Chapter 5 Eight Treasure Porridge

Author: Tang Yasong

Chapter 5 Eight Treasure Porridge

Two days later, Yunmengju opened as scheduled.

There was no loud lion dance or heaven-sacrifice or stove-sacrifice ceremony with gongs and drums. There was only a "Opening Today" sign on the door next to the "Yunmengju" store sign, and today's menu was written on it.

After the opening of Yunmengju, the first dish I made was eight-treasure porridge.

This is mainly because Chu Yunmeng does not have much money and has no advantage in terms of ingredients, funds, or reputation. All he can think of is to use tricks.

And developing various eating patterns is exactly what she is good at.

After observing for a period of time, I found that not only were the ingredients simple, but the eating methods were also very monotonous.

The staple food is mainly millet, rice, wheat, beetroot, and hemp, and the main vegetables are sunflower, leek, hyacinth, scallion, and green onion.

There is also animal meat, and the Chu land is rich in water and rich in fish and turtle aquatic resources, but like the staple food, vegetables, they are cooked in a large cauldron with water.

There was no fire to cook the oil, so the taste of the cooking was the same as pig food in the mouth of Chu Yunmeng, who had tasted all kinds of delicacies.

Stimulated and inspired by this, she thought of opening a restaurant as a way to make a living without any memory or understanding of the world.

She believes that with her cooking skills, not only making the delicious delicacies she has eaten, but also replicating the home-cooked dishes she has eaten, her restaurant will be very popular.

Due to limited cooking utensils, she chose rice treasure porridge as the first new dish.

Not only because even if it is cooked in a large cauldron, the taste of eight-treasure porridge will not be much different from that of later generations; but also because in this era, only a single staple food has been cooked in water, and served with vegetables such as sunflower and other vegetables. The taste is simply delicious.

The birds fade out!

It is extremely difficult to make the eight-treasure porridge that Chu Yunmeng once had. Therefore, Chu Yunmeng can only try his best to follow the memory and find alternative ingredients that exist in this era, so as to restore the food he has eaten to the greatest extent.

Sweet and soft.

The main ingredients have been selected long ago. Corn is too hard to use, and wheat, millet and hemp are not suitable for cooking porridge. The rice abundant in the Chu region happens to be japonica rice, which is soft and glutinous when cooked, so it is most suitable.

The staple food can be used as an auxiliary ingredient. In addition, Chu Yunmeng also selected black beans, red beans, red dates, peach kernels, chestnuts, and wolfberries for flavoring.

First, because these auxiliary ingredients are sweet in nature, after they are cooked until soft and rotten, the sweetness of the raw materials will blend with each other, which will bring a better taste. It is most suitable when there is a shortage of sweeteners.

The second reason is that these auxiliary ingredients are actually warm and tonic foods in later medical records. They can also warm the stomach of diners in the cold winter.

It not only allows diners to enjoy their meal, but also makes them healthier, the best of both worlds.

Because so many people eat them, rice, beans, bean sprouts, black beans, and red beans are relatively easy to obtain. You only need to go to the vegetable market in Nanshi to purchase them.

But red dates, peach kernels, chestnuts, and wolfberries are not as easy to obtain as staple foods and beans because fewer people eat them. Chu Yunmeng went to several dried fruit stores and medical clinics to buy enough raw materials.

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Especially wolfberry, although it is also available in the south, the quantity is smaller and not as good as in the north, so the price is much more expensive. Two silver cloth coins can only buy about five taels.

After soaking several kinds of beans, Chu Yunmeng put a large cauldron on the stove and cooked them quickly over high heat. Then he poured in the cooked japonica rice, chestnuts, red dates, peach kernels, and wolfberry, and poured them into the pot.

Simmer over low heat until the entire pot of ingredients becomes sticky, and you're done.

Because it is stewed slowly over low heat, the aroma and sweetness of red dates, peach kernels, wolfberry and chestnut penetrate into the japonica rice and several types of beans, and blend with each other to form a natural sweetness, even without adding honey.

