The Master of the Kingdom

Su Yi suddenly started making nougat scallion biscuits because Mu Yan's family collected a lot of eggs.

When Mu Yan was working as a free laborer for Su Yi and arranging banquet dishes, Su Yi was crying poor. Mu Yan said that he could provide a lot of things, and then he talked about eggs.

Now that the weather is hot and there is no refrigerator, the eggs will soon be spoiled. Mu Yan naturally had the freshest eggs to eat every day, and the rest would either be sold or rewarded.

In this way, a lot of it was wasted. After all, Mu Yan's family is rich and rich, but the population is small. During this period of time, chickens lay a lot of eggs, and no one can finish it.

Of course, Mu Yan's statement must be exaggerated. Eggs can be regarded as a rare thing anyway, and chickens now lay not as diligent as later generations-there is no feed, no nutrition can keep up. Mu Yan just wanted Su Yi to use his own things in peace.

But after Su Yi came up with a tofu banquet, Mu Yan's ingredients didn't need much. Su Yi, a stupid boy, really thought that Mu Yan's eggs would be wasted, and he took the initiative to come up with a lot of food that needed eggs to help Mu Yan solve this problem.

Of course Su Yi thought of dessert.

Although later generations say that Chinese desserts are also very delicious, looking at the blooming pastry shops and the female compatriots who are desperately losing weight because of all kinds of pastries, you know that at least in terms of desserts, the West does surpass China.

It is not difficult to understand, the difference is mainly due to the influence of diet composition.

The elders that Su Yi accompanies are rich and leisurely, and many of them are proficient in cooking. In order to please them, Su Yi also learns a lot along with him.

Desserts, which are more stylish and easy to give away, are the first choice for elders who want to show their cooking. Su Yi naturally learns a lot.

Su Yi wanted to make desserts before, but milk was rare. He basically needed milk for his favorite desserts, and there were a lot of things to do afterwards. Su Yi had run out of time to improve the dinner menu, and the desserts were temporarily forgotten.

Now Su Yi remembered again, can Mu Yan still provide goat milk, when will he not make desserts now? Originally, Suyi wanted to make cakes, but the shelf life of the cakes was not long, and an oven was needed to make large quantities, so he chose biscuits first.

The shelf life of biscuits is longer, and simple tools can be used instead of ovens. For Su Yi’s dessert, it’s better to use biscuits.

Eggs are not necessary for biscuits, but the kind of biscuits that Su Yi likes to eat requires eggs.

Su Yi's favorite biscuits are nougat sandwich biscuits. Nougat is made with protein and sugar as the main raw materials.

At this time there was already "Shimi". Shimi is what is called brown sugar in modern times. Although it is not as good as the color and sweetness of later generations of sugar, it is enough to make biscuits.

However, Shi Mi is considered a valuable item now, and Mu Yan took out so many Shi Mi to spend his friendship with each other in one go. It can be described as a deep friendship. Su Yi...Su Yi still doesn't know that brown sugar cubes are expensive. Later, when he knew, he thought about spreading the soup method.

At present, he used Mu Yan’s stock of Shimi to make delicious scallion oil nougat biscuits, which made Mu Yan addicted to eating. Every day he hid the biscuits in his purse and took out a piece from time to time. .

Mu Yan's colleagues had long known that Mu Yan had new snacks, which seemed to be delicious. But this guy is very stingy, even if the emperor asks him, he won't give it.

So the emperor, if you don't give it to me, can't you ask my son if you want it?

Before the emperor asked for it, Su Yi himself gave the three giants in the palace a box of biscuits.

The eggs belonged to Mu Yan and Shi Mi belonged to Mu Yan. I even forgot to use my own flour and used Mu Yan's directly. After the finished product is finished, these biscuits all become Suyi's. It can only be said that intellectual property rights are powerful.

After learning how to make biscuits, the emperor knew that so many precious ingredients were consumed—eggs were not cheap, and stone honey was even more precious. The emperor who advocated simplicity and was setting an example declined Su Yi's idea of ​​giving him the method of making biscuits for free.

Lest he can't hold it at that time, and always want to let the palace do and eat. Now that he wants to eat, let Su Yi divide him a little.

Su Yi was a little sad. The aristocratic families are all extravagantly just throwing jewels in the river. As the king of a country, the emperor has to consider even eating a cookie. He just wants to reduce the palace expenses and increase the income of the internal treasury, so that when the treasury is not enough, the emperor The library can also be topped.

After he recognized his identity, he had a deeper sense of identity with the three family members in the palace. He gradually began to think about making good use of his system so that he could better help his family.

However, he did not regret that he chose agriculture because of counseling. The people regard food as their heaven. Science and technology will develop sooner or later. Now is the stage of accumulation of productivity. Letting more people fill their stomachs and avoid famine is the most important thing in the hearts of contemporary rulers.

Thinking about it this way, even my own counsel has become noble!

