"Yes, if the layers are too thick, the pancakes won’t taste good when you wrap the dishes in them," Xiaoxiao explained. These pancakes need to be quite thin to work.
Xiaoxiao’s comnt gave them a hint, "You’re going to wrap bean sprouts in them?"
Feeling a bit embarrassed, Xiaoxiao replied, "Auntie, you can actually just stir-fry the dish and eat it with rice. I just wanted to have so wrapped pancakes, which is why I’m making these. I forgot that it wastes so oil to knead the dough."
"It’s no big deal. Let’s also try these pancakes that you’ve been longing to eat."
"Alright."
The few of them busied themselves in the kitchen again, and soon both the pancakes and the dishes were ready.
They placed everything on the table – a bowl of pancakes, a bowl of stir-fried bean sprouts, another of stir-fried potato strips, lots of sliced scallions, and a bowl of sauce that had been fried in oil.
They had long slled the delicious aroma, and seeing this table full of oily dishes, they knew even without tasting it just how good it would be.
Their household usually didn’t use so much oil in cooking.
And there were so many white flour pancakes, it seed they used up that small bag of flour they had stored.
Yang Sanzhu’s wife was the first to speak up, "Co on, try these four-layer pancakes made by Yang Ming’s wife."
Hearing the words ’four-layer’, everyone looked at the pancake. Where were the four layers? Wasn’t it just one pancake?
Xiaoxiao took out the pancake and demonstrated for everyone, tearing it apart, turning one pancake into four thin ones.
Xiaoxiao laid a pancake on the table, started putting so bean sprouts, potato strips, added two slices of scallion, finally spread so sauce on it, and rolled it up before handing it to Yang Sanzhu, "Uncle, eat it like this."
Yang Sanzhu accepted the pancake sowhat embarrassed; his niece-in-law had even rolled it up and handed it to him. Who did he think he was?
The others followed suit, wrapping and eating.
Everyone wanted to taste what these soybean sprouts would be like.
After tasting, everyone praised it imnsely, believing that these bean sprouts could definitely sell for good money.
At this point, Xiaoxiao continued, "Uncle, Auntie, these bean sprouts can actually be used in a variety of dishes, but you don’t have to worry about that. Just sell them to the restaurant, and the chefs there will experint with them."
"If you’re planning to go ahead with this, I’ll have a word with the owner of Yuelai Restaurant. Then you can supply them exclusively, just like Uncle and Uncle Four’s families. Don’t supply other restaurants; this should be exclusive to one, so you can make money."
Xiaoxiao thought, since there are fewer vegetables in winter, Chu Lian now had a new dish to offer, and he would have no reason to refuse.
Everyone agreed with Xiaoxiao’s idea and decided to go into this business, "Yang Ming’s wife, we’ll listen to you, we’ll do it."
Xiaoxiao then shared the thod for sprouting bean sprouts with them. Since Uncle and Auntie’s family already make tofu, they know how to run a business, so Xiaoxiao didn’t need to elaborate. Uncle and Auntie understood imdiately.
For instance, matters like buying the beans, how much to price the bean sprouts, they already had a good sense of it.
Xiaoxiao also told them that soybeans could be pressed into oil, which was much tastier for cooking than lard.
No one knew where Xiaoxiao acquired all this knowledge, but everyone trusted her words completely.
Uncle’s two sons showed great interest in the idea of extracting oil from soybeans. If they could actually produce oil, it would be more profitable than anything else, as oil is quite expensive. They both expressed a desire to try it out and see if they could develop this soybean oil.
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