The recipe Xu Qinyu wrote to his uncle is a recipe for all kinds of barbecues, including marinade recipes and roast recipes for more than ten kinds of meat and vegetables, as well as sour plum soup drink, barley tea drink, sweet-scented osmanthus honey drink, physalis Drink, rice milk drink, of course there is milk tea made of milk and goat milk, and some sugar water formulas, and the other is a sweet wine formula, that is, glutinous rice wine.

The marinade of chicken, duck, fish, pig, beef and mutton is different, which is more troublesome.

Xu Qinyu told his uncle in the letter.

Some of these drink sugar milk teas can be made into ice bowls in summer, and some can be made into cold drinks with ice, which are also very popular.

When the weather is cold, it is a hot drink, and the barbecue can also be sold with wine, which is very good for barbecue.

In summer, you can also add some cold noodles and cold dishes, and change the tea stall into a barbecue stall all day long. The recipes of these cold noodles and cold dishes are naturally included in the letter.

Xue Liang murmured, "Barbecue, what is that?"

He read the recipe, and the letter also said how to make barbecue. It needs an iron rack with a charcoal fire inside and an iron net on it. It is on the iron net to grill the skewered meat and vegetables, and finally brush the sauce. material.

Xu Qinyu deliberately changed the method of sprinkling the seasoning at the end of the barbecue. After the grill is done, put it on the plate and brush the prepared sauce. After all, the spices are too expensive, and it is too wasteful to sprinkle it directly on the meat skewers like the later generations!

If she makes the sauce in this way, the cost will be saved a lot. Needless to say, the recipe of the sauce she prepared tastes more fragrant than the recipes of many barbecue stalls.

Kind of like fried skewers, brushed with sauce after frying.

Xue Liang looked at the recipe, and the recipe for these glutinous rice wine in syrup, where did Jie Yu get it?

Sister Yu said in the letter that she thought of it. Is this recipe really delicious?

That thing called barbecue sauce, there are two or three kinds of spices in it, and many other seasonings.

And even use charcoal to grill meat and vegetables?

He does know that Jixiang Restaurant sells roasted meat, which should be the barbecue that Yujier said, but it is slightly unnecessary. It is placed on an iron plate with a charcoal fire underneath. Brush oil on the iron plate. , put a thin slice of marinated meat, and with a sizzle, the meat rolls up, and is quickly turned over. Such a thin piece of roasted meat should be at least twenty cents upwards in Jixianglou.

Everyone knows how to cook this kind of meat, but the difficulty is that they don’t know the recipe of cured meat. Some of them have imitated the method of roasting meat like Jixianglou, but the result is very fishy and the meat is old. Not very tasty.

Naturally, Xue Liang had never eaten the roasted pork with twenty cents a piece of Jixianglou.

Xue Shi couldn't help but ask, "Big brother, what is the formula that Sister Yu gave? Can it work?"

"I don't know."

Xue Liang shook his head, he really didn't know.

He just remembered that Sister Yu had learned some cooking skills from him, and had cooked and eaten for him and his sister. The taste could only be said to be good, but it would be a bit exaggerated to say that it was delicious.

But if it doesn't work, Sister Yu is too confident to write so many recipes, feel that these recipes are quite similar.

Shi Shi murmured, "Is it possible? How difficult is the recipe for the roasted meat in Jixianglou? There are only a few kinds of meat. The meat given by Sister Yu has a different marinade formula for the meat parts, and the meat is added quickly. Twenty kinds, right? She is better than the chef of Jixianglou? I heard that the roasted meat in Jixianglou is the same marinade recipe that the chef has tried over the years. Look at Sister Yu's recipe, it's like she doesn't want money, she thought about it all at once? Have you tried it all? Wouldn't you give it to us without trying it?"

She didn't blame her niece for being unreliable, but she didn't believe in her niece's cooking skills.

Mrs. Xue glanced at Mrs. Shi, feeling a little helpless, "Sister Yu should be measured, eldest brother, do you think you can try it?" In the end, whether or not to change the tea stall into the barbecue stall that Mrs. Yu said, it is necessary to Look at the big brother's own thoughts.

Xue Liang was still hesitating.

Shi Shi couldn't help but say at this moment, "It's okay to try it, we didn't just change the tea stall into the barbecue stall that Sister Yu said, let's try the milk tea that Sister Yu said when we get home. , and barbecue. Isn’t there a small iron net at home? There is still some coal. My son, go and chop some wooden sticks, make them into skewers, and buy some pork pork back. Anyway, it won’t cost you much to try. , at most one or two silvers, buy less spices and other seasonings for those sauces, so as not to waste them.”

