Chapter 274: Shaved Ice and the Failed First Attempt(1/2)
For the residents of "Neverwinter Town", summer is a very pleasant season.
Because the town is located in a valley surrounded by mountains, even the hot weather retains a hint of coolness.
And every time at this time, the sweet smell of ice cream will be wafted all over the streets and alleys, making people unable to help but spend a few copper tarans on a small cup of cream ice cream to calm down the heat that comes from nowhere.
Ice cream is a very popular dessert, and it has already taken shape in this dimension very early.
Legend has it that there was an ancient sage who loved all kinds of food, especially all kinds of desserts.
By chance, the sage made a new thing called "Snowflake Ice" from milk and ice. Since then, this cool and sweet thing has become a holy product for people to relieve the heat in summer.
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This dessert later spread to ancient Persia and Greece and became a delicacy for the nobles at that time.
It is said that the original "Snowflake Ice" was simply made by freezing milk and then breaking it into pieces. You can then scoop it up with a small spoon and put it in your mouth to enjoy the ice-cold milky aroma.
When this special dessert was spread by the sage, nobles from various countries continued to drive chefs to make all kinds of ice cream, thus forming the ice cream genre that later flourished.
To this day, even small vendors with carts in Neverwinter Town are already using cream and egg yolks to make ice cream. This method makes the ice cream smoother and richer.
If you are willing to buy a few more Copper Tarans, you can also add more and richer ingredients to your cup of ice cream, such as chocolate, nuts, fruits, etc.
Precisely because ice cream is a popular dessert in summer, in previous years in the monastery, the maids would often go to the town to buy fresh ice cream for the guests, and then transport it back to the mountain in ice buckets.
Of course, since Jiang Jin appeared, the maids in the monastery no longer have to work so hard, their hands are just a little tired.
Crunch, crunch, crunch...
About a week has passed since I received the information from "Heishui Fa Fa Fa Cai Bao".
At this time, Anjie, Lannathel, Eluru, Cassandra and Yumi gathered in the entertainment room in the afternoon, gathered around a table and watched the maid Cody grinding ice for everyone.
Sha.
Crunch, crunch, crunch, accompanied by the continuous rotation of the prototype machine that looks like a small millstone.
The large ice cubes above are continuously cut into fine pieces of ice by the rotating blades, and fall into the small silver bowl below.
This very novel ice machine was specially built by Jiang Jin by asking the blacksmith in the town. The purpose was naturally to make what he considered to be the best summer cooling product, shaved ice.
Although there are many kinds of ice cream in the town, and Jiang Jin can make hundreds of ice cream products if he wants, he still chooses this most primitive way of eating.
From a certain perspective, the preparation method of "shaved ice" is somewhat similar to the world's original "snowflake ice", but it is more complicated and more sophisticated.
According to Jiang Jin's understanding of ice products, they can be basically divided into three categories: "sand ice", "shaved ice" and "crushed ice".
Among them, "smooth ice" is the most delicate ice. Generally, ice cubes and other ingredients are broken into a semi-liquid package close to sand, and you have to use a straw to drink it. After one sip, the delicate smooth ice will quickly spread in your mouth.
Melt.
"Shaved ice" is ice slices cut with a sharp blade. It tastes like solidification and does not melt in the mouth immediately. It is usually topped with condensed milk, caramel, red bean paste, peanut paste, sesame paste, etc. and is enjoyed together.
The "crushed ice" on top of this is the type with the thickest particles. It makes a crunching sound when placed in the mouth. It is suitable for adding various fruits, honey beans or jelly and eating it boldly. It is also very
Refreshing.
For Chinese chefs, ice desserts are actually a food that has appeared since the Song Dynasty nearly a thousand years ago.
Historical records record that chefs in the Song Dynasty would sprinkle some condensed milk on top of crushed ice to make a dessert called "Lactose Snow" for dignitaries to cool off. It was almost the earliest ice dessert recorded in history books.
Jiang Jin himself prefers shaved ice, so even though he is extremely busy every day, he did not forget to teach the maids in the monastery how to make smoothies, and also prepared a large number of ingredients for them to choose.
"Huh, okay, everyone, please go over there and pick up the ingredients."
After working hard for a long time, Cody finally finished five plates of shaved ice and wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, then nodded to the people surrounding him.
But looking at the five plates of ice flakes as white as snow, Anjie couldn't help but asked in confusion:
"Is this...is this really how it tastes? Just put your favorite toppings on it? Is it that simple?"
As a loyal "ice cream pie", Anjie obviously had some objections to Jiang Jin not making delicious ice cream for herself in the monastery, but instead making this ice machine and getting a bunch of ice cubes.
After all, in Anjie's eyes, this kind of ground crushed ice looks really bland, far less delicious than rich ice cream.
"Yes." As if Cody knew what questions they would ask, he smiled and took out an instruction manual left by Jiang Jin and explained: "If you don't know how to match it, you can also refer to the above ones.
Matching method."
Because there are a lot of shaved ice ingredients prepared in advance, if you let people without any experience mix them by themselves, you may end up with some messy dark dishes.
So before going out, Jiang Jin paired each of them with a type of shaved ice. As for the proportions of each ingredient, it would be better for them to choose according to their own taste preferences.
"Let's see... jelly, white fungus, almond tofu and shaved ice with sugar water. The name is 'Unshan Kirigakure'? It looks good and suits me well."
