Chapter 217 The aroma attracted diners
"Hey, here I come."
Song Mazi and Song Cheng hurriedly followed Song Yuntang to the courtyard.
Song Yuntang took out a piece of paper from his arms and spread out the blueprint that he had drawn next to Xu Qingye last night with the help of Xu Qingye's lamp in front of the two of them.
"I plan to build a yard like this near the mountain spring on the farm. Please help me calculate how many bricks and tiles are needed, how much money is needed, and how long the construction period will be. After the calculation is done, we can start laying the foundation first. After my second brother prepares the bricks and tiles and wood, we can start construction."
Song Cheng is older than Song Mazi, and he is a bricklayer himself. He is more skilled than Song Mazi in calculating bricks and tiles for building a house.
"Okay, leave it to us."
Outside the yard, Xu Qingye had already pulled the mule cart to the door. Song Yuntang said something to the two of them, then went out and climbed onto the mule cart that Xu Qingye had just harnessed. He called Fang Tianci, took two small jars of glutinous rice wine that had been brewed in the yard, two large bags of rice and a large bag of flour, and set off for the town together.
Huajianzui will open tomorrow, so I have to put everything in place today, and also finalize the menu that I've come up with these days.
When they arrived, Chen was still selling sour plum soup at the door of the shop, while Tao was cleaning and sweeping the shop. After she tidied it up over the past few days, the shop was very clean and bright.
Song Yuntang took a few bowls and placed them on a table near the door in the front hall of the shop.
"Sister Xier, don't sell the sour plum soup for now. Pour a bowl for each of the people in the shop. I have something to tell you."
"Oh, okay."
Chen Xier took out the sour plum soup from the ice water bucket and walked towards the shop.
A bowl of sour plum soup was poured for each of the five people present. Except for Xu Qingye who was sitting at the next table, Tao Xia, Fang Tianci, Chen Xier and Song Yuntang each sat on one side.
"We opened our shop in a hurry, and we didn't have much time to prepare many things. We will add them one by one in the later stage of operation. This was a wine shop before, and wine is definitely one of the products we must sell. On this basis, I also added some other things."
Song Yuntang took out a small note from his sleeve pocket.
"Unlike the Feicuixuan next door, our Huajianzui mainly serves snacks. Currently, it mainly serves rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice, sweet wine and eggs, fried chicken, fried noodles, fried peanuts, spring rolls, braised meat, stewed food, and some special pastries. The oven in the backyard has just been repaired, so I still need time to study it and then slowly add more later."
"Some of these dishes are sold in limited quantities. Once they are sold out, we will only sell alcohol. We will close after the evening hour every day."
Several people were puzzled.
"What if business is good? Do we have to close so early?"
"If it's a festival, we can postpone it to the hour of Xu, but normally there's no need to spend too much time here."
Although no one knew what Song Yuntang's purpose was, since she said so, they just did as she said.
"Now that the weather is getting cooler, we can prepare braised meat and stewed food. I made a list of the ingredients for the stew yesterday and asked Tu Shi to buy them. I'll tell you how to prepare them later."
"It's easy to make rice balls with fermented glutinous rice and sweet wine with eggs. There's a stone mill in the backyard. We brought glutinous rice with us when we came. We'll use a mule to grind some glutinous rice flour and use it to make glutinous rice balls tomorrow."
"Fried chicken, fried noodles, spring rolls, I'll show you how to do that later."
Fried chicken uses a half-grown tender chicken weighing more than one pound but less than two pounds. After being marinated, it is coated with flavored batter and fried.
The chickens must be slaughtered every morning. The quantity is limited in the early stage, with a limit of thirty chickens a day. If the business is good and the ones on the farm are not enough, she can go to the previous farm to purchase more. She had discussed this with them when she bought the chickens before. That farm still has at least a thousand chickens, enough for her to splurge for a while.
Chicken feet and gizzards can be used to make braised dishes.
Any braised food with a little seasoning can be a great dish to go with wine.
As for fried noodles, they are actually similar to the instant noodles we had in our previous lives. After the noodles are fixed in shape, they are fried into pancakes. When eating, you can just cook and season them.
After the fried dough is drained of oil, let it cool and seal it in a jar. It is fine to store it for ten days or half a month in weather like this. It is much more convenient than making it on the spot. The most important thing is that it has a unique flavor and is very suitable as a noodle snack for Huajianzui.
Song Yuntang roughly explained to everyone how to cook each dish, and then he started to work with everyone. Some Tao and Chen were killing chickens, some were kneading dough, Fang Tianci was pulling a mule cart to grind glutinous rice flour, and Song Yuntang was preparing the seasonings based on his own experience. When he estimated that the taste was about right, he demonstrated to them the ingredients prepared by Tao and Chen one by one.
When we first started making the product, we were not familiar with many things and the speed was inevitably slow.
Tao Xia makes good noodles, and the noodles are of uniform thickness. Song Yuntang uses a customized mesh spoon to fix the shape and then fries them in the pan.
At first, the two pancakes didn’t look good when they were fried.
But she was not discouraged and began to try to control the time and oil temperature of putting the dough into the frying pan. The dough fried for the third time was golden and crispy, and the shape of the dough was just right.
"It's fine like this." She handed the net spoon to Tao Xia. "Sister Xier and Sister Xia are both people who have cooked before. They can learn these things quickly. You can all try them."
The two of them must learn it as soon as possible. She has to go to the county town with Xu Qingye at the end of the month, and she doesn't know how many days she will have to stay there before she can come back.
Tao Xia took the net spoon and imitated Song Yuntang, fixing the shape of the dough and then started frying it in the pan.
The first pancake was fried very well.
"Sister Xia, your cooking skills are much better than mine." Song Yuntang praised.
Tao Xia smiled and said, "I just used more spatulas, but the girl is really smart."
"Then the job of frying pancakes will be handed over to Sister Xia from now on."
Seeing that she fried the chicken very well, Song Yuntang began to teach Chen Xier how to process and marinate fried chicken.
Several people were busy until noon. After Tao Xia fried all the dough he had kneaded before into pancakes, he kneaded another large ball of dough to take up space. In this morning, he had already filled most of the large jar with dough. After taking out five pancakes for several people in the shop as lunch, he sealed them all with oil paper and thin linen rope.
Chen Xier followed Song Yuntang to marinate three fried chickens.
If it fails, the other two can be used to remedy the situation.
Five bowls of noodles were cooked at noon. Not only were some tender green vegetables put in the noodles, but they were also poured with bone broth, sprinkled with chopped green onions and Song Yuntang's special seasoning. Even though Huajianzui was inconspicuous compared to the Feicuixuan next door, its special aroma still attracted some diners to watch.
"Drunk among the flowers."
There were several people dressed as scholars, holding folding fans, standing at the door of the shop and muttering, "What a good name! It's more elegant than an ordinary wine shop."
Some people even stretched their necks to look inside.
"This shop must have just opened. There are no customers inside."
"I don't know what that delicious aroma was just now. How about we go in and try it?"
"Okay, go in and try it."
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