In the Wu Dynasty, the common people could not afford to eat meat. During the holidays, they had no choice but to occasionally buy some pigs to cater for the occasion.
Of course, the people mentioned here are not extremely poor households. The real poor people cannot even eat chaff, let alone pigs in water.
When Dad Shitou was still alive, his family was not as poor as it is now, and they could occasionally eat meat during holidays.
Therefore, Shi Shi has eaten pig sesame and knows what it tastes like.
However, when he tasted Yun Chao's boiled sesame, he immediately felt that the sesame he had eaten before was no longer fragrant.
How could there be such delicious food in the world? Could it be that all the pig waste I ate before was bad?
It's not that the one bought from Yunchao is good for drinking water, it's mainly because of the added spices.
There is no one in Wolong Village, including Muramasa Yori Chih-cheng, there is probably not even one person who has tasted spices, or even has no concept of adding spices when cooking.
Not only Shitou, but also his sister Xiaoguo, his mother-in-law Wang, Lin Youniang, and even Yun Chao were all so carried away that they didn't even notice anyone poking their heads at the door.
The smell of braised pork is so tempting that almost all the neighbors are attracted.
"Chao...chao brother, what kind of good food are you eating? Why does it taste so good?"
Yun Chao was startled, and when he turned around to look, he found that there were a bunch of people blocking the door.
The woman who spoke was one of the three families who rescued Yun Chao. Her husband's surname was Jia. According to the custom of Wolong Village, people of younger generations usually called her Aunt Jia.
"Oh, it's pig water. Aunt Jia, do you want to have a taste?"
"No... no need, no need..."
She said no need, but Aunt Jia swallowed hard, making Yun Chao almost laugh.
"Come on, Aunt Jia, you're welcome, try my handiwork."
With that said, Yun Chao served Aunt Jia a bowl of braised pork.
Yun Chao calls what he makes braised.
Cut the kang-made noodles and braised offal into small pieces, put them in a bowl, and pour a ladle of boiling broth over them. What is it if it's not braised in later generations?
The soup is delicious.
The meat is rotten.
Delicious.
Have a bowl like this in the winter...
I go!
I wouldn’t give it to a god in exchange for it!
Unfortunately, there is a lack of ingredients such as tofu, garlic paste, chili oil, fermented bean curd, and chive flowers, which is really a pity.
Aunt Jia wanted to refuse. Although her shopkeeper saved Yun Chao once, she had already eaten her meal and now he came here to eat again. It was really a loss.
However, when the words of rejection came to my lips, I couldn't say them out no matter what. I had no choice, the food in the bowl was too fragrant!
Aunt Jia almost didn't stop eating.
In the end, it took a lot of perseverance to avoid eating all the delicious food in the bowl. There was still a family, so everyone had to share a little bit.
Soon, every bit of the bowl of stewed stew was shared by the Jia family!
The other two families who fished Yun Chao out of the ice hole were also there. Since Yun Chao gave Aunt Jia a bowl, he didn't favor one and gave him a big bowl.
Watching the three families enjoying the delicious food, the others could only envy and envy them because they didn't save Yun Er when he fell into the ice hole.
In fact, it's not that everyone doesn't want to save, it's that many people aren't even there.
No matter what the reason is, who has the nerve to eat other people's food without merit or reward?
"Come on, come on, let's all try a little. There's not much, so I can only taste it a little bit. Don't be offended!"
To everyone's surprise, Yun Er was surprisingly generous today and let everyone taste a little.
Although the quantity was small and I just tasted it, no one said that Yun Chao's was not good.
These days, those who can share food are good people, not to mention it is such a delicious thing.
No matter how much, be grateful.
It’s not that Yun Chaoqiong is showing off, it’s mainly to keep everyone mentally balanced. He has made such a big fortune and bought so many things. If he just enjoys himself behind closed doors without caring about other people’s feelings, maybe he will What trouble.
Besides, this is also a good opportunity to improve the previous bad image. Unless Yun Chao is willing to be a coward and live his own life behind closed doors, it will be difficult to get along without connections in the backward Dawu Dynasty.
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Early the next morning.
At dawn, Lai Zhicheng arrived with his two sons.
Yun Chao was too lazy to chat with them. He didn't even eat, so he took them to Wolong Valley and taught the three guys how to spear fish in the ice cave.
The ideal situation is to let others do the work and earn the money.
Lai Zhicheng and his son have very strong learning ability and learned it quickly.
Yun Chao wasted no time and left with a few fish he had speared during the demonstration.
Lai and his son were so angry that they blew their beards, but there was nothing they could do about Yun Chao.
Yun Chao had made it clear to them long ago that he could still use the fishing method himself, as long as it was not spread to others.
When he got home, Yun Chao didn't lie down to take a nap. He just ate some of yesterday's leftover stew and started to get busy.
Yesterday I bought a large bag of trona at the drug store, and Yun Chao will now process it into edible alkali.
In fact, if there is no trona, edible alkali can also be extracted from plant ash, but the cost is too high.
The most convenient way to process trona is caustic soda.
The alkali stone is crushed to make lye, and then a certain proportion of hydrated lime is added. After several simple processes, it finally becomes caustic soda, also called caustic soda, which is actually sodium hydroxide.
However, what Yunchao needs is not this highly corrosive caustic alkali, but edible alkali for making fermented pasta.
Yun Chao first made trona into a solution, then heated it, then cooled it, and through a series of procedures such as filtration, washing and drying, finally obtained relatively pure soda ash.
Soda ash is sodium carbonate, which can be used to synthesize various acidic substances produced during fermentation, so it is also called edible alkali.
If you want baking soda, just add carbon dioxide to the soda ash solution.
If Yun Chao wants to steam the steamed buns, he only needs to use alkali. He can add baking soda or not.
These are all junior high school chemistry knowledge. Yun Chao, a doctoral candidate at the Agricultural University, occasionally uses them, so he did not forget them. After a few experiments, he succeeded.
Agricultural University is not just about optical farming, it also has majors in chemical engineering, food, and even agricultural machinery.
Lin Youniang was a little confused. She didn't know what her stinky second brother was doing. She spent the whole morning frowning and scratching her head, and finally laughed suddenly, which was very scary.
"Young lady, hurry up, hurry up, go make some dough, I want to eat big white steamed buns today, your big... your steamed big white steamed buns!"
Humph, the bad second brother is going to waste the family again!
When people in ancient times ate white noodles, they probably felt similar to how people in later generations ate raw seafood. Poor people couldn't eat it more than once a year.
It's not the right time for the holidays, and Yun Chao actually wants to eat white flour steamed buns. If he doesn't waste his family, who will waste his family?
Yun Chao didn't explain too much. He planned to lay a little ambush and secretly add alkali to the cooked noodles to see how Lin Youniang would react after eating the steamed buns.
