Chapter Twenty-Four: Roselle

After three days of hard thinking, I still haven't come up with a new wine that can surpass Apricot Blossom Sake.

"Miss, your eyebrows have fallen out and you have squeezed them out, can you not frown like this all the time?" The crystal cake looked at the bamboo shoots and pork noodles that were served and was completely cold, and knew in my heart that the eldest lady was really troubled.

"Miss, do you think this flower looks good?" Mung Bean Cake walked in with a few roselles. A flower vendor had just passed by, and she looked beautiful and bought a few to make the eldest lady happy.

I was having a mess of the feeling that I couldn't untie it, and now I heard Hanako, and it suddenly stirred. "It's so fragrant, what kind of flower is this?" I took the three red flowers, which were about to drop blood. Haven't seen it, what kind of flower is this?

Mung Bean Cake remembered what the vendor had just said. "It's roselle, it's not very common."

Roselle, the name is beautiful, I smelled it, well, it doesn't look poisonous, I shoved the flower into my mouth.

"Ah, Miss, no matter how hungry you are, you can't eat flowers, we'll prepare something for you right away." The crystal cake is in a hurry.

I waved my hand: "I'm not hungry, I'm tasting it, and as I thought, it's sweet and has an endless aftertaste...... That's great! ”

My mind cleared up all at once.

Roselle, a wine made with roselle, must be made better by apricot blossom wine!

Once you have thought about the sake you want to brew, you can go on with the other steps step by step. The first step in making wine is to choose the grain to use.

My favorite thing is to make sake with soft glutinous rice. I picked some full-grained seasonal glutinous rice and steamed them on a steamer until they were half-cooked.

"Wow, this glutinous rice is so fragrant." The red date cake couldn't help but reach out and pinch a little and put it in his mouth. I also tasted a small rub, and the water was neither more nor less, and this batch of glutinous rice was soft and glutinous just enough to make wine. I nodded, pleased with the preparation of the people under me.

"Spread all this glutinous rice to the drying hall to dry." As soon as I gave my orders, my subordinates moved loads and loads of half-cooked glutinous rice to a makeshift drying hall I had built behind Baofu.

I instructed the three maids to take advantage of the three days when the glutinous rice was drying to buy all the roselles they saw, and if the quantity was still not enough, they would mobilize the people in the house to go to the mountains to pick them.

Even I myself spent several days on my back, carrying a small basket on my back, looking for the red roselle in the mountains.

After the efforts of so many of us, we finally found all the roselles on the third day.

"Miss, we've all found all our flowers, what should we do now?" The old butler asked me in embarrassment, he didn't know anything about brewing.

"Tell the kitchen man to chop up all these flowers." I couldn't help but be excited as I watched these roselles bloom brightly with their beauty: "When the wine tasting is over, we can serve roselle in our restaurants and restaurants." ”

The old housekeeper nodded: "Hehe, Miss Bingxue is really smart, and we have a lot of money this time." ”

Of course, we can't always be satisfied with the status quo, and it's terrible not to make progress.

The kitchen cooks and guys worked day and night, but so much roselle still made them cut it for two days.

I personally took my subordinates and stirred the chopped flowers into the dried glutinous rice. I stirred over and over again, and this step seemed easy, but it required a lot of patience and care. If it is not stirred well, then the taste of the wine will be much worse.

The stirring time should not be fast or slow, and it must be seen that the humidity and moisture of the flowers and glutinous rice are combined.

I insisted on observing three times a day, morning and evening. It was not until the fifteenth day that I saw that the glutinous rice began to ferment after being stirred.

I took my servants and maids to pile up the glutinous rice. Then send people to watch over it day and night, and never let bugs or rats or anything like that get close.

I stood in the drying hall every day and waited. "Miss, we don't go in to see those fermented glutinous rice, we just stand here and wait every day when we have nothing to do, what are we waiting for?" The maids have asked me this more than once.

I'm in a good mood, and I'm nibbling on the double hemp shortbread sent by the subordinates of the Ouyang Mansion from Chengyu's faction, or Chengyu has a conscience. I really wasn't wrong. This Yangzhou's double hemp shortbread is so fragrant, no wonder Prince Lu's concubine thinks about it all day long, even I am almost addicted to it.

I was so busy eating that I didn't even raise my head: "Don't worry, we're waiting for a burst of fragrance." ”

"What scent? The smell of this bread? Mung Bean Cake asked curiously. I rolled my eyes. Why have these maids been around me for a long time, and they are all becoming more and more like foodies.

"It's wine, it's the smell of wine!" I explained. "You keep waiting, I'm leaving, go sleep for a while." After leaving the three of them there, I leisurely went back to my room and went to sleep.

I was sleeping fragrantly, and suddenly an enticing fragrance blew in with the breeze. I'm in bed and hey, hey, it's done! Hahaha......

"Miss, we've waited, Miss!" The red date cake ran fast, and she was very excited.

I'm running out too. This reckless girl knocked me around three times at once.

"Oh, Miss, I didn't mean to." She reached out and grabbed me as I was about to fall. I didn't bother to bother with her: "Quick, take me to see it." ”

When I came to the drying hall, there was a burst of fragrance from the fermented glutinous rice, and as long as I smelled it, it made people intoxicated and couldn't stand.

"Fill up all the twenty yellow clay wine vat I have prepared." I watched them scramble one by one, for fear that the fragrance would be less scented by itself.

It is estimated that the wine bugs in their stomachs are almost hooked. Well, when the wine tasting is over, be sure to reward them with some roselle.

In less than a day, all the ingredients were sealed in the vats. I'm done, I'll take Roselle to the wine tasting tomorrow, haha see which winery is my opponent!

That night I was so excited that I almost rolled over all night, and it wasn't until the wee hours of the morning that I squinted sleepily for a while.

"Ah...... Miss! Miss! The three maids rushed into my room and pulled me out of bed.

"Miss, something happened, something happened, wake up!" Crystal Cake's face was filled with tears. The other two also cried like cats.

I rubbed my eyes, oh, what's going on?

"What's wrong? One by one, they all cried without a human being. Tell me, who bullied you? I stretched.

"No, it's our Roselle, let's go check it out." Mung Bean Cake wiped his tears and said loudly.

I'm pale, no. My wine was finished yesterday, so how could something happen?

When I ran over and looked, my face was dark. This...... Which bastard did this good thing! All twenty wine tanks were smashed, and the mellow roselle flowed to the ground.

Everyone up and down the Baofu Mansion saw that the wine they had worked so hard to make was ruined, and everyone's eyes were red.

I finally couldn't help it, and I squatted on the ground and cried. It's all over now, today...... What am I going to take to a wine tasting today!