Xue Liang asked, "When are we going to try?"

"Let's do it now." Shi Shi was also impatient. "The boss of the tea stall is watching with his wife. Let's go back to try it out. Younger sister-in-law, don't go back to Hou's residence so early. Come and have a taste with us."

"Okay." Xue nodded.

She also wanted to know if her daughter's recipe would work.

Shi Shi went back to the kitchen to talk to her eldest son Xue Huai and daughter-in-law Zhang Shi, and then divided the work with Xue Liang to go shopping.

Xue Liang went to chop bamboo, and Shi Shi went to buy milk.

There are some dairy foods sold in the capital, so there have always been cow milk and goat milk, and the price is quite cheap.

After buying the milk, went to buy the pork belly and the seasonings and spices for making pork kebabs in the ingredients. After she and Xue Shi returned to Shangpo Lane, Xue Liang had already finished cutting the bamboo and found the small iron net at home. After scrubbing and cleaning, the charcoal basin and coal were also found. The coal was bought for heating when it was too cold in the winter a year ago.

Xue Qing is helping.

She had already heard from her father that her cousin sent him many recipes for eating.

She is still looking forward to it.

Shi Shi started to wash the pork and cut the pork to skewer the pork.

She didn't dare to try making the sauce, and she was going to let Xue Liang come.

The meat skewer recipe Xu Qinyu gave is all big meat skewers, which makes it more enjoyable to eat, so there are only about twelve skewers for a pound of pork belly.

When cooking the sauce, Xue Liang was a little worried that it wouldn't cook well, and finally Xue Qing raised his hand, "Daddy, why don't I come!"

She is in charge of daily food and evening food on weekdays, and her craftsmanship is better than that of her father.

Xue Liang agreed.

Xue Qing took the spices and seasonings into the kitchen, and started to cook the sauce according to the recipe ratio given by her cousin.

When it was boiling, the aroma filled the room.

Shi muttered: "It smells strange."

Xue Liang has already finished burning all the charcoal fire, and he just waited for a while to grill the kebabs.

After Xue Qing cooked the sauce, put the sauce on a plate and take it to the table outside, "Father, you come to the barbecue, and I'll make the milk tea that my cousin said."

Xue Liang nodded. He had already marinated these big meat skewers in advance with the recipe given by Sister Yu. He put the marinated meat skewers on the small iron net and grilled them. He was also half a cook. My hands are shaking.

Xue Qing stayed in the kitchen, according to what my cousin said, first add sugar and stir-fry, then add black tea to stir-fry, add an appropriate amount of water to boil, pour in milk and continue to cook, and then the room is full of sweet milk aroma, waiting for the little ones After the fire boiled the milk, she took the casserole off the stove, and finally filtered out the tea leaves inside. She was a little hesitant looking at the brown milk tea in the clay pot.

She made the water, sugar, black tea, and milk ratio strictly according to her cousin's instructions.

But the color of the boiled milk is tan, which is not to say that the color is not good-looking. My cousin also said that it is this color, but compared to pure white milk, the tan color is really not good-looking.

Shi Shi also came in smelling the fragrance, saw the brown milk tea in the earthen basin, couldn't help but said, "Is this really drinkable?"

Xue Qing said: "If you can drink it, you will know if you taste it!" "

She went over to fetch a few bowls, poured out four bowls of milk tea, and took out two bowls first for aunt and father.

When entered the kitchen, saw mother was holding a bowl, her expression was very surprised, her eyes were wide open, and she looked at the tan milk tea in the bowl in disbelief.

Xu Qing's heart skipped a beat, "Mother, isn't it very tasty?"

Shi took another sip from the bowl, it was a little hot.

She murmured: "No, it's delicious. Mother has never had such a delicious drink." She didn't know how to describe it, but it was delicious, sweet, with tea fragrance, and a little milky smell. It has no taste, and she likes to drink it very much.

Xue Qing hurriedly picked up the bowl and tasted it, but was also stunned.

The entrance is sweet, smooth and mellow.

Xue Qing murmured: "Drink well."

They didn't know that if Xu Qinyu was here, the taste level of this milk tea would rise a bit, the taste would be more mellow, the sweetness would be more moderate, and there would be a little caramel taste.

Xue Liang outside was still grilling meat and had no time to drink milk tea. Xue took a sip from the bowl, and when he entered, he had the same expression as Shi and Xue Qing.

