Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 170 Lick it

"I'll give you a live practice."

Yang Xian looked at Lu Mingyi who was full of doubts, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and smiled.

He asked people to prepare two basins, one big and one small. The big basin didn't matter, any material could be used.

As for the small basin, Yang Xian asked for the iron basin.

Boom!
Yang Xian stretched out two fingers and tapped the basin, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter what material the big basin is made of. It is best to use this kind of iron basin for small basins. Iron basins conduct heat quickly. If you can be more particular, use a copper basin. Of course, the best It is best to just use a small basin made of silver. In addition to conducting heat faster, the silver basin also plays an important role in disinfection. But the only disadvantage is that it is expensive. Of course, being expensive is not its disadvantage. "

Yang Xian said as he started the ice making performance.

Soon the two basins were filled with clean water, and Yang Xian then added a large amount of Glauber's salt into the big basin.

Then under Lu Mingyi's extremely shocked eyes, the water in the big basin began to freeze quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye!
It seemed like a miracle to him.

"This" Lu Mingyi was so shocked by the sight in front of him that he was speechless.

In fact, the principle is very simple. When Glauber's salt dissolves in water, it will absorb a lot of heat, causing the water in the large basin to freeze, and then the water in the small basin to freeze.

In this way, the clean ice cubes in the small basin are ready for use.

After completion, the Glauber's salt can also be evaporated and crystallized for reuse.

Yang Xian smiled and said, "How about it? This is my method of making ice."

As a result, Yangzhou Ice Factory was officially established.

This can solve the problem of insufficient ice in southern winter.

Unlike in the north, it starts to snow as soon as winter comes.

After all, winter temperatures in the south are higher and rivers freeze for a shorter period, so the amount of ice is limited.

If we rely solely on transportation, the losses will be too great.

Moreover, originally relying solely on ice harvesting technology, people could only make fuss about the outside of the ice cubes when eating ice.

After mastering the ice-making technology, Yang Xian was able to start producing a variety of popsicles.

The weather is hot in summer, and it’s really hard to sell pastries.

As for Mingji Shushu, there has been no new work since Yang Xian wrote the unfinished "Dream of Red Mansions".Although we have begun to recruit novelists among the people, for a while, we have not found any outstanding works.

Not to mention clothing stores, who buys woolen sweaters to wear in summer?

Wang Yuemin, who was in the capital, was always restless, and he was almost sick all summer long.

I kept asking Yang Xian if he had any new ideas.

Therefore, after Yang Xian built the ice-making factory, without saying a word, he directly opened a second factory to specialize in the production of various juices, creams, and sweet water popsicles.

After the development was successful, Yang Xian wrote directly and had someone send it to Wang Yuemin in the capital.

The next day, Wang Yuemin came over on the rail train. It was obvious that she was really scared. As soon as she got the news from Yang Xian, she rushed over without stopping.

"Master, what is the newly developed dessert you mentioned in the letter?" Wang Yuemin walked into the government office, saw Yang Xian, and asked directly.

"Guess it."

Yang Xian clapped his hands, and soon a guard came up carrying a wooden box.

The guard put down the wooden box and left.

"I really can't guess what kind of dessert can sell well in summer." Wang Yuemin stared at the wooden box for a while, shook his head, and said.The hot weather causes people to lose their appetite, so pastries are the most difficult to sell during this season.

Yang Xian didn't show off, he opened the wooden box directly, took out a cream popsicle from the ice bucket wrapped in a thick quilt, and handed it to Wang Yuemin.

Wang Yuemin reached out to take it, with a puzzled look on his face: "Is the newly developed dessert you are talking about eating ice?"

When summer comes, the favorite thing of the princes and nobles is to eat ice.The same is naturally true for Wang Yuemin. Mongolians like them also like to eat milk ice.

It is said that Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, loved to drink milk, but milk was not easy to preserve in summer.So Kublai Khan thought of a way to add ice cubes to the milk, so that the milk could be stored for a longer period of time.

Kublai Khan soon discovered that this kind of milk ice tasted very good. The condensed ice was like sand, much softer than ice cubes, and melted in the mouth. So he added candied fruit and jam, which became the earliest ice cream. prototype.

This incident is also mentioned in Marco Polo's book "The East".

"You will know the difference after you eat it." Yang Xian said with a smile.

Because the weather was really too hot, while he was talking, the cream popsicle in Wang Yuemin's hand melted under the high temperature, flowed down, and fell onto his hand, giving it a sticky feel.

Wang Yuemin subconsciously licked it.

Suddenly, he felt something was wrong, and his face immediately turned red.

"Then I'll start eating." Wang Yuemin said.

As soon as she finished speaking, she opened her mouth and took a hard bite.

The expected hardness of the ice cubes did not appear, and the popsicle in my hand turned out to be exceptionally soft.

After taking one bite, Wang Yuemin's eyes immediately widened.

She has never eaten such delicious popsicles since she was a child.

It has a pure milky taste, is sweet and ice-cold, and once you take a bite, you won't be thirsty or hot at the same time.

The most important thing is the rustling texture, she really loves it.

Wang Yuemin took a few bites, and in the blink of an eye, all the cream popsicles in her hand were wiped out.

"It's so delicious." Wang Yuemin exclaimed sincerely.

Yang Xian smiled and said, "Do you know what's different now?"

"Master, I have to eat another one to be sure." Wang Yuemin said.

From the moment he finished eating the popsicle in his hand, Wang Yuemin's eyes never left the ice bucket in front of Yang Xian.

Sure enough, they say that women are not resistant to sweets and ice cubes.

The popsicle is the perfect combination of the two, so it is reasonable for Wang Yuemin to have such a reaction.

Yang Xian was also quite helpless. He had always been a capable and elite image on weekdays, but when it came to food, his appearance completely changed.

He could only open the ice bucket again, took out another cream popsicle, and handed it over.

Wang Yuemin took it with a smile and destroyed it again within a few mouthfuls.

"Okay, can we talk now?" Yang Xian stretched out his hand to take back the wooden stick in Wang Yuemin's hand and said with a smile.

"Cough cough."

Wang Yuemin said: "First of all, from the taste point of view, the popsicle tastes pure and milky. It makes me feel like I am not eating ice, but directly eating milk."

You must know that in the past, the so-called milk ice that Wang Yuemin ate consisted of pouring milk on top of the ice.

When the ice melts into water, it dilutes the milk.

The further you eat, the weaker the taste of milk becomes.

Naturally, the milk flavor cannot be as pure as the cream popsicle developed by Yang Xian, because the cream popsicle developed by Yang Xian is itself milk.

"Then there's the taste. How does the owner soften the ice?"

This is something that Wang Yuemin can't understand.

(End of this chapter)