From the porridge stall outside the door, cheers came one after another. What happened? Zhao Kui hurriedly took a lot of money and went out with Sun Jiugong to take a look. It turned out that it was the victims who were cheering. They thought they would just exchange some wild vegetables for
Wild vegetable porridge is just a way to prevent oneself from starving to death. Unexpectedly, when I opened the lid, I saw that the restaurant gave them meat buns and gruel in exchange, and also gave them a portion of pickles. What kind of treatment is this? Poor people rarely eat it all year round.
Even in the days when the grain harvest is good, a meat bun is a luxury. Now it is three pounds of wild vegetables for a meat bun and a portion of porridge. The wild vegetables are all over the mountains and fields, and there is no end to them. In the morning, the money man followed them
I'm talking about exchanging three kilograms of wild vegetables for a bowl of wild vegetable rice. I really made a lot of money.
The victims were grateful and queued up one by one with their broken bowls. As soon as they finished eating, they hurried up the mountain to continue picking wild vegetables. They planned to continue eating here the next day in exchange for meat buns. In the restaurant, the officers, soldiers and escorts had a good meal.
When we came out, we saw a long queue at the door. Everyone was holding wild vegetables. I was so surprised. The porridge was so fragrant and tempting. It made my stomach feel itchy. Could it be that this was what we were given in the morning?
Prepared? Everyone in the soldiers regretted why they ate this wild vegetable porridge in the morning.
The captain said to Zhao Kui: "Shopkeeper, how about you send someone to the barracks tomorrow to make us a pot of porridge and steamed buns as well? We have enough rice and noodles. After eating, we will help you dig wild vegetables as a reward.
, the physical fitness of soldiers must be better than that of these hungry people."
Asking the victims to dig wild vegetables was a temporary measure to save food. Why do we need so many wild vegetables? Zhao Kui smiled bitterly at his request. Sun Jiugong was secretly happy when he saw this, and quietly pulled him aside and said:
"I think our opportunity to make a fortune has come. Just now, I saw that there are two kinds of wild vegetables called Polygonatum japonica and Pueraria lobata. The noble officials in Lin'an are particularly fond of it. Today's emperor believes in Taoism. Every once in a while, he follows the Taoist priests to do a few days of fasting.
Oh my God, they would eat meatballs made of this wild vegetable when they were eating rice. I once made this for noble officials and Taoist priests. This root grows very deep underground, and if the soldiers are in good physical condition, they can be asked to dig it up in exchange for it.
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The key to cooking porridge well, especially in large pots, is time and heat. The heat should be high at the beginning. After boiling for a certain period of time, cook slowly over low heat and stir constantly with a shovel. At this time,
The porridge starts to thicken, and when it becomes sticky, you have to turn on the fire again. The aroma of the porridge comes from the slightly burnt rice caused by the firewood. If the aroma is not enough, it will be too much and it will smell burnt. This is easy to say.
, but the control of the heat requires a wealth of experience. Qian Duoben was born in a scholarly family. His family is a big family with nearly a hundred people. He makes the porridge in the morning. He has rich experience in this aspect.
, so he volunteered to go to the barracks.
After harvesting so many wild vegetables, there will definitely be more to make wild vegetable porridge. Zhao Gu and Sun Jiugong discussed whether they could use wild vegetables and meat as stuffing to make some new varieties. Among the wild vegetables, shepherd's purse is used to make steamed buns.
Sun Jiugong once made it for noble officials when he was in Lin'an. The half-fat and half-refined pork and shepherd's purse were cut into fine dices and mixed with various seasonings to make the stuffing. The conditions in the barracks were not so good.
, for the purpose of preservation, there was some salted pork and not much seasoning. But I could only make do with it and get through this. The business in the barracks cannot be done for a long time, and in order to seek their protection, I have to do it.
"Partridge Sky—Shepherd's Purse Pork Bun"
The shepherd's purse is delicious and green, and the three layers of pork are oily and moist. Chopped together into a filling, the taste is first-class among gourmet dishes.
The dough has risen, knead it a thousand times, and press it into round cakes. The stuffing is packed with wrinkles, and the steamed meat buns are as bulging as oranges.
The shepherd's purse meat buns were a little bitter when you first ate them, but they were very chewy. The more you bite, the more chewy and flavorful they became. Slowly, you felt the aroma on your tongue and teeth. One hundred soldiers ate more than 500 buns.
.However, the buns were not in vain. In one day, I got more than a hundred kilograms of Huangjing and nearly a thousand kilograms of arrowroot powder. The price of arrowroot powder is not high, but the price of Huangjing is very precious. One pound costs three taels of silver.
Zhao Kui was weighing with a scale. Something happened again at the soup porridge stall. The victims were holding wild vegetables and making a noise: "Yesterday, three kilograms of wild vegetables were exchanged for porridge and steamed buns. Why can we only exchange porridge with wild vegetables today? We can't even give porridge."
You must be so black-hearted.”
What we promised at the beginning was three kilograms of wild vegetables in exchange for a meal of wild vegetable porridge, but something unexpected happened. The porridge was eaten by the soldiers and escorts, and there was also porridge and steamed buns for the first day. We did not break our promise. Besides, now
It was just after the flood, and it was good to have a bowl to eat. Why did he choose between seven and eight? Zhao Wei had never experienced such a thing, and was busy explaining to the victims. He was sweating profusely, but he still couldn't explain it.
At this time, a booing man stood in front and said: "Wang's Restaurant in the east of the town will be giving out porridge in half an hour. They are giving out white rice porridge, and they don't need wild vegetables in exchange. Everyone, go there!"
It turned out that after shopkeeper Wang sent the waiter back, he talked about the food at Fat Heart Restaurant and said that the food was not very good, but the steamed buns and wild vegetable porridge they made were pretty good and quite a bit tasty. Shopkeeper Wang thought about it,
You have to suppress their reputation from the beginning so that they won't compete with you in the future. What kind of taste do the victims' products have? They just want to have a full stomach. Put a brand on them saying that they are unkind to business and see how they behave.
Turn around! So, he also opened a porridge stall to provide porridge. Wang's Restaurant is a long-established restaurant with a solid foundation and money. Once it opened, it was the level of Fat Heart Restaurant on the first day. Each of the victims who came to the disaster received a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun. They
There was no use in taking the wild vegetables, so I simply stopped harvesting them.
Amid the cheers, when the victims heard that such a good thing was happening, they threw the wild vegetables in their hands at Zhao Hui and said, "This wild vegetable is given to you. I hope you, the evil-hearted shopkeeper, can eat it and live a long life."
As soon as the leader came, the other victims followed suit and threw wild vegetables into the bucket and Zhao Wei. After a while, his body was covered with wild vegetables. It didn't hurt, but his heart ached. He was so kind.
Not to mention a good reward, this is wild vegetable porridge for more than a hundred people. It is hot and it will smell bad if left for a long time. But the victims have all run away, and the diners will not eat when they see the victims, thinking that it is definitely not good food, so
I don't want it, I can only use it to feed the pigs. There is no loss of money, because this fund was originally budgeted for disaster relief, but I got the title of a black-hearted shopkeeper, and my reputation was completely ruined in a short period of time.
"It's okay, it's okay. They fry their food and we cook our meat. We all do our own business." Sun Jiugong saw this scene after returning from the barracks and said to Zhao Kui: "Wang's Restaurant will take over the important task of disaster relief.
We can just concentrate on cooking, and since we have paid a lot of money, the three of us will discuss what to do next."