It turns out that Sister Yu didn't lie to her. Sister Yu really knows how to cook and eat. This is the first time I've heard that the milk tea is so delicious.

Xue Shi was even more uncomfortable, look at how this has forced Sister Yu into what she is, thinking of so many recipes for eating.

The three women knew that they could make a living after drinking milk tea.

Xue Liang also finally finished grilling the barbecue. There were two skewers that were not roasted and the top was a bit mushy. He followed what Sister Yu said, using scissors to cut off the mushy bits, and finally put it on the plate and brushed it with sauce. material.

In fact, before the sauce was applied, the yard was already full of aromas, and the neighbors couldn't help muttering, "What is the Xue family eating today? It smells delicious, and it still smells like meat."

It is different from the aroma of ordinary stew.

Looking at the twelve skewers of barbecue on the plate, everyone was silent for a while.

It was Shi Shi who said first: "Then I'll try it first." She had already drank the whole bowl of milk tea, and she didn't touch the rest. She wanted to leave it for her two sons and daughter-in-law. See you all now She didn't want to eat this meat skewer, so she wanted to try it first.

She took a skewer of barbecued meat, bit the skewer wrapped in sauce, pulled it with her hand, and the skewer fell into her mouth. She hissed, "It's hot, it's hot, but it's delicious and delicious."

Seeing this, several people also took skewers and ate them.

The fat of the meat has been grilled, and the surface is slightly crispy. When you bite it down, the meat inside is still tender, wrapped in the aroma of meat and oil, and the aroma of the sauce.

Xue Liang said: "It's delicious." His mouth was full of oil, and there were some sauces on the corner of his mouth.

In fact, if Xu Qinyu had to come and taste it, the meat skewers grilled by uncle were still a bit overcooked.

But if you practice this for a few days, the taste will be better.

She also suggested to her uncle to bake at home for a few more days before selling.

Xue also squatted in the courtyard and ate meat skewers regardless of her image. It was so delicious. She had never eaten roasted meat from Jixianglou, but she felt that the roasted meat made by the recipe given by her daughter must be more delicious than roasted meat. .

Sister Yu not only gave the recipe, but also provided the selling price of each skewer.

For such a big meat skewer, with four big chunks of meat on it, Sister Yu’s suggestion is six pennies a skewer.

Pork belly in the capital is cheaper than in the border areas, because there is a large amount of supply, there are more people who raise pigs, and there are special breeding farms, so pork belly is 30 yuan a catty, sometimes there is too much pork, and it is only 2 yuan when it is cheap More than ten coins a catty.

A catty of pork belly is about twelve large skewers, and if it costs six yuan a skewer, a catty of pork belly can be sold for about seventy yuan.

In addition to the cost of charcoal fire spices and seasonings, if the stick is used, the family can chop bamboo and firewood to cut it into a stick. This stick can also be used repeatedly, but it must be damaged, and it will fail after a few uses.

The stall is also owned by the family. If the business is good and you buy more meat, the price will be cheaper, which means that you can earn about twenty-seven or eight yuan for a barbecue made from a catty of pork belly.

One person ate one skewer, and looked at the rest of the skewers, and they were still a little greedy.

Xue Liang said: "Everyone should eat these skewers. I'll buy some meat tonight and continue roasting for the boss and Brother Jian to try. Sister Yu also said that the roasting may not be very good at the beginning, so practice more. In a few days, let's buy some meat and cook more barbecue, just in time for everyone to satisfy their hunger."

But if you want to make a living with this barbecue, you definitely can’t use such a small iron net. You have to go to the iron shop to get the kind of iron frame that Sister Yu said. He estimated that such an iron frame would cost seven or eight taels. For money, you have to buy meat, seasoning, spices, and charcoal. The family has only earned a few taels of silver in the past few months, which is not enough.

In addition, Xue Liang didn't intend to get all the barbecue and drinks that Sister Yu said.

He plans to sell this kind of big pork skewers first, and then milk tea, with glutinous rice wine added at most, and his tea will continue to be sold.

I can't chew too much. When the pork skewers are sold well, he is selling some big lamb skewers. The marinating method of the lamb skewers is different from the recipe of the sauce. Take your time first. His tea stall is small and he can't make it. What Sister Yu said to him, what Sister Yu told him, was enough for him to open a shop two or three stories high.

He knew the value of these formulas, and planned to burn the formulas after he and his sister memorized them, so as not to be stolen later.

