On the second floor of the stone building, Mrs. Cao Sanniang was still sitting at the table she usually used, waiting for Zhang Zhao. There were two or three side dishes and a jug of wine on the table.
As soon as Zhang Zhao sat down, Cao Sanniang brought a stack of snacks in front of him.
"Erlangjun, let's see what this is? You must have never eaten it!"
Hearing Lady Cao Sanniang say so confidently, Zhang Zhao picked up his chopsticks and took a closer look. Yes! It's off-white and round, and the surface is carefully carved with flowers. It seems to be steamed with glutinous rice, some candied dates, and red beans.
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Zhang Zhao quickly picked up a piece and brought it to his mouth. It was sweet, soft and chewy, and very delicious. Isn't this the famous Xi'an snack steamer cake in later generations!
Hmm...! Who is so talented? He even put some wolfberry in it.
"Glutinous rice from Wuxi County, Jiangnan East Road, candied dates made from sweet dates from Guanzhong, paired with red beans and sugar frosting, are extremely delicious.
But I shouldn’t add the wolfberry from Lingzhou. I’m not used to it, but that’s right! It’s not easy for Sanniang to make Chang’an’s famous crystal dragon and phoenix cake so delicious in Shazhou!”
Are you kidding? Zhang Zhao smiled proudly in his heart. Isn’t it nonsense for you to tell a later generation that he has never eaten glutinous rice? You can’t even imagine the desserts I have eaten in later generations.
Zhang Zhao smacked his lips and realized that the overly sweet tiramisu, macarons and other Western-style pastries from later generations were so delicious when he recalled them now.
Only now did he realize that being able to add so much sugar to a snack was an unimaginable luxury in this era.
Even if it is a simple bowl of rice bowl in later generations, the heavy oil and salt in it would not be able to reach this level in ordinary official families in this era.
I miss him so much! If possible, he would still like to be an ordinary person in the future. Even if it is not easy to buy a house, at least he will have enough food and clothing, and safety and security.
Madam Cao Sanni stared at Zhang Zhao in front of her with wide eyes. She was now very sure that the white-clothed emperor in front of her, Zhang Chengfeng's only son and the only direct descendant of the Nanyang Zhang family's Dragon Tongue Hall, must have many, many stories about him that she didn't know. Mr. Zhang Erlang is by no means a loser who only knows how to eat fast and chant Buddha's name as everyone thinks. The emperor in white must have left a lot to his descendants.
Because other things can be faked, but experience and the nostalgic look in Zhang Zhao’s eyes cannot be faked.
This zeng cake (crystal dragon and phoenix cake), which Zhang Zhao thought was extremely ordinary, was actually anything but ordinary. Even in the Tang Dynasty, glutinous rice was considered a luxury food everywhere.
At this time, the scope of rice cultivation was actually not wide, because the yield per mu of rice was much lower than that of corn, and its taste was not better than that of corn, unless it was Xiangshui rice from Bohai Country and glutinous rice from Wuxi, east of Shannan Province, so this led to Henan.
In Guanzhong, Hebei, good glutinous rice is definitely not cheap.
Of course, sugar is even more precious. In the past, sucrose was used to extract juice instead of boiling sugar. Malt was used to boil sugar. The amount of sugar produced can be imagined. It was not until the Northern and Southern Dynasties that the Chinese learned to make sugar cane.
Sugar.
As for the popularization of specific technology, it would have to wait until Wang Xuance destroyed an entire country by himself and captured the Indian sugar craftsmen in Chang'an, and then sucrose began to become popular. In total, it was less than three hundred years.
Chang'an is like this, let alone Shazhou. Shazhou is located in the northwest, and its connection with the Central Plains is blocked by the Uighurs and the Mo people. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a remote place. Most of the people here have never known what it is.
Glutinous rice, what is sucrose.
As for the crystal dragon and phoenix cake.
Haha!
Mrs. Cao Sanni could only cook some during the holidays, even though her son Murong Nobunaga, the eldest grandson of the governor of Guazhou, could eat three of them once he saw them, and he would not let go until his belly was round.<
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But the Zhang Zhao in front of him actually took one bite and stopped eating, with a look of nostalgia in his eyes. Apparently he didn't think it was so precious or delicious.
