Chapter 31 Special offer (Part 2)
After lunch, Liu Huaxing took the two of them to the pearl milk tea shop opposite their school.
Hey, this brat is really here. The chubby proprietress teased after seeing Liu Huaxing. In fact, she could see that although the proprietress was a bit stingy, it wasn't bad. After all, who doesn't stingy in business?
The business in the store is so-so now, mainly because during the summer vacation, only the third-year students are here, and there are not many people who stay at school to eat. Usually, most of the restaurants near the school are closed at this time.
It was precisely because of this that Qin Yulu and Yang Xiaoxiao simply agreed to buy Liu Huaxing's bento at the beginning. Leaving aside the deliciousness and hygiene, few restaurants around the school are still open during this critical period of time.
Have a cup of Lemon Seven, the two flavors of milk tea are the same two cups. Liu Huaxing said, and put ten dollars on the counter, You don't need to do it, I will do it myself.
Okay. The proprietress replied with a smile, and said to the little girl at the front desk, Xiao Xu, let him come, I want to see what kind of moth this little devil can do. A cup of milk tea can also make Some mystery?
Liu Huaxing didn't say much, and took out several sealed plastic bags from his pocket, which contained some powder and colorful green leaves. Seeing this, the proprietress frowned immediately: What are you doing?
Magic materials. Liu Huaxing smiled proudly. Of course, to be honest, these are just some spices. Cinnamon, basil, mint, fennel, rosemary, etc. These are spices commonly used in French cuisine, and they are basically not used in China. They are not very easy to buy in this era, and they are not available in general stores. .
Liu Huaxing also went to a big supermarket to buy it when he was free last Sunday, and used it for cooking some dishes in the future. But it can also come in handy at this time.
People taste a kind of food, most of the time they rely on their noses instead of their mouths. Some scientists have done tests. In the case of shielding the sense of smell, people basically can't tell what the food they are tasting is, they can only taste it. Simple sweet and sour, which is why spices occupy such a high position in French cuisine.
For the use of spices, Liu Huaxing is not boasting, he is simply a magician of spices.
Because you can read files...
After adding too much, he read the file and went back to reduce the amount a little, and combined the spices in various ways, and slowly he also figured out the combination and usage routines of these spices.
Liu Huaxing came to the counter at the back, and the working girl briefly taught him the mixing ratio of various milk teas. Liu Huaxing roughly memorized it, then washed his hands and started to prepare for work.
I'm looking forward to it, what kind of milk tea will be brewed? Qin Yulu smiled while holding her chin.
It's very interesting. Yang Xiaoxiao also pursed her lips and said with a smile, This guy can always make things interesting.
Liu Huaxing first mixed two cups of drinks according to the recipe in the milk tea shop, and six cups of drinks were placed on the table.
And the next thing is different, he took out some powder from the plastic bag and added it to these milk teas and drinks and stirred it, the powder in each cup was different. After stirring well, he put the lids on the milk tea cups on the capping machine, then put the three cups on the counter, and pushed them in front of the proprietress: Come, I'll treat you to a drink.
For the other three cups, Liu Huaxing placed them in front of Yang Xiaoxiao and Qin Yulu: Taste these three cups, both of you.
Tsk, can a milk tea produce flowers? The proprietress sneered, then inserted a straw and took a sip of the first cup of pearl milk tea. The first sip made her freeze. Liu Huaxing also knew the reason: because the taste was really Obviously different.
Milk tea basically tastes like coffee, but it is a mixture of milk and tea, so the taste is not so soft, and there will be a hint of astringent taste of tea in it. In addition, the usual instant milk tea powder is mostly of inferior quality Milk powder, so its milk taste is also very light. The overall impression is that it is sparse and flat, and the milk and tea taste are very ordinary.
And Liu Huaxing added a little cinnamon powder and rosemary to the first cup of milk tea, and added anise and cinnamon to the second cup of milk tea. Cinnamon itself has a special fragrance. When added in an appropriate amount, that kind of fragrance can add the fragrance and richness of milk, so it is often used in desserts with cheese and milk to add flavor to cooking.
As for fennel and rosemary, these two spices are used to soften the slightly astringent taste of the tea, and the most important seasoning is actually...salt.
In French cuisine, we pay great attention to the layering of flavors. We combine the five flavors of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, but not blindly and randomly. Instead, we use different spices and adjust their weight, so that different flavors can be superimposed to form a higher level. . One of the more common uses is to add a small amount of salt to sweet cheese.
In this way, the salty taste alleviates the sweet and greasy taste, and the sweet taste increases the level of salty taste. This combination of tastes is a common technique in French cuisine.
And Liu Huaxing used a similar method to enhance the taste level of milk tea. When drinking tequila, there is a way to drink it is to lick some salt first, and then drink it with a slice of lemon, which can bring a richer layering, and the same principle.
For Liu Huaxing, this is still a relatively inferior method. It just uses spices to cover up some negative tastes in this inferior milk tea powder, and then uses fragrance and a little salty taste to make its taste slightly richer.
The taste is actually equivalent to a high-end milk tea with a little unique fragrance, nothing more. After all, it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and he can only do so much with what he has at hand.
As for the cup of lemon seven, he just added mint to the coolness and fragrance of lemon seven. But the details determine success or failure. It is the accumulation of these details that makes a cup of milk tea a completely different drink from the original milk tea.
This is really amazing. The proprietress couldn't help being curious, Why is there such a big difference just by adding some powder? Obviously only a little powder was added...
Exclusive secret recipe, don't let it out. Liu Huaxing put away the bag, and Yang Xiaoxiao behind him took a sip of milk tea and said with great interest, Huh? The taste of the tea in it is gone, it tastes a bit like chocolate. Milk, but not as greasy as chocolate milk, and the unique taste inside is really indescribable, and it keeps coming back in the mouth.”
Well, it's a bit like the cheese my dad brought back from abroad, but it has a special bitter taste. Qin Yulu nodded in agreement.
How about it, lady boss? Liu Huaxing asked with a smile, Do you want two more limited-time specials?
The chubby proprietress took a look at him, and asked after a while, What's the price of this thing?
Basically, the cost is only ten cents more expensive. Liu Huaxing disagreed. Although these spices are not cheap, the amount added to a cup of milk tea is too small, so the extra cost can be ignored at all.
I asked you to eat here at noon and use the air conditioner for nothing, so you come to work here for nothing? The proprietress asked tentatively.
That's right. Liu Huaxing nodded, But we only work for nothing when we come to eat.
The proprietress sneered, and after a long silence she replied, Why don't I pay you, so why don't you come to work?