After dinner, Grandma Liu insisted that Pei Yuezhi clean up, so she and Liu Yuanyuan discussed selling the items.
Pei Yuezhi meant that since the savory pancakes weren't selling very well, they would stop making them for the time being and make more steamed dumplings tomorrow, and then make another product.
After much thought, I realized that staple foods would be more convenient. I did consider selling some dishes, but customers had nowhere to eat, and I couldn't just let them take the bowls with them.
Let's wait until we have a small shop before doing these things.
Now I'm thinking about what else I can make to sell.
Liu Yuanyuan agreed with this point. She was quite knowledgeable about food, and her little brain was working at a rapid pace when she suddenly slapped her thigh.
"Yueyue, what do you think about selling meat pies? Those soft, fluffy meat pies, you used to make them for me all the time."
Pei Yuezhi recalled that she had indeed often made a meat pie before, which was especially soft and fluffy.
"Okay, I'll make some more of these meat patties tomorrow. Today I'll make a little fewer dumplings, maybe forty."
Then came the efficient kneading of dough, preparation of filling, and wrapping of dumplings. But today was a little different; Grandma Liu insisted on helping.
With her help, the speed increased dramatically, and it was finished in no time.
Grandma Liu didn't know how to preserve the food that Pei Yuezhi had wrapped the night before. Before leaving, she specifically told her that it was getting hot and that she should wrap the food in the morning next time, and that she would come over to help.
Liu Yuanyuan said she would stay a little longer, and then asked her mother-in-law to take the child back first.
After seeing the grandfather and grandson off, Pei Yuezhi started preparing flour to make the pastry for the pies she planned to sell the next day.
This pancake doesn't require rolling or kneading. With one pound of flour and nine ounces of water, Pei Yuezhi made three pounds of flour. She made a little extra so everyone could try it tomorrow morning.
However, it's best to use high-gluten flour, but we don't have any here, so we'll use regular flour.
Pei Yuezhi poured the flour into a large bowl, added water, and then took four chopsticks and stirred it in one direction. The most important thing for the success of this dough is to ensure it is fully hydrated.
So stir it for a while, cover it and let it rest for five or six minutes, then stir it again for a while.
Repeat this process five times, and the mixture will become very smooth and have a very even texture. Although you don't need to stir constantly, it can be a bit difficult when there's a lot of flour.
The dough looked like a lump of slime, making Liu Yuanyuan want to reach out and squeeze it.
The dough was ready; it just needed to be covered and left to rest for an hour. But Pei Yuezhi wanted to wrap it the next morning, so she put it outside.
There's no refrigerator here, but the nights in the countryside are quite cool.
This dough must be proofed and thoroughly mixed, otherwise the chances of failure are very high.
While Pei Yuezhi was preparing the noodles, Liu Yuanyuan had already chopped the meat filling, a full two and a half pounds of pork belly, which exhausted her.
"Yueyue, could you get a meat grinder? I'm so tired."
Pei Yuezhi found it amusing and tapped her forehead: "A meat grinder? You're dreaming."
Next comes preparing the filling. Add minced ginger, thirteen-spice powder, MSG, salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, and oil to the ground pork, and then mix well.
The crust will be very thin, so don't add water to the filling.
This filling needs to contain a lot of scallions, but you must add them when you are wrapping the filling, otherwise they will develop a rotten scallion smell if left for too long.
The dough and filling are ready, and the dumplings are all wrapped. Tomorrow morning we'll be steaming dumplings and making pancakes.
"Yueyue, I'm so hungry. Do you have any leftover noodles for dinner?" Liu Yuanyuan asked wearily.
"There's nothing left from tonight, but..." Pei Yuezhi trailed off, "Do you want some instant noodles?"
When Liu Yuanyuan heard those two words, her eyes lit up. She loved instant noodles so much, and with a sausage, it was just too delicious.
"Of course I want to eat it! But where would I get to eat this in ancient times? Sigh." Yuanyuan sighed.
Looking at Liu Yuanyuan's fish-like memories, Pei Yuezhi sighed, "Yuanyuan, you're really an idiot! I have a shop here!"
As she spoke, she conjured a bucket of hot and sour beef noodles and a meat sausage out of thin air. Liu Yuanyuan became visibly excited, her eyes following Pei Yuezhi's moving hand.
"You even named someone's puppy 'Benben'? I think you're the one who's stupid."
Liu Yuanyuan chuckled: "I'm Benben, I'm Benben, Benben will go boil water right now."
At that moment, Benben, who was sleeping by the warehouse, sneezed!
The prices in the system store are really reasonable; a cup of instant noodles costs only three coins, and a sausage costs only two coins.
Liu Yuanyuan happily boiled water, and Pei Yuezhi even fried an egg for her.
Enjoying a delicious late-night snack, and then simply handing over the trash to the system for processing.
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The next morning, Liu Yuanyuan came to help again, but this time her mother-in-law came along as well. Pei Yuezhi was already making and baking pancakes.
One pound of flour can make sixteen pancakes, so three pounds of flour will make quite a few. Luckily, Granny Liu came to help. Pei Yuezhi was in charge of wrapping the pancakes, while she started baking them.
First, stir in a large amount of chopped green onions. The rested dough will have a texture like silk and be extremely soft.
However, this dough has a very high water content and will be very sticky. You need to use a lot of dry flour and rub your left hand with lard to make your hands oily to prevent sticking.
No need to roll out the dough, just pinch it with your hands to flatten it, then you can put the filling in. After wrapping it, shake off the dry flour, put it in the pan, flatten it with your hands, and cook the pancake over low heat. The pancake is cooked when it puffs up.
The pancakes made this way are especially soft and fluffy, and the dough is also chewy.
After they were all cooked, we ate breakfast first, and then prepared to set up our stall with the new products!
I made a total of forty-eight pancakes, keeping eight for breakfast. I also added the two leftover savory pancakes from yesterday and made a simple egg drop soup.
This pancake was too big to share among six people, so it was cut into pieces. As soon as it was served, everyone was overwhelmed by its aroma.
There are plenty of pancake vendors in town, but I've never seen a pancake this soft and fragrant.
Pei Yuezhi urged everyone to try it while it was hot, as it was a new product that would be sold today.
Having tried the new food a few times before, these people had learned to quickly give their feedback after eating, so as not to make Pei Yuezhi nervous.
Unsurprisingly, it received rave reviews, especially from Liu Yuanyuan and Fan Mu, who kept saying how delicious it was.
Grandma Liu had only eaten the noodles from last night; those noodles were rather simple and didn't really showcase Pei Yuezhi's culinary skills.
Today, upon tasting these two types of cakes, I had the same reaction as these people before.
He paused for a moment, then began to praise.
"Oh my, Yuezhi, your skills are just as good as the chefs in town! Not just in town, your aunt has been to many places, but I've never seen a pancake better than yours!"
"It's so delicious! The skin is soft yet chewy, and the filling is incredibly fragrant. I saw it was even juicy when you were cutting it."
"If you leave it for a little longer, the meat juices will be absorbed into the crust."
"......"
Grandma Liu couldn't stop praising him.
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