NOVEL NEXT Chapter 189 Citrus Juice
Early in the morning, Mu Zhiyuan was waiting outside the shop for Liuxiang Snacks to open.
Mr. Ma Boluo finished his morning exercise and passed by Liuxiang Snacks. Seeing Mu Zhiyuan waiting outside the shop as usual, he joked: "Hello, friend, you are waiting for the shop to open again! Shopkeeper Ah Shu hasn't handed over the key yet. For you?"
It is true that Shu Xi did not give the key to the shop to Mu Zhiyuan. After he rented the shop to Mu Zhiyuan, the big lock on the wooden door outside was made by Mu Zhiyuan himself.
"Mr. Ma Boluo, are you here for breakfast? I went out to do errands a while ago and gave the key to another cook." Mu Zhiyuan told a little lie, but Xiao Qing behind him heard it.
Xiaoqing snickered and came to the shop. Seeing the two waiting outside the door, he opened the door and welcomed Ma Boluo in.
"Sir, our breakfast will have to wait a moment. Please take a seat first."
Ma Boluo said calmly: "No hurry, no hurry, give me a cup of coffee first."
Mu Zhiyuan returned to the window where he and Luda were selling coffee and ground coffee beans.
Others came to the shop one after another. Brother Ying brought a large basket of citrus leaves and gave them to Mrs. Chen.
When Maixi arrived at the shop, Mrs. Chen left Ajiao at Liuxiang Snacks and told Maixi: "Amaixi, I asked Brother Ying to bring citrus leaves yesterday. Today you go buy a piece of pork liver stewed with citrus leaves for Ajiao." eat."
Pork liver stewed with orange leaves? What kind of dark cuisine is this? !
Seeing the confusion on Mao Xi's face, Mrs. Chen said: "Have you forgotten? You also ate your fingers when you were a child. I cooked it for you a few times. It will be fine in the future. You two sisters are really the same."
Mao Xi searched for the original owner’s childhood memories and found that there seemed to be such a period. Moreover, the taste of pork liver stewed with orange leaves seemed pretty good~
"Aniang, I understand. I'll stew it for Ajiao to eat later."
It's just... The orange leaves brought by Brother Ying are a whole basket, which is too much!
To stew pork liver soup, you only need two or three orange leaves.
Xi took some of the extra orange leaves to the kitchen, mashed them and squeezed them into juice.
I just want to research and make new fruits, and I have orange leaf juice, which comes in handy.
Among the recipes sent by Monk Wenyuan, there is a fruit called Dongting hoe, also called citrus hoe, which is made by pounding orange leaves and lotus leaves, adding honey and rice flour, and steaming it.
Maoxi improved the recipe and changed it to sticky rice flour and glutinous rice flour.
Mao Xi kneaded the ingredients into a green dough ball, which was similar to a green dough ball, but instead of having a filling in the middle, it was wrapped in an orange leaf.
The steamed citrus juice is bright green, soft and lovely, and when you peel off the tangerine leaves, it is fragrant.
The first bite has a bitter orange taste, but the more you chew it, the more it tastes. The citrus aroma fills your mouth and lingers for a long time.
After eating a piece of citrus juice, your hands will be fragrant for three days.
The aroma spread to the inner and outer halls, attracting Mr. Marpolo who was drinking coffee.
He was curious that the orange leaves could also be used to make fruit: "Shopkeeper Ah Shu, is this fruit the same as Qingtuan?"
"The taste is similar, but the aroma is different. When you smell it, it's the fragrance of citrus."
The citrus juice is wrapped in pieces of orange leaves, which looks very delicate.
Mao Xi made some and sold them in the shop, and gave some to Brother Ying to go out and sell them in the afternoon.
"Sister Ah Shu, Sister Lan'er has gone to sell fried chicken now. How about I go to Kaitang to sell fried chicken in the next few days?"
Brother Ying likes to run out. In the afternoon, Mao Xi brought a batch of newly made citrus juice and went to Kaitang County with Brother Ying.
"Brother Ying, I know Sister Lan'er here in Kaitang. I'll ask her to take you for a walk."
Mao Xi called Lou Lan'er to take Brother Ying to sell food on the street, and she took over the job of the fried chicken shop.
