Chapter 80 Chapter 80
The old tofu is cut into square pier blocks, placed in a cool and ventilated place to ferment for about ten days, a layer of fine white fluff will grow on the tofu, and then the fermented tofu is sterilized with white wine, wrapped in spicy ingredients, and placed in turn Put it into a sealed jar, and then ferment the ten-day fermented bean curd is ready.
Xu He ate it once when he went to a banquet before, and just picked up a little bit with his chopsticks, and the taste of fermented tofu was enough to spread all over his mouth.
He made two ingredients, one is spicy red fermented bean curd made by mixing minced ginger, chili pepper, and pepper powder, and the other is plain white fermented bean curd without tofu wrapped in chili pepper.
I have seen white bean curd in a mutton restaurant in the city and put it in a bowl and washed it with broth as a dipping sauce. He has never eaten it, but he has seen diners lingering in the mutton restaurant, and the mutton is smelly, and the taste of fermented bean curd is used. It is really easy to suppress the smell of strong flavor as an auxiliary material, and it is also a good way to eat it.
He puts fermented bean curd in the same small jar as the kimchi jar, but the jar is much smaller than the big-bellied kimchi jar, and it can even be said to be pocket-sized. The fermented bean curd in it is in contact with the air a lot, and it is easy to deteriorate and spoil the taste.
He made two jars first to try out the early adopters, but he didn't stop at making fermented bean curd. Now that we have started making jar dishes, we can simply make more types, such as bad chili, soybean paste, bean paste, dried radish, radish rolls, dried bamboo shoots, sauerkraut minced meat sauce, sour cowpea minced meat sauce can be made Not too much.
When he was in Xu's house before, he made dried radish and radish roll. Not to mention simple, the ingredients he used were at most chili peppers. He could find all the ingredients in his own fields or on the hills, so Liu Xianglan didn't Will say more.
Make some small snacks to eat. In summer, it is porridge. Turnip rolls are crispy and fragrant. Everyone loves to eat them. This is also a jar dish that almost every household in the countryside will arrange in their spare time. Passing by the farmer’s yard, looking at the clothes-drying poles or dustpans drying sliced radishes, they are likely to be kimchi radishes or dried radishes.
The method of dried radish and fermented bean curd is actually similar. To be precise, the method of these pot dishes is similar, but the main ingredients are either fermented, dried, or soaked. It is radish and bamboo shoots, which need to be dried in the sun, so that the radishes and bamboo shoots have toughness and are not easy to break; the ones that need to be soaked in water are soybeans.
Xu He spread a dustpan in the large courtyard outside the house, and pulled a few hemp ropes, soaked, dried, and fermented, and the huge courtyard took up half of it in one go.
When the weather is good, he pushes Erbao’s crib into the small dining hall with the window open, so he can watch and amuse the children for a while, and he doesn’t have any empty hands, cutting the vines for the freshly picked peppers, peeling them and peeling them. Garlic, remove the black shiny seeds from the dried and popped peppercorns.
Not knowing whether such seeds could germinate and grow into pepper trees, Xu He simply collected them instead of throwing them away, and threw them all into the long flower bed built against the wall.
Country people like them don't know much about elegance, so he planted garlic, onion, garlic seedlings and shallots in all the vacant land for flower planting, and dug ginger trees and pepper trees from the mountains. In short, it looks like a village house.
Zhang Fangyuan didn't say much, on the contrary, he thought it was very good. If he wanted a bowl of noodles at home, he didn't have to go to the field to pick vegetables, and he could pick all the ingredients directly in the yard.
Yeah, I've done a lot of this.
When Zhang Fangyuan came back, he looked at the beans and bamboo shoots in the yard, so he couldn't help but leaned forward to grab a handful.
There are not many of them, and you can't make a few jars, but if you have more samples, you can get more together.
Xu He poured a cup of tea to Zhang Fangyuan: Why did you come back so early today? Didn't you go to the city?
Go, buddy, the store is taking good care of it. I have already made up the goods I want from other stores, and I went to place a new order. Song Yong, who picked up goods from our store last year, came to order again. Zhang Fang Yuan took a sip of tea: This time I want more than before. I think it will be easy to sell in other places. He has opened up the market. I recommended a lot of ointments to him, and we can give him the goods in our warehouse.
Xu He responded, the business of the shops in the city was their biggest source of income, as long as the business over there was stable, he would be relieved.
Zhang Fangyuan said again: On the way back today, I saw a lot of people from the city who came out to gather and have fun on the official road. Our teahouse business is very good today.
Xu He also has some experience. Generally speaking, there are the most people in the city during festivals. On normal days, except for winter, the city people like to go out to have fun outside the city, either to climb high and look far, or go to the road. Burn incense in temples, eat vegetarian meals in temples, live in Buddhist temples, enjoy flowers in spring and experience harvesting in autumn.
