Quan, "He will go to the county town next month."
Not only do I want to buy candy, I also want to buy a shop.
She had already thought of a name for the store, and it was called "Jiangji Specialty Products".
Although the product is a specialty of Qinchuan County, the name of the store must not contain the word "Qinchuan", otherwise you will be arrested and taken to the county government.
If you are a businessman, not only can you not add the name of the county or town to the shop name banner, but you cannot even include the word "Murong" on the signboard.
Because the royal family's surname was Murong, all common people had to avoid those two words.
