[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

This is the method of making five-spice powder, which is extremely simple. Find five or six kinds of spices with different flavors, mix them together, put salt and stir-fry them together on a low heat, wait until the aroma comes out, the color is browned, take it out and grind it.

Of course, the five-spice powder in ordinary supermarkets does not have these five flavors, and generally does not contain chili.

But for Xia Anran, it is unnecessary.

Slowly, as the temperature rises in the iron pot, the unique taste of spices comes out, salty, fresh and spicy, and the mellow aroma of aniseed ingredients sinks under these tastes. At first sight, it is pungent, and immediately makes people reflexively salivate .

Having this reaction is your body remembering how good it tastes and calling your body to get ready to digest the food.

Before your brain thinks about it, your body has told you in advance that we are ready, come on, stuff it in!

Don't wait any longer, come quickly!

Under this kind of silent urging, you will soon find that your heart beats faster, your brain is dizzy, and your stomach churns again and again, and then you will silently extend your sinful hand just like young master Lin Jue.

"Senior brother..." Lin Jue poked his head in, looked at the contents of the pot, and after seeing that it was not food, he showed a little disappointment, and then he looked at Xia Anran with full expectation, "Senior brother, are you in the pot?" Do you want something delicious?"

"No." Xia Anran obviously failed to comprehend the euphemistic meaning of his younger brother. He stretched his hand over the pot, felt the temperature with the back of his hand, and then took the plate and wiped out the things that had turned brown. Poured out.

Then he took the rolling pin and kraft paper, waited for the condiments to dissipate the heat a little, poured them on the chopping board and crushed them all, and picked out some large pieces and threw them aside.

He took a white steamed bun, broke it, dipped some into his mouth, um, it was very fragrant, but the salt was a bit bitter, so it was not as refined as modern ones.

Seeing Lin Jue staring at the small piece of brown powder, Xia Anran also broke off a small piece of steamed bun, dipped it in five-spice powder and stuffed it in his hand, "Just taste it, you have eaten a lot for dinner. Be careful." Nausea at night."

Lin Jue pretended that he didn't hear it, and impatiently stuffed the white steamed buns dipped in powder into his mouth.

The white steamed buns are cold, and they are bland and tasteless at first, but at the moment when he tastes the five-spice powder, the first feeling is salty, then the unique aroma of aniseed ingredients, then spicy and numb, and finally these tastes converge in the Together, it becomes incense.

With just this taste, the cold and hard white steamed buns became edible!

"This, this is the semi-finished product that senior brother told Brother Xue today? Is this just a semi-finished product?" Xia Anran was cleaning up the kitchen waste. He cleaned up the kitchen, and then divided the powder into two packages, one package was more, and folded. Put it in the sleeve.

"Naturally, it's a semi-finished product." He said casually, "I adjusted the taste of this material randomly. It's just to express a meaning. Of course, it can't be used for sale. If you know how to taste this taste, you can fully understand the formula..."

Seeing Lin Jue's shocked expression, he was also a little confused, "Junior brother, what's the matter?"

"No, I just think this is already delicious..."

Xia Anran chuckled when he heard the words, he knocked on the table, and signaled Lin Jue to come over and take a look, "Look, the dry ingredients we use are all top quality, and the salt we use is also refined salt, so the taste of this ingredient is already good. , but if it is to be sold, the cost will be too high."

"And the ingredients are simple and easy to decipher. If you want to seize the market, you must achieve non-imitation, or it is extremely difficult to be imitated. At least you must leave a feeling to everyone. If you want to buy this material, you must look for this company. Only In this way, even if there is imitation, it will have little impact on business."

This is a famous quote from a business master Xia Anran once saw when he was looking for reference books in modern times. His products are "always imitated, never surpassed."

The master once said jokingly, "Manufacturers who imitate my products have actually done very well. If they sell them, they will definitely be a well-known brand, but they have been on the road of imitation. People will never remember his name."

