Especially eating the frozen pears around the charcoal stove, enjoying the spring-like warmth and the coolness that only summer should have, and if you look at the whistling north wind and the fluttering snowflakes outside, it can't be more wonderful!
While enjoying the delicious frozen pears, Xia Mingyue did not forget to share some of the few frozen pears with Mrs. He from Dexin Garden and Mr. Zhou from the county school.
Within two days after the frozen pears were sent out, Xia Mingyue received return gifts from various places.
Old Madam He sent a cart of ready-made ice cubes and a cart of top-quality snow pears, while Director Zhou sent a lot of hawthorns.
Seeing that all the materials were available, Xia Mingyue simply built a medium-sized refrigerator with ice cubes and began to freeze a new batch of frozen pears.
As for the hawthorns from Mayor Zhou, Xia Mingyue washed them clean and made part of them into a refreshing and delicious hawthorn cake with a perfect sour and sweet taste, and the other part into candied haws, which is suitable for all ages and has been very popular throughout the ages.
Wash and core the hawthorns and coat them with an even layer of syrup. They taste sweet and sour, and sour and sweet, and are very delicious.
It is suitable to take big bites or savour it slowly.
After the candied haws were made, Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu happened to return home during the afternoon break, so Xia Mingyue gave some of the candied haws to the two brothers.
When the two brothers saw the red candied haws, their eyes lit up. After thanking Xia Mingyue, they started to eat with relish.
While eating, they recalled the good times when the two brothers used to sell candied haws on the street together.
"Our candied haws were the most popular on the whole street at that time!"
"Yes, they sell a lot, and they sell out quickly. After they're all sold out, I have to rush home to make new ones. There's simply not enough to sell."
"It's also because we sell it at a low price and at a good price, and the idea is also novel. Small strings of candied haws are more popular."
"The main reason is that we have more varieties. Others only sell hawthorns, but we have hawthorn glutinous rice, hawthorn bean paste, apples, oranges, pears, fish balls, braised pork…"
As the two were talking, they suddenly stopped talking.
After a brief pause, the two men looked at each other and nodded heavily at the same time.
Then he walked out holding the candied haws in his hand.
"Are you going back so soon?" Xia Mingyue smiled as she saw the two people out.
"Thought of some good things!" said Zhao Dahu.
"Yeah, good idea!" Zhao Erhu agreed.
It looks like a really amazing new dish?
The two brothers are quite talented in cooking. After having spent a long time training in Buyun Tower, they can not only cook the dishes taught by Xia Mingyue about 80% of the way, but also give full play to their creativity. Many of the dishes they have made after fine-tuning are also very popular.
Xia Mingyue agreed with this creativity very much and even discussed this matter with Manager Ge in private.
Shopkeeper Ge would agree with anything Xia Mingyue proposed, and the dishes cooked by Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu were quite popular among diners at Buyun Tower, so he just let them do as they pleased.
Therefore, when Manager Ge saw Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu running back to Buyun Tower excitedly and diving into the kitchen, he was overjoyed.
It looks like Buyunlou is going to have a new signature dish!
As the owner, shouldn't he try out the new dishes first?
Shopkeeper Ge thought so and simply stayed in the kitchen, watching the two brothers start to boil syrup with a smile, and then continued...
Cooking pig intestines?
? ? ? ?
What kind of dish is this?
While Shopkeeper Ge was looking astonished, Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu had already lit the wok, heated the oil, and quickly put the cooked pig intestines into the wok. After stir-frying, they coated them with a thick layer of syrup!
Shopkeeper Ge: "..."
After a moment's silence, Shopkeeper Ge turned around and prepared to leave.
But before anyone left the kitchen, Zhao Erhu's voice came from behind, "Shopkeeper Ge? You've come just in time. My brother and I just made a new dish. Come and have a taste?" "Yes, it's called rock sugar pork intestines." Zhao Dahu said as he simply grabbed Shopkeeper Ge and brought the plate to him, handing him chopsticks. "This is a new dish we came up with on a whim."
It’s a good idea, but I suggest you don’t do it next time.
Shopkeeper Ge looked at the bright brown and shiny pork intestines in the plate, which were covered with a layer of crystal clear syrup and felt he couldn't bring himself to eat them with his chopsticks.
"Manager Ge, please try it."
Under the constant urging of the two brothers, Shopkeeper Ge picked up the chopsticks reluctantly, made up his mind, closed his eyes, picked up a piece of sugar-coated pork intestines, put it into his mouth, chewed it casually and swallowed it into his stomach.
"What's the matter?" Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu asked impatiently.
Shopkeeper Ge: "..."
The taste is too complex to be described.
But facing the eager eyes of two people...
"It's just..." Shopkeeper Ge gritted his teeth, "It's very special."
It's so special that it's hard to describe!
"Is that so?" Zhao Dahu's eyes lit up.
Zhao Erhu's eyes lit up like stars, "Buyunlou is going to launch a new signature dish!"
"Will you put up the sign for the candied pork intestines tomorrow?"
"I think it works!"
Shopkeeper Ge: "..."
Remembering what Xia Mingyue had told him not to discourage a cook's creativity, Shopkeeper Ge finally swallowed his words of dissuasion and nodded instead.
Buyunlou changes its menu every once in a while, removing dishes with low order rates and adding seasonal food. It's no big deal to add a candied pork intestines.
Furthermore, it is difficult to teach people, but people can learn things once they are taught, so just let them go.
So, with the approval of Shopkeeper Ge, a wooden sign with the words "Tang Candied Pork Intestines" was hung up along with the names of other dishes, and it was hung in the area for new dishes.
The waiters looked at each other in bewilderment when they learned about this, and the diners who came to Buyunlou to eat also widened their eyes when they saw that one of the new dishes was called Sugar-coated Pork Intestines.
Rock sugar...pork intestines?
Are these two things that go together?
Are you really not kidding?
But then again, this is Buyunlou, and all the dishes they serve there are delicious. Since they have cooked such dishes, the taste of the dishes will surely not disappoint!
Out of surprise and curiosity, many people ordered this dish to taste it.
Therefore, on the first day when the Sugar-coated Pork Intestines were newly served, the number of orders for the dish was more than that for ordinary dishes. In the following days, it surpassed many other dishes and became the most ordered dish!
Why is this sugar-coated pork intestine so popular?
Shopkeeper Ge was simply amazed, and even unable to suppress his inner surprise, he simply stopped a satiated customer. (End of this chapter)