[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

Chapter 8 Mary making a store opening plan

Since then, Mary has corrected her mentality and returned to her life. It is completely unnecessary to worry about things that will happen after many years!She just needs to be fully prepared. There is no doubt that she can live a better life than her previous life with a little effort. After all, the foundation of this life is here.

The first thing Mary has to do now is to set a goal for herself, which is too simple, and that is to become rich.

How to achieve this goal is the real problem.

Every society has its unique stereotypes and habits. People here regard owning land as the ultimate goal. The land inherited from parents and grandparents is enough to make people stand out from the crowd, but if someone earns some money by himself, it will make people laugh.Hugh said that Mary was too young, and Mr. Bennet would not allow her to do business. Even if she was old and Mr. Bennet allowed it, the society would not recognize her.In people's minds, a lady from a gentleman's family like her is only suitable to stay in the house to embroider, play the piano, sing and dance at the ball. If she can find a gentleman with a rich family and a piece of land to be her husband, That is the winner in life.

So Mary must be cautious, she doesn't like to let others look at her with colored eyes.Mr. Bennet is in good health now, and there is no problem in living another 20 years without accidents. Mary still has a lot of time.

Mary has become "normal" again. She still loves to read books and doesn't like to actively communicate with others, but if you want to talk to her for a while, she will be happy to cheer you up. Jane and Elizabeth are finally relieved.

In order to repay the deep friendship of the two sisters, Mary personally cooks and cooks a hot and sour potato shreds for them. Of course, Mary personally directs the cook Mrs. Strong to make it, but Jane and Elizabeth don't mind at all.

Mary took this opportunity to get close to Mrs. Strong a lot, and Mrs. Strong was not at all flattered by the importance of the hostess lady. In her opinion, the lady must be trying to play some new tricks again.Sure enough, it won't be long before Mary will go to Mrs. Strong to try out a new dish. This time the dish is not new, it is fried potato chips.

Mary has thought a lot about how to get rich. For a person like her who has no capital, catering is the lowest investment. It is nothing more than venues and labor. In the UK, it really doesn’t cost much. The key is the taste of the food. better.Mary is not going to open a Chinese restaurant, it does not conform to the British dining habits, and the preparation of Chinese food is too complicated for British cooks, she wants to open KFC.

KFC is a world-renowned fast food in the previous life. In terms of taste, their food is still in line with the taste of the British.And many foods now have prototypes, as long as Mary further processes them.In her previous life, as a frugal working class, Mary was reluctant to go to KFC. Although it is not a fast food restaurant in foreign countries, Mary really can't afford it because China is tall and expensive.

In her previous life, Mary was a small accountant. At that time, she was already highly regarded by the department boss, and the department boss was their wife. Therefore, Mary was often assigned tasks other than her own job-to take care of the boss's daughter, their young boss-a little chubby .This little chubby likes to eat KFC very much, and eats it two or three times a week.Mary has been attached to the young owner's light and has also opened up foreign meat repeatedly, so she is very familiar with the taste of KFC.

The British have always eaten simple, if there are six or seven dishes in a meal, it can be called rich.Now is the period of the Industrial Revolution, the economy has grown significantly, and the rich have begun to pursue life enjoyment while their wealth has increased. The variety of commodities sold in the town is beyond Mary's imagination.Meriton also has several restaurants, taverns, bakeries, and a grocery store that sells all kinds of cheese and food, so a restaurant with good food can't lose money.

How to run this restaurant, Mary will slowly plan, but the top priority is to research delicious food.Most of KFC's food is fried food, which is very easy to make as long as it is marinated and the temperature is controlled.But no matter how easy it is, it is still a mountain that cannot be easily surpassed by Mary. It is better to leave it to professionals. Mary decided to only be in charge of guidance.

Mary made all kinds of troubles in the kitchen, made Mrs. Strong lose her temper, and finally fried the ideal potato chips.When it was brought to the table, it was unanimously welcomed by the family.In this era, there are potato chips, but they are thick and should be called potato chips. Everyone has to eat them with a fork, so you can imagine how different they are from what Mary ate in her previous life.Mary asked Mrs. Strong to cut the potatoes into thin slices, almost as thin as paper, and then deep-fried them in a pan of oil, adding a little salt when eating, so that they were particularly crispy and fragrant in the mouth.

Mrs. Bennet wanted to use the snacks to entertain guests, but was rejected by Mary. She wanted to use them to open a food store, so it's better to keep the products secret for the time being.For this reason, Mary even signed an agreement with Mrs. Stella, requiring Mrs. Strong to keep Mary's newly developed food secret, including the production process and various secret seasonings.Poor Mrs. Stella didn't have much education, and she couldn't even spell it. After Mary wanted to read the agreement to her, the cook was very puzzled. Is a potato chip worth such a serious matter?Mary didn't explain too much, she only asked the cook to keep the food recipe secret, not just potato chips, including any kind of food made under Mary's "guidance".Mrs. Stella gladly accepted Mary's promise to pay the cook extra for her extra work.

So people gradually discovered that besides reading, Miss Mary has a new hobby, that is, she likes to drill into the kitchen to study food. Obviously her second hobby is more popular than the previous one. fragrance.This reminds people of the time when Mary was injured not long ago. At that time, Mary also made Mrs. Strong, the cook, cook a lot of food that had never been seen before.The dining table in the Bennet family is therefore very diverse and rich.Mr. Bennet praised Mary: "The way you come out of grief is really special. I thought you were going to be down for a while about the new heir. Is this your way of getting revenge on that person-eating up all the property, not a penny Leave it to him! I like it that way."

