Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 234 Re-entering the Iron Box

Zhu Yucao She has tried making Zhu Yu Steamed Buns before, but this time she wanted to change the way and try making a paste.

As for Yaocao
Based on its own coolness and sweetness, Wenshu intends to make thirsty water. Seeing that the summer solstice is still ten days away, and the heat is approaching, making thirsty water is more suitable for the seasons.

If the weather is hotter, you can add ice cubes to turn it into cold water, which is really great when you think about it.

With an idea in his mind, Wen Shu immediately started to move.

Cleaning, grinding, filtering, boiling, concentrating, subpackaging. The whole process, she did it by herself, and after constant adjustment, she finally came up with the best tasting formula for thirsty water.

As for the discarded ones, Wen Shu was not willing to throw them away.

It is said to be waste, but in fact, the taste is not so good, and the filter is not so fine, but the essence of Yaocao is still there, and the effect of improving eyesight is still there, so she put it in a jar and plans to sell it separately. cheaper.

Since Yao grass has fruit, and Wen Shu didn't know whether it was the fruit or the grass stem, or both, that exerted the effect of improving eyesight, so she crushed the fruit and the stem together and boiled.

Yao Guo is a bit sour, and the paste obtained after boiling with grass stems is also sweet and astringent. In order to neutralize the astringency, Wen Shu tried to add a little honey to it.

Sure enough, after adding honey, the Yaocao Paste only tastes sweet.

Fifty catties of yaocao and yaoguo are made into ointment, but there is only one jar, about five catties, including two catties of waste.

However, Wen Shu harvested a total of hundreds of catties of Yaocao in Shanhai World last time. To be on the safe side, she only took half of it out for testing, so there were still [-] catties of fresh Yaocao in the storage basket at this time.

And with this experiment, next time she makes it again, there will be no waste products, that is to say, she can make another five catties at any time.

After finishing the Yaocao, Wen Shu started to go to Gangcao and Zhuyucao again. Because of the previous experience, this time the reproduction will be much smoother and easier.

Grass grass and Yao grass don't look the same, one looks like Zhu and the other looks like sunflower, but their fruits look very similar, they are all like wild grapes. The difference is that the fruit of grass grass is slightly larger.

We didn't get much grass, only about [-] catties in total, Wen Shu still only took half of it to make ointment, and after doing it in the same way, he only got more than two catties, which was only half a pot in clay pots.

As for Zhu Yu's herbs, there were not many left, so Wen Shu simply took them all out to make, but in the end they only got a shallow bottom, not even a catty.

Time passed quickly in the process of boiling the ointment, and when the three herbs were all boiled into ointment, one day passed.

In order to know how powerful the newly made Zhu Yu Ointment is, Wen Shu tried it out and tasted a spoonful.

Zhu Yucao itself tastes like sweet, when it is boiled into paste, the light sweetness condenses together and turns into a rich sweetness, but this sweetness is not like honey, it is not greasy at all, it only feels sweet after eating, So much so that Wen Shu couldn't help but tasted another spoonful.

As night approached, the bright moon was hanging high, and the faint moonlight illuminated the Yinhua in the courtyard. Because of eating Zhuyu Herb Ointment, Wen Shu didn't feel hungry for a while.

Seeing her father close the shop door and come to the backyard, Wen Shu thought for a while, then dug out another spoonful of Zhuyu Herbal Ointment, and fed it to her father when he came.

"What did you feed me?" Papa Wen asked.

"Zhu Yujiao, the stuff in there, the book says you can't get hungry, I've already eaten two spoonfuls, and Dad will try it too."

Father Wen smacked his lips twice, and then said: "It's a little less, let me have two more spoonfuls."

The ointment in his mouth tasted sweet and cool. He had just finished work and his body was very hot, so he wanted to eat something cold.

"That won't work, you may not want to eat for a day after this spoonful." Wen Shu smiled and pointed to the bowl on the table in the hall beside him, "I know you want to eat something cold, here, I'll make you thirsty. Water, cools and improves eyesight, drink it in a bowl, and it will definitely disappear.”

Father Wen nodded, without asking any further questions, walked over to pick up the bowl, and drank it clean in two or three gulps.

Because both father and daughter had eaten Zhuyu ointment, Wen Shu didn't cook. When her father went to play chess with Uncle Sun, she retreated into the room and took out the iron box, and carried Hongying into the world of mountains and seas.

She has always remembered the matter of Third Aunt Chu's begging for a child, and now that her injury has healed, she wants to go in and try her luck, maybe it will be really lucky.

