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Chapter 149.3 – Beef Jerky
At Prince Fu’s Mansion, Chef Wang and Zhou Lan Han’s wife experimented for many days and finally figured out how to make the tastiest beef jerky.
Speaking of Zhou Lao Han’s wife, rumor has it that the reason why her food was so delicious was because it had something to do with a secret recipe passed down from her family’s ancestors.
Zhou Lao Han’s wife was called Jiang Yu. The ancestors from her maternal family once opened a restaurant. Rumor has it that business was booming and they even opened up a dozen restaurants. But later, they offended some big shot, and then the Jiang family began to decline. Fortunately, the unique secret recipe of the Jiang family has been handed down.
The so-called unique secret recipe was originally only passed down to males and not to females, but in Jiang Yu’s generation, she was the only descendant left in the Jiang family.
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Jiang Yu’s father didn’t want the unique secret recipe to be lost, so he passed it down to Jiang Yu, but there was one condition. If she got married in the future and gave birth to a son, then the son must be surnamed Jiang, and she must pass the recipe down to him. Only in this way was she allowed to use the secret recipe herself.
Fortunately, Jiang Yu gave birth to two sons.
Zhou Lao Han has always felt bad for Jiang Yu for marrying a [poor] man like him, so when he learned about her father’s condition, he agreed without hesitation. He was the oldest child in the Zhou family, and all the elders in his family have already passed away, so there was no one to object to his decision.
It was all thanks to Jiang Yu’s secret recipe that the An family’s restaurant was able to flourish.
When they experimented with making beef jerky this time, Jiang Yu added her secret recipe again. The resulting taste was much better than what was already being sold in the markets. Once they determined the best method of making tasty beef jerky, they started marinating beef jerky in large quantities. As for pork jerky, they only made a small portion of that.
The process for making beef jerky was not complicated and it did not take a lot of time.
However, there was simply too much raw meat to work with. It was impossible for Chef Wang and Jiang Yu to do it alone. So in the end, they hired some people and gave them hands-on instructions. Only the last step in the process – the flavoring of the jerky – was completed by the two of them.
The first completed batch of special beef jerky was sent to Prince Fu’s Mansion. Every servant at the mansion got a catty of beef jerky. They were so excited that they almost started snatching at the beef jerky.
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Beef itself was already a bit on the expensive side. Occasionally eating fresh beef was still affordable, but doing it everyday was impossible. Therefore the special beef jerky was even more expensive. Its market price could each forty copper coins per catty, with the most expensive kind reaching sixty copper coins. It was so expensive that most people could not afford to buy it.
The beef jerky distributed to the servants in Prince Fu’s Mansion was not only good in quality but also very tasty.
Some people were even more delighted to find that their catty of beef jerky contained many flavors. There was five-spice beef jerky, mala beef jerky, etc. If they didn’t like spicy flavors, they could replace it with non-spicy ones.
One of the servants made a rough calculation and determined that this one catty of beef jerky would be worth more than fifty copper coins on the market.
They already knew that the wangfei was very generous. During the Lunar New Year, the wangfei gave the servants many new years gifts and about five to ten taels of silver. Many servants were very grateful and they cherished this job even more.
Five days later, An Zi Ran sent most of the marinated beef jerky to Chang Province.
They were building a large-scale construction projection in Chang Province. The workers composed of local migrant workers and some of Fu Wu Tian’s soldiers. There were parts of the project that they did not want outsiders to know about (so they had to handled those parts themselves). Also, the soldiers have a bigger appetite than the migrant workers and An Zi Ran considered them his people too. He was never stingy towards people he considered his own.
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The beef jerky was expensive, but it wasn’t like he couldn’t afford to spend this money. Not to mention, once the project in Chang Province was complete and large amounts of cotton came pouring in, he would get even more money in return.
After another half a month, the An Family Restaurant finally opened.
The refurbished restaurant looked much better than before, especially the entrance of the restaurant.
First impressions were very important. In order to attract customers, An Zi Ran had people repair the threshold. Fu Wu Tian himself also nominated the plaque. His handwriting was majestic and discerning. Everyone could tell that the person who wrote it has profound skills. Literati who loved calligraphy would one hundred percent be attracted just by looking at it.
While they were busy serving customers on this side, the couple in the teahouse on the other side wanted to vomit blood. After waiting for more than twenty days, their competitors actually opened a restaurant?
