Chapter 106: Finalized
It is recorded in ancient books that Song Huizong's own drinking Longtuan Shengxue takes very fine tea tree shoots, bakes, grinds into powder, adds ingredients, and presses it into a cake shape or a nest shape with a special wooden mold, and breaks off a little bit to brew when eating.
First bake, then grind the powder, then add ingredients to shape, brew and drink directly. There is a difference in the record of "Beiyuan Bielu" in this regard...... There is no record of what ingredients are added, otherwise it would not be unrecorded.
Ye Chen watched the master make Longtuan Shengxue many times when he was young, and several of them also added ingredients, adding pectin. Probably the process is similar to the record in "Beiyuan Bielu", that is, what Ye Chen is doing now.
Before making it, Ye Chen looked up a lot of information, and probably guessed that the production process of Longtuan Shengxue was not static, and the way of drinking it was also strange. Many people may not believe it, according to historical records, the color of the soup brewed by dragon and phoenix tea is white, like **. The topping is cheese......
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the tea fighting culture was very popular among the court nobles, and when the princes, nobles, scholars and doctors were at leisure, the good deeds met together, and each person took out their own tea leaves to compare and taste with each other. Even if it is tasting, it cannot be drunk like the people of Pingtou drink water when they are thirsty. Pay attention not only to the tea, but also to the water quality of the tea, the utensils for making tea, the method of tasting tea, and even the environmental atmosphere.
According to historical records, the color of the soup brewed by dragon and phoenix tea is white, like **. The tea set used is a rabbit hair, and the black tea set is supported to show the quality. Rabbit hair is a special black porcelain tea set of Jianzhou, characterized by some white and bright threads mixed with the black glaze, like rabbit hair. During the firing process, the kiln temperature changes, and only a few kilns are particularly precious. One of them passed to RB and became a national treasure, the so-called Tianmu Bowl.
Longfeng tea is not the dragon group Shengxue, but a glimpse of the whole leopard, you can imagine that in the Song Dynasty, the ingredients were added to the tea group, and the way to drink it was also eclectic, anyway, how fun and delicious it was.
Probably, the earliest milk tea, fruit tea and other tea drinks appeared in the Song Dynasty.
It is recorded that Zheng Kejian refined a new tea with unheard of silver silk water buds, and the color of the tea was as white as snow, so it was named "Longtuan Shengxue". There is also a record, "The wonder of tea, the best of the snow, each catty is worth 40,000 yuan, the cost is amazing, and it is exclusively for the emperor to enjoy." Zheng Kejian was favored because of this, and was promoted to the right Wendian to repair, FJ Road to transfer envoys, and specialized in Beiyuan tea.
A ridiculous speculation that the dragon group Shengxue that Song Huizong drank himself was...... Milk tea. In the record, the Longtuan Shengxue that Song Huizong drank was wrapped in fine tissue paper and waxed, why was it waxed, in order to prevent moisture. If it's a pure tea dumpling, just store it in a ceramic jar. In addition, there will be foam after the dragon group wins the snow and brews it......
There are also records, judging from the relevant records of "History of the Song Dynasty" and "Song Huiyao", the emperor of the Song Dynasty did not like to drink milk, but only liked to eat cheese. A cheese division has been set up for this purpose......
Ye Chen has his own hesitation, you say that Longtuan Shengxue is made into milk tea, will it be unacceptable.
The tea balls made by themselves do not add pectin or sugar and other ingredients, and the tea is 100% pure, and some are only fragrant with tea leaves. To tell the truth, the tea-making process is not as old as possible, don't look at the tricks and tricks, mortal things have their own limits after all.
Ye Chen took out a small knife, cut a small piece on the Fang Xuan tea, about three grams, and then crushed it with a knife and poured it into the teacup. Then I went back to the living room, took a piece of white cheese out of the living room refrigerator, crushed it and threw it into the teacup......
Zhang Chen was dumbfounded: "Uncle, what are you doing?"
Ye Chen smiled bitterly: "Do you want sugar?"
