My mythical road to getting rich in ancient times

Chapter 13 Pancake Fruit

Jiangxiao took Lu Jingzhi's private seal, and Lu Jingzhi pressed his own seal. The two exchanged contracts and kept them separately.

"It's a pleasure to cooperate, Miss Xia." Lu Jingzhi raised his tea cup and drank it in one gulp.

"It's a pleasure to cooperate." Xia Wan suddenly realized that she didn't know the name of the person in front of her, but the other person seemed to know her own name, and then asked, "Who is your surname?"

"My surname is Lu and my name is Jingzhi. I am currently a guest in the Lu Mansion. If you have any difficulties when Miss Xia opens a shop in the future, you can go to the Lu Mansion to find Jiangxiao, the person next to me." Lu Jingzhi pointed with his finger and stood beside him. The night falls.

Jiang Xiao took a step forward and said, "Ms. Xia, I belong to Xiang Xiao."

Xia Wan said politely, "Master Lu, if you have anything to do with the store in the future, you can come to Xia Mansion to see Qiulan or Xia Yu. The one next to me is Qiulan, and the one at the door is Xia Yu."

Qiulan also imitated Jiangxiao, bending down like Lu Jingzhi and saluting, "Slave Qiulan."

"Okay, when I return home later, I will ask Jiangxiao to send you the land deed."

"Okay, I've got to thank you Mr. Lu."

The agreement between the two was reached.

After that, they both left without having lunch together.First, it was not yet noon, and second, this was the first official meeting between the two of them, and they were not familiar enough to have dinner together.

Xiafu.

As soon as Xia Wan came back, she began to immerse herself in drawings.

Just draw the few shops she saw that day, including a spice store and a dessert shop. The rest will have to wait until the land deed is obtained.

Xia Wan plans to go to the shop on the west side of the town to inspect it again in the afternoon to see the layout inside and make modifications according to the layout of the store itself, saving time, effort and money.

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The next day.

Xia Wan worked very quickly. She had already finished the drawings and asked Xia Yu to find someone to change the layout. Some needed to be dismantled, some needed to be added, and some cabinets specifically for desserts needed to be customized...

The fastest one would take a month to rest, so Xia Wan immediately selected a few medium-sized stores from the remaining stores that did not require excessive decoration. She planned to open a few food stores first, and initially planned to open two breakfast and dinner stores. The shop that combines dining and dining will first attract some people, then open a rouge and gouache shop, and then open a jewelry store...

Just do it.

Xia Wan thought of several foods that were suitable for both morning and evening. The first one was pancakes and fruits. The difficulty was that there was no pan to make pancakes and fruits.

Xia Wan recalled the saucepan she had seen in her previous life, modified it, and finally drew a similar one.

A circle was drawn, with a slightly convex center and three legs underneath. Iron bars were welded to form a narrow edge on top of which the whole pot could be rotated.When the pancake is baked around the griddle, the pancake surface will be flat, while when the pancake is baked in the center, the pancake surface will be convex.Then he drew the spatula and asked the blacksmith to punch it out together.

After the drawings were drawn, they planned to ask Xia Yu to find a blacksmith to make an experiment first.

The second step is how to make the fruit sprouts in pancakes, also known as crisps. It is a folk snack in Tianjin and is now a snack everywhere.

Xia Wan didn't know exactly how the fruit sprouts were made, so she wrote down the fruit sprouts she described and gave it to Qiulan, asking her to send it to the cook to see if they could study it.Finally, there is the soul of pancake fruit - sweet noodle sauce.In her previous life, she could only buy these sauces but not make them, which stumped Xia Wan.Xia Wan decisively handed over this difficult task to the cooks in the dining room. Of course, she did not sit idly by and quietly went to the kitchen to study with the cooks.

After three or four days of experiments, I finally came up with the sweet noodle sauce. Although the taste is worse than modern ones, it is still delicious.It happened that the pancake spatula (pan for making pancakes and fruit) and spatula made by the blacksmith were ready, so I started experimenting.

The cook cooked the batter for a while under Xia Wan's command, then set up the pancake griddle, rekindled the fire, heated the iron pan, put a spoonful of batter into the pan, and while rotating the pancake griddle, he quickly used a bamboo scraper and a rake. Spread the batter out.A small spoonful of batter quickly spread evenly on the bottom of the hot pot. Soon it turned brown and the rich aroma of cooked wheat spread.

People in the dining room couldn't help but sigh, it smells so good!

Then Xia Wan asked the cook to use an iron spatula to scoop up the cooked pancakes from the edge. However, the cook was not skilled for the first time. When the cook was in a hurry, he broke the first pancake into several pieces. The piece that was scooped up had become a little burnt.

After several experiments, four or five pancakes were damaged and finally spread out enough to be readable. Xia Wan quickly cracked an egg on the pancakes and directed the cook to continue turning the pancakes and brushing them with the special sweet sauce.

Since there was no lettuce in this era, other vegetables were used instead, and the fruit grate developed by the chef was put on it. Xia Wan showed the chef how to roll the pancake fruit, and finally cut it in the middle and stacked the two halves. Together, put on a plate aside.

Xia Wan asked the cook to make another one without any interference from her.

The chef is becoming more and more skilled at cooking, and can now reproduce it perfectly.

After a while, there were already three pancakes and fruits lying on the plate. Xia Wan was the first to pick up one and take a bite.

Wow~ so delicious!Familiar taste, if only there was hot sauce.

The remaining two were given to Xia Yu and Qiulan, one each, and then they ordered each of the elders in the house to cook a portion and send it over with dinner.He also allowed the cook to make a portion for everyone present, and rewarded each person who participated in the making of fruit grate and sweet noodle sauce with five taels of silver. Everyone was very happy.

Mao Shi.

Dining room.

The whole family sat together, chatting and laughing, while the maids were busy serving food, and the last one was pancakes and fruits.

Xia Wan first handed a portion to her grandmother, who had been sitting at the head of the dinner table, and said, "Grandma, how do you like the taste of this pancake fruit?" Then she handed it to her father, mother, and eldest brother one by one.

Mrs. Zhao lowered her head and looked at something she had never seen before, picked it up with chopsticks and took a bite. It was soft and crunchy in the mouth, sweet but not as sweet as adding sugar. It was delicious and the food was very delicious. no the same.

"It's delicious, nanny, where does this kind of food come from?"

At this time, Xia Wan was busy handing a piece of pancake fruit to Xia Yan, who was watching her silently: "I read this from various books and mixed several kinds of food together to study it. Thanks to the kitchen Our chefs, there are many things made by them. Second brother, try it, does it smell good?"

Xia Yan took the plate and looked at the so-called "pancake fruit" on the plate with some curiosity as it was as thin as paper and exuded a rich burnt aroma. The pancakes that had just been spread out were fragrant and crispy, and they "clicked" in their mouths. After being crushed, it has a strong aroma of wheat, and there is something dark brown inside that I don’t know what it is, which is particularly delicious.

Xia Wan was very happy to see how everyone liked the food. She also felt that the pancakes would definitely become popular and attract a wave of people to Zhenxi and develop the market there.

However, Xia Wan is still hesitant. She is not sure whether it is better to buy pancakes in limited quantities or unlimited quantities.

There are only a limited number of people for a while, and currently there is no industry in the west of the town that can retain people.

Unlimited food will be very busy, and people will get tired of it if they eat too much, and they may gradually lose interest in pancakes and fruits.

This matter remains to be discussed...