It also tastes delicious.

Naturally, just one porridge was not enough, but due to the limited ingredients and seasonings, Chu Yunmeng could only make do with two simple side dishes of salted sunflower and chicken with chopped green onion.

Sunflower is one of the most commonly eaten vegetables in this era, but most of them are cooked in large cauldrons, which results in them being soft and limp, unable to bring out the true taste of the food at all, leaving only an astringent or even sloppy taste.

In order to avoid the taste disadvantages caused by cooking food in large cauldrons of water, Chu Yunmeng adopted another method.

Boil water over high heat, blanch the cut sunflower seeds in the boiling water, and then marinate them with salt for a few days until the flavor develops.

Coupled with the salted crispy pork prepared in advance, the two side dishes are enough to support the first wave of new food.

Just as Chu Yunmeng thought, her innovative approach finally won the praise of diners.

"Shopkeeper Yun, you really have some ideas. I have never eaten this eight-treasure porridge before. I never thought that cooking all these things together would make it taste so good." Aunt Li, the first diner at Yunmengju, praised it.

"Yes, it's fresh, soft, glutinous, and sweet in the mouth. It's really delicious like never before." The older Uncle Zhang commented while tasting the delicious food, closing his eyes and shaking his head.

"Shopkeeper Yun, your craftsmanship is really good... I have never tasted this sunflower seed so delicious." Uncle Wei, who was close to Uncle Zhang, sighed.

"And this salted crispy pork, I have never seen it before, the price is not expensive, and it makes us addicted to meat. It leaves a fragrant aroma on our lips and teeth, and has endless aftertaste. It feels more delicious than the real pork meat we have eaten before..." He is knowledgeable.

Old man Luo laughed beside him.

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Hearing the praise from everyone, Chu Yunmeng felt happy and sighed: How could he be good at his craftsmanship? It was all because of his extensive knowledge. He had not yet had time to show off his true craftsmanship!

From everyone's feedback, Chu Yunmeng saw greater business opportunities.

She vowed to use the knowledge and information she had to make Yunmengju bigger and stronger in the shortest possible time.

Not many people came to Yunmengju on the day it opened. Most of them were villagers from nearby Lihua Lane who were too busy making a living and could not start a business. It was this group of people who helped Yunmengju open up its reputation in Yingdu.

In the first seven days, there were initial signs, but the effect was not obvious.

In the past seven days, the folks who came to Yunmengju for dinner all praised the salted leeks for being more delicious than those cooked in Dading. The cooking method of chicken with green onions and eight-treasure porridge was novel and left a fragrant aroma on the lips and teeth.

The lobby of Yunmengju was obviously crowded, and there was never a shortage of people waiting for an empty table.

On the eighth day, people who came to Yunmengju to dine had already lined up outside the store. Chu Yunmeng, who had been running between the kitchen and the lobby, did not notice this scene. He still ate at Yunmengju for three consecutive days.

When Uncle Zhang and Uncle Wei were chatting, Chu Yunmeng just heard this.

"Oh, I said this Yunmengju has a future, and look, it's only the third day, and there's already a queue."

Chu Yunmeng had just finished serving Uncle Wei the food when he heard him sigh: "It will not be easy to eat in the future."

"Yeah, it's not easy to find a restaurant that suits my appetite. I thought it could be used as a small base to visit frequently in the future..." Uncle Zhang, who had only a few teeth left, sighed, "Who would have thought that he would hide away so quickly?"

Can’t stand it any longer.”

Then he smiled at Chu Yunmeng who was about to leave: "Shopkeeper, when your business gets bigger in the future, don't forget to take care of us old neighbors!"

Chu Yunmeng smiled sweetly and immediately turned around to go to the kitchen to get busy.

Currently I am frantically saving manuscripts, and I have a feeling: I won’t need a male protagonist as I write this article, and I need to polish it well.

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