When Mr. Bennet was happy, he indulged his daughter very much. Mary took the opportunity to ask for a lot of pocket money from Mr. Bennet, because she had to go to Mrs. Dustin’s grocery store in the town to buy various seasonings, many of which were imported from abroad. Spices, Mary is working on making fried chicken and she has tried a lot of spices.

Mary first divided the chicken legs into three evenly. In order to taste, the chicken legs should not be too big. A flower knife was added to each chicken leg, and seasoning was applied. There were more than 20 kinds of seasonings in it, including pepper, salt, nutmeg, sugar, Chili powder, ginger, etc. Mary also added a little milk powder, which was made by Mrs. Strong. Two years later, a French milk powder was sold in the store. Mary used that instead and increased the seasoning to 30. Various.After the seasoning was applied, a little local beer was put in, these were stirred well, then left for an hour, then stirred again, and left for another hour.At this time, the chicken is fully flavored, and then it is necessary to coat the chicken with dry powder. This process is also very important. It must be coated repeatedly, and then the outside must be brushed with egg wash, and then rolled twice in the bread crumbs to put on the bran coat. In the oil pan, it needs to be fried twice, once for shaping and once for coloring.

This kind of chicken is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, which is especially welcomed by the Bennet family.After two years of continuous experimentation, Mary finally fixed the number of seasonings inside at 39.

During this period, through Mary's continuous efforts, the dining table at home developed rapidly at a rapid pace.The richness and variety of varieties made the neighbors who often come to visit here full of praise-Mary finally failed to withstand Bennet's big move and used her various new dishes to entertain guests.

If Mary refuses to agree, Mrs. Bennet will be so angry that she will have a headache, and her close friend Miss Nervous will make her restless for a moment, so that no one in the Bennet House can live in peace.Sometimes Mary really doesn't know who is the mother and who is the daughter between her and Mrs. Bennet. Why does Mrs. Bennet always play rascals on her young daughter without feeling wrong?As time goes by, Mary gradually learns a new skill, which is to learn from barbarians to control barbarians. She needs to be a rascal than Mrs. Bennet to control her, but now Mary's experience points are not enough, so she has to compromise.

But she didn't gain nothing, she got an exclusive maid, Alice.This young girl is Mrs. Bennet's loyal supporter. Mary found that although this girl could not read, she had a resolute personality and a stubborn mind. Asking Alice to help her is an excellent assistant. You must know that Mrs. Stella, as the cook of the entire Bennet family, is also very busy, and Alice's help is very necessary.

Now they have several types of potato chips. At first, Mary asked Mrs. Stella to slice fried potatoes. Once Alice washed them with salt water and soaked them in milk overnight. Unexpectedly, they fried them the next day. very good.Inspired by this, Mary steamed the potatoes, then patted them into mashed potatoes, filled them with various seasonings and butter, and then pressed them into thin slices, which were fried or baked in the oven. The result was very popular.

Mary also fried and baked mashed potatoes in various ways.The Bennet kitchen often went through a kind of brainstorming, and even Mrs. Bennet, Jane, Elizabeth, and Kitty and Lydia sometimes joined in, and they thought it was a kind of game, and they had a lot of fun.So on the table the next day, Mr. Bennet could always eat all kinds of potato chips, potato cakes, and potato chips.They come on their own or with sausage, butter, beef, lamb, chicken, cold, hot, fried, grilled, or served cold.

Mrs. Bennet sliced ​​a baked potato with the skin in half, leaving the bottom open, and stuffed it with dressing and salad dressing and other things, such as bacon or onions, and it turned out to be a huge hit.

Elizabeth and Jane wrapped the mashed potatoes with thin beef, put salted egg yolk and some vegetables inside, and served them after slightly roasting. The taste was very delicious.

Mary was therefore inspired to spread pancakes with flour batter, wrapped with lettuce, ham, meat sauce and chili sauce, and fried potato chips, so that it became an English pancake fruit with a unique flavor.

And Lydia, she actually tried to make mashed potatoes into various shapes, some curly like curly hair, and round ones—two small round holes were dug on the top, and a crescent-shaped hole was made on the bottom. After coming out is a smiling face.It was just too much fun.Kitty also tried to press the ears and hair on it, but it was easy to fall apart, so she had to forget it, but she turned the crescent moon down and changed the smiling face into a crying face. I didn't expect people to eat such a sad face than eating it more smiling faces

Mary made a table of the food she was going to sell in the shop. In order to try out the best taste, she always asked Alice and Mrs. Strong to try different seasonings, different cooking methods, different frying or baking. Bake time.It was easier said than done. It took more than two years for Mary to be satisfied with the final results on her food table. At this time, there were more than 20 kinds of food on her table, all of which were various. Fried and baked goods.In addition to fried fish, cod and white fish are the most fish in the UK. Mary removes the bones and bones from the fish, cuts them into slices, wraps them in wet dough, and then deep-fries them. This is also a traditional British delicacy.

Mary plans to add cherry meat, teriyaki chicken legs, and dry-fried mushrooms, and then make drinks with honey water, soda water, lemonade, and black tea, and sell them in the store. So far, the preliminary work of Mary's store opening plan is basically almost done.

In the past two years, no one in Meridon knew that the food and snacks in the Bennet Mansion were delicious. Being invited by the Bennet couple to their house for dinner has become a favorite thing for the neighbors.This saves Mary's early publicity.But the product alone is not enough, Mary has to find a way to get the funds to open the store, and find someone to manage it, and this person Mary has decided to let Alice go.But now she had to find the right moment.