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After Su Yi finished the housewarming banquet, she went into retreat. Except for Mu Yan and the people in the palace who could come and go at any time, all the guests were turned away by him, and he didn't say anything about them.

Su Yi has always been a house and doesn't like socializing, and people in Beijing are used to it now. He is a Taoist priest again, "no relationship, no reason", barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, and now Su Yi has recovered his memory, and he is not afraid that the emperor will not support him, so his attitude is stronger. Those who were turned away were helpless.

In addition, the attitudes of several families in Beijing are very calm. They seemed to be very polite to Su Yi, and their children also acted for granted after being rejected, and did not complain about Su Yi.

So this makes other second-class families even if they have grievances in their hearts, they won't be this early bird.

What's more, they also have a sense of awe for Su Yi. Su Yi showed too many magical methods.

In fact, the attitudes of those few families are due to Mu Yan's dealing with them.

The Mu family is also considered a top family, and they will give Mu Yan's face. Mu Yan greeted those few aristocratic families in advance, saying that Master Su wanted to be quiet and didn't want to be disturbed, and hoped that they would make it easier. They all knew about this in advance, and naturally they wouldn't feel underestimated because Su Yi's "closed door to thank guests".

Moreover, even these aristocratic families, if Su Yi really didn't give them face, they would still be helpless.

Su Yi did not violate the law and discipline. As long as he was trusted by the emperor, no one else could do anything about him.

Then again, Su Yi had no grudges with them, and no conflicts of interest. Even if they are determined, they can still clean up their friendship, but who would do so much power to a Taoist priest?

Good iron is used on the blade, and their political enemies are not without feuds. They want to smash, and they must smash with these people.

In general, Su Yi is still an outsider, so the danger is not great.

Su Yi was very leisurely for some time.

At this time, he was tossing about essential oils. Essential oils are gifts for the queen. Now it is the season when the flowers are in full bloom. The petals are collected to make essential oils, and the raw materials are abundant.

Flowers are also one of the tributes. In addition to spices, the aromatherapy in the palace uses natural aromatherapy products. Such as fresh flowers, dried flowers and fruits.

Especially in the season when flowers and fruits are abundant, these two kinds of people who are in power in the palace will replace aromatherapy. Because this scent is more natural, it will give people a unique feeling in a palace full of fragrances.

But this can only be enjoyed by those who are particularly favored. After all, such things as fruits and flowers are not popular items, especially for smelling.

In the history of Suyi, probably only the queen dowager can always use fruit aromatherapy. If the powerful and extravagant queen dowager like Cixi, she would use scented fruits all year round.

The empress now has a very good relationship, and there are many good things in Mu Yan's house that she doesn't need, so Su Yi has no shortage of flowers and fruits to make essential oils.

The most pleasant surprise for Su Yi is that there are large frames of roses to spoil. Su Yi always thought that the rose planting should not last long, but he did not expect that roses are now grown on a large scale and provided to the nobles. The nobles said that after the rose was dried, it was used for soaking in water or incense.

When Su Yi was in contact with essential oils, he vaguely remembered someone saying that in ancient China, the rose was the flower of assassins and knights, and he thought that he would not make it to the Da Ya Hall.

Rose essential oil is particularly good for women's body, and it is one of the few essential oils that can be consumed directly and used on the skin without mixing. It was called "after essential oils" by posterity advertisements.

Doctors at this time have already studied some of the medicinal effects of rose, and the benefits for women are also documented. But now most roses are directly soaked in water, used for aromatherapy, or ground and used as a mask directly.

It was also at this time that Su Yi learned that the mask culture used to be so long ago.

Because the noble ladies in Beijing are looking for roses more, the Zhuangzi gardens of the nobles in Beijing do not all grow food. Naturally, there are small manors that specialize in planting flowers, and there are many roses.

The royal family has it, the Mu family also has it, and Suyi...Of course, Suyi doesn't have it. All his assets now are the Zhuangzi given by the emperor. In the eyes of the nobles in Beijing, he was regarded as the "extremely poor" class.

This "absolute poverty" is really exaggerated.

Rose essential oil is best to use roses that have been picked within a day as a raw material. There are roses in Beijing, so Su Yi can make rose essential oil.

Mu Yan originally wanted to say that the roses in Beijing were not good, and the best rose was the tribute rose from Jibei County. The nobles in Beijing mostly used the rose fragrance or tea made as a tribute in Jibei County. But Su Yi said that the roses that need to be picked within a day are used as raw materials, so I didn't mention this matter.

The essential oil extraction process is quite simple, but it is very laborious and costly in raw materials, so Su Yi originally wanted to make more varieties, but later gave up directly and only made rose essential oil, not much.

Su Yi asked the queen to take a drop of rose oil in the morning and evening, and then wipe her face with a drop of rose oil. If used in this way, it will probably be used up in one month at most.

Su Yi only makes essential oils and has never used them. God knows what effect one month can have. But the queen was very happy to receive it.

At least the fragrance is very comfortable.