After lunch the next day, Xiang Jin had nothing to do, so she went to clean out her oven, then lit firewood in the lower hole of the oven to preheat the oven, and then she took flour and
The butter came out and I planned to try making some snacks.
When Xiang Lan saw it, he hurriedly jumped in front of her and asked, "Sister, are you going to make some strange food again? Is there anything I need help with?"
Looking at the little girl's excited and expectant eyes, Xiang Jin smiled and said, "You are quite active in this aspect. Not to mention, there are indeed some. So go get me some eggs first, and then peel some."
That fried peanut, some sunflower seeds and walnuts, and bring me some that tangerine peel."
"Oh oh oh, okay," the little girl turned around and left, but after taking two steps she turned sideways and asked, "How many eggs do you want?"
Xiang Jin said, "Take ten."
"Ten? That many?" The little girl was surprised.
Xiang Jin asked, "Would you like some fresh food?"
"Oh, oh, oh, yes, I'll get it right away, but there are so many eggs missing all at once. Mom will definitely ask about it then," the little girl said hurriedly.
Xiang Jin said, "It's just a few eggs. What's your question? With our family's current living standard, can't I just use a few eggs at will?"
"Oh, okay!"
After the little girl left, Xiang Jin scooped out a few pieces of ghee from the jar, then made some homemade soup powder, and then brought her the orange-flavored drink powder that Manager Huang gave her before and Yan Chen the day before yesterday.
Take a few spoons of each milk powder out of a can, then mix the two powders and the flour together and stir well.
Since there was no custard powder here, Xiang Jin added a little old flour and mixed it in.
Then she poured some boiling water into the slightly larger basin, and then put the small basin containing butter into the large basin filled with boiling water to let it soften naturally.
After it softened, she put some powdered sugar into it and started to spread it in one direction with chopsticks.
"Sister, the eggs are here!"
Xiang Jin signaled her to put the egg down, and then continued what she was doing. After the little girl stood there and watched for a while, she felt bored and ran away to do what her sister told her.
After Xiang Jin fully mixed the cream and sugar together, he washed two eggs and cracked them in and continued to beat.
After beating for a while, she felt it was almost done, so she added the previously mixed flour little by little to the mixed solution, then mixed them evenly and kneaded them into a smooth creamy dough.
Then she divided the small dough into several equal parts, and then used a rolling pin to roll it into dough pieces about two to three millimeters thick. Then she brushed a thin layer of egg yolk liquid on the dough, and then
Take a toothpick and poke some irregular holes in it.
Since they didn't have a mold for making pastries at home, she found a wine bottle cap and pressed them into small circles of equal size.
Finally, she placed the small circles neatly in the stainless steel baking pans she bought before and put them aside for later use.
Then she went to check the preheating status of the oven, and found that the bluestone slab had been heated through, and the entire oven was warm. Xiang Jin put the baking sheets into the oven one by one, and then
Close the door and let them bake freely inside.
Since this is not an electric oven, the entire oven can reach the temperature you want at 360 degrees without any blind spots. It may only take a quarter of an hour to bake this kind of biscuits, but this is an earth-fired stove oven, so,
It may take more time.
Finally, through Xiang Jin's constant observation, it would take about thirty-five minutes to bake this cookie until the surface turns golden brown.
Xiang Jin carefully shoveled the baking sheets out of the oven with a thin wide bamboo slice, then picked up a small biscuit and tasted it.
Well, it's slightly sweet, has a milky flavor, and has a fruity orange flavor. It's really crispy, but it seems a bit dry, especially the bottom part next to the baking pan, which is a bit hard to bite.
It seems that those thirty-five minutes were still a bit too much, and these games were considered unsuccessful works.
Xiang Jin decided to do it again, but before doing it, she had to see how the peanuts and walnuts peeled by Xiang Lan were doing. Who knew that when she went there, the little girl was peeling and eating them, and she immediately
Rolling her eyes to the sky speechlessly, she walked over and unkindly threw the plate of cookies in front of her.
He reprimanded, "I'm full with these nuts. You don't want to eat this little biscuit, right?"
When the little girl saw that she had baked it, her eyes immediately lit up. She quickly put down the walnuts she was peeling and said in surprise, "Sister, you baked it. You baked it, so fast?"
