Chapter 454: Leather Scum
The popularity of hot and sour noodles has basically passed. If a new product comes out...

It will definitely be helpful for Zhaojiazhuang!

After thinking for a long time, Xia Mingyue thought of a food with very local characteristics - skin residue.

Boil the vermicelli until it is soft, while maintaining a certain hardness and elasticity. Drain the water, add crushed sweet potato starch, chopped onion, ginger, garlic, salt, cloves, pepper, star anise and other seasoning powders, and stir evenly with your hands to ensure that each vermicelli is evenly coated with the paste.

Put the mixed vermicelli into a bowl, flatten and compact it to make sure there is almost no space between the vermicelli. Then boil the water and steam it for the time it takes to make a meal.

Cut off a piece of the steamed skin while it is still hot, and then cut it into slices about half an inch thick. You can eat it directly with the sauce.

Vermicelli is smooth and elastic. After being made into skin residue, it becomes more chewy. The addition of various seasonings makes the originally ordinary vermicelli taste very rich, with a mellow and rich aftertaste...

Xia Mingyue brought out the steamed skin residue and let everyone have a taste.

"good to eat!"

"tasty!"

"Is this really made of vermicelli? Why does it taste better than vermicelli?"

"Don't mention it. I don't usually like to eat vermicelli. If it's added to the stewed meat, I can barely eat a few bites. Now eating the skin residue is very delicious."

"Yeah, it smells really good, and tastes just like meat..."

Everyone was full of praise for this piece of scum.

But among all these sighs, the only voice missing was Yin Lingyou’s.

Just when everyone was wondering why, they found that Yin Lingyou was no longer in the yard!

At this time, Yin Lingyou was in the kitchen, cutting the remaining skin residue in the large basin into pieces of suitable sizes and putting them all into the basin (crossed out, bowl) that Mao Sanli usually used for eating.

Mao Sanli looked at the fragrant leather scraps and his mouth almost stretched to his ears, but he was also quite worried, "Master, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for us to take all the leather scraps in secret."

"What are you talking about?" Yin Lingyou's expression was stern. "What do you mean by sneaking around? Aren't we here to rob openly? Oh no, to take it?"

Madam Xia and her group are right outside, and they are not trying to avoid people's sight, so aren't they coming here to take it openly?
After the mutton noodles and shrimp wontons a few days ago, Yin Lingyou learned a profound truth, that is, delicious food is something that you have to fight for yourself. If you keep silent, you will not be able to eat delicious food, and you will cry secretly until dawn!
So, to enjoy a wonderful life, you have to rely on your own hands, right?

Yin Lingyou was very satisfied with his enlightened behavior at this moment, and he sped up his movements even more. When all the peel residues were put into Mao Sanli's bowl, he and Mao Sanli left the kitchen together.

"We'll take away the remaining scraps." Yin Lingyou asked Mao Sanli to walk close to the wall while greeting Xia Mingyue.

Seeing the actions of the master and disciple who were very affectionate, Xia Mingyue laughed dumbly, "If Doctor Yin likes it, just take it and eat it. I can make some more tomorrow."

"It's just that there are quite a lot of leftover skin scraps. We've already finished lunch, and for dinner we'll have the crispy pork casserole rice that Doctor Yin likes. If we take so many skin scraps back..."

"As a midnight snack!" Yin Lingyou put his hands behind his back and raised his chin.

His gray beard stood up high because of his raised chin, which made him look extremely arrogant. Then, he didn't even look at the crowd, but walked out with his hands behind his back. After he walked out of the yard, he started to jog all the way until he ran back to his own yard and slammed the door shut.

Xia Mingyue, "..."

With so many skin scraps as a midnight snack, even if the master and disciple have huge appetites, they will probably be full.

However, Doctor Yin seemed to have previously prepared a prescription that could promote digestion and would not cause bloating and discomfort in the stomach, so it might come in handy.

This Doctor Yin is truly a naughty old man!
But then again, this is enough to prove that the taste of the skin residue is indeed good, and it can be put to market, so that the remaining vermicelli residue can be fully put to use.

Just do it!

When Xia Mingyue woke up the next morning, she steamed another pot of vermicelli residue and took it to Zhaoji Vermicelli Shop to look for Zhao Sanlin.

Because Zhaoji vermicelli is selling well and business is booming, Zhao Sanlin has now bought out the small shop that he had originally rented, and also bought in a small shop selling candied fruits next door. He connected the two together and used the front as a counter while the backyard as a temporary warehouse for storing the day's goods.

Seeing Xia Mingyue coming to the shop, Zhao Sanlin greeted her with a smile.

When he learned that Xia Mingyue had made a new food called Pi Zha, which could help Zhaojiazhuang deal with the broken vermicelli produced in the process of making vermicelli, the smile on his face became even bigger.

After tasting the skin residue, Zhao Sanlin felt that his face was a little small.

The smile and gratitude on his face were too little to express how he felt at the moment!
In addition, Zhao Sanlin felt that his stomach was also a little small.

The amount of skin scraps Xia Mingyue brought was quite a bit, but he only ate one plate. The rest was left over for his mouth but not his stomach, so he had to save it for the next meal.

But when Zhao Sanlin thought that Madam Xia was going to teach Zhaojiazhuang how to make this delicious five-spiced pork dregs, so that they would never have to worry about having nothing to eat in the future, he felt much more relaxed.

After agreeing on a time for Xia Mingyue to go to Zhaojiazhuang to teach the villagers how to make leather residue, Xia Mingyue said goodbye and left.

Zhao Sanlin almost sent Xia Mingyue to the entrance of Xinghua Alley before turning back and continuing to run the vermicelli shop business with the two young men.

They were busy until the sun went down. Most of the vermicelli in the shop were sold out. One person was left to live in the shop to look after it at night, while Zhao Sanlin and another person drove the ox cart to Zhaojiazhuang.

As we walked back, the sun set and night fell.

After a busy afternoon, the two men were starving, so they picked up the oil-paper wrapped pancakes and stuffed them into their mouths.

The pancakes were salt and pepper pancakes bought from Xia Ji’s big pot mutton soup stall. They were not completely cold yet and were quite soft. When I chewed them slowly in my mouth, they were full of peppery aroma and extremely delicious.

Zhao Sanlin bought a small piece of mutton when he bought the sesame seed cake, and asked the stall owner to cut it into thin slices. Now he cut the salt and pepper sesame seed cake in half, put the mutton slice in it, and added half a piece of scallion...

The fresh aroma of mutton and the peppery aroma of sesame seed cakes are mixed together, and the spicy flavor of scallions makes the two aromas more intense.

It’s such a treat!

Zhao Sanlin ate happily, and the young man next to him also ate with gusto.