After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is really cool down.
Food is the chef of Tianhou, and Chef Xu is no longer intimidated since he was in charge of making mooncakes once. He is really nothing to say. Although he has worked very hard when making mooncakes, he made them from the beginning. The taste is not as good as what his master made.
Thinking of wasting so many good things in vain, Chef Xu beat his chest with hatred.
But Gu Yin was not in a hurry with him. Although the food that the apprentice practiced was not so delicious and could not be sold to customers, it was not a problem for his own employees to eat. As long as you can eat it, it's not a waste.
Moreover, she basically knew where he had a problem after tasting it, and if she gave him a single point, she would naturally not make such a mistake next time.
This moved Chef Xu, and he said to his two young apprentices in private: "Meeting your master is the greatest luck in your life. We can't repay our kindness without repaying it, and we will give your master a pension in the future. "
Gu Yin heard a sentence by chance and was speechless. Chef Xu was eight or nine years older than her, and the two young disciples were only four or five years younger than her. She really didn't want to go ahead of them.
Later, Chef Xu began to help Gu Yin to share more things, such as simple white case desserts. He has been watching Gu Yin for almost half a year, and he has done more with less.
And the shopkeeper Zhou saw that Gu Yin brought his apprentices a little envious, and also had the idea of accepting apprentices.
In fact, this idea is not a day or two, but when he was in Wangyuelou, it was because he had to operate the entire restaurant by himself, and he did not have the energy. Later, the operation of Wangyuelou was on track, and Chef Zhao was placed in to sing opposite him. If he had accepted apprentices at that time, it would inevitably make people think that he was trying to form a gang based on this.
Shopkeeper Zhou didn't want to take apprenticeships as a means to win over people, so he has been delaying it until now.
As soon as he proposed this idea, Chef Xu was the first to sign up. He already had the basic skills in the red and white cases. He didn't have to learn the white case. Of course, he wanted to learn the red case, but he was also afraid that Gu Yin would mind, so he asked first. Gu Yin's meaning.
Of course Gu Yin didn't mind, and helped him to say good things to Shopkeeper Zhou, saying that Chef Xu was really a person who was devoted to learning how to cook.
Shopkeeper Zhou also saw this, so he accepted Chef Xu as his apprentice.
Chef Xu had another master with superb craftsmanship, and he didn't sleep that night.
But no matter how fast he was, he couldn't learn from two masters at the same time. After thinking about it, Chef Xu thought of his two little apprentices.
His two little apprentices were equal to Gu Yin and shopkeeper Zhou's apprentices and grandchildren, and Gu Yin and shopkeeper Zhou were naturally willing to take them.
It was also at this time that Gu Yin knew the names of the two little boys, the older one was called a chopping board, and the smaller one was called a kitchen knife.
The name was like a play, and it was all given by Chef Xu.
But untouchables are easy to support, and it is not easy for him to raise two children as a big man, so there is no need to go into it.
So the three teachers and apprentices were divided into two groups, one group followed a master/shigong school.
What made Chef Xu frustrated was that he knew that the two apprentices had some talent in cooking. Anyway, what he knew, he had taught them all over the years, and the two apprentices' cooking skills were not much worse than his. But I didn't expect the talents of these two people to fully show after meeting Gu Yin and shopkeeper Zhou.
The chopping block talent is in the white case. After Gu Yin taught it once, he knew it immediately. The flower rolls he made were as good-looking as those made by Gu Yin.
The talent of the kitchen knife is in the red case. His knife skills are good, and the ratio of the seasoning and hook juice is taught in his mind once, and the card is extremely accurate.
Fortunately, Chef Xu is not a narrow-minded person. Looking back, the two masters are so powerful and the two young apprentices are so clever. Although he is not as good as them, it is already impossible to meet such people as masters and apprentices. opportunity.
His two young apprentices were brought up by him, and he regarded him as his own father. Of course, he did not despise his own father after learning the craftsmanship. Instead, he respected him more and coaxed him, for fear that he would not be happy.
In this way, in September, Gu Yin only needs to stay in the back kitchen for two or three hours a day, a lot of time for herself.