After half a month of recuperation, Hongying's injuries were basically healed, except for the missing feathers on his back that hadn't fully grown, but the injuries on his wings were healed, at least it didn't affect his flight.

It's just that Wen Shu had a good plan, but when he actually went in, he almost scolded his mother.

[Di, the landing place - Huoshan]

Following a flash of dazzling white light, a person and a bird appeared out of nowhere in the dense forest.

Before she could open her eyes in the future, Wen Shu felt something hard and sharp rubbing against the corner of her forehead, scratching her painfully.

She opened her eyes with a soft hiss, and found that a branch had been stuck on her face. She pushed the branch away angrily, and felt a stream of hot and humid liquid slide down her forehead.

He stretched out his hand again, and his fingers were stained with bright red blood.

"This is too bad luck! It's really a bad start." Wen Shu angrily patted the branch in front of him.

I thought I would have good luck, but now it seems that I didn't read the almanac when I went out, and the old wound was healed, and a new wound was added. What evil did she do!

What made her even more depressed was that she hadn't landed on Chongwu Mountain, and if she wasn't in Chongwu Mountain, she wouldn't be able to find the fertile fruit.

It didn't fall on Fuyang Mountain and Qingyao Mountain, but Huo Mountain.

Looking around again, it is a forest, and she is in the middle of two mulberry trees at this time. The two trees next to her are extremely lush, with branches of all sizes stretching from top to bottom, almost merging into one. One, so she was also wrapped up.

Wen Shu carefully removed the branches surrounding her body, and when she finally broke free from the dense branches, Hong Ying let out a long howl, broke free from her grasp, and soared into the sky.

Birds naturally yearn for high altitudes, but she restrained them, Wen Shu smiled and shook his head, letting them go.

She took out the medicine bottle and handkerchief from the storage basket, and then faced herself displayed in the storage basket, and briefly treated the injury on her forehead.

After all this was done, she had time to look around and recall what was on Huoshan.

After a while, her eyes lit up, 朏朏!

According to the Shan Hai Jing, there is a beast in Huoshan, whose name is 朏朏 (sounds the same as Feifei), which looks like a raccoon, with a white tail and long hair on the neck.

What a magical beast that can make people forget their sorrows!

The most important thing is not to eat its meat, but to raise it. Thinking of this, Wen Shu immediately looked around, planning to catch one and bring it back to her father.

It's midsummer, and in the woods, the sweet fragrance is overflowing, and orange-red round fruits hang on the branches, exuding a sweet smell.

The mulberry fruit, also known as Zhushizi, is a traditional Chinese medicine. When Father Wen suffered from back problems, Wen Shu took the medicine for him, so he knows.

However, at this moment, facing the fruit in the forest, she has no intention of picking it, because her mind is full of that fruit now.

The beast that can make people forget their worries, I really want to see it.

　Reading tips:

　　The "thirsty water", "cold water" and "cooked water" that appear in the article are actually Song Dynasty drinks.

　　Thirsty water: Similar to the current concentrated juice, the method is to boil the fruit into a thick paste, and then brew it with water when it is needed.

　　In the Song Dynasty, the more popular thirsty waters were Lingo thirsty water, bayberry thirsty water, papaya thirsty water, and grape thirsty water.

　　Cooked water: Similar to herbal tea, it is a beverage steeped with spices such as perilla, cardamom, clove, and osmanthus.

　　Cold water: It is a cold drink, similar to the current iced drinks and shaved ice. The method is to add ice cubes and fresh fruits to various drinks.

　　In addition, there are "syrup" and various "soups"

　　Syrup: Lactic acid drink in Song Dynasty.Method: Cook the rice, pour it into a jar, soak it in clean cold water for five or six days, let it ferment, and pour out the soup to drink after it becomes slightly sour.

　　You can also add honey, flowers and fruits to the syrup according to your taste, so that it tastes sweet and sour, with a fragrance of flowers and fruits.

　　Soup: Similar to instant coffee.It is dried and ground with flowers and fruits such as jasmine, osmanthus, plum, lychee, orange, ebony, lotus seeds, sealed and stored.

　　When entertaining guests, take some out and make it into a drink. This is called "ordering soup."

　　People in the Song Dynasty with better economic conditions would have a little soup at home to entertain guests.Because according to the customs of the Song Dynasty. , When guests come to the house, first order tea to respect the guests, and when the guests are about to leave, order soup to send them off.

　　
　
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