Chapter 22 Mutton Offal Soup
The stall was closed at noon, and even the amount of food Su Ji prepared today was much less than usual, so he closed the stall early and prepared to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in the evening.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, delicious meals are essential.
Su Yujin asked Ai Cao, Liu Mama and others to go to Fuyunlou to buy pork elbow with salt and pepper, pot-roasted duck, crispy fish, etc., while she herself went into the kitchen and cooked a dish of cabbage rolls.
The tender cabbage leaves are blanched in cold water, wrapped with seasoned pork filling, steamed, and then poured with stewed bone broth.
The cabbage leaves are tender, the minced meat is fragrant, and the broth is light and full of flavor. Because there are not too many seasonings, the whole dish tastes fragrant, delicate and delicious.
When the others saw Su Yujin cooking herself, they naturally had no reason to sit idle, so they each made a dish.
Mother Liu made fried lotus root with a crispy and fragrant skin, mugwort made fragrant and delicious spicy bean curd, shuangye made stir-fried pork slices with chrysanthemum, bitao made spicy and sour shredded radish, greenhe made stir-fried pork with mushrooms, golden osmanthus made home-style tofu, and snowball made stir-fried liver slices.
Qingkui thought for a long time but didn't know what to do, and her cooking skills were really not good. After thinking about it, she finally blanched the long and tender beans, poured a layer of sesame paste on them, and served a plate of sesame beans.
The staple food is dumplings filled with green onions, cabbage and pork. A little spinach juice is added to the dough when kneading, making green emerald dumplings to eat.
The Mid-Autumn Festival dinner can be said to be rich and lively.
As the moon gradually became crescent-shaped, the weather became colder day by day.
Su Yujin removed the cold noodle stall at Su Ji and replaced it with another kind of food - mutton offal soup.
The sticky white soup made from the stewed thigh bones and spine bones of the sheep is paired with thinly sliced lamb cheeks, lamb blood, lamb liver, etc., poured into a bowl of hot soup, sprinkled with chopped green onions and coriander, and a little pepper and chili powder...
When drinking, I can't stop, one sip after another!
Because of this, mutton offal soup immediately became Su Ji’s new signature dish once it was launched!
However, new troubles soon arose.
Different from noodles and wontons of various flavors, this mutton offal soup does not have any pasta as a staple food. Although it tastes good, one bowl of it is not enough to fill you up.
Moreover, according to the eating habits of people in Qinghe County, which is located in the north, simply drinking soup is not considered a meal.
But if you pair mutton offal soup with any other food from Su Ji, the taste will be somewhat different and the price will be much higher.
So after two days of popularity, the sales volume of this mutton offal soup showed a very obvious decline.
After thinking for a long time, Su Yujin set his sights on a pancake stall near Su Ji.
The girl setting up the stall was about fourteen or fifteen years old, named Zhang Huaihua. She was not tall but strong, with slightly dark skin, and a smile on her round face every day, making her look very friendly.
Zhang Huaihua sets up her stall every day, rain or shine.
The sesame seed cakes sold are authentic hanging oven sesame seed cakes. They are baked to a crispy texture on the front, and a few sesame seeds sprinkled on top increase the fragrance, making them very delicious.
Normally, sesame cakes are sold for one penny each and are of moderate size. An average woman or child with a normal appetite can eat one sesame cake in a meal, but an adult man would usually eat one and a half or two.
This amount would be very good if it were given away for free as a side dish with mutton offal soup.
So, Su Yujin went to Zhang Huaihua and ordered fifty sesame cakes from her every day.
Zhang Huaihua was naturally overjoyed to receive such a large sum of business, but she then discussed with Su Yujin with some trepidation, "My pancakes are sold at a low profit but in large quantities. The price cannot be lowered any further, otherwise I won't make any money..."
"I'll buy them at one cent each, and you can give me two extra pancakes every day, how about that?" Su Yujin replied.
Seeing this, Zhang Huaihua breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly, "No problem, three every day!"
If there is more, she really can't afford it.
"Okay." Su Yujin agreed.
The matter of the sesame cakes was quickly settled. Every day before Su Ji opened, Zhang Huaihua would deliver the fifty sesame cakes, and the money would be paid on a daily basis without any delay.
When Su Ji's mutton offal soup is sold, it is sold as a bowl of mutton offal soup with a sesame seed bun. If one sesame seed bun is not enough and you need to buy more, it costs one penny each.
With the addition of sesame seed cakes as a accompaniment, the sales of mutton offal soup have been increasing day by day, and it has once again become Su Ji’s best-selling signature dish.
Because people at that time valued mutton and thought that mutton offal and other offal were not presentable, and mutton offal were cheap, the profit ratio of mutton offal soup was also the highest among all Su Ji foods.
Because the mutton offal soup sold well, the number of sesame cakes ordered from Zhang Huaihua increased from fifty to sixty.
Zhang Huaihua was extremely happy. She got up a quarter of an hour earlier every day and started making sesame cakes early.
While I was busy, someone entered the yard.
It was a bit cold in the morning in late autumn. The person was wrapped in a cloak and wearing a cone hat. His appearance could not be seen clearly, but from his figure, he was not tall and seemed to be a woman.
People dressed like this were common in the county town. Zhang Huaihua didn't think too much about it and just said, "If you want to buy sesame cakes, you have to wait a little longer. You put one in the pot and it's not baked yet."
The man didn't say anything, but just threw a bag in front of Zhang Huaihua.
The bag seemed very heavy and made a crisp "ding-dong" sound when it fell on the table.
Zhang Huaihua opened the bag and saw a lot of white change in it.
One, two, three...
Weigh it, it's more than ten taels!
"How many sesame cakes would you like, sir?" Zhang Huaihua hugged the purse tightly in her arms, smiling, "When do you want it?" - That day, Su Yujin welcomed a guest.
Mrs. Zhou, Ms. Li.
"I am ashamed to come here without any prior notice, but I came here to thank Miss Su for saving my son's life." Li said straight to the point, "These are just some tokens of my appreciation. I hope Miss Su will not despise them."
"I should have come earlier, but my husband died early, and the family's herbal medicine business is all on me. I have been busy outside for some time, and I just returned home yesterday."
"After arriving home, I heard Mother Zheng mention that she had taken her son Ruoyi to eat in Miss Su's shop and he choked, and Miss Su saved him. So I prepared some small gifts to thank Miss Su for her kindness."
As he spoke, Li bowed again to express his gratitude.
Su Yujin hurriedly supported her, "It was just a piece of cake that day, Madam, please don't be polite. It was a sudden incident that day, and I happened to know some medical skills, so I quickly lent a hand to help."
"Madam just said that your family is in the medicinal materials business?"
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