And Shiweitian also launched a new product at this time - sweet-scented osmanthus cake.
The production of sweet-scented osmanthus cake is not complicated. Mix glutinous rice flour and glutinous rice flour, add lard, sugar, and water, mix and stir, then rub the flour into a sandy sieve, put the sun-dried flour into a square steamer, and cover it with wet gauze. Finally, use the finishing and leveling, and use a knife to cut out the shape of a flat square. This keeps the shape better than cutting it after steaming, and it won't fall apart easily. Lastly, sprinkle with chopped osmanthus and steam for two quarters of an hour.
After the pot is out, use the invert syrup prepared before, mix with sweet-scented osmanthus, and finally pour it on, and the sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus cake is ready.
The sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant, the cake is as white as snow, sweet and glutinous, and a little sweet-scented osmanthus syrup is added.
In the past, customers would definitely be more willing to go to special dim sum shops or big restaurants to buy this kind of delicate dim sum.
But since the Mid-Autumn Festival has sold snowy mooncakes once, children and sweet-loving guests are full of praise.
Once the sweet-scented osmanthus cake was launched this time, there was no need to advertise it at all. The children passed it on by word of mouth, and the sales naturally increased steadily.
A piece of cake for three cents, even if it is not a holiday, parents are willing to buy it for their children.
And it's a seasonal thing, if you miss this fall you'll have to wait until next year.
So every day outside the main meal, Shiweitian can sell hundreds of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes every day. After the sale, it is not only for ordinary people.
However, pastries are snacks and seasonal things, so this time it did not attract hostility from the other two.
In mid-September, Gu Ye proposed to celebrate his birthday!
Although Gu Yin and Wang Shi had never urged him, they actually remembered this matter in their hearts.
After he brought it up, Mrs Wang thought about it and said, "The time doesn't seem right. I only opened a stall at the wharf where your mother and I went in September. It was vaguely October, and I met you before the weather was cold."
This also makes Gu Yin a little ashamed. This era is not as convenient as the mobile phone electronic calendar in later generations, and the old yellow calendar is still used to see the date.
At the end of summer and early autumn, their family fled to Hanshan Town. At that time, they were really poor and white. If they didn't use the Wang family's house to get the capital, let alone set up a stall on the wharf, it would be a problem to live.
In such an environment, they didn't buy a calendar at home, and they counted the days as they passed, and counted the days according to the weather.
When I met Gu Ye later, where did I think that this little brat would become part of the family in the future? He didn't even remember the day he met.
But what Wang said made sense. Gu Yin also remembered that he met him before winter, because he was scared away not long afterward, and the weather suddenly cooled down, and the pedestrians on the pier began to wear jackets, The jacket was tucked, but she and Wang Shi were worried.
"That's right, this time." Gu Ye blushed, "Now, can't you?"
His mother and his grandmother didn't know, in fact, he noticed them as early as the first day they went to the stall, and from that day on, he smelled his mother's food and became greedy, thinking about the morning and evening. Eat her craft!
Of course, this is not impossible. Anyway, he should have been counted as five years old. Since Gu Yin and Wang Shi couldn't remember the specific date, they went with him.
Knowing that he now has many friends who are inseparable, Gu Yin added: "Then my mother will set up a table or two for you, how about you call all your good friends home for a meal?"
After getting the answer, Gu Ye was overjoyed and jumped out.
Jumping all the way to the outside, seeing Fan Jinsong, Xiaopang and others from a distance, Gu Ye immediately slowed down and started walking slowly with his hands behind his back.
"What's the good thing today, our wild brother is so happy?"
Gu Ye's expression remained the same, and he announced that he was going to celebrate his birthday soon.
The children were all excited when they heard it, and asked him, "What birthday gift does Brother Ye want?"
Gu Ye said no, and said again: "My mother said, I will invite everyone to dinner when the time comes."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the number of people around him, and now he has counted well, and it is easy to count within 100.
He counted to thirty in one breath, and the children around him had only counted half, and Gu Ye frowned again.