"I asked you to peel the peanuts and walnuts. You peeled them all afternoon, and you peeled just this little for me?" She looked at the few fried peanuts and walnuts scattered at the bottom of the bowl, and the ones on the ground under her feet.
There were a lot of peanut shells and walnut shells, and Xiang Jin stared at her angrily.
Xiang Lan took a bite of a baked biscuit, and then said angrily, "How can it be? I've peeled a lot of them, and there are them in the basket on the table behind me, but I can't do that right now."
I was hungry, but you never asked me to taste them. I thought you would wait until the peanuts and walnuts were peeled before you cooked them, so I ate a few."
Xiang Jin walked over and saw that there were at least two bowls of peanuts, walnut kernels, and some sunflower seeds in the basket, but there were very few of them, but the peanuts had their skins removed, probably because of the sunflower seeds.
The seeds are difficult to peel, so the little girl didn't do much peeling.
Xiang Jin's anger subsided and he walked over with the basket, "You have a conscience! Is it delicious?"
The little girl nodded vigorously, "Yeah, yeah, delicious, delicious, very crispy, very fragrant, with the taste of milk and orange, better than any snack with pasta I have eaten before.
They are all delicious, even the cat ears and the fruit are not as delicious as it, sister, I like it!"
Xiang Jin then asked, "Then what do you think?"
The little girl kept shaking her head, "Don't do it! I think it's good. Besides, if you do it, you can drink some water and stop doing it."
Xiang Jin thought in his heart: You are really not picky!
Then she said, "Eat less. If you eat too much, you will easily get angry."
"Yeah, yeah, I know!" The little girl nodded obediently, but her mouth was not free.
Xiang Jin took the basket and left.
Later, she crushed the peanuts, walnuts, and sunflower seeds, and then added some white sesame seeds inside, mixed with some crushed rock sugar grains, and cut some Chenping and put them inside.
Mix some powdered sugar into it, wrap it in dough and form it into a round shape, then bake some five-nut mooncakes.
In the evening, she let her mother and grandfather taste it, and they both said with joy that it was delicious, just as delicious as the ones they bought outside during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Xiang Jin said, "Then bring some to my aunt and uncle tomorrow, and then ask them to bring some back to grandma and Yang Hui and Yang Zhao, so that they can also try it."
Her mother nodded "Yeah, yeah," and then asked, "Is this baked in your oven?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Yeah!"
"Mom, let me tell you, this kind of baked pancake is easier to preserve than the fried fruit dumplings made by my uncle. It can even be stored for a few days in the first summer.
And it doesn’t cost much fuel. I thought about it, I’ll just ask my uncles to stop selling fruit and sell baked pancakes and biscuits instead. They can make these all year round and sell them without having to worry about running out of business, and that
The fruit pai bar doesn't have much technical content, and it can still be easily imitated.
By then, their main business will be selling roujiamo and fried rice noodles, as well as baked biscuits and mooncakes. When the time comes, I will draw a few patterns and ask them to find someone to make a few molds.
The biscuits and mooncakes will be made according to the styles above, I believe many people will like them."
Her mother said, "Then I'll tell your uncle and aunts tomorrow."
Xiang Jin nodded, "To make this kind of biscuit, you will use butter and several other ingredients, but they are not hard to find."
"good!"
After breakfast the next day, Yan Chen came to invite them to their house for hot pot in the evening.
Xiang Jin was baking biscuits at the time. She held up the plate and asked him to try it, "Why are you eating hot pot again?"
Yan Chen picked up a piece of biscuit and said, "Today, Uncle Duoji and Uncle Zheng Gang will stir-fry the ingredients according to the method you taught them. I will let you go over and eat it later to judge."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay! Let's go there tonight! Well, you should taste it, and then give me your judgment and give me some opinions."
Yan Chen looked at the cookie in his hand and laughed, "Why are you obsessed with making this again?"
Xiang Jin said, "I got the idea from the two cups of butter that Uncle Duoji gave me. I think using this butter to make cakes would be delicious."
Yan Chen said, "The butter he brought to you was for you to make butter tea and eat tsampa with it. Why, have you tasted the tsampa?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "Not yet."
"You can try it, it tastes pretty good!" Yan Chen picked up the biscuit and took a bite.
Xiang Jin just stared at him, waiting for his answer.
After a while, Yan Chen said, "Not bad, crispy and delicious, melts in your mouth, just right sweetness, not greasy or dry!"
