Cannon's little husband

Looking at the strings of copper coins, and thinking about the copper coins he brought before going out, Lian Qi was silent, he only brought three hundred copper coins in total.

Seeing that Lian Qi didn't move, Tang Wuyu simply put the string of copper plates around his neck.

Lian Qi: ...

Depressedly, he took off the copper plate, and Lian Qi stuffed the copper plate back into Tang Wuyu's hand, "I have money!"

What he said was true, the original owner sold medicinal materials and saved almost two pennies!

But it can't just go out and not in, Lian Qi also wants to dig medicinal materials, but the money is slow after all, unless he dug up a wild ginseng, maybe he can sell a few taels of silver, otherwise, it may be a copper coin Several plants.

After actually doing it, Lian Qi discovered that it is not so easy to make a fortune and live a well-off life.

Lian Qi almost walked around the entire market, only to find a small stall with only a few jars of brown sugar on it.

"Old man, how do you sell this brown sugar?"

Behind the stall was an old man with white beard and hair. Hearing Lian Qi's voice, he raised his eyelids to look at him, and said after a while, "I don't think you look like you are pregnant. Why are you buying brown sugar?"

Lian Qi was a little furious: "...Can't I buy it if I'm not pregnant?"

The old man stroked his beard, "It's not that you can't buy it, but the old man once swore that this brown sugar will only be sold to brothers and girls who are pregnant. Since you are not pregnant, little brother, I can't break this rule."

"Why?" Lian Qi was puzzled.

The old man shook his head, "Brown sugar replenishes blood energy. When you give birth to a child, those brothers and girls are like stepping into the gate of hell with one foot. Although there is not much brown sugar here, the old man uses it wisely. No way, no way. Can it save a life?"

This makes sense, Lian Qi couldn't help but think of her previous life, it seems that girls would drink brown sugar water to replenish blood when they come there?

Lian Qi's tone softened a lot: "It's true what the old man said, so are there any other candy stalls here?"

The old man shook his head, "I'm the only one who sells here. If you really want to buy sugar, you still have to go to the county. However, the sugar in the county will be much more expensive. Those with good quality cost about one tael of silver. One catty."

Lian Qi: ...It's really expensive.

Thinking of the three hundred copper coins in her bag, Lian Qi felt that her mission was heavy and long way to go...

***

In the end, Lian Qi returned home with one hundred duck eggs, five ducklings, and five jars of salt, and just used up all the three hundred copper coins.

"What are you going to do?" On the way back, seeing the basket of duck eggs held in Lian Qi's arms, Tang Wuyu was a little curious.

"Go back and make salted duck eggs, sugar and garlic, I'll think of a way." Lian Qi is not ready to give up. Although sugar is a bit difficult to get, once the production is completed, it will be rare and expensive. He can definitely sell it at a high price. !

He didn't plan to sell this candied garlic for the rest of his life. After all, the production method of this thing is really simple. Those old gourmets with tricky tastes may be able to figure out the ingredients after eating it a few times.

So Lian Qi's original idea was to send it to restaurants or taverns in the county after making it, and then sell it together with sugared garlic and the recipe for making sugared garlic.Moreover, although sugar and vinegar are the only raw materials used to marinate sugar and garlic, these raw materials are also particular. For example, the vinegar, should I use rice vinegar or mature vinegar?Sugar, white sugar, brown sugar, or rock sugar?In some areas, the garlic will be marinated with salt before pickling!Regardless of the processing method, the taste of the pickled garlic has a subtle difference.

However, Tangsuan's plan has to be postponed a little bit now, after all, it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!

***

After returning home, Lian Qi immediately took action.

There are also many techniques for pickling salted duck eggs, and there are simple and complex methods.

The simplest one is to use only salt and add some white wine at most; while the complicated one is to add some other seasonings when marinating, such as cinnamon, star anise, cumin and the like.

And according to the current situation of Lian Qi's family, it can only be pickled in the simplest way.

The jar that was going to be used to pickle sugared garlic was changed temporarily, and it was directly used to pickle salted duck eggs.

Lian Qi remembered about liquor and so on, his father still left a jar of home brew that hadn't been opened in time.

When looking through, Lian Qi was still muttering in his heart. It is said that the alcohol content of ancient wines was very low, and because of the brewing skills, most of them were rice wines, which were easy to deteriorate. Can this jar of wine still be used? If not, just use salt.

Patting off the mud seal on the jar, after opening the lid, Lian Qi shrugged his nose, then opened his eyes suddenly, "It smells so good!"

The aroma of wine is dense, completely different from what Lian Qi imagined!

I found a cup and poured out the wine. The wine was clear and had a relatively transparent amber color. It looked a bit like rice wine. Has the wine-making technology of this dynasty been so developed?

Lian Qi couldn't help but took a sip, and smacked her lips, "It's a bit low, and it's still a little sweet."

However, if this is the case, Lian Qi would not dare to roll wine on the duck eggs. She pickled the salted duck eggs and put white wine in order to sterilize the bacteria. Now the alcohol content of this wine is not good, and it still has a sweet taste. Lian Qi even doubts , adding it in, will it directly spoil the salted duck eggs?

Just in case, just use salt.

After making up his mind, Lian Qi put the jar of wine aside and began to sprinkle salt on the bottom of the jar. After the salt covered the bottom of the jar, he put the duck eggs in one by one, and put a layer of sprinkles on them. A layer of salt is stacked in this way until all the eggs are placed in. He then covers the top layer with a layer of salt, and then slowly pours in clean spring water until the top layer of duck eggs is completely covered with water. Li, just give up.

When marinating salted duck eggs, the salt water must be saturated. Simply put, after the water covers the duck eggs, the salt cannot be completely dissolved in the water, at least the salt at the bottom of the jar must not melt.

Finally, seal the jar, put it in a cool and ventilated place, and wait for about a month before you can eat it~ However, if you want to produce more oil, you have to marinate it for a longer time.

After it was done, Lian Qi clapped her hands, and now I have to wait for the effect in a month!

Um?Lian Qi's nose moved, why did it smell like alcohol?

The author has something to say: Regarding the effect of adding white wine when marinating salted duck eggs, some people say it is to make the salted duck eggs produce more oil, some say it is to speed up the pickling speed, and some say it is just for sterilization. I haven't found a very authoritative explanation for this, so let's treat it as just sterilization and disinfection to prevent corruption!