[Pride and Prejudice] Lady Makes Money

"You'll know when you make it." Manli gave a rare pass.

Manli washed the picked bay leaves, peppercorns, cinnamon, cloves and aniseed ingredients, put them in a pot and boiled them, took them out, and brought them to Martha for her to chop on the chopping board, and explained The finer the chop, the better.

Then she combined the butter she found, put it on the fire to boil, and sieved to remove the oil residue.

Then put an appropriate amount of vegetable oil in the oil pan, heat it up, add scallions, ginger, and diced onions. After frying until soft and fragrant, remove them and discard them.

At this time, a strong aroma was already coming out of the oil pan, but obviously this was not what Manli wanted.

She swiftly added her own bean paste, minced garlic, fermented soybeans, and stir-fried on a low heat.

When the aroma became stronger and Kitty started to swallow her saliva, she signaled Martha to put in the chopped spices, and at the same time quickly grabbed a handful of peppercorns and rock sugar, put them into the pot together, and continued to fry.

The fragrance, numb and choking, strongly stimulates people's taste buds, which people have never smelled before.

This smell is too overbearing, but it is inexplicably irresistible, and soon attracted the attention of the whole family.

"Ahem! Manly, what are you doing?" Mrs. Bennet was the first to run over.

She covered her nose with her hand, coughing uncontrollably, while looking over into the pot.

"Mom, I'm making a fresh dish, you can eat it later." Manli still didn't say the name of the dish.

"My God! Third Sister, what the hell are you doing? The fragrance is dead! Even Dad has smelled it! He asked me to ask you if you don't need to write letters to uncle for the time being?" Lydia bounced The jumper also followed in.

Manli didn't find it funny.Be curious if you are curious, let's see what reason Dad finds?On the way, she told him not to write to uncle for the time being, and now he actually ordered Lydia to ask again!

However, I still have to give the face that should be given!

"Go and tell Dad, trust me and write in the afternoon, so that he can prepare for lunch!"

As she said that, Manli put an appropriate amount of salt into the pot, as well as the monosodium glutamate she made by crushing dried mushrooms before, and stirred it out of the pot.

According to Manli's request, Martha put the big pot of base ingredients that she had cooked into small bowls, covered them, and took them out to freeze in the cold.

Then, under her command, I used a small bowl of base ingredients specially reserved together with potatoes, lettuce, tofu, bean skin, mushrooms, and pre-fried chicken nuggets and beef to make a big pot of spicy spicy food. incense pot.

Of course there is no chili version.

When the pot of vegetables and meat, exuding a strong aroma, was brought to the table, the Bennet family had already sat down without ringing the bell.

They couldn't even wait for the servants to share the dishes, so they couldn't wait to put a big spoonful into their own bowls, and started to eat

"Hot, hot, hot!"

"It's so numb!"

"Mom, my tongue is falling off! I can't feel my tongue anymore!"

"OMG, I feel like I could eat a whole loaf of bread!"

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In the absence of outsiders, the Bennet family is not particular about eating and talking, especially when they have the opportunity to try new dishes.

Because they knew that Manli hoped to hear their true feelings at the first time.

And they are naturally more willing to share their ideas with everyone.

This is the first time the Bennet family has eaten something so strong.

Before that, although they also had Manli, they had eaten all kinds of delicious meals.

But this kind of numbness and rushing, which makes people feel that the mouth and tongue are almost unconscious, has never been tried.

This taste...is really fresh and exciting, and it's hard to stop.

Even though I was forced to keep drinking cold water to cool my mouth, it was so fragrant that I couldn't bear to put down the tableware even if my stomach was about to burst.

Anyway, the people in the Ban family soon turned their backs on their backs, and they were all overwhelmed.

And Manli became the only one in the whole family who was still awake.

Right now, I am collecting first-hand valuable information without shame.

"Is it too numb? Do you want to adjust the taste a little bit lighter?"

"If I add a little more chili, do you think you can bear it?"

"Yes, tomorrow I will make another kind of three delicacies, no pepper, add fish, mushrooms... the taste will be lighter."

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For a whole week afterwards, the kitchen of the Bennet Mansion was filled with various mouth-watering aromas.Let everyone walking around the house swallow their saliva uncontrollably.

Fortunately, at this time, the distance between each manor is still far away, and the smell cannot pass.Otherwise, it is estimated that the lives of the neighbors will definitely be difficult.

A week later, the formula of Manli's food package was finally finalized.

There are three kinds in total, pepper, three delicacies and clear soup.

That's right, what she's been developing during this time is a package that can be sold together with tofu and soy products, which is similar to the later generations of thick soup treasures.

To put it bluntly, this bag is actually the hot pot base for later generations.

But Manli did not do this to promote hot pot.

