At this moment in the cannery, Lu Zhiye and Director Gong were diligently washing raisins, while Secretary Wang on the other side was assigned the job of removing the pits from dates.
Anping watched him pick up the food one by one with his butt sticking out, and went to get a pair of chopsticks speechlessly.
In front of Secretary Wang, he put the red dates on the chopsticks and the red date pits came out.
Secretary Wang's eyes lit up and he imitated her movements and worked very quickly.
When Chen Weiqiang came back, this was the scene he saw. Everyone had a clear division of labor and was working enthusiastically.
He rolled his eyes and quickly ran to Secretary Wang, saying with a smile: "Hey, Secretary Wang, I'll do it, I'll do it, there's no need for you to do this job yourself."
Secretary Wang threw the red dates in his hand into another basin and said, "You came at the right time, let's do it together.
Comrade Xiao Zhao has gone to make sugar. Estimating the time, it should be about time.
Let’s move faster.”
When everything was ready, several people surrounded the big hot pot tightly.
Even the accountant and a few other people in the office came over.
"What is this for?"
A little girl with pigtails looked at everything in front of her curiously.
"I don't know, I just heard what it's for food?
I haven't seen it either. Just now I saw Comrade Chen bringing over a lot of popcorn, and he's making syrup over here.
Could it be the rice cakes sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives?"
An aunt squinted her eyes and looked at the raisins and red dates on the table.
"That's not right. The products sold at the supply and marketing cooperatives don't contain these things, right?"
"Quick, quick, quick, get out of the way, get out of the way."
Chen Weiqiang shouted loudly, holding a large winnowing basket in his hand, and inside the basket were red peeled peanuts.
"Xiao Liu, you guys came just in time, come and help me rub these peanuts."
He struggled to place the large dustpan next to the girl with pigtails.
These two people were also very skillful and started rubbing with their hands.
After a short while, the yellow-white kernel inside was revealed.
"This is too heavy for me to carry. Comrade Chen, you have to shake it for me."
As he spoke, Chen Weiqiang had already rolled up his sleeves and picked up the large winnowing basket.
The peanuts were flipped left and right, up and down, and the red skins fell to the ground in the breeze.
In the big pot on the other side, Anping had already cooked the syrup.
She poured in the rice popcorn, and also poured in the chopped red dates and raisins.
After stir-frying twice, he shouted, "Chen Weiqiang, quickly crush the peanuts and turn them over."
Finally, I poured in a lot of black and white sesame seeds and stir-fried them back and forth until everything was stuck together with the syrup.
Seeing that the food was almost cooked, Anping put everything on a large plate.
Then use a pressing spatula to flatten these things.
"Okay, now just wait for these to cool down and then cut them into pieces."
"Sister Zhao, what is this?"
The little girl with pigtails asked curiously.
“Different places call it different names, ours is called Eight Treasure Rice Cake.
It’s filling, can satisfy your cravings, and can be stored for a long time.”
Xiao Liu couldn't stop swallowing when he said this, and even Chen Weiqiang swallowed his saliva.
He just saw it, a huge pot of syrup was boiled, it must have been very sweet.
With this pot of sugar, who dares to say it doesn’t taste good?
Secretary Wang and Director Gong looked at each other and felt that Zhao Ping'an was really a hidden talent.
Looking at their expressions, Anping's drooping mouth corners raised slightly.
The recipes left by my father made the food too sophisticated. Although the ingredients used were very common, they were time-consuming and labor-intensive to make and were not suitable for large-scale production.
These days she has been researching how to do something that ordinary people can accept.
She also saw this kind of thing when she went to the supply and marketing cooperative a few days ago.
The staff at the supply and marketing cooperative said that this is called rice cake.
I heard that it came from the south and they haven’t done it here yet.
So she came up with the idea of this thing.
"Xiao Zhao, you put so much material into this thing. If you mass-produce it, the price will be very high."
A hint of smile appeared in Anping's round eyes: "Director Gong, you are wrong.
Accountant Xiao Liu is here, let me tell you, you can ask her to do the calculation."
Seeing everyone's eyes on him, Xiao Liu struggled to move his eyes away from the Eight Treasure Rice Cake.
She took out a piece of paper and a pen from her pocket and said, "Sister Zhao, go ahead."
"Ten kilograms of rice, even if calculated at the supply and marketing cooperative's price of 1.7 cents, is only 1.7 yuan.
Red dates and raisins are dry goods. We sell very few of them here, and the price is 20 cents per pound.
This is a total of five pounds of red dates and four pounds of raisins. Sesame seeds and peanuts are even easier to deal with. The price is even cheaper if you buy them from farmers.
Basically, it's around 1.5 cents, for a total of five pounds of peanuts and three pounds of sesame seeds.
Xiao Liu, accountant, please calculate how much money was spent in total?"
The girl with pigtails spread out the paper and started to calculate carefully with a pen.
“Rice is 1.7 yuan, and red dates and raisins are 1.8 yuan.
Peanuts are 75 cents and sesame seeds are 45 cents, which adds up to a total of four dollars and seventy cents.
Add six pounds of sugar, and the total is nine dollars and thirty-eight cents."
"Then how much does it cost per pound to buy these at the supply and marketing cooperative?"
"I know this, I know this. During the Chinese New Year, my family bought some from the supply and marketing cooperative. They cost 80 cents per pound.
But this stuff is very light, one pound can buy half a bag."
Secretary Wang quickly raised his hand and said that the price of eighty cents was not cheap.
Want to know how much pork costs? This thing has one advantage, that is, you don't need a ticket.
People buy some to visit relatives during festivals and give them to children at home to eat, which can also make their mouths sweet.
Anping's eyes flashed with a smile: "Yes, we added so much ingredients, selling it at nine yuan a pound is not too much, right?
Or, cut it into slices and sell it for 5 cents a slice. After calculation, as long as our factory price is above 40 cents, we will make a profit. "
She was not stage-frightened in front of so many leaders and spoke eloquently, which was completely different from her previous timid appearance.
Director Gong looked at Anping with brighter and brighter eyes, clapped his hands, and immediately said: "When can this thing be dried?
Can you guys try it soon?"
With these things, not to mention how popular their factory is, during festivals, they can exchange some fabrics with textile factories as employee benefits, which is a great honor.
Anping stretched out his hand and pressed it a little, and when he felt it was about done, he took out a large kitchen knife and cut it into small pieces bit by bit, then put it on a plate and placed it in front of everyone.
Chen Weiqiang and the others suppressed the saliva in their mouths, quietly took a step back, and let Secretary Wang and Director Gong have a taste first.
As soon as Director Gong took a bite, the crispy rice flowers stuck to the corners of his mouth.
He was afraid that the popcorn would fall, so he quickly stretched out his other hand to catch it.
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