This sentence is really a very domineering response.

"In the beginning, we had to achieve this purpose..." He thought for a while, and said to Lin Jue, "I'm afraid that only when other manufacturers are caught off guard when the ingredients are deciphered at the same time, can the common people get used to the taste. success."

It's just... It depends on whether the Xue family has the courage.

Also, a lot of salt is used in this powder, so whether this product can be produced depends on whether the Xue family can get official permission.

He did know that the government allowed selling soy sauce and pickled vegetables, but merchants had to buy salt from the government, so he didn't know what to do with the unprocessed salt in the powder.

If this one doesn't sell... well...then go sell the sauce.

I can also make chili sauce.

He blinked, snatched the steamed bun from the stunned Lin Xiaojue's hand, and pushed him back, "Okay, you haven't done the homework assigned by Mr. Hurry up and do your homework, these things are not for you, a child, every family wants Worrying."

"Brother! You are just a little older than me!"

"Yes, yes, yes, please, Mr. Lin, do your homework quickly, or you will be handcuffed!"

"No!" Xia Anran and Lin Jue still had to go to class the next day, so he asked the boy to deliver the things to Lixiangyuan. Xue Pan didn't sleep well all night, so he tossed and turned on the bed waiting for the dawn, until he woke up When washing, the eye circles are all black.

After all, this was the first time he wanted to get involved in the family business, and he personally felt that it might also be his last chance.

If he fails this time, it may be really difficult for him to take charge of the Xue family. Now the Xue family still has a few shopkeepers who are loyal to his father, and they still faintly support their house. …is still profit-driven.

Aunt Xue at home heard about this, so she naturally had confidence in her son. Xue Baochai was also very happy to get on line with the Lin family. She lived here these days and heard many rumors about the Lin family. It is all good things, good birth, good appearance, and only then can we learn well.

She, the daughter of a businessman's family, is naturally incomparable. This girl Lin, who lived in the rumors, poked her heart countless times in the past two years, and even became a raft between Mrs. Wang and Jia Taijun. .

Xue Baochai breathed a sigh of relief when he actually saw the person.

Miss Lin, who thought she was noble, was actually very easy to get along with. After only two days of meeting, she dragged her elder brother who could walk outside and bought a little clay figurine.

Xue Baochai took the clay figurine of the carp, and she said in her mouth: "The family is a businessman, and I hope to have more than every year, but in fact, I want to jump on the dragon gate."

Now there is a chance.

She and her mother have eaten chili peppers, and they agree that there are business opportunities in it, not to mention that this is a line with the Lin family. If the Lin family is willing to support Xue's family, then maybe my brother can really turn around by relying on this.

She naturally hoped that her elder brother could be the real Patriarch of the Xue family, but when her father left, her elder brother was no more than a young boy, a weak ruler and a strong minister, and her elder brother didn't have the heart to try his best, and was almost taken away by a treacherous villain. In [-], if it wasn't for the power of the mother's natal family, those people would not have dared to completely offend them, and their family would have been kicked out a long time ago.

However, relying on the mountains to fall, relying on the flow of water, even an uncle, how can he stand upright by himself.

Orphan Xue Baochai is also extremely in favor of his brother's business.

She also got up early and accompanied her brother to wait for the servant from the Lin family.

After Xue's mother also got up, the three of them were having breakfast, and the Lin family arrived. They saw the Lin family's young servant presented a kraft paper package, which was small and thin, and I don't know what it was.

Xue Pan cautiously drove away the waiters, and opened the paper bag, which contained some brown powder.

"Here is the powder that Brother Xia said yesterday!" Xue Pan said softly, fearing that he would scatter the powder by blowing it out in one breath. , Dip a little of the powder into your mouth with your chopsticks.

"Well!!!!"

"Brother?" Seeing his strange expression, Xue Baochai couldn't help but asked with concern, "What's the matter, but it doesn't taste good?"