"Don't. ”
Ye Chen poured boiling water into the cup and handed Zhang Chen a spoon: "Even." ”
The cup is foamy, and the soup is milky white.
Long Tuan Shengxue, during the production process, it was pressed many times, repeatedly patted, and the tea paste was almost removed. If you don't add ingredients, the soup color is light green and clear, and it still has the fragrance of tea, but it is not a little worse than the standard of modern top green tea.
Looking at the milk tea in the cup, Ye Chen couldn't stop laughing and added sugar to it. If you understand the way of drinking tea in the Song Dynasty, it will not be surprising that drinking tea with sugar belongs to the extravagant way of drinking tea of the 'aristocracy', and there are also salt drinks in tea......
Ye Chen really couldn't help it, hehehe laughed, half bitter and half helpless.
The legendary dragon group Shengxue, the god of tea, the myth that cannot be surpassed so far, milk tea!
Of course, it may also be that Ye Chen's inference was wrong.
Ye Chen brewed the cheese with boiling water, which was unpalatable and had a strange smell. However, with the addition of tea powder, the fragrance that comes out is eye-catching.
Ye Chen tasted it, the smooth taste, the crushed fine powder of tea blended into it, the tea flavor was not as light as imagined, but rich and fragrant, but there was no grass leaf green, it was a mellow natural tea fragrance. The Longtuan Shengxue that Ye Chen drank before was added with pectin, and it tasted like fruit and tea......
Zhang Chen frowned and took a sip, and looked at Ye Chen: "It's really something that can only be drunk by the emperor...... The subtle tea powder is left between the mouths, and the natural tea fragrance has a long aftertaste.
Ye Chen added sugar to the teacup, and the feeling was not as strong as Zhang Chen's.
"Delicious?"
"It's very different from milk tea. The tea aroma is fresh and natural, and I, a person who doesn't understand tea, think it's very good anyway. Zhang Chen shrugged his shoulders, and then muttered to himself: "Longtuan Shengxue is like this......
Connor and Anderson, who had been discussing for a long time, returned.
Anderson walked into some and asked about the different aromas, and asked, "New tea......?"
"Taste it. Ye Chen cut two more small pieces and brewed them with cheese, and the aroma suddenly overflowed.
Compared to traditional tea, this retro 'milk tea' may be more in line with Western tastes. Anderson's eyes suddenly lit up: "Milk tea?"
"Longtuan Shengxue ......" Ye Chen looked resentful and pointed to the tea: "This thing has different ways to match, with cheese, if you like, you can also add evaporated milk, pectin, jam, or brew it directly." ”
Zhang Chen drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, and handed the quilt over: "Uncle, have another cup." ”
Ye Chen asked Zhang Chen to do it himself and watch Anderson taste tea.
"Silky and refreshing, fragrant and pleasant, with a long finish...... I used to like Earl Grey milk tea, it's hard to say, this tea is more natural...... The feeling between the mouths is more subtle, and the natural green tea aroma that stays for a long time makes people feel refreshed. Earl Grey milk tea is lazy, but this tea is very spiritual...... However, the process of brewing tea needs to be improved. ”
"After all, it is something that the emperor drinks, and it needs the breath of the emperor. Ye Chen answered and said, "By the way, how did you two discuss?"
"Small Tea Special, 25 kg. Small tea grade 1, 3 kg. Chenshan manna grade 1, 50 kg. First of all, we need the exclusive agency of Chenshan Manor in North America. Connor said: "The price of small tea is a little more expensive, and the quantity is not much. ”
Ye Chen smiled, took out two boxes of flowers that had been sealed, gave them one box for each person, and said: "Longtuan Shengxue, a box of 30 grams, a small meaning is not a respect, I hope we will cooperate happily." ”
Anderson smiled and put it away like a baby.
The contract was signed, and Connor and Anderson were ready to return to the United States. Ye Chen hurriedly loaded more than 20 kilograms of honey to Connor and asked him to bring it back to the United States by himself.