Chapter 370: What is the appropriate price for chive flower sauce?
There was no copper pot specifically for hot pot, but a small red clay stove with a small iron pot with two handles that was often used when fleeing last year placed on it.
Because there were so many people, I was afraid that it wouldn’t be hot enough and there wouldn’t be enough to eat, so I made two.
The small iron pot seemed higher and a little unstable when placed on the small red clay stove. Jiang Shui was afraid that the two sisters Huahua would be scalded, so he and Jiang Xiangzhong fed the two little ones with egg custard and a bowl of boiled beef, mutton and cabbage hearts on the kang table in the east wing.
Then the two of them took turns eating hot pot.
The milky white mutton bone soup that had been simmered for an entire afternoon was scooped into the small iron pot with two handles, and it was bubbling happily.
The entire square table was piled high with beef and mutton. There was no room for vegetables and condiments, so they were all placed on the small table next to it.
Shen Qing handed two small plates to each person and introduced: "We have a clear soup base. If you like spicy food, you can add chili sauce, vinegar, green onions, coriander, sesame paste and scoop a small half spoonful of soup base as a dipping sauce;
If you don't like spicy food, you can omit the chili sauce or use sesame paste directly. Tomorrow, your second grandfather's family will send people to the city, and I will ask them to bring back some peanut butter. Then mix it with sesame paste in the right proportion to make a separate dipping sauce.
But you can also try both and see which one tastes better and is more suitable for you.”
The people holding the plates gathered around the small table. Su Mu and the other three were originally struggling with whether to make the dipping sauce spicy or not spicy, but they immediately breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Shen Qing's last sentence.
"No wonder we all have two plates." Asu said in a low voice with a smile on her face.
Anur has changed his mindset and wants to try the difference between the Han people's dipping sauce and the chive sauce.
But she felt that stewed beef and mutton and chive sauce were the perfect match...
“Last year, I came late and couldn’t make chive flower sauce. But we don’t have many chives here, so even if we did, we couldn’t make much. It wouldn’t be enough to eat.
By the way, An'er, do you have a lot of chive flowers there? When do you start growing them? Is it easy to make them? "Shen Qing asked calmly.
She had heard Anur mutter several times that chive sauce was the best with beef and mutton, and he was very proud of the local cuisine. If she asked him about it, he would tell her everything he knew, so he was the most suitable person.
Sure enough, as soon as Shen Qing finished speaking, Anur's eyes lit up after hearing it, as if he had found a confidant, and he immediately started talking like a bamboo tube pouring beans!
She said with great pride: "Auntie, you actually know about chive sauce! You know a lot. Chive sauce is spicy and appetizing, and it is really the best with beef and mutton.
Starting from June, the grasslands are covered with large fields of chive flowers. The white flowers are easy to identify, but it takes time to pick them one by one.
But at that time, the grass was fresh and fertile, and the cattle and sheep did not need to be taken care of. The grass that was picked while grazing the cattle and sheep was enough to eat for the whole year.
It's not difficult to make. Wash the chives and drain the water. Poor families just add salt, while wealthy families will add some chopped fresh ginger. Mash them together and put them in a jar. You can eat them in three to five days."
Shen Qing extracted key information from it.
The spicy and appetizing taste is very suitable for pairing with meat. It can stimulate appetite and encourage customers to eat more. In addition, she read in a book that chives are high in fiber, which can aid digestion, eliminate stomach heat and kill bacteria, among other benefits.
Adding ginger makes it even more suitable for the cold north.
Chive flowers are ready in June. They are quick and easy to prepare and can be stored for a long time, which means that the supply for the whole year can be prepared before the hot pot restaurant opens in September!
At that time, the cattle and sheep did not need to be carefully cared for, and manpower was not a problem, but picking the flowers one by one took time... It was okay, she remembered that there was a tool specifically for picking chive flowers, which could pick a lot at a time. In the evening, she would look in the mall to see if there was any tool. If not, she would draw a picture and ask Guan the carpenter to try to make it.
Similar to a dustpan, it is a small box that can be held in your hand, very simple.
She then asked, "Anur, if I spend money to buy chive sauce, how much would people sell it for per pound?"
Jiang Xiangnan, Jiang Xiangbei and others have become accustomed to their mother's style of talking about money.
However, after hearing what my mother said, I immediately realized that she was interested in chive sauce. While preparing the dipping sauce, several of them pricked up their ears and listened.
Anur said cheerfully, "Aunt, why do you need to buy it? I have plenty at home. When your team goes to Chenzhou again, I'll bring them a big jar and bring it back for you to eat!"
She couldn't afford to give anything else as a gift, but she could afford this worthless chive sauce!
Su Mu added: "If they didn't go, we could have sent them back by detour if we came out. It would be enough for a year's food with some left over."
It was just chive sauce, the only expensive thing was the salt. But compared to my aunt's hospitality, it was a cheap gift that was not worth presenting.
This time she came, she brought leather as a gift, and she never expected that her aunt would like chive sauce.
Shen Qing shook his head and said seriously, "I'm not going to eat it all. I might use a lot of chive sauce, so I'm going to ask you first what the appropriate price is per pound."
Su Mu was the first to react, and he was surprised and happy. He quickly said: "Leek flowers don't cost money. They are everywhere on the grassland. Picking them manually is not worth much. If you can earn ten coins in a whole day, there will be a lot of people rushing to do it.
It's just that a pound of chives needs about one ounce of salt, and a pound of salt costs seventy or eighty wen. Auntie, what do you think is the appropriate amount?"
If it succeeds, then everyone in her family's ranch can go out to pick chive flowers. Ten cents a day, no, even seven or eight cents is good. The chive season is when there is plenty of water and grass, and grazing is the easiest, which is just the right time to pick chive flowers.
You can earn about seventy or eighty cents a day. The whole family, from the elderly to children aged five or six, can pick the fruits, which is a considerable income.
Shen Qing was thinking that she not only needed manpower to pick the fruits, but also to make good finished products!
Chive flowers cannot be transported over long distances, and even if they can be transported, there is a lot of work to do in our village and we are short of manpower. Why not make them directly in Chenzhou, and then ship the finished products to the capital in jars. How simple and convenient it would be to open them and use them directly?
She looked at Su Mu and asked, "Su Mu, how about adding ginger to the recipe and setting the price at fifteen cents per pound for bulk purchase?"
Su Mu nodded heavily and said without hesitation: "Fifteen cents a pound, aunt, to be honest, it's too much!"
Even if you add ginger, ginger is not cheap, but it is just an auxiliary ingredient and is added in very small amounts. The cost of one pound is about two cents. If you make chive flower sauce at fifteen cents per pound, you can make at least five or six cents.
I earn five or six coins per jin, so if I pick 20 jin a day, that's a hundred coins! How much more can I earn if the whole family goes out?
It is also simple to make and does not take much time. It costs fifteen cents per pound. Even if it is earned by her family, she feels very uneasy.
Shen Qing smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have another request."
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