novelhk Chapter 192
Chapter 192
Qi Cheng looked at the time and saw that it was still early, so he opened Dongyin to see if there were any interesting videos.
[Essential skill for time travel—seasoning.]
[When your power is large, you should have a general understanding of the surrounding forces and then arrange for some personnel to go and take a look around.]
【And the tavern is the easiest.】
To run a successful tavern, the food must taste good, and to make a dish well, you need several seasonings.
Among these flavors, MSG is the easiest to add. It can give dishes an extra umami flavor. Remember, umami has always been a flavor sought after by the rich.
Tavern owners from all dynasties looked up at the sky. They understood that someone was going to introduce something that could make the dishes more delicious.
Hurry up, they can't wait any longer.
Tang Dynasty
Li Tai came out of the palace in a hurry. He was going to introduce the delicious food of later generations. With MSG, he should be able to completely restore the dishes of later generations.
Hurry up, he's waiting to eat.
Let's start with the simplest method. There's a special kind of seafood growing on the coast of Dengzhou, the famous sea intestines. Don't be fooled by their ugly appearance, but they're incredibly delicious.
A simple serving of sea sausage rice costs over 100 yuan.
[The specific method is to place the sea intestines on clean tiles and roast them over fire until they are dry. This will give you sea intestine rice noodles that are similar to MSG.]
Qing Dynasty
The Shandong cuisine chefs felt like the sky was falling, as this was their most important secret, and they would only pass it on to their apprentices when they were in their seventies or eighties!
Now that Tianmu has said this, everyone knows about it, so who will still provide for themselves in their old age?
"Old Ma, it's okay." A chef shook his head. "Even if they find out, so what? You can't find sea cucumber anywhere else. This is our specialty."
And there is another special feature about sea rice rolls, which is that it must be added just before serving, otherwise it will not have any flavor.
This is the experience of a master chef with many years of experience. If you don’t know this, it will be useless even if you get sea rice rolls.
Tang Dynasty
The light in Li Tai's eyes slowly disappeared. There wasn't much seafood in Chang'an these days, and he had never even heard of this sea intestine.
Should we arrange for someone to go there and make it?
While he was hesitating, several idle princes had already arranged for people to go there quickly, not only to prepare their own food, but also to take some back to Chang'an.
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[If you live inland and don't have the opportunity to go to the seaside, there is another way to stir-fry mushrooms with some seaweed and wait until they are completely dry.]
[It can be made into powder, which is another kind of MSG.]
This method is simple and suitable for use almost everywhere in the country! The restaurant owner frantically recorded it and notified the kitchen to make it.
Qing Dynasty
Emperor Qianlong scoffed at the things mentioned on the sky curtain. What kind of thing can enhance the flavor? The real flavor requires stewing old hens, pork elbows and other things together.
Is this what adds freshness?
People in later generations wouldn’t even know this, right? Well, it seems very likely. The dishes cooked in later generations were indeed not very good.
"Come here, write down the ingredients for the broth in detail. It will be a way of leaving something for future generations." Qianlong said with a smile, "You might as well write down the recipe as well. I'll leave this matter of Heshen to you."
Heshen quickly agreed. This was a good job and he could leave something for future generations.
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[MSG alone isn't enough. Some people prefer stronger flavors, so we need to bring out the ultimate weapon: Thirteen Spices.]
[Other condiments may contain some chemicals, but Thirteen Spices is a mixture of thirteen kinds of traditional Chinese medicine, so it should be easy to find.]
The spices in Thirteen Spices mainly include: cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, cardamom, angelica, aniseed, cumin, fennel, costus root, cloves, galangal, etc.
【This seasoning is very useful when cooking some meat. 】
big man
Liu Che sat in the palace and asked the Shaofu to prepare all these things quickly. They should all be available now, so there was no need to trouble Zhang Qian to bring them from outside.
"This seasoning is for meat, so make me some beef stew."
Tang Dynasty
Li Tai was very quick when it came to eating. As soon as the herbs came out, he ordered his men to get them from the palace pharmacy, and then stew the meat.
But the food tasted a bit weird.
Li Shimin and Li Chengqian also came here to eat. After trying it, he said that the taste was indeed a bit strange, probably because the specific proportion of the seasoning was not right.
We still have to find a way to adjust it.
"Although the taste is a bit strange, it's at least much better than before. My next step is to make some MSG for the sea sausage." Li Tai pointed eastward, "I want to try it and see how good it is."
Li Shimin was also very interested. Later generations who visited Dengzhou would almost always order sea intestine rice. He was quite curious about what sea intestine tasted like.
登州
Although fishermen in the Tang Dynasty knew that this kind of thing existed on the seashore, they generally did not eat it because there was not much meat and it was not satisfying at all.
However, after seeing the introduction on the screen, those with quick minds have already gone to the beach to catch them. When the time comes, they can dry these sea intestines into powder, which will definitely earn them more than fishing.
Even if the imperial court forbids people from drying salt, it cannot forbid them from making sea rice rolls.
Ming Dynasty
Zhu Jianshen sat in the palace with his eyes narrowed. He knew that there were many rich people in the south, and he was considering whether to use sea intestine powder to earn money from them.
At that time, there was a royal store in the palace.
"Come here, arrange for a few people to go to the Dengzhou beach and see how many people are planning to make sea rice noodle rolls." Zhu Jianshen ordered, "Try to collect all the sea rice noodle rolls."
Monopoly is the most profitable.
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Qi Cheng had seen advertisements before. At that time, sea rice noodle rolls were also sold. It was said that one pound cost several hundred yuan. Most people could not afford to eat it.
It would be great if it could be priced the same as Thirteen Spices.
However, MSG is now extracted from corn and is no longer a rare substance.
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Seeing that it was already late, Qi Cheng got dressed and prepared to go to work. He had fewer shifts this month and hardly any salary, so he wanted to brave the storm and go to the beach to catch sea intestines.
There is a saying that goes, "Fortune and honor are sought in danger." As long as one can withstand the impact of the waves, he can catch a lot of sea intestines. He has heard a lot of rumors.
It is said that someone made hundreds of thousands of dollars in one night.
Why don’t you try hard and pay off the mortgage in a few times?