"really?!"
"nature!"
"Okay, then you can take some back later and let them try it too. Oh, by the way, you can go back later. I have made mooncakes and I am baking them. You can try them later too."
Yan Chen said, "This is not the Mid-Autumn Festival, why did you make moon cakes?"
Xiang Jin said, "Who said that moon cakes can only be eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival? The so-called moon cakes are the cakes that should be eaten every month."
Yan Chen laughed again and said, "I'm talking nonsense!" Then he sat down on the empty bench beside him.
Xiang Jin took the bag to fill him with biscuits. After a while, she filled two bags and put them in front of him. "This bag is slightly sweet, the one you tasted just now. This one is slightly sweet."
The bag is salt and pepper flavored, a little bit numb and spicy, and also has a little MSG in it, you can see if you like it."
Yan Chen opened the bag and tasted a piece, "Well, it's okay!"
"Are you sure you like her? You're not trying to comfort me?!" Xiang Jin stared at him and said.
Yan Chen said, "I don't like sweets, you know that."
Xiang Jin nodded, "You know? You don't like sweets, but you don't necessarily like this salt and pepper flavor?"
Yan Chen stared at her as she picked up the bag of salt and pepper cookies and said seriously, "I like this very much!"
"Then I'll give you some more decorations?"
"No, that's enough!"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, it's best to store this in a sealed jar or bag, otherwise it will easily get damp."
"Um!"
"Hey, when will they go back?"
"tomorrow!"
"Tomorrow?! Well, isn't that the 16th? We will start school tomorrow," Xiang Jin thought, and suddenly thought of it.
Yan Chen nodded, "Well, they will leave after breakfast tomorrow morning!"
Xiang Jin said, "Oh, no, no, I have to do more, and then bring something to each of them. Oh, did they all come to the provincial capital alone, or did they have family members with them?
"
Yan Chen said, "Uncle Zheng brought his son and his parents, and his parents will work in our fields later.
Uncle Duoji brought his wife and children with him, and his wife will help in our store later."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Have you met them? How are they?"
Yan Chen nodded, "They are all quite simple, kind and down-to-earth. Uncle Tao said they are all honest and responsible people!"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Then they also signed a labor contract?"
Yan Chen nodded, "Well, we have all signed. Everyone has signed a ten-year contract!"
Suddenly, Xiang Jin thought of a question, "Hey, Uncle Zheng, why did he only bring his children and parents, why didn't he bring his wife?"
Yan Chen said, "I heard that his wife fell ill and died when his child was three years old."
"Dead?" Xiang Jin was surprised.
Yan Chen nodded, "Well, I heard that his family was stabbed by a rusty nail when they were building a house. They didn't pay much attention to it at the time. Later, they got tetanus and died."
Xiang Jin sighed, "What a pity!"
Yan Chen nodded, "Well, it's indeed quite regrettable. Then Uncle Zheng felt sorry for his wife, so he never married again after he retired."
Xiang Jin nodded and then asked, "How old are the children of Uncle Zheng's family and Uncle Duoji's family?" Xiang Jin then asked again.
Yan Chen said, "The children in Uncle Zheng's family are probably as old as your youngest cousin, and the children in Uncle Duoji's family are about the same age as Xiang Lan."
"Oh, it's not big!"
"Well! They all plan to study here."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay, then if they all act conscientiously and responsibly, we will pay for each of them to buy a house in the provincial capital."
Yan Chen was surprised, "Are you sure?!"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Ah, I'm sure. It shouldn't be very expensive to buy a house in the provincial capital now, right? It's just a little further away."
Yan Chen said, "It's the kind of small farmhouse with an area of about 100 square meters, which may cost 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. Houses in urban areas currently cost 1,500 yuan to 2,000 yuan per square meter."
Waiting price.”
Xiang Jin said, "The key is to have a good character. If the character is not good, then forget it."
Yan Chen smiled and said, "Are you trying to win people's hearts? And then make them follow us wholeheartedly?"
Xiang Jin said, "Of course, we still need to train some trustworthy people after all. To be honest, I also want to open a braised pork shop in the provincial capital. There must be trustworthy people in charge.
That kind of obedience is definitely not acceptable.
There is a saying in the art of war: If you want to take something, you must first give it to it, so we must first solve other people's worries. Only in this way will people work for us wholeheartedly."