Such people must not be invited all at once, and even if his mother agreed, he would not be willing to make his mother work so hard to entertain so many people in one go.
"Sixteen people please, the original No. 8 will remain the same. As for the others..." Gu Ye looked at Fan Jinsong, "You decide."
A few months ago, Fan Jinsong was thinking of saying goodbye to Gu Ye, but now he seems to be Gu Ye's number one horse.
Hearing this, he immediately raised his chest proudly and said, "Brother Ye, don't worry, I will definitely make it fun for you!"
When it came to Gu Yechen's day, Gu Yin started to prepare after the morning market.
The cake must be made, but Gu Ye specifically told her that she should not work too hard, otherwise he would have an uneasy birthday, so Gu Yin made a simple version of the chicken cake.
Whisk egg yolks, milk and flour until smooth. Beat egg whites and sugar at high speed to form a meringue, then add the egg yolk paste that was stirred before, and quickly mix well. After turning it into batter, pour it into a low disk, slide it with a toothpick to eliminate air bubbles, bake it in the preheated bread kiln for a quarter of an hour, take out a knife and cut a cross on the cake, and put it in the kiln Bake for a quarter of an hour.
The baked cake is charred yellow, sweet and fragrant, and then topped with a layer of osmanthus syrup, which is really fragrant and can be smelled outside the shop.
Of course, such a cake cannot be compared with the cakes sold in later generations, but except for the step of beating the egg whites, the other steps are considered simple.
Thinking that there were other children coming, Gu Yin made four pieces in one go.
Then it’s time to bake cookies. There is some butter left over from making moon cakes before. Mix butter with eggs and sugar, add flour, knead the dough into long strips, and put half of it on the ice cellar with few ice cubes left. time. After half an hour, cut the long strips into small round pieces and bake them in the bread kiln for more than a quarter of an hour.
Before noon, four pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus chicken cakes and hundreds of small butter cookies were ready.
Gu Yin also went from the back kitchen to the front hall, only to find that there were several children standing in front of the counter in the store. They were lined up, all holding strange and odd things in their hands.
Seeing her, Mrs. Wang laughed and said, "They are all here to congratulate our Xiao Ye Chen. I said at first that I wouldn't accept it, but they were still anxious for me. They said they wouldn't leave if they didn't accept it."
Gu Yin asked people to take out the biscuits she made and use the biscuits as a gift in return.
The things the children send are all kinds of strange things, such as candied haws, small pieces of caramel, wild flowers picked by the roadside, etc., which are all considered normal, as well as rags from home and stones picked up by the roadside.
But it can be seen that these are the things they like. The child who gave the rag head said that it was the most beautiful piece of cloth in the world. Unfortunately, it was too small to do anything, so he could only hold it every day. sleep. And the stone picked up by the roadside was the child's favorite little toy, and he played with it so smooth and moist that there was no edge or corner.
But there are also people who are startled, there are children who took their own sterling silver longevity locks as gifts. Gu Yin didn't dare to accept this kind of precious thing, but only said that he had received his heart, and gave two biscuits as a gift in return.
Until lunch, Gu Yin helped Gu Ye to collect thirty or forty gifts, and it was painful to copy the gift list.
Wang Shi couldn't help laughing beside her, and whispered to her, "Our Xiaoye's birthday is about to catch up with the eldest man who is an official. You too, they are all gadgets, why do you still write a gift list."
Gu Yin also laughed and said that it would not be in the way, "The courtesy is light and affectionate, so write it down to make Ono happy to see it."
Before lunch, Gu Ye and Wu An came back together.
Wu An specially took the half-day vacation to accompany him on his birthday, and Gu Ye also went to Wen's house to pick him up from school after finishing the morning martial arts lessons.
Not long after they arrived, a group of children led by Fan Jinsong also came to the banquet.
The afternoon market had already started earlier. Gu Yin borrowed two tables in advance and put them in the backyard, so they could just go there.
The four cakes drenched in sweet-scented osmanthus syrup, combined with the dozens of small biscuits left, made the eyes of older children like Fan Jinsong light up, while the younger ones were already drooling.
