Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 22 Snowflake Crisp

Wang Yuemin raised his head and glanced at Yang Xian. What caught his eye was a gentle smiling face, nodding slightly towards her.

Looking at that smiling face, Wang Yuemin subconsciously turned her gaze, picked up the unknown white food, and took a bite.

Wang Yuemin was very much looking forward to the taste of the food in his hands, mainly because the food looked so good.

This unknown food was cut into regular long strips. It was completely white and dotted with crushed peanuts, making it look particularly delicate.

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Wang Yuemin took a bite.

Sure enough, the taste did not disappoint her expectations.

The first thing that hits your mouth is a refreshing aroma, the aroma of egg white. When you take a bite, the texture is not as crispy as you first imagined, but chewy, but not sticky at all.

Of course, the most important thing was the sweet taste. The moment the sweet taste came out, Wang Yuemin's eyes narrowed involuntarily.

"good to eat--"

Wang Yuemin immediately took another bite.

This bite directly took a third of it.

After chewing it in her mouth, she found that in addition to peanuts, there were other dried fruits mixed in, which not only made up for the taste, but also highlighted the pleasant sweetness.

You won't feel tired at all when eating it.

This was nothing compared to the sweets she had eaten before.

Unknowingly, after finishing the unknown sweet in his hand, Wang Yuemin took another piece and put it into his mouth.

While chewing, a happy and intoxicated expression appeared on his face.

"It's just a novel food, is it so exaggerated?" Zhu Yan glanced at Wang Yuemin beside him and cursed in his heart.

Without thinking, he picked up a piece and put it into his mouth.

As he continued to chew, the disinterested expression on Zhu Yan's face slowly began to disappear, replaced by incomparable shock.

"It's actually sweets?!"

"This sweetness?!"

The moment the pure sweetness bursts on his taste buds, the feeling was so wonderful to Zhu Yan.

Sugar production technology can be traced back to the Warring States Period.

According to "Chu Ci" records, during the Warring States Period, sugarcane began to be planted in southern my country, which was called "Zhe" at that time. People obtained sugarcane pulp from it to obtain sweetness.

But in the strict sense, sugar was produced only in the Han Dynasty.

At that time, people in Guangdong and Guangxi began to try to roughly process the sugarcane pulp through relatively primitive methods such as exposure and decoction to produce sucrose with a higher concentration that was easy to store and eat.During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, sugarcane cultivation became increasingly popular, the planting area became wider, and technology improved. Sucrose could be made into crystals, but it was still very rough and contained many impurities.

After that, there were successive dynasties.

During the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, sugar production technology continued to develop.

The quality of sugar is getting higher and higher, with fewer impurities and lighter colors.

Now, we have been able to produce a relatively white sugar.

However, due to immature sugar production technology, the cost of sugar production is extremely high and the efficiency is also very low.

According to the process at this time, generally speaking, boiling is used.

A large amount of sucrose needs to be put into a pot and simmered for a long time. When it finally cools down, an extremely thin layer of icing sugar will condense. The sugar craftsman then uses a special bamboo strip to carefully scrape it off.

According to this process, hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of sucrose can be extracted into only a few taels of icing sugar.

And even with such hard-to-obtain icing sugar, its taste is still different from real white sugar.Therefore, even as a prince, Zhu Yan tasted this taste for the first time.

"How does it taste?" Yang Xian asked with a smile.

"It's delicious." Zhu Yan said directly without any hesitation. "May I ask Mr. Yang, what is this food called?"

"Snowflake Crisp."

Yang Xian had already thought of the name.

Of course, in fact, what Zhu Yan and Wang Yuemin ate just now was not the snowflake cake of later generations, but nougat.

It's just that Yang Xian thinks the word "nougat" doesn't sound good, so he plans to go directly to the high-end route this time.

It would be boring to use the same method again.

Yang Xian is not planning to sell white sugar directly this time, at least not at this time.

What he wants to sell are white sugar products and all kinds of sweets.

Yangzhou City is now in the stage of revival, and all walks of life have just recovered, so it is obviously not suitable for selling such luxury goods.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, only the capital city was the most suitable, because there were the most dignitaries, nobles and wealthy businessmen there.

If you want to cheat, just cheat the rich guy's money.

This was originally the basic strategy that Yang Xian had formulated from the beginning.

Since it is going to be sold to noble people, a tacky name like Nougat will naturally not be on the table.

On the contrary, the snowflake cake seems to have more artistic conception, which just matches its sales.

Sure enough, Wang Yuemin's eyes brightened up after hearing the words "Xuehua Crisp". After repeating it in a low voice several times, she raised her head, looked at Yang Xian and said, "The business that Mr. Yang mentioned before is this Snowflake Crisp." ?"

Yang Xian nodded and said: "Nowadays, salt farms all over the country produce refined salt. Even if the quality of Yangzhou Snow Salt is better, there is a limit. It is not easy to make big money based on this small difference."

"Snowflake Crispy is different. Since you two are from the capital, you should know how big the consumer market for this sweet is in the capital."

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Wang Yuemin chewed it. This was a new word for her, but it was not difficult to understand the meaning of the word.

She thought about it carefully, and she was almost certain that if she sold this snowflake cake to the capital, the business would definitely be booming.

And to have such pure sweetness, the cost of this snowflake cake is naturally not low.

Today's Yangzhou City is obviously not a very good market.

After thinking about this clearly, Wang Yuemin finally understood why Yang Xian asked them to cooperate.

"Mr. Yang, are you planning to develop the skills, and then we will send people out of the shop?" Wang Yuemin tried to ask.

Yang Xian shook his head.

She continued: "Does this mean that your master will go back to the capital with us directly?"

This is normal. After all, how can such a technology worth tens of thousands of pounds be handed over so easily.

But Yang Xian still shook his head.

Wang Yuemin frowned and said, "Then I would like to ask Master Yang, how should we cooperate in this business?"

"We provide the goods directly here. You only need to be responsible for opening up the sales channel and selling in the capital." Yang Xian said.

"You mean to transport this snowflake cake directly from Yangzhou to the capital for sale?" Wang Yuemin asked.

It’s no wonder she questioned it. In this era, shelf life is a big issue for any food, especially sweets that are easy to spoil.

Without preservation technology, sweets will basically deteriorate during transportation.

(End of this chapter)