Chapter 175 Specialties
Jiang Quan went to the town and bought ten pounds of icing sugar and several jars.
The second aunt said that the prepared preserved fruits should be stored in jars, so he bought them back for a rainy day.
Then it’s time to pick apricots.
Choose apricots that are medium to medium-ripe, and avoid overripe apricots that have worms on them.
Then wash and remove the core, marinate it with icing sugar ground into fine powder, and add a little salt when marinating.
After marinating for a few hours, the apricots will ooze juice. At this time, pour them directly into the pot and bring to a boil.
Don't cook it for too long, otherwise the apricot meat will not take shape.
Immediately scoop out the apricot meat and soup, leave it for an hour, then take out the apricot petals from the soup, place them one by one on a bamboo plaque, and then expose them to the sun.
After two or three days in the sun, the apricot meat becomes as chewy and chewy as persimmons. It is yellow in color, sour and sweet, and very delicious.
The dried fruits can be stored in jars and sealed for a long time.
The remaining soup is thick, sour and sweet. Not only children love to drink it, but adults also praise it.
Ying Bao is not interested in preserved apricots, but she likes the sweet and sour juice left over from boiled apricots.
If you add some ice cubes, it will be so refreshing to drink on a hot day.
Yingbao looked at the trees full of apricots and made up his mind.
"Second brother, let's pick all the apricots on the tree."
Ying Bao said to Jiang Quan: "Give some of the ripe ones to people in the village, and let's make apricots from the half-ripe ones. Don't throw away the apricot stones. We can grind almond powder in the future."
In her previous life, she had drunk almond tea, which was made from ground almonds, rice milk, milk, boiled, and some caramel. The aroma was fragrant.
But there is one thing: almonds are poisonous, especially the epidermis of almonds, which is highly toxic. If not handled properly, it may be life-threatening. Children should not even touch them.
But she has Pupil Spring. Soaking the almonds in the spring water will probably remove a lot of the poison.
Jiang Quan opened his eyes wide, "Yingbao, there are so many apricot trees. How many preserved apricots should we make? If we can't sell them, the money we spent on the candy will be wasted."
"It will sell." Ying Bao was not worried at all.
At worst, it would be better to earn less and give it to the vendors instead of so many apricots rotting in vain.
Yan Ru said from the side: "Why don't you give the apricot preserves to the dried fruit preserve shop in the county? Although the profit is small, it can still be an income. At least you can get the frosting money."
Her advice coincided with Ying Bao's.
"Okay, second brother, when all the apricot preserves are made, let's go to the county town." Yingbao was full of confidence.
It just so happened that Yingbao wanted to go to the county town to take a look at her new house and see what the shortcomings were so that she could buy something better.
"Second aunt, can those peaches be made into preserved fruit?" Yingbao asked.
Yan Ru: "Yes, the process of making preserved fruit from peaches is similar to that of apricots, but you can make some."
"Then let's make some peach preserves. Don't throw away the peach core. The peach kernel is a kind of medicinal material. Then we will sell it to the drug store." It is estimated that the price will not be high, but it will be able to recover some of the cost.
Jiang Quan was still unsure: "How much sugar will it cost?"
"Let's do this first. We bought a lot of sugar. We can talk to the store and the price will definitely be lowered."
Ying Bao had done business in her previous life, so she knew a lot about the twists and turns here.
Yan Ru also nodded: "Go to the big store in the county to buy candy. If you buy more, you can really save a lot of money."
"All right."
Jiang Quan scratched his head and asked, "When will we go to the county seat?"
The fruits on the trees don't wait for anyone. They are ripe and rotten day by day, and it makes my heartache to look at them.
Ying Bao was speechless and was frowning in thought.
There are so many fruit trees in our house. Seeing that the apples and grapes are about to mature, we will definitely not be able to eat them all, and we can’t sell them in the countryside. I would give them all away but I would be reluctant to part with them.
It's very sad.
I thought I could earn some money from the fruit trees I worked so hard to plant, but unexpectedly they became a burden.
Otherwise, let your second cousin open a shop in the county town, specializing in selling preserved fruits.
I still have more than three hundred taels of silver in my hand, so buying a shop shouldn't be a problem.
With the shop, you don't have to sell your preserved fruits and fruits to others at low prices. In the future, when rare grapes and apples come on the market, the shop may become the focus of the county.
Even if the fruit is out of market, there are still golden fungus and snow fungus. If not, the second concubine Yanru will make fragrant powder and rouge and sell it in the shop.
Yingbao has already sown many flower seeds on the brown soil of Dongfu, such as roses, wood dandelions, peonies, peonies, honeysuckle, impatiens, sorrel trees, red and blue flowers, etc. She also scattered some lotus seeds by the pond. , now small round lotus leaves have grown.
But the problem is, how to position your own store?
Other shops are specialized in business, such as Shengde Pastries, Fengrun Grain Shop, Jinxiu Cloth Shop, Qianji Gold, Silver and Jade Shop, etc. Even the bamboo ware shop specializes in bamboo bamboo ware.
The goods sold in my own shop are various, but it cannot be called a grocery store.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind.
Or just call it a local specialty.
Although Qinchuan County is a lower county, there are many tourists coming and going. Since our home is known as a local specialty, those visiting relatives and friends must be willing to buy some to take away.
Because there are specialties in other places, such as Langqiao wooden comb, Luoyang pineapple, Qi persimmon, Yan chestnut, Wushan tangerine, Nanzhong tea seeds, etc., travelers can't go there without buying some.
However, Qinchuan County seems to have no specialties.
There is no tea, no silk embroidery, no inkstones, no rare medicinal materials.
This is an ordinary small county, and most people make a living by farming.
However, Qinchuan County is located in a hilly area, with very little fertile land for planting, and taxes are not low at all. In this environment, it is strange that people are not impoverished.
In the past, the court stipulated that each person could be allocated a hundred acres of land, but here he could only be allocated 60 acres.
These sixty acres are not all fertile farmland, there is also some mountainous land.
Now we can't even get sixty acres, because there is no more land to divide in the countryside.
My eldest cousin is seventeen years old this year and should have been allocated a field long ago, but there has been no movement in Lizheng.
It's not that Li Zheng is inactive, but that the land in the hometown has been basically divided, and the rest is a rocky wasteland with no grass growing.
If these wastelands are given to the people, it will be equivalent to forcing the people to die.
I wonder who can afford the tax on a field that can’t even grow a single grain of grain?
So Yingbao decided to take a different approach and create a way for her first cousin, second cousin and others to make money.
The golden and snow fungus ones we own are unique in Qinchuan County. Even the Wen family sent people to guard them waiting to buy them. It would not be too much to make them a specialty of Qinchuan County.
After that, it was natural to label the preserved apricots, peach preserves and pear preserves as Qinchuan specialties.
By the way, we also have grapes and apples. Although these are not Qinchuan's specialties, they can be sold incidentally.
Having made up his mind, Ying Bao smiled and said to Jiang Quan, "I'll go to the county seat tomorrow."
Not only buying candy, but also buying a shop.
She had already thought of a name for the store, and it was called "Jiangji Specialty Products".
Although the products are specialties of Qinchuan County, the name of the store must not contain the word "Qinchuan", otherwise you will be taken to the county government for retaliation.
Not only can't the names of counties and towns be added to store name banners, even the word "Murong" can't appear on the signboard.
Because the surname of the royal family at that time was Murong, all the people had to avoid these two words.