After being reborn as a man, the woman improved her family's fortunes through education.

Chapter 456 The Hot Pot with Two Broths: A Bit Ambiguous

After finishing their shifts, the three of them rode back to the Jiang residence in the same carriage without informing each other beforehand. When the small kitchen in Jiang Xiaoqi's courtyard received the news, it caused some panic.

There's not enough time to prepare the ingredients, and the young master hasn't said what he wants to eat.

However, the main kitchen doesn't lack ingredients; they can borrow some.

The staff in the small kitchen finally breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that their young master had only brought his colleagues back for a hot pot meal.

Hot pot is great! It's convenient and quick!

There's no need to prepare anything special; the base ingredients are all ready-made. Just add water and bring it to a boil.

It requires no special skills; as long as you can boil water, you can make a divided hot pot.

The base of the spicy hot pot was made with beef tallow, which was hard to come by in those days, and the Jiang family's small kitchen had to save it up for a long time.

When they hear of a cow that has fallen and broken its leg, they rush to buy butter and beef. They eat the beef as soon as they get it back, whether it's hot pot, grilled, or stewed.

Butter is rendered directly and used to make the base for spicy hot pot. Once it solidifies, it can be divided into small pieces.

It's very convenient to just put it in a piece whenever you want to eat it.

It's just that there's no vacuum sealing technology, so it can't be stored for as long as in later generations. Fortunately, it's winter now, so if we put it outside, we can eat it all winter.

Jiang Xiaoqi also secretly put some into her space, so that she could take them out to satisfy her cravings tomorrow when Chunxia has them.

Mushroom soup is even simpler to make; just put red dates, goji berries, scallions, ginger, and several kinds of dried mushrooms together and cook them for a delicious flavor.

The hot pot is shaped like an octagon, but it can also be simply made into two rectangles.

However, after finishing the drawing, I realized that I had accidentally turned it into a Bagua-shaped hot pot. When I delivered it to the blacksmith, he accepted the order without hesitation.

The finished product looks quite good; the craftsman's skills are excellent.

This is the first time I've used it, and I haven't given the pot a separate name, so I'll just call it the "Mandarin Duck Pot".

"A hot pot with two broths?"

"I envy not the immortals, but only the mandarin ducks?"

"Ahem, it's gotten a bit ambiguous~"

"But after eating this spicy hot pot, I really don't envy any gods anymore. This is so delicious, even the gods probably haven't tasted it."

Jiang Xiaoqi listened helplessly to the conversation between Liu Peng and Xiao Ming. How could eating a hot pot with two broths be so ambiguous?

"Forget about ambiguity, delicious food is the most important thing!"

"Haha, that's right!"

As they were talking, the people in the small kitchen brought out the hot pot, steaming hot and with a wonderful aroma.

"Oh my, no wonder it's called a mandarin duck hot pot. The red and white broths are intertwined yet clearly separated, just like mandarin ducks."

"Yes, yes, this pot looks beautiful, and the name is just right. Most importantly, it smells amazing!"

This wasn't Xiao Ming's first time eating spicy hot pot, but it was his first time trying a divided hot pot.

He already loves spicy food, but this time he was also tempted by the mushroom soup hot pot. No way, he had to try both.

"The pot is for eating, not for display or to smell. Please take a seat."

The three sat around the pot, each choosing their favorite ingredients to put into it.

Soon, the red oil in the spicy pot was bubbling, and the mushrooms in the mushroom soup pot were emitting a rich aroma.

"Come on, try the freshly sliced ​​lamb in this spicy hot pot. It's tender and smooth, and dipped in this special sauce, it's absolutely amazing!"

Xiao Ming picked up a slice of beef, put it in his mouth and ate with gusto, while trying to persuade Liu Peng, who was only eating the mushroom soup hot pot, to stop.

"No, no, that looks really spicy, I can't handle it."

"Hiss... This spiciness is so satisfying! Brother Liu, life is so much less fun if you don't eat spicy food!"

"Haha, if you like it, eat more! Don't try to stop me! This mushroom soup is so delicious, it's absolutely amazing!"

"It's impossible to please everyone, but this hot pot with two broths can be considered as a way to satisfy everyone."

The three of them ate their hot pot while discussing what other ingredients would be suitable for hot pot – true foodies indeed.

"Beef is rare, and getting it is a matter of luck, but there's no shortage of mutton in the village these days."

Ever since Jiang Xiaoqi invented the hot pot base, he has had sheep raised on his estate outside the city, so now there is no shortage of mutton to eat.

Grilled lamb skewers and hot pot lamb have become common dishes in the Jiang family.

"Yes, you can't just kill cows randomly. You can only wait for them to die of old age, disease, or from a fall."

But cows that die of old age don't taste good, cows that die of disease aren't very palatable, and cows that die from falls are extremely rare!

"Haha, then we'll buy it whenever we see it, and then deliver it to you right away so we can have hot pot together."

"That works. Whoever comes across it should buy more. The roads are slippery in winter, and you never know when a cow might slip and fall."

Seeing her two friends' longing expressions, Jiang Xiaoqi silently apologized to the cows; the foodies' eyes were only on the hot pot right now.

The only vegetables available in the small kitchen were radishes, bean sprouts, and tofu, so the people in the small kitchen went to the large kitchen to find some leafy greens that were extremely rare in winter.

Of course, these leafy greens were also produced by the Jiang family, since the price of small green vegetables sold at the hot spring resort in the capital was ridiculously high.

Jiang Xiaoqi had several greenhouses set up at his home, not for growing flowers, but only for growing vegetables.

At first, it was just enough to be self-sufficient, but later the gardener in charge of the greenhouse gained experience, and the vegetables grew better and better, and the yield also increased.

Now, we not only have enough to eat and use at home, but we can also sell the surplus.

The money was awarded to the gardeners in charge of the greenhouse, which made them work even harder.

They would always leave enough food and supplies for everyone in the Jiang family before selling the less desirable items.

Later, when restaurants and eateries took a liking to the Jiang family's greenhouse vegetables, the group found it even easier to simply take them to the restaurants instead of selling them in smaller quantities.

The time saved allowed them to grow a lot of greenhouse vegetables, and not long ago they even started processing tomatoes and cucumbers.

These two seeds were given to me by Jiang Xiaoqi. I was just craving them and really wanted to eat raw cucumbers and tomatoes in the dead of winter.

However, these two have a longer growth cycle than other leafy green vegetables, so Jiang Xiaoqi hasn't been able to eat them yet.

"Mingfei, why don't you open a food stall? Sell spicy hot pot or yin-yang hot pot."

Jiang Xiaoqi paused with his chopsticks. He had thought about it, but butter was really hard to come by.

Of course, he can also place an order in the system store to buy "highly technological gadgets" from other dimensions.

However, he didn't know how strong people's digestive systems were in this era, or whether they could withstand the additives of later generations.

If he can't withstand the attack and a few of them die, then he will truly become a sinner.

"Sigh, as you all know, the broth for this spicy hot pot requires a lot of beef tallow. I just mentioned that beef is hard to come by, so why is beef tallow an exception?"

"Sigh~ That's true, but your base recipe smells so good, it's a real waste that you can't open a shop."

"Isn't there anything to replace butter?" Xiao Ming was still unwilling to give up.

"Yes, but the taste will be greatly diminished!"