Knowing that her elder brother didn't have enough money, she had earned a few taels of silver from her embroidery work in the past two months, so she said, "I also have a few taels of silver here, and I will use it all for my elder brother."

Shi Shi also said, "I also sold my gold jewelry, and first I got enough money. In addition, this formula was given by Sister Yu, and the formula is the most valuable. When I make money in the future, our family will share it with my sister-in-law. Don't do embroidery work either, Sister Yu definitely didn't want you to do embroidery work and gave us the formula because she was afraid that you would hurt your eyes."

Mrs. Xue shook her head, "How can this happen? You are all worrying about it yourself. I can't help you at all, and I will share half of it. It's really unnecessary. You can do it yourself, and you should treat Sister Yu well, Sister Yu." Only then will I think of reciprocating and giving you the formula."

Shi Shi said: "This formula is the most valuable."

She knew the value of these formulas, even if she gave Sister Yu's one hundred taels, it would not be enough to buy these formulas, and they still had food that the capital had never had before, so she would definitely make money.

In the end, it was dragged and pulled, and finally decided to give Xue a share of one tael of silver every month.

Because everyone thinks that even if they sell barbecue and milk tea, it may be better than before in a month, and they can double and earn four, five or six taels of silver.

After Xue Liang roasted the barbecue for half a month, the iron racks and iron nets he ordered were also ready, the charcoal was bought back early, and a lot of sticks for skewers were also prepared. It was he who went to the city with his eldest son. It is a waste of time to chop bamboo and wood and slowly split and polish the sticks after returning home. After earning money in the future, this work can actually be hired to do it.

It's been half a month, and Xue Liang's roasted meat is pretty good, at least not overcooked, it tastes charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the meat is fragrant with the aroma of fat and sauce.

Finally came the day when the barbecue was ready to be sold. Early in the morning, the family used a donkey cart to pull things to the tea stand, and got busy in the small backyard, washing and chopping the meat.

On the first day of selling kebabs today, prepared ten catties of pork belly and skewered about a hundred skewers.

At the end of the day, Shi began to worry again, "What if this can't be sold, our family can't finish ten catties of meat."

Xue Qing also put on a dusty cloth and went to help in the kitchen, saying softly, "Mother, don't worry, I should still be able to sell some." She didn't expect to sell all of them.

Her kebab tastes good. Compared with Jixianglou's roasted meat for twenty cents a piece, the taste of their barbecue should be the same, but the portion is much more. heard that Jixianglou's roasted meat is not available in the import. When the smell came out, had nothing in stomach, and a skewer of her family's barbecue would satisfy hunger.

A string of six coins is indeed a bit expensive, but compared to roasted meat, it is nothing.

Of course, her small stall can't compare with others' Jixianglou.

After eating the morning food, their tea stand opened, and Xue Liang also moved the grill to the door and started to barbecue.

The charcoal fire was burning, and the barbecue meat was sizzling on the iron rack, and the vendors beside him knew Xue Liang, so they laughed and said, "Old Xue, what are you doing with this weird thing? But It smells good."

There is no shop next to Xue Liang's tea stand, only a few small vendors with street stalls, and the shop is separated by a distance, so the smoke from barbecue does not affect the shops of others.

Xue Liang said, "Thinking about some new food, I plan to try to sell it, this is called kebab."

The small vendors asked about the price, and they still felt that it was a bit expensive when they learned that it cost six cents. Anyway, they were reluctant to eat it.

After a while, a regular customer came over. He smelled the fragrance and couldn't help but asked the price. Xue Liang said that it cost six yuan a string. One piece, this barbecue seems to be similar? But there were four big pieces of meat, and it was so fragrant, ordered two skewers to taste.

Buying meat kebabs will also give you a bowl of tea, and a bowl of milk tea costs eight cents, so naturally you can’t afford it.

He also told the customers that the shop has a new drink called milk tea, a big bowl of eight cents, and most men don't like sweets, so the customers don't really want to drink this milk tea.

Wait for the kebabs to come,

The guest took a bite, nodded and said, "Fragrant! It's really fragrant!" His mouth was full of oil.

The two skewers of barbecued meat are quite satisfying, of course, I am definitely not full.

What the Xue family did not expect was that they sold out the meat they prepared on the first day.

The main reason is that some guests tasted the meat skewers during the evening meal, and they just had a little money, so they directly asked for ten skewers, and they were satisfied.

However, the milk tea did not sell much, only two customers who like sweets bought it and they all thought it was delicious.

The next day, Xue Liang prepared twenty catties of meat, but it was sold out.