It's just that people in the city usually experience the joy of farming and mulberry in the nearest villages outside the city, unless temple fairs still rarely come so far.
Zhang Fangyuan said: I brought some wine and groceries from the city back to add to the tea shed. I heard people from Zaojiao Village say that it was Hongshi Village in the front. Two years ago, I started planting flowers in the village, such as crabapple, winter jasmine Ah, their village has a lot of peaches and plums. In the early spring, they invited two scholars and storytellers to write poems and articles, boasting so much that many people from the city invited them to enjoy the flowers. Guo Lu rested in our tea shed.
Although I haven't been there to see it with my own eyes, I heard that the people who returned from the city also praised that Hongshi Village is really well done. Not only are the flowers blooming in the village, but there are paper kites shoveled and placed flat against the wind, and there is also land for tourists to plant by themselves. Flowers, buying flowers, in short, there are a lot of tricks. This year, no one in the city is going to play polo and chuiwan at the polo field on the outskirts of the city, and there are not many people in Diaoyutai, and they all went to Hongshi Village after hearing the news.
Everyone in the village of Xu He couldn't help being fascinated when they heard it, let alone those rich and idle people in the city.
Hongshi Village is really capable of tossing around. But the land is used to grow flowers, so don't you want to grow crops?
Zhang Fangyuan said: Why don't you plant it anymore? You just said that you didn't plant as much as in previous years. You went to the county government to go through the formalities and opened up some wasteland. The county master even praised Hongshi Village. This dynasty is even more prosperous. gone.
As he spoke, he sighed again: It's a pity that there is nothing outstanding in our village. Today, the village chief said the same thing when drinking tea at the other end of the tea shed. The fish pond is three to five yuan, and the sericulture family is three or two. Everything It’s a little bit but not much, if you want to let the villagers concentrate on the same farming and mulberry work, I’m afraid you won’t want it, so there’s nothing to publicize it for the city people to watch and have fun.”
Xu He said: It's not that Hongshi Village has been prepared for several years. If you do it sincerely, it might not be impossible.
However, this is something that the village chief should worry about. I think he can do something, so that our village will not fall behind. Zhang Fangyuan said: I think Hongshi Village was our Siyang ten miles and eight villages back then. One of the poorest villages is full of tourists, but it’s not like it used to be. Besides, there are more tourists coming out of the city, and we have plenty of business to do.”
Xu He's brows twitched slightly, seeing how excited he was, he couldn't help asking, Do you have any ideas?
Yewei has some ideas. If it can be done, let's widen the tea shed and build more houses. It's best to build an inn. The land on the left and right official roads is wide, and there are mountains behind, so it can be opened completely. .”
It sounds very good, but I'm afraid that no one will live there. It's good or bad for their tea shed.
Although the tea shed is an intersection point and the best resting place, it is not too far from Siyang after all. It may take two or three hours to walk to the city, but if you take a car, it will be two hours slower. , you can reach the city in as fast as one and a half hours.
With such a distance, few people will stay here, unless they don’t have a car, and they pass the tea shed in the afternoon, and they can only go to the city when it gets dark, and they will rest for the night.
Of course Zhang Fangyuan knew this truth, so if he wanted to build an inn, he had to find a way to make people stay outside willingly.
Ahhh.
The child's milk voice came from the room, and the two stopped talking. Zhang Fangyuan hurriedly washed his hands and dried them, then raised his legs and went into the room to look at the child: Are you hungry again?
It was strange that the two treasures lay flat on the bed, they were swinging their fleshy arms and legs today, and the little quilt covering them was kicked down by the two together.
We were all asleep just now, but now we all woke up together. In the past, either the elder brother fell asleep and the younger brother woke up, or the younger brother fell asleep and the elder brother woke up. coax.
Zhang Fangyuan was able to pick up the two cubs, holding one in one hand without any pressure, the big one wouldn't move around when he was hugged by his father, the second one was a bit more naughty, he still squeezed his little hands while being held by his father, his mouth Spit out bubbles. Xu He knelt down and wiped Er Bao's mouth: Rui Li loves to drool too much.
It's fine if you don't spit milk. Zhang Fangyuan looked at the kicking brother and said, You are so naughty, is it because you have been kicking him when you were in the stomach? Look at your brother, he didn't mess around.
Ah oh.
Zhang Fangyuan was teased by the child, and he hugged him and dragged him around. Erbao was a little mischievous, but his energy was exhausted. Zhang Fangyuan fell asleep again after holding him for a long time, but Dabao couldn't help it. No matter how fidgety he is, the time when his eyes are open is much more, and the father will hug him for a while, but even if he doesn't hug him, he won't cry when someone looks at him on the bed.
If the little brother fell asleep and he was awake alone, and there was no one outside the bed, he would cry.
At noon, the nanny came to feed the child. The two babies were full and lay on the bed without moving. The sun at noon was warm and steaming, and people were sleepy. Take a nap.