Yan Chen nodded, "Okay, then I'll let Uncle Tao handle this matter when I get back. Let him buy five or six houses or rent them or put them there first. I won't tell them what this house is."
It is prepared for them. If they perform well, we will transfer it to them in the future. If they perform poorly, we will not lose anything."
Xiang Jin said, "Okay! Then three sets for you and three sets for me! I seem to owe you a lot of money again?!"
The last time I bought the land, I still had tens of thousands left to pay off. This time, I paid for the house to open the hotpot restaurant, as well as the decoration costs. Some cost management expenses were paid by Yan Chen in advance. Now she is buying three houses.
I owe him another 100,000 yuan.
Oh, when will she be able to pay off this debt?
In fact, she had her own little idea in buying a few apartments, that is, there would be a demolition compensation fund in it, and she would be able to make a lot of money at that time.
Yan Chen smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, I'll pay you back slowly. I'm not in a hurry to use the money." It would be best to always owe him, so that she would have another layer of relationship with him. He was very happy with every moment of her life.
He is involved in every business, so the involvement between the two of them will only become more and more intense, just like the ball of thread becoming more and more entangled.
Xiang Jin nodded, "That's all it can be, but then again, you are really rich. You bought so much land and opened a hot pot restaurant, and now you still have money to buy a house."
Yan Chen teased, "Are you very rich too?"
Xiang Jin rolled his eyes at him speechlessly, "Compared to you, that's just a drop in the bucket."
Yan Chen said, "After buying this house, I don't have much money anymore, but I may not invest much recently, so I'll take my time."
Xiang Jin nodded, "I have to take it slow," and he had to pay off his account first.
Following Xiang Jin, she looked at the watch. Two minutes had passed. So she quickly stood up, opened the wooden door of the oven, and then used the bamboo spatula on the side to carefully remove the baking sheets from the inside.
The ground was shoveled out.
Looking at the presentation, Xiang Jin said, "Fortunately, it's not baked yet!"
Yan Chen looked at the golden noodle cake in front of him and said, "Is this a moon cake?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Although it doesn't look good on the outside, it's a genuine five-nut mooncake inside. It's mainly because I don't have a mold. If there is a mold, the baked mooncakes are guaranteed to be the same as those every year."
It's the same as the mooncakes sold outside during the Mid-Autumn Festival." Xiang Jin went to get a plate and put one in it for him, "Try it?"
"Oh, it seems you don't like sweets, huh? It's okay, I'll find you a salt and pepper flavor, why don't you wait?" Xiang Jin took the mooncake out of the plate again, and then put it back
There is a salt and pepper flavor in it.
"Huh?" Xiang Jin motioned for him to try it quickly.
Yan Chen said, "I can't eat one."
"Then break it in half," Xiang Jin said and put the other two cookie-shaped baking sheets into the oven.
Yan Chen really cut the moon cake into two, tasted half of it himself, and handed the other half to Xiang Jin.
Xiang Jin took it and started eating it. After feeling it carefully, he said, "I eat it properly. It's not spicy or spicy. What about your half?"
Yan Chen said, "The taste is just right for me."
Xiang Jin immediately smiled and narrowed his eyes, and quickly took the plate in his hand and put a plate for him, filling half of each of the two flavors, and then found a basket with a lid and put all the food in it.
Install it there.
Yan Chen knew that she had to be busy next, so he stood up from his seat, picked up the basket and went back.
As soon as she left, Xiang Jin hurried to the main house and asked Xiang Lan to peel some fried peanuts, walnuts and sunflower seeds.
"Ah? Why are you peeling it off?" Xiang Lan was a little unhappy.
Xiang Jin said, "I heard that Uncle Mingtao and the others are about to go back. Uncle Zheng Gang and Uncle Duoji have children at home. We have eaten so much, shouldn't we give some gifts in return?"
"Oh," the little girl immediately stopped speaking.
Xiang Jin and her grandfather nodded and said, "You should definitely give me a gift in return." After that, he walked over and peeled it off with Xiang Lan.
Xiang Jin said, "Peel more. I will take some to school tomorrow."
"oh!"
Then Xiang Jin took a few dozen more eggs and went to prepare them.
