Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 30 Do You Know Indian Asan?
On the second floor of the stone building, Mrs. Cao was still sitting at the table she often 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, Mrs. Cao San put a stack of snacks in front of him.

"Mr. Erlang, let's see what this is? You must have never eaten it!"

Hearing what Mrs. Cao said so firmly, Zhang Zhao picked up the chopsticks and looked carefully, eh!The beige is round in shape, and the surface is carefully carved with flowers, as if steamed with glutinous rice, some candied dates, and red beans.

Zhang Zhao quickly picked up a piece and put it in his mouth. It was sweet, soft and elastic, and it was delicious. Isn’t this the famous Xi’an snack Zeng Cake in later generations?

Well.!Who is so talented, and put some goji berries in it.

"Glutinous rice from Wuxi County, the eastern province of Jiangnan, candied dates made from sweet dates from Guanzhong, served with red beans and icing sugar, are extremely delicious.

But the wolfberry from Lingzhou should not be added, some people are not used to it, not bad!It is not easy for San Niangzi to make the famous Chang'an crystal dragon and phoenix cake so delicious in Shazhou! "

Are you kidding, Zhang Zhao smiled complacently in his heart, you tell a later generation that he has never eaten glutinous rice, isn't that nonsense?You can't imagine the desserts that Lao Tzu has eaten in later generations.

Zhang Zhao smacked his mouth, and those Western-style pastries such as tiramisu and macaron that were so sweet in later generations were so delicious aftertaste.

Only now did he know that being able to add so much sugar to a serving of snacks was simply an unimaginable luxury in this era.

Even if it is a simple bowl of rice in later generations, the heavy oil and salt in it, in this era, the average official's family can't reach this level.

I miss it so much!If possible, he is still willing to be an ordinary person in later generations. Even if it is not easy to buy a house, at least he will have no worries about food and clothing and security.

The third lady Cao stared wide-eyed at Zhang Zhao in front of her. She was very sure that the only son of Zhang Chengfeng, the emperor in white, and the only descendant of Zhang Family Long Tong Tang in Nanyang must have many stories about him that she didn't know.

Mr. Zhang Erlang is definitely not like everyone thinks, he is a waste who only knows how to eat fast and chant Buddha. This emperor in white must have left a lot of things for his descendants.

Because other things can be faked, but the experience and the nostalgic look in Zhang Zhao's eyes cannot be faked.

In Zhang Zhao's view, this steamer cake (crystal dragon and phoenix cake) is not ordinary. Even in the Tang Dynasty, glutinous rice can be regarded as a light luxury to eat anywhere.

At this time, the rice planting area was actually not wide, because the yield of rice per mu was much lower than that of corn, and the taste was not better than that of corn, unless it was Xiangshui rice from Bohai State and glutinous rice from Wuxi, the host country in Shannan, so this led to Henan In Guanzhong and other places in Hebei, good glutinous rice is definitely not cheap.

Of course, sugar is even more precious. In the past, sucrose was used to squeeze juice instead of boiling sugar. Malt was used to boil sugar. The sugar production can be imagined. It was not until the Northern and Southern Dynasties that Chinese people learned to use sugarcane to make sugar. sugar.

As for the popularization of specific technologies, sucrose did not become popular until after Wang Xuance destroyed a country by himself and captured Indian sugar craftsmen to Chang'an, which was less than three hundred years in total.

Chang’an is like this, not to mention Shazhou. Shazhou is located in the northwest, and its connection with the Central Plains is blocked by Uighurs and Gamo people. Glutinous rice, what is sucrose.

As for the crystal dragon and phoenix cake.

Ha ha!

Mrs. Cao San can only make some during the holidays, even if her son Murong Nobunaga, as the eldest grandson of the governor of Guazhou, can eat three of them once he sees them, and he will never let go until his belly is full.

But Zhang Zhao in front of him actually stopped eating after only one bite, and there was a look of nostalgia in his eyes. Obviously he didn't think it was so precious, nor did he think it was so delicious.