"Erlangjun, don't you want to eat it? This cake is delicious!" Zhang Zhao was recalling. The little girl Shanniang pursed her lips and came up to pour a large bowl of wine for Zhang Zhao, but she kept staring at the bowl of steamer cake.
Not moved.
Zhang Zhao smiled, and then shook his head. It had already been seven or eight days, so why did he still think about the things that he had and didn't have? Let's make peace with it now. He picked up the bowl of steamed cakes that evoked endless memories in him, and handed it to him.
Gave it to Shan Niang.
"I won't eat it! Mr. Erlang has eaten something a hundred times more delicious than this before. Give this bowl of steamer cake to our little good lady!"
Shan Niang suddenly looked flattered, and she turned to look at Mrs. Cao Sanniang with a bit of hope and a bit of anxiety.
Mrs. Cao Sanniang curled her hair hanging down by her ears and nodded with a bit of affection. This good lady was originally her personal maid, and they had gone through so many days of suffering together. She looked like a master and a servant, but she was actually with her.
Almost sisters.
"Since I was rewarded by Mr. Erlang, then sit down and have a good meal, look at how greedy you are!"
Seeing that Mrs. Cao Sanniang agreed, Shan Niang sat down happily and started to feast on the steamer cake.
"Erlangjun, do you think there is a cake in the world that is sweeter and more delicious than Zeng cake? What does that look like?"
As expected, he is a foodie. As he ate the steamed cake, he was still thinking about what Zhang Zhao said that he had eaten many desserts that were more delicious than the steamed cake.
Zhang Zhaoang raised his head and thought about it, "I am Erlangjun! I used to like to drink a kind of fruit juice called Coke. Although it looks dark, it is very refreshing after being chilled. If you take a sip, the sweetness will be filled with carbonated bubbles.
, a chilling feeling from head to toe, not to mention how comfortable it is.
Girls mostly like something called chocolate. I didn’t like eating it before because I thought it was too sweet, and it was a bit sweet.
But now that I think about it, it is silky, fragrant and soft, with a strong sweetness and a little bit of bitterness, and a soft texture with a bit of crispiness and crispness brought by peanuts. It is really good."
Not only did Shan Niang's eyes shine with envy, but the steamed cake in front of her no longer smelled good. Lady Cao Sanniang was also stunned.
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Because she was very sure that Cao Sanniang was sure that she had never heard of the things Zhang Zhao was talking about, whether it was something a bit awkward like chocolate, or Coca-Cola and peanuts.
And it’s so sweet that it’s so sweet that Mrs. Cao Sanniang really can’t think of what kind of person would find something too sweet!
How much icing sugar did he put in? A pound of icing sugar costs one hundred and fifty cents, which can buy more than a dozen buckets of rice.
Moreover, Madam Cao Sanni thought back to the brown icing sugar. Even if it was one ounce of glutinous rice and one ounce of icing sugar, it would not be as sweet as it was!
"Really? There should be a lot of icing sugar at Erlangjun's house, so much that you wouldn't even want to eat it!"
Shan Niang narrowed her eyes and fell into fantasy, but her face suddenly became a little nervous and turned pale. Of course Erlangjun's family used to have a lot of sugar frosting, because his father was the white emperor of the former Jinshan Kingdom.
Zhang Zhao waved his hand and signaled Shan Niang not to be nervous. He didn't mind others mentioning his past, and the cola, chocolate, etc. he was talking about were not from the original Jinshan Kingdom! They were from later generations.
"Icing sugar looks precious here, but it's actually not that rare here. This time Erlangjun went to the Khotan Kingdom, he must go here to get more icing sugar for Shan Niang. This is not
That kind of brown sugar, but sugar as white as snow and crystals like ice!"
Zhang Zhao dipped his fingers into a little wine and started drawing on the table. Cao Sanniang came over and took a puzzled look. This place was on the lower right side of the Kingdom of Khotan. It seemed... It seemed like...
Mrs. Cao Sanni felt a little familiar, but suddenly she couldn’t figure out where it was!
"This is India, the birthplace of Sakyamuni Buddha. But here is not only the Buddha, but also sugar cane, fragrant leaves, hematoxylin, pepper, nutmeg and other good things. The country is rich but the people are weak. If we get three thousand warriors
, enough to achieve hegemony, I will definitely take it for the emperor’s uncle!”