At five or six o'clock in the afternoon, when Xiang Jin and the others went to Grandma Mo's house for dinner, Xiang Jin asked Uncle Duoji, "Uncle Duoji, how is life in your hometown? Tell me about it?"
Uncle Duoji smiled and said, "The life in our hometown is different from yours. We make a living by herding. For example, our family raises sheep and yaks, and some people even raise Tibetan pigs."
"How many sheep, yaks, and Tibetan pigs did your family raise before?"
Uncle Duoji said, "We don't raise many ginseng and whiskers at home. We only raise a dozen sheep and a few yaks. We don't raise Tibetan pigs, but my eldest brother and his family do."
"Oh, so the Danba pork leg you gave us was sold outside?"
"No, although our family does not raise Tibetan pigs, my eldest brother's family raised seven or eight. Later, they gave two to our family, and our family also gave theirs two sheep."
"Oh, it's equal to replacement?"
"Yes, yes, swap! Many people there are like that, exchanging what they have at home for what others have, but our own family doesn't have anything."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Did you make the butter you gave us yourself?"
"Yes, my wife and my sister-in-law had a fight. How was it? Are you still used to it?" Uncle Duoji asked.
Xiang Jin nodded, "I'm used to it. It's very fragrant. The ground tsampa is also delicious. Thank you, Uncle Duoji."
Uncle Dorji then burst into hearty laughter and said, "As long as you get used to it, many people can't get used to our Tibetan food."
Xiang Jin said, "I don't choose. I think every place has its own food characteristics, and they are all worth tasting, just like the purple eggplant and dried noodles from Uncle Zheng Gang and others in Dongchuan.
The garlic they have there just tastes different from what’s available elsewhere.”
Uncle Zheng Gang also laughed there and said that the garlic and eggplants they had were often sold to other provinces. This time they came to the provincial capital and brought some of their vegetables.
Xiang Jin said, "This is a good idea. The eggplants we have here are all green and white, and there are no purple eggplants." She felt that their gift was brought to their hearts, and they had good intentions.
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Then she asked Uncle Duoji again, "Uncle Duoji, can you sell the butter at your house?"
Uncle Duoji asked, "Why, you like our ghee very much? Hey, if you like it, I'll ask my family to mail you a few more jars. Why do you need to buy it?"
Xiang Jin said, "Uncle Duoji, I don't just want a little bit, I want a lot. I may use it all year round, and I don't use it at home. Have you tried the biscuits and mooncakes that Yan Chen brought back then?"
?I added ghee to it."
Uncle Zheng Gang and Uncle Duoji nodded and said that they had tasted it and it was very delicious and sweet, just like the biscuits bought outside.
Xiang Jin explained to them, "I wanted to buy it from you for my uncle and aunt. They opened a restaurant in the town. Currently they mainly sell meat buns, fried rice noodles, and steamed dumplings.
, they sell some fried noodles and fruits outside, but I want them to change the fried fruits into scones and biscuits later, but if you want to make biscuits and scones like mine, you need to use
The one you have is butter."
Uncle Duoji nodded, "I understand, I understand, but how much do you want, and I will ask my family to send it to you?"
Xiang Jin said, "Uncle Duoji, you can't say that. They use it to do business and sell money, so how can they ask you to give it away for free? Besides, you also need time, energy and physical strength to make butter, so this must be used
I want to buy with you money. What we are talking about now is business, not favors. Just tell me how you sold it at this price. Of course, the transportation cost among you must also be taken into account."
Uncle Zheng Gang and Uncle Duoji saw that she was so fair and equitable in dealing with things and did not take advantage of others, so they couldn't help but have a good impression of her.
Uncle Duoji said, "But I have to ask my elder brother and the others about this. After all, they will be the ones supplying the goods in the future."
Xiang Jin nodded, "No rush, I also want to say hello to my uncle and aunt."
Uncle Duoji said, "If you decide for your uncle and aunt, will they agree?"
Uncle Zheng Gang also looked at her with suspicion.
Grandma Mo on the side smiled and said, "Well, don't worry, the business of Xiang Jin's family and her uncle's family was started by Jin Yatou. They will not object to her opinion.
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The two of them were surprised, and at the same time their eyes showed admiration.
They knew that Yan Chen was powerful, but they didn't expect that this girl could be so powerful at such a young age.
Xiang Jin waved his hand, "It's nothing, I just gave them some ideas for making a living."