Chapter 120: Another Trip to Lingnan City
But she still had some hope: "Why don't we make money by raising pigs? Why don't we raise two for ourselves?"
Their house was against the mountain wall, and there was extra space next to it, so it would not be difficult to build a pigpen.
When the time comes, she will buy two piglets, and after she castrates them, she will raise them for a year. After slaughtering them, she will have endless sausages, bacon, braised pork, stewed pig's trotters, and countless other delicacies. Just thinking about it makes her drool.
"It's better not to. Yu'er, if you really want to eat pork, we can just buy some every now and then." Sang Yongjing couldn't understand why she was so obsessed with raising pigs.
Sang Yu: “…” Who would want to eat stinky pork that has not been bled or castrated?
She could only give up, but she was thinking in her heart, if she couldn't raise the child herself, what about letting someone else raise it?
However, the most important thing right now is to quickly deal with this piece of smelly pork. The weather is hot and the temperature is high. If it is not dealt with in time, it will easily become smelly.
After taking a closer look, I found that it was a piece of pork belly, with much more fat than lean meat.
Sang Yu wanted to cut off some of the fat and refine it into lard, but he was afraid that the fat from the pork that had not been castrated would have a fishy smell.
On second thought, lard is also sold on the market, and the price is much higher than soybean oil.
If it had a fishy smell, no one would be willing to spend more money to buy it, so she started processing the pork with a try-it attitude.
First, cut the whole piece of pork belly into small pieces, cut off the excess fat and set it aside for later refining the oil.
Then soak it in cold water to extract the blood from the pork. Change the water every half an hour, and soak it for three or four hours.
After soaking the meat in water and looking at Sang Yongjing's expectant face, Sang Yu thought for a moment and decided to ask him to go with her to Lingnan City again.
"Huh? Didn't you say you would go see second brother tomorrow? Why are you going again now?" Sang Yongjing was puzzled, but still stood up obediently.
"I have to make this trip no matter today or tomorrow. It's a good opportunity to go into town and buy some ingredients."
When cooking before, Sang Yu felt that she could make up for the lack of some ingredients by relying on her own cooking skills.
But today's pork has a very strong fishy smell, so I really can't do without buying some cooking wine.
Of course, there should not be proper cooking wine in this era, but using rice wine instead is the same, which is just the right way to repay the debt of favor.
On the way, Sang Yongjing began to ask Sang Yu what good ideas she had.
"Yu'er, have you made up your mind so quickly? Don't you want to think it over carefully?"
"It's not a big deal, so there's no need to think about it. Besides, does Second Uncle really expect to get some extraordinary plan in exchange for half a tael of silver?"
Sang Yu had a lot of good ideas in her mind, but she didn't need to give them all to Sang Yongnian. Even the method she was going to give him next was far more valuable than those vegetables and meat.
Speechless after being rebuked by her words, Sang Yongjing suddenly calmed down and began to think about what methods he could use to make the restaurant's business prosperous.
Even when he arrived at the Sang's Restaurant, he still couldn't come up with a good idea, and followed Sang Yu in dejectedly.
Sang Yongnian was still sitting at the corner of the second floor. On the first day of the restaurant's opening, no matter whether it was good or bad, he, the direct person in charge, always had to be on the scene.
When he saw Sang Yu, he didn't recognize her at first, but soon he saw Sang Yongjing following her with his head down, and instantly remembered who she was.
"Yu'er greets second uncle." Sang Yu was very polite and bowed to Sang Yongnian as soon as she came up.
"No need to be so polite, please take a seat. Waiter, bring a pot of Shaozhou tea."
Sang Yongnian first asked someone to make a pot of good tea, then looked at Sang Yongjing and asked, "Fourth brother, you just came back, what's the urgent matter?"
"It's not an urgent matter, Yu'er said..." Sang Yongjing was halfway through his words when Sang Yu pinched his hand under the table.
He stopped talking and scratched his head awkwardly: "Let Yu'er talk to you in person."
He finally understood that both his second brother and his daughter were smarter than him, and as a stupid person, he should just talk less and drink more tea.
"Dad brought back a lot of vegetables and meat today. Yu'er would like to thank Second Uncle on behalf of the whole family."
Sang Yongnian waved his hand nonchalantly, "We're all family, there's no point in thanking me for such a small gift."
Not wanting to beat around the bush, Sang Yu simply got straight to the point: "My dad told me that Second Uncle's restaurant is doing very well. Could I see the menu?"
If a restaurant wants to run well, it must have its own unique characteristics, which can be signature dishes, fresh seafood, drinks, etc. She wanted the menu because she wanted to see what the characteristics of Sang's Restaurant are.
"Of course you can. We've had a hard time coming here, so it's a good idea to order some food to fill our stomachs."
Sang Yongnian raised his hand to call the waiter over, took a bamboo menu and handed it to Sang Yu: "Order whatever you want, and this is a good opportunity to help Second Uncle see what the dishes in the restaurant are like."
Sang Yu didn't rush to say polite words. She lowered her head to look at the menu. She couldn't help but frown at the first glance. There were too few dishes.
The menu of Sang's Restaurant is somewhat similar to that of restaurants in later generations. It is divided into several major categories, including soups, main dishes, vegetarian dishes, noodles, dim sum, drinks, etc., and there are three or five dishes under each category.
"Second uncle...are these the only dishes in the restaurant?"
Sang Yu felt that if there were really only so many kinds of dishes, then she was overestimating the chefs of this era.
"The menu is a bit limited. We've just opened, and we haven't found a stable and reliable source for many of the fresh produce yet. If I rashly write down the recipes, I'm afraid the taste will be unstable."
Sang Yongnian felt a little embarrassed. He knew very well that although the recipe looked okay at first glance, in the eyes of those who really knew the business, there were actually not many dishes that were worth showing off.
But his elder brother kept urging him to open the business and make money, so he had no choice but to grit his teeth and go ahead, thinking that he could make up for it later. Unexpectedly, Sang Yu saw through the clue at a glance.
"Seasonal dishes are good, but they're just for the sake of novelty. A restaurant's true signature dish can't be a seasonal dish."
Sang Yu's fingertips touched the lotus duck skewers under the main dish. She had once recreated this dish one-to-one and knew the difficulty and beauty of it.
"Second Uncle, if I remember correctly, this lotus duck skewer dish should be a royal court dish. It's really eye-catching that you thought of using it as the main dish in the restaurant, but..."
"But what?" Sang Yongnian didn't expect that the origin of the main dish he was so confident about would be revealed by her as soon as it came up, and he suddenly became a little anxious.
"But the Lotus Duck Skewers dish is deep-fried, so it's served with a dipping sauce to help with the greasiness. The restaurant opened so hastily, I'm afraid Second Uncle didn't have time to prepare plum sauce."
Plum jam is not usually sold on the market. Most restaurants make it themselves. Judging from the hasty opening of Sang's Restaurant, they probably didn't even prepare plum jam.
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