After all, if you want to eat hot pot, you need not only a special pot, but also matching carbon, neither of which is something that ordinary civilians are willing to buy at will.

She made the package to sell tofu.

When the common people buy tofu, they can buy a small piece of ingredients to pack back.

Then boil a pot of hot water, put it in, whether it is cooking vegetables or tofu, dried tofu, or fish, and meat...

The taste is much better than simply boiled in white water, and then salt and pepper.

And Manli has already made a budget. The ingredients used in this package, fermented soy beans and bean paste are all produced at home, and the overall price of the remaining butter and spices is not expensive.

Fry it in such a large pot, take advantage of the cold weather, freeze it outside overnight, and cut it into small pieces the next day. Even if the price of a small piece is the same as tofu, she will earn at least half of it or more .

And the civilians bought such a piece to go home. In this cold weather, a large pot of stewed vegetables is enough for the whole family to eat happily.

It can be regarded as improving your life.

Ordinary people can afford it.

Sure enough, after Manli ordered her servants to set up a big pot at the entrance of the tofu workshop, she stewed a pot full of tofu and vegetables, and invited every merchant who came to pick up the goods to taste it for free...

The business of the tofu shop started to get better and better, and every day before noon, it had to hang up the sold out sign.

Of course, this is all for later, but now, in the early morning of the second day after she had just finished frying the hot pot base, she received a personal letter from Gene from London.

In the letter, Jean first expressed his thoughts to her.

Then he told her very excitedly that his parents immediately expressed their blessings to him after they knew that he had finally succeeded in proposing marriage.And he became very curious about Manli, a daughter-in-law who had never been married, and wanted to see her with his own eyes.

But because her father was recently sent by Her Majesty the Queen to inspect the situation of the army, it was inconvenient for her mother to go out alone, so she planned to send her eldest brother and sister-in-law to Herfordshire to represent their family.

Will probably be traveling with him next week.

Then he wrote helplessly that his sister Sophia also knew about this matter, and at her strong request, she and her husband, Mr. Howard, would also come together.

Holding the letter, Man Li felt like she was going to lose her head!

When Gene said that he would go home and tell his parents the news of the successful marriage proposal, although Manli didn't say anything on the surface, what she thought most about was what should the Duke and Duchess of Campbell do if they didn't agree to their marriage?

She never expected that the other party not only agreed to the marriage so happily, but also sent family members to visit her so quickly!

Manli didn't understand the engagement process here, and she couldn't understand if this kind of visit was similar to the meeting between the two parents in the previous life?

Thinking of this, she felt her temples twitching, and she was at a loss.

She didn't even care about being shy for a moment, and all she could think about was-a large group of people would come to their house!

And it still has to be that kind of hospitality!

Manli had to ask her parents for help.

But as she expected, after reading the letter, her mother was even more flustered than she was.

I came out and hopped around in circles, saying repeatedly in my mouth: "What should I do? What should I do?" I couldn't get any ideas.

Fortunately, my father was able to hold on to the situation and remained calm.

After being dazed for a while, Mr. Bennet immediately assigned a task to his wife, asking her to take all the servants in the house to clean up the house first with the most serious attitude.Guaranteed to leave no dead ends!

Then he sat down and wrote a letter to his wife and brother, asking him to send them all the best room decorations he could find.

Make sure your home looks elegant and generous!

It's a pity that Man Li stopped the letter before writing it halfway.

"Father, no matter how we decorate it, it's impossible to compare with the Duke's Mansion, so there's no need to force it. Just do what you want, just be neat and clean."

"It's me that Jean is going to marry, and I live in such an environment. I feel very good and very happy. If they don't like it, then just reduce the contact in the future. There is no need to cater to other people's eyes. To change our own lives."

Mr. Bennet stopped writing.

He took off the reading glasses on his nose, and looked at his little daughter again with complicated eyes.

He didn't understand, how did he train Manli to be like this?

Could it be that this child has such a character just because he has read more books?

Even if she is about to face noble people she has never met before, they are still people who will play an important role in her future life.

She could quickly regain her composure and maintain such an attitude of being neither humble nor overbearing.

This kind of strength comes from the heart, Mr. Bennet admits that he has no way to achieve it.

"Okay, I will do as you said." Mr. Bennet nodded in satisfaction.

"However, you don't need to deliberately decorate your home, but the guests must be entertained. This matter is left to you to do it yourself, and the servants in the house are at your disposal, but if the guests are not satisfied in the end, don't look at you. break your leg!"

After thinking about it, Mr. Bennet still threatened her with a straight face.

How many people can understand the old father's heart?

It's still a headache to raise such a big-hearted child who doesn't care about anything.

Mr. Bennet is afraid now. With Manli's attitude that everyone is the same, she will treat those distinguished guests as ordinary neighbors!