"Okay, senior brother, I have no problem here."

"Junior brother, I've taken the trouble. I'll give you some extra when I pay your salary at the end of the month."

More money?

That’s even better!

But why the surprise menu?

He asked curiously:

“Can’t this dish be served directly?”

Xie Baomin shook his head:

"It is very difficult for restaurants in Diaoyutai to officially introduce new dishes. Not only do the head chefs from each building have to come over to taste them, but they also have to win the consent of more than half of the head chefs."

Oh...

If you say this, I will understand.

With the speed at which you offend people, I guess even if you serve the dishes that the Jade Emperor ate, not many head chefs will agree to serve new ones.

After all...

Who would be willing to miss such an opportunity to add insult to injury!

But senior brother will also take advantage of loopholes.

Make a surprise menu.

Not officially launching new products, but not delaying sales.

I really can’t find anything wrong with the other head chefs.

Not long after.

All employees in Building 2 were notified that the braised pork dish was officially listed as a surprise menu item, and the front desk was responsible for promoting it.

But this matter has little to do with Lin Xu.

After he finished his work, he went home from get off work.

First take out the soaked winter melon strips and pumpkin strips in the refrigerator and change the water, then wash them several times, then continue soaking them in water and put them in the refrigerator.

Try not to eat lime, even if it is food grade.

Not only does it taste bad, but it can also easily hurt your stomach, so you should remove it as much as possible.

In order to achieve this purpose.

He changes the water every two hours.

Until late at night, after changing the water for the last time, I went to bed.

The next morning.

Wash the winter melon strips and pumpkin strips soaked overnight several times again.

Then boil a pot of water on the stove.

Boil the winter melon strips in water.

After cooking, the wax gourd strips have completely turned into a transparent state. When they are cooked in the pot, it is like boiling a pot of jade strips.

After cooking for about ten minutes.

Use a slotted spoon to take out the winter melon strips and put them into cold boiled water to continue soaking.

After cooking, it cannot be exposed to raw water, otherwise the prepared winter melon candy will easily rot and deteriorate.

Use cold boiled water for soaking.

Only in this way can the possibility of deterioration be eliminated.

After the winter melon was cooked, he cooked the pumpkin again and soaked it in cold boiled water.

Soak the two ingredients and keep them in the refrigerator.

Then he went to work with Dundun in his arms.

After get off work in the afternoon.

Take out the winter melon strips and pumpkin strips, place them in a clean and oil-free bamboo basket, and use a fan to dry the surface moisture.

Next it’s time to candied.

There should not be any moisture or grease in this step, otherwise it will affect the final quality.

After the surface moisture is dried.

Lin Xu brought a deeper small basin, wiped it thoroughly with kitchen paper, and spread a layer of winter melon strips on the bottom of the basin. After spreading, sprinkled a layer of sugar, and then spread another layer.

Spread a layer of winter melon strips like this, sprinkle with a layer of sugar, marinate all the winter melon strips, then sprinkle some white sugar on top to seal, cover with plastic wrap, and continue to put it in the cold storage compartment of the refrigerator.

And those pumpkin strips are also pickled in this way, with one layer of ingredients and one layer of sugar, and then placed in the cold storage compartment of the refrigerator for storage.

Two days later, Friday afternoon.

After 48 hours of pickling.

Lin Xu took out two basins from the refrigerator.

When you remove the plastic wrap, you can see that the white sugar inside has melted, and now there is a layer of sugar liquid floating on the bottom of the basin.

It’s time to proceed to the last step - frying the frosting.

Lin Xu took a larger iron pot and placed it on the stove, then poured the winter melon strips and the syrup at the bottom of the pot into the pot, turned on medium-low heat and stir-fried slowly.

This step is to stir-fry out the excess water in the winter melon strips and at the same time allow the sugar to penetrate into the interior of the winter melon strips.

Soon, the sugar juice in the pot began to boil and became more and more viscous.

Continue to stir-fry until the syrup hangs evenly on the surface of the winter melon strips.

When the syrup becomes thicker and thicker, the syrup hanging on the surface of the winter melon strips becomes thicker and thicker.

Finally.

When the water in the syrup is dried, the syrup will change from a viscous and transparent state to a layer of dry white frost.

Lin Xu stir-fried a few more times, then poured the frosted winter melon strips in the pot into a large tray to cool.

This step is exactly the same as that of sand-turning dishes and frosting dishes. It uses the principle that syrup will crystallize into a white solid when stir-fried.

The frosted winter melon strips look even more attractive.

Pick one up and put it into your mouth to take a bite. The white frost on the outside tastes like a rustling texture, but the winter melon inside is still crispy and translucent after you bite it open.

After chewing it twice, you will be filled with the freshness of winter melon and the sweetness of sugar.

It feels like eating nature in one bite.

Delicious!

However, the winter melon candy had not completely cooled down yet. Lin Xu took advantage of this time and poured the pumpkin strips into the pot again, frying them until they were frosty.

The fried pumpkin strips are golden in color.

Comparing it with winter melon candy, it looks like a gold gradient and a silver gradient.

Pinch one and put it into your mouth, bite it gently, and the rich and sweet flavor of pumpkin immediately fills your mouth. It tastes even stronger than winter melon candy.

As soon as I finished eating one, the system prompt sounded in my mind:

"The host successfully made perfect pumpkin candy using the method of making perfect winter melon candy. He completed the hidden task [draw inferences from one example] and was rewarded with a perfect meal learning card. Congratulations to the host."

What?

Another perfect meal learning card?

Then when Brother Guo Weidong makes roast suckling pig, wouldn't he be able to steal his master's advice quietly?

Tsk tsk tsk...

The system really intends to let me earn rewards in this copy of Diaoyutai.

It's already dark outside now.

He put the cooled winter melon strips and pumpkin strips into two glass jars respectively, carried them downstairs, and walked into Uncle Yu's supermarket.

"Uncle, the winter melon candies and pumpkin bars are ready. Let me give you some to taste first."

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"Oh, this candy looks beautiful!"

Uncle Yu came over, unscrewed the lid and tasted it without any explanation:

"Yeah, it's delicious. The winter melon has a strong flavor and is very crispy. It's exactly the same as the old-fashioned winter melon candy I had when I was young. Unfortunately, the ones sold on the street now are machine-processed and don't taste good."

After tasting the winter melon candy, he also tasted the pumpkin strips and was also full of praise.

"Boss Xiao Lin, I think with your skills in making winter melon candies, you won't be hungry even if you don't open a restaurant. If you open a shop selling old-fashioned candies, will the neighbors go crazy?"
To be continued...