Xue Pan pulled out his chopsticks and smashed his mouth. He thought for a while, and seeing that there was an uneaten pancake on the table, he tore off a piece, dusted it with powder, shook it off, and stuffed it into his mouth again.

This time he nodded, and said to his sister and Mrs. Xue, "Sister and mother, try it too, and see if your daughter likes this taste. Brother Xia told me yesterday that this ingredient has been fried, so it's okay to dip it in. "

Hearing this, Xue Baochai followed his elder brother's example and kneaded some pancakes, dipped them in the powder and put them in his mouth.

Before entering the mouth, I can smell the aroma of aniseed ingredients, because aniseed ingredients are generally put in meat dishes, and it is also the most suitable for mentioning the aroma of meat. It is obviously a vegetarian cake, but the smell makes people subconsciously think that it is meat.She took the pancakes into her mouth, chewed them carefully for a while, and said, "It's a little salty, but it's very fragrant, and the spiciness is a bit light, Mom should like it."

Mrs. Xue nodded, she used the powder that was dipped in water fried buns, and now she squinted her eyes happily after eating it, "I like it, I am not as good at spicy food as Baochai, this little taste is just right. Just right, but, Pan'er, if you only sell this powder, the taste will be a bit bland, right?"

"Don't worry, mom." Xue Pan nodded and said, "Brother Xia told me yesterday that this powder is just average for dipping, but if it's used as a marinade, it's a must. I'll ask someone to use it. We Try it at noon and you'll know."

Of course, Lixiangyuan also has its own stove. Xue Pan usually likes to eat, so he hired some cooks. The cook was a little confused when he heard Xue's request. He smelled the powder and tasted it. Taste it, and said with a smile, "It's the powder."

He is an expert cook, so he can naturally taste the taste of this powder in one bite, and he can also guess the recipe closely.

Xue Pan has already guessed this point, Xia Anran also told him yesterday that he made it casually, there is no secret recipe, so naturally there is no need to keep it secret, now seeing the cook smiling, Xue Pan also felt a little curious, "Yeah. Look, what can this do?"

"My lord, this powder is actually more suitable as a base, and you can season it according to different ingredients." The cook didn't shy away from it, he asked, "My lord, do you want to try the effect of this powder?"

After getting an affirmative answer, he directly cut up pork, mutton, chicken and duck, thought for a while, and pulled out a silver carp from the tank, and then issued an order to evict guests, "Young master, please stay away, this place is dirty."

Xue Pan was kicked out and could only wait pitifully at the door.

Gradually, he felt that he couldn't wait here any longer, and his saliva would slip out if he waited any longer! ! !

During lunch, the cook handed over an answer sheet.

Roasted pork, with five-spice powder as the base material, the chef added a few other seasoning powders as the dipping sauce.

Roast lamb, sizzling lamb fat dotted with taupe powder.

The stewed chicken soup, in front of several members of the Xue family, the cook opened the lid and sprinkled five-spice powder when the earthenware pot was bubbling and served to the table.

The last dish is boiled fish with a lot of fiery red peppers in it. When the cook served it uncovered, the spicy smell wafted from the kitchen all the way to the dining room. Once sprinkled, the five-spice powder was poured into the fish soup along with the cooking sauce prepared by the cook.

He bowed slightly, "Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life."

Looks extremely proud.

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It was night, Xia Anran suddenly realized in bed why they had that expression when he persuaded them to drink milk to soothe the spicy food during the day!

Hey—these two are really mad at Gabriel!

He turned over and went to sleep, but on the table outside the small suite, there was a packet of five-spice powder fried today, with instructions on how to eat it, waiting for some mysterious person to come and get it.

The author has something to say: Hahahahaha, do you understand what Xiao Xiamiao has realized (the author covers his mouth and laughs)

PS: From a small point of view, it is called Aunt Xue, Mrs. Xue.

The five-spice powder in the article is different from the recipe in the supermarket, and it doesn't taste the same!Don't dip steamed buns with supermarket five-spice powder!