After a month, they calculated the money they had earned this month, and they couldn't believe their eyes.

Looking at the broken silver and copper coins in the box, after the last count, after deducting the cost, they earned about thirty taels of silver this month.

This was still not much sold every day in the past. Later, there were many people who ate it, and the reputation of kebabs spread. There were also rich people who sent their servants to buy dozens of skewers, knowing that she had a new drink at home. , also bought a lot and went back to try it. After that, could sell at least 60-70 catties of meat skewers every day, from noon to the end of the night market, and even the meat skewers were not enough to sell.

The milk tea is also very good at the back, but some female customers still buy more.

Some female guests will also come to the tea stall to eat barbecue and drink milk tea. They all sit in the shop, while the male guests sit outside under the oil shed.

Sometimes the table is full, and some people don't dislike it, so they just wait for the kebabs to be ready, wrap it in greased paper and eat while walking.

Shi murmured, "Let's make more than thirty taels of silver?" She thought she was dreaming.

I used to sell tea and fruit for two or three taels a month. thought it would be good to double it in a month, but now it is more than thirty taels.

Shi's eyes were red, some wanted to cry, and some blamed herself. When her husband gave Yu Jie'er the one or two hundred silver, she had been making trouble for nearly a month.

But Sister Yu gave them such a lucrative livelihood.

Xue Liang's voice was also a little trembling, "Our business has only increased completely in the second half of the month. That is to say, we will definitely earn more than 30 taels of silver next month, maybe double it." I never thought I could earn dozens of taels a month.

And Xue Liang plans to add some mutton skewers, add some roasted leeks and roasted lotus root slices, and sell some drinks by the way.

To earn so much every month, Xue Liang discussed with Shi Shi. He said that it would be impossible to give Xue Shi one or two silvers a month.

If it wasn't for Sister Yu's formula, how could they have made so much money? Naturally, they had to take good care of Mrs. Xue and tell her to stop doing embroidery work.

Mrs. Xue also hadn't been to her brother's tea stall for a month. When Mrs. Shi came to look for her and brought her seven taels of silver, she was surprised. Finally, she heard from her sister-in-law that she had earned more than thirty taels of silver this month. stunned.

Shi also said, "If you earn more next month, maybe you can double it!"

Sixty or seventy taels of silver a month, how dare they think about it before.

Mrs Xue stammered, "The skewers and milk tea have made so much money, and there are still so many recipes left, which means that Sister Yu really didn't lie to us, she really knows how to cook, and she has to start eating. wanton."

Shi Shi smiled and said, "That's not it, so Sister Yu really didn't lie to you, what she cooks is definitely more delicious, and the restaurant she opens must make more money than us, so you don't have to worry about Sister Yu having no money anymore. So you have to listen to Sister Yu's words, but you must not continue to do embroidery work, or when you meet one day, if you are blind, think about how sad Sister Yu will be."

Xue Shi wiped her eyes and smiled again, "Yes, I don't do embroidery anymore."

She is also looking forward to the day when she will meet her daughter again.

The Xue family also collected the money, and planned to save it. Every six months, Ma Liu would help her send money to her daughter.

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And far away in the border town, Xu Qinyu has basically figured out how much the tea stall at the uncle's house can make a month if they sell barbecued meat. A few dozen taels of silver is still very easy, but because of the manpower and space, it will be more expensive every month. Dozens of taels of silver are worth the sky, unless you expand the scale, increase the number of people, and make a special barbecue restaurant, it will be more profitable.

Barbecue is really profitable. In her era, the early barbecuers made crazy money.

That is to say, after following the trend more, there are barbecue restaurants everywhere, and then it became saturated.

Xu Qinyu even knew that it was impossible for her uncle to make all the recipes she gave in one go.

It should start off by selling one or two types of barbecue and one or two kinds of drinks, so you can't become fat in one sitting.

Originally all the recipes were prepared for him according to the big barbecue shop, and when my uncle earns the money to open a big shop, he can use them all.

My uncle and mother have a good relationship. Although my aunt is quick-tempered, she is also very kind. She will never treat mother badly. She estimates that 20% of the money she earns every month will be given to Xue.

The more she earns in the future, the more Xue will be able to share, and the life of the second room in the Hou Mansion will be easier, and she can feel at ease.

Otherwise, she would always feel that she took over Yuanzheng's body, and felt very sorry for Yuanchen and Yuanzheng's family.

Although this time travel was not what she wanted.

Xu Qinyu waited for Ma Liu to leave for two days, counted the money on her body, and planned to find a shop.