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"Add a large spoonful of cheese sauce, then add a large spoonful of mango pulp and an appropriate amount of condensed milk. Is the name of this shaved ice called 'Chichi Manglu'? It looks very interesting."
"Then I want this 'Orange Paradise', with a few slices of orange segments, half a cup of orange juice and orange jelly. It looks very orange-flavored."
"'Childhood Sweetheart' is made from candied plums, fresh plums and honey. I like it."
"Hey, what is it? Pour cooked red beans, red bean soup, sweet milk and condensed milk together? The name is 'Anjie's only'? What does it mean! Who are you looking down on, you bastard! Why are other people's names so literary? Mine
This is it!”
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Amidst the laughter and swear words, the five people each filled their shaved ice with various toppings.
Looking at the ice shavings covered with a lot of ingredients in the silver bowl, everyone immediately picked up their spoons and started to enjoy them.
"Oh oh oh, it tastes good. This is what it feels like to eat ice directly. It's so sweet."
"Hehe, who just said you won't eat ice cream if you don't have it, and you fell into trouble so quickly?"
"You need to take care of it! And don't steal anything from my bowl! You stinky thief!"
"This is not stealing, it's just tasting each other. No, I'll give you a taste of mine too, open your mouth."
When Lana Seer generously scooped up some black jelly, white almond tofu and some shaved ice with her own spoon and brought it to Anjie's mouth, Anjie's expression was really wonderful.
She looked at the spoon stretched out in front of her and seemed unsure for a moment whether she should eat it or not.
If you don't want to eat it, the stinky woman Lana Seel just stole a spoonful of sweet milk condensed milk and red bean ice from her bowl. If Anjie doesn't eat it, she will always feel a little bit at a disadvantage.
But if you eat it... isn't that just indirection?
Although it is a very common behavior for female friends to feed each other, this is Lana Thel after all.
If a few other people had handed over the spoon, Anjie probably wouldn't have hesitated to do it, but doing something indirect with this woman always made people feel angry.
However, just as Anjie was hesitating whether to eat or not, Lana Seer smiled slightly, slowly stretched out the spoon and said with a smile: "What, don't you like it? Forget it, I'll eat it myself."
"Ah? Wait! Don't run! Who said I won't eat!"
Seeing that the dessert that was stretched out to her mouth was about to run away, Anjie quickly took a step forward, opened her big mouth, took the whole spoon in her mouth, and sucked all the food on it into her mouth.
What should I say? Compared with Anjie's sweet and fragrant shaved ice, Lana Seer's shaved ice is more refreshing. Eating it should make your heart cool and your heart soar.
But after taking such a bite, Anjie couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when she looked at the half-smiling look that the other person cast towards her...as if she had been tricked by this guy again.<
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In order to ease the embarrassment, Anjie had no choice but to ask pretentiously while eating her shaved ice:
"By the way, why doesn't that guy Jiang Jin come to eat? It's just a shaved ice. It won't waste much time in cultivation."
Looking carefully, there was indeed no figure of Jiang Jin in the recreation room. After quickly preparing everything, the young chef went to the woods behind the monastery and started his daily practice.
In the past few days, Jiang Jin has obviously spent more time on cultivation than before, so much so that his cooking is not as refined as usual, and he even often uses fried noodles to fool people (although fried noodles are often used to fool people)
The soy sauce noodles are also delicious).
When mentioning this matter, Lana Seer looked at Youmi’s right leg, shook her head and said:
"He should blame himself to some extent. After all, Yumi was injured trying to save him."
If you look carefully, you can clearly see the bandage marks on Yumi's slender right leg... This is a souvenir left when the two of them came back from the "Forbidden Land Outside the World" six days ago.
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Six days ago, Jiang Jin went north with Youmi as promised, heading towards the treasure house of food ingredients that is almost unknown to humans.
But who would have thought that the residents in that area were so keen that Jiang Jin and Youmi wanted to steal some rare fruits to use as ingredients on a mountain, but they attracted a large swarm of monsters.
How should we describe the situation at that time? Spectacular...it can only be described as spectacular.
Just for a golden-looking fruit, Jiang Jin and Youmi were chased for dozens of miles by a group of monsters that looked like giant bears. In the end, they escaped back to the safe house and flew away quickly to get rid of them.
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Although the individual strength of those monsters is not as strong as the current Jiang Jin and Youmi, the problem is that they always appear in groups, and they cannot be killed no matter how hard they are.
Even on the way to fight them, other monsters will be attracted. As a result, the more enemies you fight, the more enemies you fight. It’s almost endless.
Of course, this is also very normal. After all, all adventurers who are preparing to enter the "Forbidden Land" know a life-saving rule, that is, when encountering monsters in this area, they can only run but not fight.
If you start a battle with a certain group of monsters in the forbidden land outside the boundary, unless you are strong enough to clear them out quickly, you will have to run away quickly.
Otherwise, if the fight continues like this, the aftermath of the battle will usher in more monsters around, and the result will be that they are dragged to death by the wheel tactics... because there are countless powerful adventurers who died in this way.
Fortunately, this time the two of them only went to a relatively shallow area. Jiang Jin and Youmi tried their best to escape from the wave-like group of monsters, but Youmi also paid a certain price.
To be continued...