Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 125 Surprised the Taste Buds

"Father, what are these things you brought?"

In the evening, Zhao Dezhu put the ten packs of instant noodles, twenty toffees and five cans of beer rewarded by Li You into a big cloth bag, and then brought it home, and saw his father holding a big cloth bag.

Then the two children immediately surrounded them.

At this time, Zhao Dezhu's mother, who was busy in the kitchen, also hurriedly came out and said with a smile: "Zhuzi is back!"

"Hey!" Seeing his old lady, Zhao Dezhu quickly replied happily: "Mother, come and take a look, these are some fresh things that the young master gave me, and they are all edible. According to the young master, these edible They are all from other countries.

Very delicious, including sugar cubes! "

"Candy cubes.!"

A word of candy made Xiaosan and Xiaosi a little excited.

In ancient times, this sugar was very expensive and could be called a top luxury.Especially in island countries, in their ancient history and even in modern history, all kinds of sweet foods belong to the ranks of luxury goods.

For example, in the Heian period of the island country, when some noble women married, they would especially emphasize how many sugar-fried chestnuts were in their dowry. A serving of sweets became a luxury for the island country nobles to compare with each other.

The ancient Europeans also had no good taste. For a long time, the only thing they could use as dessert was honey. They did not develop their own sugar making technology, nor did they form a perfect beekeeping technology. They only relied on collecting wild honey , it is conceivable how scarce and expensive European honey was at that time.

Therefore, when Europeans in the Middle Ages wrote their wills, they would even write specifically how many buckets of honey they had in their wills to prove their wealth.

Although the caramel technology in Datang was mature at this time, caramel had many disadvantages. It was not as sweet as sucrose, and it was not as dry and easy to store as sucrose, so it was easy to eat. Caramel is actually maltose, which sticks to teeth.

There is a businessman from India who came to Datang. This guy specializes in selling a kind of candy called stone honey. Why is it called stone honey, because it is very similar to the current candy, hard, like a rock, but very sweet. But it melts slowly in your mouth.

Before the Tang Dynasty, in the north where no sugar cane was produced, if people wanted to taste the taste of stone honey, they had to rely on foreign missions and merchants from the Western Regions who came all the way along the Silk Road.

The "Xiji Stone Honey" they brought is produced in the Western Regions. It is in the shape of a dry cake due to the superb dehydration treatment. It is not only easy to carry and store, but also has a better taste and quality than the rough sugar cane in the south.

According to historical records, Wei Wendi Cao Pi once presented 5 cakes of "Xiguo Shimi" to Wu Emperor Sun Quan with the intention of showing off, and claimed that even fresh fruits such as longan and litchi in the south could not compare to the taste of this Xiguoshimi. .

Compared with the "externally strong but middle-dry" southern sugarcane, the cake-shaped Western Region stone honey is of course more like "stone", but it does not always maintain a solid stone cake shape.

During the bumpy transportation along the silk road, this kind of stone honey is sometimes crushed, and the shape of the powder looks like sand, so it is also called "sand sugar". Granulated sugar is not the same thing.

Our heavenly Khan Li Shimin likes stone honey very much, but even Li Shimin dare not eat stone honey as he likes, without him, the price is too expensive, after all, it comes from the Silk Road, it is hard to think it is not expensive.

Later, because of the high price of stone honey, Li Shimin ordered people to go to India to learn how to make sugar. However, it took 12 years to learn it, and it was not until Tang Gaozong that he learned how to make sugar.

Also because of this, Chang'an's candies are really expensive at this time.

"Dad, hurry up and let us see the candy!"

Xiaosan and Xiaosi looked at Zhao Dezhu very excitedly, while Zhao Dezhu looked at his two sons with doting eyes and said, "Okay. Today we not only want to watch, but also eat!"

After finishing speaking, he reached into the cloth bag, took out three toffees from inside, and handed them to Xiaosan, Xiaosi and his wife.

"Wow!"

When Xiaosan, Xiaosi and Zhao Dezhu's mother tore off the paper on the toffee, the milky white toffee made all three of them look surprised.

"Eat it all, don't worry, as long as we work hard for the young master after eating, the young master will definitely reward you!"

Encouraged by Zhao Dezhu.

Xiaosan and Xiaosi couldn't wait to put the milky white toffee into their mouths, and just licked it. The rich milky fragrance and fresh sweet taste almost didn't make Xiaosan and Xiaosi scream.

"It's delicious. Dad, this toffee is really delicious, it's the sweetest thing I've ever eaten!" Xiaosan repeatedly exclaimed

"Third Brother is right, Daddy is amazing." Xiao Si also shouted happily.

However, Zhao Dezhu smiled and shook his head: "It's wrong. It's not that Dad is powerful, but that Young Master is kind. Remember, you must do everything in the future to serve Young Master. Do you understand?"

"Understood, Dad!" Little Three and Little Four answered quickly.

"Mother, you can eat too!" Zhao Dezhu looked at his mother.

However, Zhao Dezhu's mother took out the toffee and said, "Let's have half of each of us!" '

Knowing that his mother was thrifty and caring about herself, Zhao Dezhu also agreed, half of the toffee for one person was still very sweet, so sweet that it reached the hearts of Zhao Dezhu and his mother.

After eating the toffee, Zhao Dezhu smiled and said, "Okay. Now let's boil the water, and I'll soak a pack of noodles for you to eat.!"

"Soak a bag of noodles?"

Xiaosan, Xiaosi and Zhao Dezhu's mother didn't know what Zhao Dezhu meant, but since Zhao Dezhu said it, he would do as he said, and Xiaosan and Xiaosi hurried to boil water.

After a while, the water boiled.

Zhao Dezhu took out a big bowl with a smile, and then took out the lucky instant noodles: "This is the instant noodles that the young master rewarded. They said they are delicious, and they can be eaten with just soaking in water."

"There are also things that can be eaten by soaking in water?" The three were surprised.

Then the three of them watched Zhao Dezhu's operation carefully, took out the bread, put it into a bowl, added two packs of ingredients into it, and then poured boiling water until the bread was covered with boiling water.

Finally put a lid on and wait 3 minutes.

"What's daddy 3 minutes?"

Everyone didn't understand this 3 minutes. Li You said that he was bald. When asked by his son, Zhao Dezhu was also slightly at a loss: "I don't know, maybe it's time.
It's just that I don't know how long it will be, let's wait a little longer! "

About seven or eight minutes later, Zhao Dezhu opened the lid of the bowl, followed by a tempting scent wafting out of the bowl, and Zhao Dezhu stirred it in the bowl with chopsticks.

A bowl of noodles followed.

"Wow, it's really turned into noodles, and it tastes so good!" Xiaosan said in surprise.

"Want to eat?" Zhao Dezhu laughed: "Let's eat together!"

A bowl of instant noodles shocked Zhao Dezhu's family. Why? Because it is so delicious. There was no MSG in ancient times. You can eat this bowl of instant noodles full of MSG. It really amazes everyone's taste buds.

No one thought that instant noodles were destined to rise in the ancient capital of Chang'an starting tonight.

(End of this chapter)