"Mr. Erlang, don't you want to eat it? This cake is delicious!" Zhang Zhao was recalling, the little girl Shan Niang pursed her lips and poured Zhang Zhao a large bowl of wine, but her eyes kept staring at the bowl of rice cake Did not move.

Zhang Zhao smiled, then shook his head, it has been seven or eight days, why do you still think about those who have nothing?Let it be at ease, he picked up the bowl of steamed cake that aroused his infinite memories, and handed it to Shanniang.

"Don't eat it! Mr. Erlang has eaten something a hundred times better than this before. Give this bowl of steamed cakes to our little Shanniang!"

Shan Niang was flattered immediately, she turned her head to look at Mrs. Cao San with a bit of hope and a bit of apprehension.

The third lady Cao curled the hair hanging from her ears, and nodded affectionately. This kind lady was originally her personal servant girl, and after so many days of suffering together, she seemed to be a master and a servant. The sisters are almost there.

"Since it was rewarded by Mr. Erlang, then sit down and eat it, look at your gluttony!"

Seeing that Mrs. Cao San agreed, Shanniang sat down happily and ate the rice cakes.

"Erlang-jun, do you think there is any cake in this world that is sweeter and more delicious than Zeng cake? What would that look like?"

Sure enough, he was a foodie, eating steamed cakes in his mouth, and thinking about what Zhang Zhao said he had eaten many desserts that were better than steamed cakes.

Zhang Zhaoang raised his head and thought about it, "Mr. Erlang! I used to like to drink a kind of juice called cola. Although it looks dark, it is very refreshing after being iced. When you take a sip in the dog days, there are carbonated bubbles in the sweetness. , From head to toe, there is a feeling of coolness in the heart, not to mention how comfortable it is.

Girls mostly like something called chocolate. I didn't like to eat it before, because I thought it was too sweet, and it was too sweet.

But now that I think about it, that thing is silky, fragrant and soft, with a little bit of bitterness in the sweetness, and a little bit of crispy and crispy feeling brought by peanuts in the soft taste, which is really good. "

Now not only Shanniang's envious eyes lit up, but even the steamed cake in front of her was no longer fragrant, and Mrs. Cao San was also stunned.

Because she was very sure that what Zhang Zhao said, whether it was a mouthful like chocolate, or cola and peanuts, Mrs. Cao San was sure she had never heard of it.

And it's so sweet that there's a bit of a voice, Mrs. Cao San really can't figure out what kind of person would think things are too sweet!
So how much icing did he put?A catty of icing sugar is one hundred and fifty Wen, which can buy more than a dozen buckets of rice.

Moreover, Mrs. Cao San thought about the brown icing, even if it was a tael of glutinous rice and a tael of icing sugar, it would not be so sweet!
"Really? Then Erlang Jun's house should have a lot of icing sugar, so much that you don't even want to eat it!"

Shanniang squinted her eyes and fell into fantasy, but her complexion became a little nervous and pale in an instant. Of course Erlang Jun's family used to have a lot of icing, because his father was the former emperor in white in Jinshan Kingdom.

Zhang Zhao waved his hand, signaling to Shanniang not to be nervous, he doesn't mind others mentioning his past, and the Coke and chocolates he mentioned are not originally from Jinshan Kingdom!That is from hereafter.

"Icing frosting looks precious here, but it's actually not too rare here. This time Mr. Erlang went to Khotan Jin Kingdom, so he must come here to get some more icing sugar for Shanniang. Isn't that right? Oh, that brown icing, but sugar as white as snow and crystals like ice!"

Zhang Zhao dipped his fingers in a little wine and began to draw on the table. Mrs. Cao came over and looked suspiciously. This place was at the bottom right of Khotan Jin Kingdom. It seemed to be...
Mrs. Cao San felt a little familiar, but suddenly wondered where it was!

"This is Tianzhu, the birthplace of Sakyamuni Buddha. However, there are not only Buddhas here, but also good things such as sugar cane, fragrant leaves, sumac, pepper, and nutmeg. If the country is rich but the people are weak, if there are three thousand warriors , enough to achieve hegemony, I will take it for my uncle, the Son of Heaven!"

(End of this chapter)