He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

The New Year is coming, and the Lu family is all busy. Lu Yan was busy making New Year's goods, Lu Sheng was busy writing Spring Festival couplets with the character "Fu" to sell for money, Boss Lu was busy rushing the last batch of work before the store closed, and even Xu, who had almost good legs, got busy and started working again Doing laundry. The Chinese New Year is almost here, and there are quite a few people who want to wash out all the dirty clothes accumulated at home.

Lu Yan had been busy before and usually only washed the small clothes and inner clothes she wore. Lu Sheng used to wash the outer clothes at home, so she didn't have any feelings yet. This time she saw Mrs. Xu washing a large basin of dirty clothes. She got a wooden stick by the river and hammered it hard, which made her arm hurt. For the first time, she came up with the idea of ​​making soap.

Making soap is very simple and can almost be said to be a necessary skill for time travel. Which time traveler can't help but make soap? In theory, making soap only requires two raw materials: lard and plant ash. Luckily she had it all.

In fact, it is mainly the saponification reaction between alkali and ester. The specific alkali and oil are not important. Rather than straw ash, lime powder should be more useful. In ancient times, there was also lime, and there were lime factories. Yu Qian wrote it clearly in his poem "Lime Song". However, it is generally difficult to buy lime in small quantities, so you can only try your luck at the drug store. But plant ash is different, plant ash is everywhere. So Lu Yan still chose the most classic soap made from plant ash.

Plant ash is mainly potassium carbonate, which forms an alkaline solution when boiled water is heated. Animal fats mainly contain triglycerides, which undergo a saponification reaction with alkali to make soap.

Oil is even easier. She originally wanted to buy meat during the Chinese New Year, but Lu Yan bought another fifty kilograms of pork, which cost her more than seven yuan. Lu Yan cut off a large piece of fifty pounds of pork and cooked it in lard.

The principle is the same, but it’s not that simple to do. First, add water to boil the plant ash and let it settle for a whole day, then filter out the clear liquid in the upper layer. Heat the lard and melt it into a liquid, pour it into the plant ash water, and stir it for an hour until it becomes like yogurt.

This step was left to Lu Sheng again. That day, Lu Sheng again remembered the fear of being dominated by hand-whipped egg whites.

After the mixture is mixed, pour it into a bowl and let it dry.

The proportions I made the first time were not quite right and the finished product was not very lumpy, but the paste-like soap was already very easy to use and I could create bubbles on my hands. Mrs. Xu happily held the bowl and went to wash clothes.

Lu Yan adjusted the ratio of oil and water several times, went to the drug store to buy some lime powder, and finally made soap that could be cut into pieces.

"Okay, okay!" Lu Sheng squatted on the ground and poked at the soap: "Try to sell it at a rouge shop after the new year."

"Go ahead, I don't like dealing with people." Lu Yan said.

"No problem." Lu Sheng agreed.

Yinzi saw the two squatting on the ground and thought they were playing something, so he came over to take a look. When she saw the objects on the ground, she thought they were toys and tried to bite them, but Lu Yan slapped them away.

"Smelly dog, you have to eat and not beat. You have to bite everything in your mouth twice." Lu Yan pretended to beat it, but was reluctant to do so: "I'll see how you blow bubbles if you really eat it."

Thinking of drying the soap and giving it away as a New Year gift, I made a lot of it, and after boiling a pot of oil, there was still a pot of lard residue.

Sprinkle the lard residue with some salt while it's hot and it's delicious as a snack. However, the three members of the Lu family usually eat meat, so they ate a few bites to make sure they were fresh. Most of the lard residue was left over, so Lu Yan steamed the buns.

The dried radish is chopped into pieces, mixed with lard residue, and wrapped into fat white buns. After being tempered by the fire, the fat seeps out from the oil residue and soaks into the dried radish, making the dried radish oily. It's moist and the whole bun is fragrant.

During the Chinese New Year, you have to eat meat. After you finish eating the oil residue, there is still more meat to eat. Lu Yan cut another large piece of meat, chopped it into minced meat, and fried the meatballs.

The little meat balls began to crackle as soon as they were put into the oil pan. As the screams became lower and lower, their bodies slowly turned brown, and the aroma of frying filled the yard. Lu Sheng and Yinzi were both attracted by the aroma and refused to leave around the pot.

Lu Yan was afraid that Yinzi would be scalded by the fire, so she specially prepared a bowl of salt-free rice for Yinzi, fried it and asked Lu Sheng to take it out. Lu Sheng held the bowl and touched the silver with his toes, signaling it to follow. Yinzi is a smart dog and understood the communication between his owners. He jumped excitedly and picked up Lu Sheng's trouser legs, wagging his tail like a propeller.

Lu Sheng poured the meatballs into Yinzi's dog bowl and rushed back with the bowl. Lu Yan also picked out the freshly fried meatballs for him to eat.

The freshly fried meatballs were still very hot. Lu Sheng blew them twice, but did not dare to eat them directly. He bit into the crispy shell to let the heat inside dissipate, and then put the whole ball into his mouth to chew. The outer shell is crispy and the inside is soft and tender. The pure meat balls become more and more fragrant the more you chew them, and the meat juice overflows your entire mouth. Lu Sheng squinted his eyes in intoxication while eating. He was so happy. What he liked most was the feeling of taking the first bite while holding the pot. He always felt that he was being specially pampered.

In addition to croquettes, we also make a lot of braised pork. When a large pot of braised meat is stewed, the smell is so enticing that the neighbors are numb after smelling the smell of Lu's meat all day long. I have never found the Chinese New Year to be so difficult.

In addition to braised pork, Lu Yan also wants to try bacon. Bacon has one more step than stewing meat, which is to smoke it after cooking. The production process is also different, the meat must be sauced first.

The sweet noodle sauce also needs to be boiled, but it is easy to boil. Just mix water, soy sauce, sugar, and flour together, then put it in a pot and boil it. Lu Yan cooked the sweet noodle sauce first, and added the sweet noodle sauce when stewing the meat. The aroma of the meat today immediately became different, with a rich and unique sauce aroma.

The smoking step was the most critical. Lu Yan asked Boss Lu for a pile of cypress wood chips, as well as the dried orange peels and hawthorns that had been dried at home, and put them into the pot together. Place an iron grate in the pot, place the sauced meat on the grate, cover and light the fire. The wood slowly burns out smoke, which is trapped in the pot and cannot escape, soaking the meat on it. It needs to be smoked for two quarters of an hour.

Smoked meat has a unique smoky flavor, which the three Lu family members couldn't accept at first. Later, they got used to it and became addicted to it. Lu Yan baked a batch of biscuits at noon, stuffed with bacon. In the evening, I baked another pot of cakes and made bacon flatbreads.

The bacon flatbread, smeared with sweet bean sauce and stuffed with bacon and shredded green onions, is deeply loved by everyone in the Lu family. Lu Sheng also taught himself how to eat it by smearing chili oil into it, and strongly requested Lu Yan to sell it when she went out for the morning meal the next day. Anyway, he would eat it if it couldn't be sold, so it wouldn't be wasted.

Lu Yan was a person who listened to advice, so she rolled up ten bacon pancakes and brought them over to the meal the next day.