Chapter 42
Business was good in the morning. Except for a small amount of meat left for making pot stickers, the mutton soup was sold out completely, without a drop left.
Since it was breakfast, Su Guoer made rice porridge to go with pot stickers.
I made a whole pot of pot stickers, which smelled delicious. But when I told Chunniang and the others that I wanted to eat them, they were all flattered.
"Eating this for breakfast? Madam Su, isn't this a bit too luxurious?" Chun Niang asked, feeling a little uneasy.
I started to have doubts in my mind because the food was too delicious!
It's not like I haven't worked as a helper in other restaurants before, but the most I ate was fatty pork slices with watercress stir-fried with cabbage leaves, a bowl of rice, and a spoonful of watercress, and that was the best work meal.
If you are lucky, there will be guests at a table whose food has not been touched, so we can remove it and give them a snack.
These were the only two times they had a good meal.
But now they are asked to eat this?
Is it the same as what diners outside eat?
Or is it made with fresh pure lamb filling?
Chunniang thought that the meal that was overturned yesterday was just a courtesy, but what about this meal?
Li Si came over at this moment, carrying a basin filled with cooked porridge. He was smiling as he brought it over: "This porridge is really thick! This meal can keep me from getting hungry for a whole day!"
But when he turned around and saw the pot stickers on the table, he was as shocked as Chunniang and the others and asked, "Is this what we're having for breakfast?"
Swallowed his saliva.
You know what, he bought this this morning and he hasn’t tasted it yet to know what it tastes like, but it smells delicious!
Su Guoer nodded and sat down first: "Yes, let's eat this. If we eat together, the ingredients won't cost much. The meal plan in the future will be based on this. However, I don't know how much you eat today, so I made a little more. You can eat as you like."
Because Pang Ya has a big appetite, she cooked half a pot of porridge and sprinkled various dried fruits and peanuts in it, which can definitely fill her stomach.
Paired with pot stickers, even if several people eat this much, the ingredients only cost a few hundred coins, which is not worth much money.
This is what Su Guoer thought, but Chunniang, Li Si and others did not think so.
How can you eat so well for just two hundred coins a day?
They can run this shop until they die! But that’s another story.
After having a full breakfast, Su Guoer took Pang Ya to buy ingredients and stocked up all the ingredients needed for the store so that she could prepare whatever dishes the customers ordered in time.
However, the waiter who came to eat in the morning reminded her that the restaurant's signature dishes have not been determined yet, and they have to decide on the signature dishes today and hang a sign on the wall to make it convenient for customers to order.
Walking to the butcher shop, Su Guoer ordered 600 kilograms of pork as usual. She didn't need much mutton, so 120 kilograms was enough. There was still some left from the morning, and since she couldn't sell it all, Su Guoer simply asked Chunniang and the others to roll it into balls, boil it, and then take it out. This way, it could be stored for a while longer.
At noon, it can be served with water celery and sauerkraut mixed together and sprinkled with clear soup.
Opposite the meat shop is the fish shop. Unlike the meat shop which has a storefront, the so-called fish shop is mostly located near the Bian River. Large basins and baskets filled with fish can be seen everywhere.
They set up stalls by the Bian River and sold fish as they caught them. There were piles of scraped fish scales and fish intestines on the ground, waiting for people to clean them up.
Su Guoer saw the fish bladder on the internal organs from a distance.
No one wants it if it is thrown away.
But these are all good foods, whether used in soup or stir-fried dishes, they are very nutritious. They are best eaten by women. But they just throw them all away?
Tsk tsk tsk, how sad it is that no one will eat it. Su Guoer felt it as she looked at the fish maw thrown on the ground.
Some of them have already rotted and smelled bad and cannot be eaten, which is a pity.
Thanks to her father who loved to make some strange dishes based on pharmacological knowledge, Su Guoer knew that thing was edible.
They're all very nutritious. If used as a medicinal dish, would it also be a dish? Su Guoer decided to add fish maw to the menu, but she didn't know if anyone would eat it.
Seeing that the big blue crabs in the basket nearby were good, Su Guoer went forward to ask.
Fresh live blue crabs can live for about a month if they are not kept in water. If you buy them and keep them in a wooden barrel, it can also be considered as a prepared dish.
When she learned that they were only three cents each, Su Guoer simply bought up the whole basket and took them back to the yard to raise them so that she could make egg yolk crabs to eat later!
I also bought dried whitebait, dried abalone, one-meter-long dried eel, sea cucumber, senbei, shrimp skin, etc., and a little bit of various seafood.
And sea vegetables that can be soaked.
Since there is no sea in Bianjing, the seafood is usually delivered dried. The taste is greatly reduced and the price is not cheap. It is a bit difficult for Su Guoer to replicate the taste of Jiangnan cuisine.
But it doesn't stop her from selling Jiangnan cuisine.
Cold shredded seaweed is also quite delicious and can also be used to pickle pickles.
Shrimp and scallops can be used to make porridge, which has a unique flavor. After buying almost all the ingredients, they went to the Ximen vegetable market and asked someone to deliver some fresh vegetables. Then Su Guoer took Pang Ya back home.
On the way back, she accidentally glanced into the alley and saw a piece of cloth with a few big words written on it: "Wang Ji Freshly Baked Pancakes"
There was no fragrance, so Su Guoer took a closer look. It was a sesame seed bun made of pure flour, with a hollow core and some white sesame seeds sprinkled on it. It didn't smell good, but after buying one and taking a bite, she found that her mouth was full of the fragrance of sesame seeds.
This tastes good.
Su Guoer immediately had a good idea.
She suddenly remembered a way to eat sesame cakes, which was even more delicious than the ones made with unleavened dough!
Of course, it is different from the sesame cakes sold by Hu Bingzi and the old man, and it is also different from the special scallion oil sesame cakes that originated in Bian Jing. What Su Guoer is talking about is - duck oil crispy sesame cake.
She once had a chance to eat a sesame cake, which was made of duck fat and flour. It was crispy and her palms were full of crumbs when she took a bite. It was so delicious.
It just so happened that she didn't plan to sell pot stickers in the morning because ordinary people couldn't afford them. However, the cost of making duck oil pancakes was not high, and she could sell them for three cents each after making them. She estimated that more diners would buy them.
Yes, let’s do it that way. Su Guoer asked someone to send the blue crab back. She took Pang Ya to a place where furnaces were made, gave them the mold drawings, and asked them to quickly make a furnace for making sesame cakes.
It doesn’t take long to make the oven. It can be done in one morning and delivered in the afternoon. You can set up a stall to sell sesame cakes tomorrow morning.
Seeing that there was nothing left to buy, Su Guoer took Pang Ya back to their own restaurant.
Unexpectedly, there were already customers in the restaurant, and they specifically asked for the braised pork made by Su Guoer. Fortunately, I had stewed a pot of braised pork in the morning, and it was sitting on the stove after it was braised. Now I just had to slice it and put it on a plate.
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