"So, what gift do you want?"
In Chang'an City's Shengpingfang, Chai Chai, under the supervision of Li Leling, was shaking his head while reading the "Shangqing Inspiration Chapter".
Li Ang in the next room rubbed his palms and asked He Fanshuang.
Chai Chai successfully passed the re-examination by virtue of his cultivation in Qi Sensing Realm. He couldn't have done it without He Fanshuang's help. He must be grateful no matter what.
He Fanshuang put down the pen and paper in her hand and asked calmly: "Why do you want to ask me directly?"
"I don't know what gift to give, so I might as well ask you directly... uh, do you mind?"
Li Ang answered truthfully.
He Fanshuang, like him, is an outstanding student of the Academy, and has a relatively cold personality.
Send money? She doesn't need it either.
Gifting jewelry? She has always been wearing the same pair of hostas and has no intention of changing them.
Giving books? She can buy regular books herself, but unconventional ones, which are prohibited from being borrowed in the library, are not convenient for Li Ang to get.
"I don't mind."
He Fanshuang nodded, thought for a while and asked: "Do you still have the Qingming Fruit you brought here last time?"
"Qingming fruit?"
Li Ang shook his head and said: "All the leftovers from last time have been eaten, and the winter bamboo shoots are gone."
There is no refrigerator in Yu State, so the only reliable food refrigeration technology is the huge underground ice room.
The second is the expensive frozen talisman.
Saltpeter ice can only produce a small amount of ice cubes and cannot be used as a refrigerator, so food is generally made as much as you like.
"Is there anything else to eat?"
He Fanshuang showed the book in her hand to Li Ang and said calmly: "I am currently reading Chang'an snack recipes to improve my cooking skills."
She really likes cooking. After all, as a monk, she can use her mind to control ingredients and kitchen utensils from a distance, and can cook without touching Yangchun water with her fingers, which is very convenient.
"Something else to eat..."
Li Ang thought for a while, and found that a large part of the recipes in the memory of the other world were unusable or inconvenient to make.
No peppers, no potatoes, no pumpkins, no onions, not even chicken essence and MSG.
After much deliberation, I found that the minimum requirements for ingredients, and what He Fanshuang might like to eat, are probably...
"Dessert?"
Li Ang's eyes lit up. Although he didn't know why, in his memory from another world, he seemed to be a baking enthusiast and had quite a lot of information about bread and cakes.
Cookies, toast, cheesecake, tiramisu...
Li Ang sifted through the recipes one by one and immediately selected the dessert he wanted to make - donuts.
Prepare eggs, flour, yeast, sugar, water, salt, butter and other materials,
(Butter is obtained by shaking milk to separate and remove fat)
Mix the ingredients except butter and knead the dough. When the fascia forms, add butter and continue kneading. Then ferment at room temperature. Cut the dough and knead it into a ball. Cover with a damp cloth and ferment again. After the fermentation is complete, fry in the pan and let it dry.
Cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar, and you're done.
"What smells so good?"
Li Leling and Chai Chai walked into the kitchen looking for breath. When they saw Li Ang and Li Leling standing in front of the stove, they immediately put their hands on their hips and pretended to be angry and said, "Okay, you guys are actually eating behind our backs?!"
"What does it mean to eat secretly behind your back..."
Li Ang rubbed his eyebrows speechlessly and placed the plate with donuts on the table, "You just made them, do you want to eat them?"
"Of course."
Chai Chai did his duty and gently picked up a donut with two fingers and threw it into his mouth. His eyes immediately lit up, "Huh? It's a bit like a steamed bun, but much softer. The taste is also very sweet."
Steamed rice dumplings, also known as steamed rice dumplings and steamed rice dumplings, are noodles made by rolling strips into oily water and deep-fried. They can be traced back to the Cold Food Festival in the Spring and Autumn Period. Their appearance is somewhat similar to fried noodles.
"It's so strange. It was fried in a frying pan, but it doesn't taste oily at all."
Li Leling also followed suit, pinching both sides of the donut with both hands like a hamster, and eating slowly, "It feels more like Jianfengxiao."
Jianfengxiao is the same fried snack. It is made by pounding glutinous rice into powder, mixing it with honey, fermented rice, sugar, etc., pressing it into a thin skin, baking it and then air-drying it. When you want to eat it, lightly fry it in oil. It is considered a nobleman.
Dessert.
"I'll try one too."
He Fanshuang also picked up a donut, took a bite, and nodded, "It's delicious."
"Hmm... not bad."
He Fanshuang and others enjoyed their meal, but Li Ang himself was still a little dissatisfied. Yu Guo’s free flour was all medium-gluten flour, which was not suitable for making bread, dough, etc.
It is best to use a mixture of strong gluten flour and weak gluten flour.
However, this also aroused Li Ang's desire for cooking, and he simply made many more desserts, even a creamy fruit cake using chiffon cake embryo.
Using local materials and making do with simple things, the cream cake finally made was not much different from the cake in Li Ang's memory. Surprisingly, it was quite delicious.
‘Am I not only a surgeon, but also the youngest super chef in history?’
Li Ang rubbed his chin, puzzled.
While Chai Chai and the others were eating the cake, they kept praising Li Ang, "This cake is also quite delicious. By the way, where did you learn these desserts?"
"I came up with it by looking at old recipes."
Li Ang said casually: "The cookbook said that the founder of the pastry business was Zhuge Kongming, who invented sour stuffing, also known as steamed buns.
In addition to steamed buns, he also invented cakes. According to the formula in "Qi Men Dun Jia", every time he celebrated his birthday, he would put a lit candle on the cake to celebrate his birthday and prolong his life.
But because the cake was so delicious, Wei Yan secretly ate it on Wuzhangyuan, and the candles were extinguished."
"???"
Li Leling looked confused, "No, what recipe would describe it in such detail? And wasn't Wuzhang the place where Wu Hou died of illness? Isn't this unlucky?"
"I don't know, that recipe book is too old, and it's probably a forged story by later generations.
After all, the higher-ups asked why Liu Bei didn’t express condolences when Zhuge Liang died. Was there an irreconcilable conflict between the two?"
Li Ang waved his hand and fooled him.
"What smells so good?"
The cheerful voice moves from far to near,
Everyone looked outside the door. Li Leling raised her eyebrows in surprise, "Brother?"
The visitor was a tall young man with dark skin, rolled up trouser legs, and carrying a hoe like an old farmer. He had an approachable smile on his face, and the soles of his straw sandals were full of mud.
It is Li Si, the crown prince of the Yu Kingdom.
Following Li Si was Zuo Chunfang Zhongyun, who was also dressed as a peasant. He Fanshuang's brother He Siping, a former school patroller.
"I just came back from the fields, put the farm tools here."
Li Si placed the hoe in the corner,
As the prince of the Yu Kingdom, he, like other princes, has to personally participate in farm work outside Chang'an City during the busy farming season, and his skin is much darker than during the previous New Year.
"Huh? Risheng is here too."
Li Si waved his hand and stopped Li Ang from saluting in advance. After seeing Li Ang and Li Leling standing side by side, the smile in his eyes became a little brighter.
This chapter has been completed!