Chapter 147 The uncle who was attracted by the aroma
Making soup is a science, and there are many ways to do it.
For example, depending on the selection of meat and vegetables ingredients, it can be divided into meat soup and vegetarian soup.
For example, depending on the use of civil and military fire, the color of the soup produced is also different. It can produce a milky white soup or a clear soup like water.
For example, depending on the combination of ingredients, the potency of the soup is different, and there are many categories, such as nourishing soup, fire-removing soup, milk-clearing soup, diuretic soup, etc.
When it comes to soup-making skills, people from Guangdong Province have a strong say.
Xu Tongdao didn't learn Cantonese cuisine before, and he couldn't make too many kinds of soups. There were only a few kinds that he was good at. Among them, he had some experience in making mutton soup.
Anyway, he has never heard anyone say that the mutton soup tastes bad.
He believes that the most important thing about making mutton soup is that the mutton used has no odor. This is the most important thing.
After all, when making the mutton soup, you cannot use peppers or cumin powder, which can mask the mutton smell.
It’s best not to even add cooking wine.
Some other spices can be left out, otherwise they will destroy the delicious taste of the mutton itself.
Under the restrictions of so many conditions, it is definitely not an easy task to make a pot of mutton soup full of aroma, delicious and delicious, but without a trace of odor.
Green onions and ginger can be used.
Other than that, it mainly depends on the control of the heat.
The blanched sheep head, feet, bones, haggis, etc. were put into a stainless steel vat, green onions and ginger were put in. After pouring in most of the bucket of clean water directly from the faucet, Comrade Xu put these
Place the pot on the stove over high heat and cook vigorously.
For more than an hour, he didn't put a lid on the vat, allowing the water vapor to evaporate from the endlessly boiling soup. It wasn't until the mutton smell could no longer be smelled in the steaming and flying water vapor that he turned the fire to low.
Turn on the fire and close the lid.
This is his trick to get rid of the bad smell.
By heating it over a high fire, all the mutton smell in the mutton and mutton bones is stimulated and evaporated together with the water vapor on the soup surface.
Then simmer it over a slow fire, and the aroma will become more and more intense.
He hung this pot of soup from morning to evening, and continued to cook it over a slow fire.
In the afternoon, he took out the sheep's head and ordered Xu Tonglin to use chopsticks to pick off all the meat on the sheep's head. By then, the meat on the sheep's head had been stewed to a pulp.
After picking the sheep skulls and mutton, he threw them into the soup bucket and continued to cook them.
When Huang Mei, Cao Min, and Fang Fang came to work in the afternoon, they smelled the distinct aroma of mutton soup as soon as they entered the door.
As the evening gradually approaches, everyone who passes by their shop, regardless of age or sex, almost subconsciously sniffs a few times, and then follows the source of the aroma with their eyes to the kitchen of their shop.
So delicious!
When some people eat mutton for the first time, they eat mutton that is very pungent, and then they never dare to eat mutton again and do not want to eat mutton.
I thought I was born unable to stand the smell of mutton.
In fact, they were all tricked.
Just like some people try to read a book out of curiosity for the first time. As a result, the book they read for the first time is extremely bad, or boring, and then they subconsciously think that most of them are like this, and never read it again.
Don't touch any of them.
The principles are the same.
Of course, there are also those who have a strong taste and just like the mutton smell of mutton. But eating mutton without mutton smell is not satisfying. That is another matter.
But most people still can't eat mutton that has a strong smell.
When Comrade Xu opened his business, he naturally had to take into account the tastes of the public.
When he noticed that every passerby outside the store was attracted by the aroma of the mutton soup he served today, he became more confident about tonight's business.
In order to welcome the diners in the evening, at 4:30 in the afternoon, Comrade Xu announced that dinner would be served for the staff.
It is also a habit in the catering industry to let everyone fill their stomachs first. Otherwise, when it is meal time and customers come one after another, the chefs and waiters will have no time to eat.
They had just put the staff meal on the table, and Comrade Xu didn't even take a bite of the rice into his mouth! A rich little old man passed by their store with his hands behind his back and his waist bent.
The old man was well-dressed, with a pen in the breast pocket of his brand-new Mao suit, and a pair of black leather shoes on his feet.
None of this is the point!
The point is that when he passed by the store door, he walked slower and slower. Others were walking forward, but they never looked back while staring in the direction of the kitchen of the store.
Just walking like this, when he reached the two store doors, he swallowed his throat and suddenly forgot his original intention, and suddenly turned into Xu Tongdao's store.
"Hey! What are you burning in your store? It smells so good?"
To be honest, Xu Tongdao and others did not expect this old man to suddenly come in.
After all, their store had not yet started to receive customers at this time, and in their impression, elderly people of this age rarely ate barbecue.
So, when the old man suddenly turned into the store and asked suddenly, Xu Tongdao, Ge Lianghua, Xu Tonglin, who were about to eat the staff meal, and the three women who had just come to work today, were all a little confused.
I can't even react in time.
Then the first person to react was Huang Mei, who was arranged by Xu Tongdao to wash dishes in the back kitchen.
This aunt was the first to show a warm smile and replied immediately with a loud voice: "Oh, it's mutton soup! It's the mutton soup stewed by our boss himself. It's delicious! Master, do you want a bowl? It's really delicious.
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"Mutton soup? Is the mutton soup so fragrant?"
The old man frowned with his thick gray eyebrows and turned slightly, as if he wanted to leave.
He had already stepped out with his left foot, but stopped again, turned around and asked: "How do you sell it? How much does a bowl cost?"
"this……"
Huang Mei couldn't answer. She didn't know, so she subconsciously looked at Xu Tongdao.
"waived……"
Ge Lianghua opened his mouth to say free, but Comrade Xu suddenly raised his hand to stop him.
Yes! The plan to give away free mutton soup was decided by him.
But until this afternoon, the reactions of the passers-by who passed by his store, as well as the man in front of him who was attracted by the aroma, made him feel that giving away such fragrant mutton soup for free might be too wasteful.
Such a fragrant mutton soup can be used as the new signature of his store. It should have a price that matches its status.
Therefore, he temporarily changed his mind and raised his hand to stop his cousin Ge Lianghua from saying "free".
Then he stood up and smiled kindly at the uncle. He smiled really kindly, "Grandpa, it's not expensive! Originally we sold it for three yuan a bowl, but today is the first day our store is open, so we sell it cheap, only one yuan a bowl."
Bowl! There are mutton bones, haggis and mutton in the soup! Do you want to try a bowl?"