System, help me be an empress

Chapter 155 The Invention of Army Food

Hearing that Mrs. Teng still called herself a grassroots, Xu Youxi remembered that she had promised to give Mrs. Teng Xuesheng an imperial order, but she had been forgetting to do it.

"Remember to remind me when you go back, and give Madam Teng an order." Xu Youxi said to Xu Ling who was next to him.

"Subordinates obey."

Teng Xuesheng and his wife did not expect that His Majesty gave them such a big gift so unexpectedly, and they knelt down to thank them immediately.

"You're welcome."

Xu Youxi called Mrs. Teng to sit down and asked: "Madam, it has been really hard to take care of the thousands of soldiers in the Shenji Battalion for more than a year. I went to the Lianghu area a few days ago, and the firearms soldiers scattered all over What I miss the most is the meals cooked by the commander's wife."

Mrs. Teng was also flattered: "Caomin's cooking is just home-cooked food, and I didn't expect to be so loved by my brothers."

"Mrs. Teng is polite. I like your craftsmanship very much. It is no worse than the royal chef in the palace." After Xu Youxi finished speaking a few words, Madam Teng gradually relaxed, without the tense feeling just now.

"Since those firearms soldiers who are far away miss Madam's craftsmanship, I can't bear to let them lose. Madam might as well cook some dishes, so I can send someone to send them to taste."

Mrs. Teng hesitated: "But... it will take a few days to go back and forth. If it is winter, the food can be kept longer, but now that the weather is hot, I am afraid that the food will be spoiled when it arrives there."

"That's true, so I have to trouble Madam to try a method for me to store food for a long time."

"Long-term storage of food?"

Xu Youxi explained the specific steps in detail: "Yes, it is to put the processed food into a glass bottle, heat it with boiling water for a stick of incense, seal the bottle tightly with a cork while it is hot, and finally seal the bottle with wax. The mouth is sealed. This method can preserve the food for a longer period of time."

"It just so happens that Cao Min has some glass bottles at home, so Cao Min will go and try them."

Hearing the word glass bottle, Teng Xuesheng immediately raised his head, his expression hesitant to speak.

A violent thing!
That's not a glass, it's clearly a glass vase that he spent nearly a month's salary looking for someone to make for his wife as a birthday present, a glass vase that can be used for arranging flowers!
His wife really liked those glass vases very much. On that day, she happily put a few celery sticks in the vase; fish; on the fourth day, a radish...

The recipes are put in this vase every day!
Just say one possibility.

Has his wife forgotten that the vase was a carefully prepared gift from him? !
"I can find someone to customize the glass bottle for you. I just need to trouble Madam to cook some dishes in advance. Cook the meat and vegetables separately first. Let's just try this method to see if it works. Leave it for ten days, then open the glass bottle Is the food in it spoiled?"

Mrs. Teng's eyes brightened slightly: "It just so happens that Cao Min's son has a sensitive stomach, and he will have diarrhea when he eats stale food. When the time comes, use this method to preserve the food and let him try it first."

This……

Teng Xuesheng seems to be only one son. He failed the imperial examination last year, but was dragged by his relatives to work as a free accountant in the camp;
Well, the next round of imperial examinations has not yet started, and his mother arranged for him to test the drug first?

His reincarnation skills are no worse than his own!
"No need, this matter should be left to the doctor of the new medical pavilion." Xu Youxi hurriedly stopped it.

At that time, let Xinyi Pavilion bring a microscope to analyze the bacterial composition in the food.

"I will immediately arrange for the workers to make a batch of glass jars. If Mrs. Teng is free tonight, can you help me try making two kinds of food first?"

Hearing Xu Youxi say that she doesn't need to use her own glass bottle, Mrs. Teng showed a trace of disappointment on her face. It turned out that she had to continue to insert vegetables.

"Despite your majesty's orders, the grass people will try their best to do it, but I don't know, what kind of dishes does your majesty want the grass people to make?"

"It's not a dish, it's two kinds of food that are convenient to carry when marching." Xu Youxi paused, "The first one is called instant noodles, fry the noodles in a frying pan, then dry the water, and put the noodles in the mold during the process The final instant noodles can be softened by just soaking them in hot water.”

"But this kind of noodles have no taste when they are just out of the pan. I know that my wife is also very good at making sauces. You can make some sauces and store them in glass jars. Finally, cook instant noodles with sauces. This kind of food tastes better. It is fast and convenient, and the taste will be improved a lot when mixed with sauce."

Before Xu Youxi finished speaking, Teng Xuesheng, who was standing aside and listening, felt that he was getting hungry. The instant noodles sounded delicious. I wonder if there is a chance to make arrangements for tonight.

"Grassmen can give it a try." Mrs. Teng has a very good memory, and she can easily memorize the content without Xu Youxi repeating it a second time, "Your Majesty, you just said that there are two kinds of food, what about the other food? "

"Another kind of food is biscuits. Mix wheat flour, sugar, salt, oil, etc. together to make dough, put it on the fire and bake it, and the baked things are biscuits. If they are processed twice, these biscuits Crushed, then added with oil and sugar water, it can be compressed into a very small piece of biscuit, but it is very easy to eat and easy to carry.”

The two ideas proposed by Xu Youxi are extremely beneficial to solving the problem of military rations on the way to march and fight.

Once the canned food can be produced, Xu Youxi can ensure that these soldiers can also have sufficient intake of vegetables and protein on the road; when the soldiers are tired of eating big pot dishes, they can change to instant noodles to improve the taste; In case of a sudden loss of food supply, all soldiers have at least one or two pieces of compressed biscuits in their pockets, so it is not a big problem to last for a day or two.

"Your Majesty has other orders. Cao Min is going to try and try to make at least one of them tonight." Mrs. Teng asked.

"Then I will go to the kitchen with you."

"Your Majesty, the kitchen is full of smoke, you should rest first. Once Cao Min is ready, how about letting Xue Sheng send it to you?"

"No, I can't fall asleep anyway, so I just want to join in the fun."

Seeing that His Majesty was so persistent, Mrs. Teng didn't stop her. She quickly took a bag of wheat flour from the shelf next to the kitchen and began to add sugar, salt, oil, etc. and began to mix.

"Your Majesty, do these biscuits taste sweeter?"

"Yes." Xu Youxi nodded while watching.

Mrs. Teng's hands and feet were nimble, and soon a dough of suitable size was kneaded out.

"Yes, it can be made smaller, yes, it can be flattened a bit." Xu Youxi instructed Madam Teng, while Teng Xuesheng beside him had already lit a fire, and his task was to bake the biscuits...

(End of this chapter)