Of course, since you are inviting people to dinner, it is definitely not just desserts, but also hot dishes. But Shiweitian itself is in the food business. Gu Yin asked Shopkeeper Zhou to keep one plate of each of the hot dishes in the lunch market, adding up to ten plates of hot dishes, enough for this group of children.
They didn't need to be greeted by anyone, they brought dishes and chopsticks by themselves under the leadership of Gu Ye and Wu An.
By the end of the previous afternoon, the children's banquet had also dispersed.
After they left, Gu Yin took a look at Gu Ye and found that this kid was flushed and looked drunk.
Shiweitian doesn't sell alcohol, obviously someone else brought it to congratulate him on his birthday.
Gu Yin was terrified and was thinking about taking him to see a doctor. Mrs. Wang came over and sniffed the small cup on the table, and said with a smile, "It's okay, it's fruit wine, it's called wine, but it's actually sweet fruit water. Specially for women and children."
Wu An also said: "Don't worry, sister-in-law, there is only a small pot in total, and each person gets a small cup. Look at me, I have nothing to do."
Wu An is really not different at all.
Gu Yin was relieved, but touching Gu Ye's hot face, she still asked him worriedly, "Are you feeling uncomfortable or dizzy?"
Gu Ye shook his head and said, "It's not uncomfortable, I just want to sleep. Mother, can you carry me home to sleep?"
Normally, he wouldn't make such childish requests, and he was obviously still drunk.
There was nothing to do in the afternoon, and it was his birthday again. Gu Yin and the shopkeeper Zhou knew it and carried him back to Zhenyi Lane.
After walking on her back for a quarter of an hour and returning home, Gu Ye slept like a piglet on her back, and started snoring on the way.
When Gu Yin put him on the bed, he didn't wake up, turned over and went back to sleep, snoring loudly.
Gu Yin watched him for a while, seeing that the blush on his face had subsided and there were no other uncomfortable symptoms, and then got up and went back to the store.
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Winter in Hanshan Town came early, and it suddenly became cold in October. Gu Yin felt that it was time to tinker with something new.
It's getting cold, what's the best thing to eat? Of course it's hot pot!
The cost of hot pot is high, and the current customer base cannot afford it, so the whole Mala Tang will be replaced.
Gu Yin first went to Feng Carpenter to order a batch of bamboo long colanders, bamboo baskets, and bamboo sticks. Bamboo baskets and bamboo sticks are the simplest things. They are sold in Feng Carpenter's shop. As for the long colander, the handle has a buckle. Just enough to stick to the side of the pot.
Then boil a pot of fragrant big bone soup, and simmer on a small fire from midnight to morning, the bone soup is as white as milk.
Then wash the cabbage, bean sprouts, green vegetables, celery, potato chips, sweet potato chips, tofu and other vegetables, and serve with the sausages that the shopkeeper ordered last week, chicken balls, fish meat balls, lion head, egg skin dumplings and other meat dishes made by Gu Yin. There are also staple foods such as fried dough sticks, hand-rolled noodles, and vermicelli. A counter with bone soup Malatang has been opened.
The same is still the cheap route, vegetarian dishes and staple foods are one penny, and meat dishes are three cents.
If you eat it cheaply, you can get a bone soup Malatang for four or five cents. Of course, if you want to eat meat, then the money will definitely be unstoppable. In addition, you can add any other dishes you want to eat, just tell Gu Yin, and she will be able to tinker with it right away.
And you can put vinegar and garlic paste according to your own taste. In addition, Shiweitian also provides chili oil and sesame paste. You can make dry mix without bone broth. But the last two seasonings cost extra, two cents a serving, or three cents if you don't want soup.
As soon as this thing was launched, Mrs. Wen was the first to praise it.
He really liked last year's bone soup hot pot, but he has never eaten it again. If it is cold today, he has already thought about it again. Moreover, the spicy dishes can be selected according to his own taste, even if you eat them all at once, you can Choose the dishes yourself, it is not easy to get bored.
