sjar Chapter 102 Canned Fruit
Chapter 102 Canned Fruit
In her previous life, there were many methods of making canned fruits in the short videos. They were simple and easy to make and you could learn them in no time. When winter came, Chen Ruotong would go to the supermarket to buy ready-made yellow peach pulp and make canned yellow peaches. She was full of confidence in making canned fruits.
Chen Ruotong came to the kitchenware area, prepared the yellow peaches and oranges, and started making canned fruit using a stainless steel steamer and induction cooker.
First clean the yellow peach flesh, cut it into small pieces, put it into the pot, add old rock sugar, pour in mineral water that is about the same as the yellow peach, and then cover the pot.
After boiling, turn to low heat and simmer slowly for a quarter of an hour. When the yellow peaches are cooked and soft, you can open the lid and let it cool. Then put it into a porcelain jar and seal the lid with wax.
While the peaches were cooking, she started canning oranges.
Peel the orange peel and remove the meridians as cleanly as possible. Put a proper amount of mineral water in the pot, put the rock sugar in and boil it over high heat, then pour the orange in, making sure the water covers the orange. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium-low heat and simmer for five to seven minutes before turning off the heat!
Let the cooked oranges cool down, put them into jars and seal the lids.
Chen Ruotong took the two jars of canned fruit out of the space and placed them in the house. After a month, she would check the sealing results. If they were not spoiled, it meant that the jars were well sealed and the shelf life might be longer; otherwise, she would have to choose new jars for canned fruit. After a month, the fruits would be ripe and canned fruit could be produced in large quantities.
Chen Ruotong went to the porcelain kiln in the north city and ordered 200 jars of good quality to prepare for canning in the future. If the sealing is good, it will not be too late to order more.
The old shopkeeper of the porcelain kiln was naturally very happy. Being able to do business with Mr. Chen Si was like being carried away! He must make jars seriously and make a fortune with him!
When the fruits are ready in the fall, the peppers will also be ready. It will be very busy to make canned fruits and pepper sauce at the same time. So we need to divide the work now so that we won’t be too busy when the time comes.
Chen Ruotong found Old Lady Chen and Zhang and discussed the canning business with them.
"Grandma, mother, I will teach you how to make canned food. When the time comes, I will have to trouble you to work harder and recruit some neat and capable girls and young wives to come to our farm to make canned food. You teach them how to make canned food, and grandma will supervise and guide them. I will pay for the cost of making cans, and grandma and mother will take the lion's share of the canning income. I only want 40%, how do you think?"
Chen Ruotong wanted to find some work for Old Lady Chen and Zhang, because they also wanted to do something and earn some money.
There was no point in having nothing to do all day, but this job was very easy and not tiring, much better than working in the fields, and one could earn money, so Old Lady Chen and Zhang were naturally very happy about it.
Old Mrs. Chen was impatient, so the next day she asked Zhang Yishun to buy twelve maids aged 13 or 14, signed death contracts, and entered the manor. She personally explained the rules of the Chen residence to them, and then asked Chen Ruotong to get some ready-made yellow peach pulp, and Zhang taught them how to make canned fruit.
Chen Ruotong looked at Old Lady Chen and thought, what kind of people are you hiring? It's safest to hire someone, because they won't reveal the method of making canned food. Grandma is really thoughtful! Hehehe...
It’s no wonder that these girls learn very quickly and are quite efficient in making canned food. They can produce more than 20 jars a day, and the taste is as delicious as that made by Chen Ruotong.
Chen Ruotong placed the more than 20 jars in the warehouse of the house and waited for the results in a month.
The days passed slowly, and it was already mid-July. A month had passed, and the more than 20 jars of canned food were well sealed and kept fresh. Chen Ruotong ordered a large number of such porcelain jars.
The peaches on the farm are ripe and can be picked and canned. The farm is bustling with activity again.
The tenant farmers picked peaches carefully in groups.
Chen Ruotong has very strict requirements for the peaches used in canning. She has to choose big, good peaches that are just ripe. She cannot accept peaches that are bruised or overripe.
While the tenant farmers were picking peaches, in the house over there, Old Lady Chen and Zhang, with twelve maids, put on white coats, white hats, white masks, and white rubber gloves, and began to can peaches. They had to make sure that hygiene was met.
Wash the peaches, clean the peach hairs, peel them with a knife, and then make canned peaches according to the instructions.
Chen Ruotong also sent Chen Erming out to collect pears, hawthorns, oranges and other fruits to make canned food.
Chen Erming is very capable and the fruits he collects are of very good quality.
But the dozen or so children were very busy. They were divided into several groups. Some washed the fruits, some peeled and cored the fruits, some boiled water to cook the fruits, and some sealed the jars. They were very busy and happy.
Chen Ruotong found that everyone was too busy, so she promptly recruited ten capable and clean young women to wash the fruit. They had no contact with the girls who made the cans, so there was no need to worry about the secret recipe being leaked, which greatly increased production efficiency.
Five hundred cans of canned food can be made in a day. Since it is known that the quality of the cans is good and the shelf life is long, Chen Ruotong simply puts these cans into the cellar and then stores them in the space. Except for Chen Ruotong, no one is allowed to go down to the cellar, so everyone thinks that the cans are well placed in the cellar.
Chen Ruotong had asked Zhou Qian to open a small shop on South Street that specialized in selling canned food. The shop was named Pinguozhai.
Chen Ruotong asked Qiao Zien to write the three words "Pin Guo Zhai" on the cans with red paint. This is the brand name of Chen Ruotong's canned food. Chen Daquan was temporarily appointed as the shopkeeper and four assistants were assigned to him.
July is a hot month, and it is so pleasant to eat cold canned food in such a hot day! Therefore, Pinguozhai was well received as soon as it opened.
In order to allow more people to eat canned fruits, Chen Ruotong sells them by the bowl. A small bowl contains two pieces of fruit pulp, and the rest is sugar water, which has been diluted to reduce the sweetness. But with the addition of shaved ice, this bowl of canned fruit is both cool and sweet, and is very popular. A bowl sells for ten cents, which ordinary people can afford.
There was a long queue outside Pinguozhai. The bowls in the store were definitely not enough, so the customers brought their own bowls from home, put two pieces of fruit pulp in the bowls, and poured a large spoonful of rock sugar water on them. This way, the sales were fast. Although each bowl only made a few coins, with so many people, a lot of money could be sold in a day!
Foreign merchants and individual customers who came to Huicuilou and Zhenpin Pavilion to purchase goods heard that Mr. Chen had opened a canned food shop on South Street and that the food was delicious, so they went to South Street to taste the various canned foods.
The merchants felt that they had never eaten such delicious canned fruit before, and they had to take some back home. Therefore, everyone bought more or less a dozen or dozens of jars. Each jar was priced at two taels of silver, and I believe they could sell it for five or six taels of silver when they returned home?
Some customers immediately realized why selling in bowls is so much cheaper than selling in jars, but selling in jars is much more expensive?
Chen Ruotong’s explanation was that she wanted to make it convenient for the people in the city, so that’s why it was so cheap!
What can the merchants say? They are bringing benefits to the people of the city and doing charity. You can also buy it back and sell it at a huge profit, no one will stop you!