Chapter 123: Golden Spices
Supplementary rules, here are the supplementary rules, since you have already arranged, will you die if you talk to the host in advance? In the future, she will not do any money for any project organized by Harvey!
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"The area where we are now is a public material area, and the two contestants are free to come here to choose the materials they need, but please note one thing - the main ingredient of this competition is still the Lingqitu in your hands, and the amount of all auxiliary materials together cannot exceed half of the amount of the main material. Alright, let's get started!
A huge pillar of light slowly rises from the depths of the public platform, and the pillar of light will gradually shorten as time passes, and when the pillar of light disappears completely, the competition will come to an end, and both parties must present their works before then.
Under the dazzling light of the huge pillar of light, the pile of things that had just emerged from under the cracked floor was also revealed.
"This ...... What a big deal!" Chang Zhaowen couldn't believe his eyes, this place was more spectacular than any large supermarket he had been to, as far as the eye could see, there were rows of neatly arranged shelves, to be exact, this place was more like a library, but the shelves were not books, but all kinds of medicinal herbs and ingredients were classified, most of which Chang Zhaowen didn't know very well, but he stopped when he walked to the third row of shelves.
Pepper, pepper, pepper, cardamom, fennel, star anise, cinnamon, grass fruit, tangerine peel, cloves, lemongrass...... The collection of human spices here is even more complete than his restaurant!
At the lowest level of this shelf, in the corner is an inconspicuous dark brown wooden box stacked with a pile of elongated, crimson slightly curved dried plants, about one to two centimeters in length.
Chang Zhaowen's eyes lit up suddenly, he didn't expect that this place even had saffron, which was called the gold of spices!
In the land of saffron, twilight is blank, and the fields are filled with the faint scent of roses.
The poem praising saffron first came to mind, and without any hesitation, Chang Zhaowen squatted down and carefully picked up the wooden box from the bottom of the cabinet, and a strong fragrance unique to saffron rushed to his face.
It's hard to put into words this unique scent, but I can't say anything about it, but I can only say that it tastes like a combination of pollen, honey and tobacco, and is generally an exotic and warm spice. This indescribable strange smell, as long as you smell it once, it will be deeply imprinted in your mind and will never be forgotten.
Chang Zhaowen twisted a dark red filament with his index finger and thumb, pressed it with his fingernail, and the nail was immediately coated with a layer of dazzling yellow - the purest positive yellow, which is the most traditional way to identify the quality of saffron.
That's right, this box is full of the best saffron. In China, saffron has always been a medicinal herb, and few people use it in food. When saffron was first introduced to China from Persia, it was used as an offering to Buddha and was called "tulips". Later, it was used in medicine, and some people used it in fragrant wine.
In the Tang poem "Traveling in the Guest", "Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls hold amber light." The Lanling wine tulip mentioned is a medicinal wine made with saffron.
However, in Europe they are called saffron and are a precious spice with a long history.
The saffron we see is not the flower itself, but the crimson stigma at the tip of the flower's pistil. The flowers themselves are purple, and there are only 3 stigmas on the pistils of a flower, and more than 20,000 flowers can be collected to get less than a kilogram of saffron.
Produced in small quantities and having to be harvested by hand, saffron has been the world's most expensive spice since it was introduced to Europe from Persia in 711 AD.
In addition to its unique scent, saffron also has a bright color, which is another of its standout features. Saffronin is a carotene that dissolves easily in water, and it gives the most gorgeous soul to an otherwise bland dish.
The famous paella, the French fish soup of Marseille and the Italian Milanese risotto are all made by the addition of saffron to have both charming colors and intoxicating aromas, which have left countless diners swoon. It is no exaggeration to say that saffron holds up half of Mediterranean cuisine.
Saffron, it's you! He's going to use this spice, which is more expensive than gold, to match the heptagram with today.
Ever since the mermaid announced the main material for this competition, Chang Zhaowen has been thinking about this question.
Chang Zhaowen once saw in a documentary that Haitians eat mud cakes made of mud, and they will choose a special soft soil and add water to make mud cakes, stick them on the flat ground and dry them in the sun. For 10 cents, you can buy five of the best local mud cakes at the market. Poverty is the reason why the locals choose to eat soil.
Guanyin soil is another kind of soil that Chang Zhaowen has heard of and that has been eaten.
It's actually a kind of kaolin, a white clay. When I was fostered at my cousin's house as a child, I once went to my cousin's husband's hometown with my cousin's family, where this kind of clay was abundant, and Chang Zhaowen first heard that Guanyin soil could be eaten there.
"Why is soil edible?" I remember asking my cousin-in-law this question.
turned out to be a severe beating from his cousin-in-law, but in this matter, Chang Zhaowen did not resent his cousin-in-law at all. When he grew up, he vaguely knew that his cousin-in-law's grandfather couldn't bear the torture of long-term hunger, so he dug up Guanyin soil as white as flour and made steamed buns.
But even if it looks like a steamed bun on the outside, you can indeed get a feeling of satiety when you eat it. However, this is not a real steamed bun after all, and even if a false feeling of satiety can deceive the body, how can an inorganic substance such as soil be absorbed and digested? Those who ate Guanyin soil were finally swelled to death because they could not excrete the Guanyin soil they had eaten, and their cousin-in-law's grandfather was not spared.
Since the organizer local tyrant provided such expensive materials, Chang Zhaowen had nothing to be polite about, and directly gave him a nest. I haven't figured out how to eat the soil yet, but since I decided to use the spice of saffron, I naturally chose something that goes well with its elegant fragrance.
Cinnamon and cardamom are the most common combinations of saffron in high-end Middle Eastern cuisine, and onions and mushrooms are good partners for saffron in Mediterranean cuisine.
Looking at the pile of rich ingredients in front of him, he had a faint expectation in his heart, maybe this saffron could also help Ling Qitu achieve a gorgeous turn?