Master Wen also liked it very much. The chopped pepper sauce that Gu Yin had sent before had already been eaten, but knowing that Gu Yin was too busy with her own business, he did not have the cheek to ask her to put down her work and make another jar for herself.
It's just that the peppers he bought elsewhere were processed by his own cook, and he always felt that it was not as delicious as Gu Yin's.
The bone broth malatang is definitely not as fragrant as the butter and spicy hot pot, but the red chili oil is really spicy.
Mr. Wen didn't want bone broth every time, just two extra servings of chili oil and sesame paste, and eat it dry.
And other regular customers of Shiweitian have long been accustomed to their family launching new things from time to time. Although the time is short, it has been half a year.
Especially in November, when the cold wind is bleak outside, eating a hot meal can only warm the stomach, but the body is still cold.
Now eating this spicy hot soup, hot soup and hot dishes, makes people feel comfortable and sweaty, and they will not feel so cold when they go out. Of course, if you add a few cents and eat a bowl of chili oil, it will be dry for a long time.
Malatang is a simple thing, except that Gu Yin needs to watch the heat and seasoning when boiling the bone soup, other people can make the rest.
Gu Yin was liberated at once, with more free time, and she began to pickle sauerkraut.
After washing the mustard greens, cut off the excess roots, then put them in a pot and blanch them in boiling water, and remove them immediately after they change color. Then pour the rice water into the boiling water for boiling the vegetables, stir well, add a little salt, remove the scum, and let it cool naturally.
Afterwards, put the hot mustard greens into a clean vegetable urn and press tightly, pour the cold rice soup into the mustard greens, and then press them with a heavy object, seal them, and store them in a dark place for three to seven days.
This step is not complicated. After she demonstrated it once, Chef Xu and his two young apprentices got started, and they marinated twenty jars in one go, not only mustard greens, but also cabbage, pickled radishes, and sour beans.
After seven days, the sauerkraut is completely discolored and fully marinated.
Chef Xu thought at first that his master was cooking small dishes, but after such a large scale, he felt that he was thinking wrong.
Gu Yin is of course not a side dish, there are so many things that sauerkraut can do!
First of all, there is the most abundant fish in Hanshan Town. When it is paired with sauerkraut to make a sauerkraut fish, it really won't taste the slightest fishy smell.
In addition, the sauerkraut soup base can also be used as a new flavor of Malatang. In addition, there are sauerkraut stewed vermicelli, sauerkraut fried pork, sauerkraut stewed spareribs... There are so many things to eat.
Launched again, the acceptance of the guests is still very high.
Although Shiweitian had set up a few double tables before, it was barely able to sit down.
Now it is Mala Tang and Pickled Fish, which has attracted a large number of people. Coupled with the original regular customers, Shiweitian is often hard to find. Moreover, because the host bought fast food in the past, the food became cold after the meal, and there were fewer guests. Now Mala Tang and Pickled Cabbage Fish are fast and convenient to make. Often from the morning, the store has been coming to the store one after another, and there is an endless stream.
Hanxianglou and Wangyuelou are so annoying.
They used to eat cheap dishes and snacks for God, but they have already suppressed them. Although some new things were launched later, each time they were released, they received a wave of praise. The two of them could only comfort themselves that they were all seasonal things, and forget about it. However, Shiweitian is launching new things all year round, and various means of publicity emerge in an endless stream, which makes people dazzled.
Up to now, the young master's family, who is a few years old, has almost included all the children near Wencheng Street. In a few years, those children will be older and can make decisions...
No matter how small an ant is, it can kill an elephant! Let her go on like this, and the fool knows that sooner or later he will have to kill her.
Especially in the VIP deposit activities launched by the two companies before, those customers have almost eaten the money they have saved, and because there are too many discounts, the two of them actually don't earn any money, and they dare not do that again. discount.
Everyone knows that the diners are fresh, and after the deposit of silver flowers is finished, those people who can't keep them all will turn to food for heaven.
Wang Dafu gritted his teeth and took out the special seasoning he had prepared a few months ago.
And Mr. Bai also chose to overweight, and reluctantly added the seasonings purchased at high prices overseas to the special treatment of VIPs.