The east stage was singing as usual, and the fried chicken shop had many customers.
At Shenshi, Miss Zhou and her daughter came to the fried chicken shop to buy sweet potatoes and sweet plums, accompanied by two ladies-looking people.
Mao Xi saw that the wife next to her looked like she was from Beijing as Miss Zhou mentioned a few days ago. She then asked Miss Zhou to take the ladies to a candy shop to have fruits and coffee.
"Ms. Zhou, there are a lot of fruits in the Tang Shui shop. Today they also have a new Dongting snack. I think the ladies will like it."
By coincidence, Lou Lan'er returned to the fried chicken shop, and Shu Xi took everyone to Liu's Sweet Shop.
Miss Zhou ordered a portion of all the fruits in Maoxi's shop, and ordered a portion of coffee for each person.
The two ladies are no strangers to coffee, but the freshly ground butter coffee from Maoxi Shop is even better than the coffee from Bibeidu.
Miss Zhou secretly told Shu Xi that the two ladies came to Kaitang County for inspection and wanted to open shops in various parts of the Huai Kingdom, mainly selling coffee and various drinks. I heard that Mao Xi's sugar water shop is very famous, so I came here specifically to learn from it.
"I heard that Mr. Nalan's coffee shop in Beidu is selling like hotcakes, and these ladies are very excited."
When Miss Zhou said this, Shui Xi immediately felt a sense of crisis.
In this way, Liu's Sweet Shop will soon have competitors in Kaitang County.
After sending away the ladies who came to inspect, Shui Xi took the bills from the candy shop in recent days and studied them in detail.
She found that besides coffee, the best-selling products at present were visually beautiful, novel and delicious drinks like Yangzhi Manna.
At present, the reason why the sugar water shop is different from other shops is mainly due to the fact that it uses tapioca flour to make taro balls and sweet potato balls, and adds them to the drink together with fruits.
Since coffee sells so well, milk tea is no longer a problem.
If you want milk tea, you can’t miss out on pearls.
Mao Xi turned around and went to the fruit cake shop next door to make some pearls.
When Aunt Chen saw Shu Xi seeing off Miss Zhou, she stepped forward and asked, "Ah Shu, how did Miss Zhou and the others eat here just now? Are you satisfied?"
"Those ladies are here to inspect. Mom, Kaitang will soon have all kinds of sugar water shops like ours. I have to hurry up and develop new products."
Mao Xi took brown sugar and tapioca flour, and started rubbing the pearls with Ah Yuan.
The ratio of brown sugar to tapioca flour is one to two. First put the brown sugar into water and boil.
After the brown sugar water boils, turn off the heat, add half of the tapioca flour and stir quickly, then add the remaining tapioca flour and stir to form a dough.
Sprinkle more tapioca flour on the chopping board and start kneading the dough with your hands until it is moderately soft and hard, then start kneading the pearls.
The dough is first rolled into strips, then cut into small pieces and rolled into rounds.
"A Yuan, has the water boiled?"
"Shopkeeper, it's boiled."
A Yuan followed Mao Xi's instructions, poured the pearls into boiling water and boiled them for a quarter of an hour.
After a quarter of an hour, the pearls will float one by one. Cover the lid and simmer for a while, and the pearls will be cooked.
Each one is crystal clear, as alluring as amber, and the burnt aroma of brown sugar makes one salivate.
Remove the water from the pot, leaving some to cover the pearls, then add a spoonful of brown sugar and cook together with the pearls to make it thicker.
Mao Xi immediately made a pot of milk tea with black tea, added a spoonful of brown sugar pearls, and mixed it in a bowl.
Since there was no straw, he tried selling it at the candy shop first. Mao Xi stood at the door and shouted.
"Brown sugar pearl milk tea, freshly baked, 6 cents per bowl!"
"What? Can pearls be eaten?"
"Come and see, the candy shop has a new drink!"
"Wow~ It's milk tea. I heard it's a drink only people in Beisu drink!"
A crowd of curious people rushed into the candy shop.
Mao Xi thought in her mind at this moment: Well, if I had known everyone was so enthusiastic, I should have sold bubble milk tea when I opened the new store.