farming female castellan

Chapter 281 Making Sugar and Making Milk Tea

Mrs. Zhongshu Linghe personally did a great thing: turning brown sugar into white sugar.

The two experimented for a few days, constantly adjusting the ratio of the yellow mud, improving every detail, and finally made white and crystal white sugar.

"This is white sugar? Haha, it's white sugar!" Mrs. Feng was as excited as a child.

Zhong Shuling was also very excited, his lips trembled for a while, and then he said a word forcefully: "The advent of this white sugar will cause another round of major changes."

Mrs. Feng grinned from ear to ear: "Don't talk like a court when you talk at home. It doesn't matter whether it changes or not. Let's do what we want to do first. Chen girl really knows a lot."

"She does have a lot of extraordinary things." Zhong Shuling stroked his beard.

Mrs. Feng suddenly thought of something, and lowered her voice: "How did this man from beyond the sky come here? This day looks just like that."

"I can't think clearly for a while. Let's focus on the present first."

"Yes, yes, I'm busy right now. I just want to try it now, what is the difference between using brown sugar and white sugar to make food."

Zhong Shuling supported her shoulders: "Madam, don't worry, let's think about how to carry out the white sugar project."

Mrs. Feng calmed down for a moment: "Brown sugar is boiled from sugarcane, and it is basically produced in the south of the Yangtze River. In the north, maltose is still the mainstay."

Zhong Shuling smiled: "If you want to make a large amount of white sugar, first of all, it is a matter of raw materials. There is still a big difference between the brown sugar that is boiled now and the brown sugar shipped from afar."

"In the future, ask someone to grow some sugar cane." Mrs. Feng stood up: "I don't care so much, I just want to make caramel and try milk tea now."

"I still need milk." Zhong Shuling reminded her.

"There's milk, it's in the small kitchen." The two of them entered the small kitchen in the main courtyard, and waved away the idlers.

The maids and cooks speculated one after another: What delicious food does the master and madam want to do, so mysterious?
Mrs. Feng flipped through here and there, and Zhong Shuling smiled straight at it: "Madam is still not familiar with the kitchen."

Madam Feng sneered: "I just want to understand clearly, Husband, hurry up and light the fire."

Tangtang Zhongshuling rolled up his sleeves and lit a fire for his wife.

Mrs. Feng put the black tea into a small pot, added clear water, and when it boiled, scooped the tea into the pot, then poured the milk into the pot to boil.

Confidently, she started frying the white sugar into caramel color, adding milk and tea to cook together, and serving it in a large soup basin.

The aroma wafted out of the kitchen, where the maids and cooks took deep breaths.

"It's so fragrant and sweet."

"Master and Madam are so loving."

Mrs. Feng also tried a pot of brown sugar, cooking brown sugar, black tea and milk together according to the method.

The two walked out of the kitchen with two big basins in hand, and ordered the servant girls to invite the young master and the young lady to the main courtyard.

Both Feng Yan and Feng Chang's couple came.As soon as Lin Fuyu entered the door, she smiled and asked, "What delicious food did Father and Mother cook? We could already smell the fragrance outside the yard."

"How can it be so exaggerated?" Mrs. Feng picked up a spoon and began to fill the milk tea, and the two daughters-in-law quickly took over the work.

"It has the fragrance of tea," Feng Yan said, taking a sip, "and milk?"

"Sweet but not greasy." Feng Chang commented.

Mrs. Feng glared at her youngest son: "Is it just not bitter? Is it bitter? Is it astringent?"

Both son and daughter-in-law are shaking their heads.

"It is mellow and silky, without the fishy smell of milk, and the bitterness of the tea enriches the taste." Xie Chenyun praised.

Mrs. Feng was a little proud: "Can this business be done?"

"Of course we can, but the cost is too high. Sugar is so expensive, milk is so expensive, and tea is so expensive." Just as Feng Chang finished speaking, Mrs. Feng glared at her again: "Why do you talk like a child?"

Feng Yan touched his nose and laughed twice.

"Who does mother plan to give this business to?" Feng Yan asked the important point.

Madam Feng smiled mysteriously.

It has only been a few days since the egg yolk craze started, and Zheng's snow skin mooncakes have caused a sensation again.Everyone looked at the jade-like pie crust, and just holding it in their hands, they felt full of joy.There are three small mooncakes in a box, and the price is the same as Wang's egg yolk pastry, which is five pennies.

"Is there a purchase limit for this ice skin mooncake?" Some people's concerns are very strange.

Shopkeeper Zheng replied with a smile: "This mooncake in my family has twelve flavors, and the purchase limit for each flavor is [-]."

"It's twenty again, are you fighting with the Wang family? They launched egg yolk cakes, and your family serves snowskin mooncakes. Even the purchase limit is the same."

Shopkeeper Zheng still smiled and said, "It's still different. My family has twelve flavors, and Wang's egg yolk cake is only one."

Some people calculated that 240 boxes can be sold every day, and [-] boxes can still be ranked in line.As a result, many people started queuing up.

The ice skin mooncake tasted very good, and the popularity of the Zheng family overwhelmed that of the Wang family.

Not long after, two more stores attracted everyone's attention.

One is "Xunxiang Milk Tea", which makes women in the capital unable to stop drinking it; the other is "Cupcake", which attracts ladies and ladies who think that if they don't eat too much, they will gain weight, and at the same time they can't help but buy a box or two.

Milk tea and cakes were also popular in the palace, and the imperial dining room was extremely busy every day.

Pointing to the two boxes of egg yolk cakes in front of him, the emperor asked Zhong Shuling, "How many days will I have to wait if I want to eat egg yolk cakes?"

Zhongshu Ling quickly presented a booklet: "This is how to make egg yolk cakes."

The emperor would never open a shop to compete with him for business.

The emperor took a sip of milk tea: "This is your eldest daughter's business." He took another bite of cake and said, "This is your second daughter's business.Didn't you make enough money, and now it's attracting the appetite of the whole capital again? "

"Women can do things like open a shop and make money. It's a good thing for them to focus on food and clothing, which shows that I am a great help to the country and the people."

The emperor was expressionless: "The Zheng family's ice skin mooncakes are probably also your family's recipe, right?"

Zhongshuling certainly denied it.

In February, when the dragon raised its head, the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new house in Changping Township was grandly held.Almost all the villagers came, and the surrounding workers also came to watch the fun.Even though the crowd is scattered across various construction sites, there are many people surrounding each place.

Every child in Xiangjun's mansion is responsible for a construction site, where three animals are sacrificed.With the sound of firecrackers, the stewards spoke auspicious words, and the children dug up the first shovel with their shovels.

After the ceremony, foundations were dug at three construction sites: the village next to the sandy land, the village west of Kaiyun Village, and the shops near Qijiadu.

(End of this chapter)