After tasting it, Sikong Yao faced Talily and smiled: "Okay, I know, I will also come up with desserts that can reflect Chinese culture." ”

"Sister Batisian, do you have any herbs here that you can use?" Sikong Yao asked Batisian for some herbs.

Batisian pondered for a moment and said, "I remember that there should still be some Vanilan left in the cabinet over there, what, do you need it?" Add vanilla to dessert to make Italian dessert? ”

Sikong Yao shook his head lightly and said with a smile: "Haha, you'll know later." ”

Sikong Yao groped in the cabinet, and finally found the swirling cylindrical Fanilan, sniffed the elegant green-yellow stamens, and there were bursts of elegant fragrance, revealing a natural bean fragrance, which was fascinating.

Sikong Yao was satisfied with the acceptance of Fannelan, for Sikong Yao, even if he didn't know the attributes of Fannylan, but this fragrance alone was enough.

Sikong Yao asked Batisian, "How do you use this?" ”

Batisian shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Before the 16th century, the pods of Van Nilan were used in spice drinks, and until now it is still the only orchid plant that is used in spices, so it is known as the queen of spices. Although Vanilan pods are rarely tasted alone, they are often the best supporting characters for many products. It makes the taste sweeter in all kinds of drinks and pastries, and even becomes one of the exclusive secret recipes of various food manufacturers. And the world is widely known for vanilla ice cream, cola, chocolate, coffee. If you're going to add it to your dessert, simply grate it and you'll be fine, Vannelland is mild and won't be too abrupt, as long as it's not paired with a flavor that's too sour or too sweet. ”

Van Nilan produces pod-shaped fruits after flowering. When ripe vanilla fruit is dried and blackened, it becomes a spice that exudes a rich fragrance, which can be widely used in food and cosmetics, and is the second most expensive seasoning "king of vanilla" in the world due to its low yield, after saffron.

Although Vanilan has always been known as a vanilla, his mysterious and seductive fragrance is rich and long-lasting, because it is really an orchid and not a grass, which is why it is so fragrant.

Although chemically synthesized vanilla extract is cheap, the mellow flavor is another matter entirely. The main flavor of most Western-style cakes and ice creams is vanilla. The use of pure herbs in food is enough to label "natural", and the food with Van Ne Lan becomes lively and lovely, making people's mouths open unconsciously, and has the magic power to turn the saint into a greedy ghost.

Year 1793. The inhabitants of the volcanic island of Reunion in the southern Indian Ocean introduced vanilla and the proboscis bee that pollinates it. That spring. Vanilla grows luxuriantly on the island and produces pale flowers, much to the delight of the Reunion people. But what people didn't expect was that. Something went wrong with the proboscis bees: they couldn't adapt to the climate on the volcanic island, they all died, and the local bees had no interest in the exotic plant.

The flowering period of Vanilan is short, each flower only blooms for one day, and there is no pollinator, which means that all these flowers will wither and bear fruit, and people are anxious, but they can only watch these flowers disappear and despair.

One day, an unwilling person accidentally twisted the heart of a vanilla flower with his hand, but he didn't expect this twist to be a miracle, and soon after, this vanilla plant bore fragrant fruits. Such. The people on the island only knew that vanilla is a hermaphroditic plant, there is no proboscis bee, and artificial pollination of plants can also be uniform, this discovery made the footprints of vanilla begin to spread all over the world.

Nowadays, whenever the Vani orchid blooms, people only need to carry a long needle, prick the heart of the flower, it becomes the pollination task, Vani Lan can relieve fatigue and depression, and keep people away from pain, is the best tonic, has a stimulating effect, anti-decay, helps digestion, helps hormone secretion, soothes anxiety and improves insomnia.

Sikong Yao was satisfied with Fannelan, which was not a crucial ingredient for the dessert she was going to make next.

Sikong Yao was about to put the cabinet on the box at the moment, when there was a touch of emerald green in his eyes, Sikong Yao fixed his eyes and saw that it was a few pieces of fragrant wormwood, fragrant wormwood is the name of foreigners, in China, it has a more well-known name, that is, wormwood!

Wormwood is also a very good food, in the traditional food of southern China, there is a kind of glutinous rice cake is made with wormwood as the main raw material, with fresh and tender wormwood and glutinous rice flour in a ratio of one to two, wrapped with peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar and other fillings, and then steamed to become glutinous rice.

In Guangdong's Dongjiang Valley, locals also harvest the leaves and buds of wormwood in winter and spring, but eat them as a vegetable.

Dried wormwood can be stored for a long time, and can be used as a food ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine.

Sikong Yao glanced at Batisian with some surprise and asked, "Could this be Xiang Ai?" ”

Batisian glanced at it, nodded and confirmed: "It's indeed Xiang Ai, what's wrong?" ”

Sikong Yao raised her eyebrows and said, "Great, can I use this too?" ”

Batisian shrugged indifferently and said, "Do you need this too?" I really don't know what you're going to do, whatever you want, anyway, it was given to me by a friend, I only know it's an edible grass, but I don't know what it's for. ”

Sikong Yao smiled and said: "This is a treasure, in our China, this is called the herb of the doctor." ”

It is a blessing for flowers and plants to be able to enter the festival of the world, and to be given a specific meaning and widely used by human beings, but not all flowers and plants have that meaning.

Flowers and plants that can whitewash folk customs, or win with flowers, such as peony, after being named the national flower, Luoyang people also specially set up an international peony festival for it; There are roses given on Valentine's Day and carnations given on Mother's Day! There is also a seasonal victory, that is, the plum blossom that "Ling Han blooms alone", and if there is a medicinal property, there is only the dogwood of Chongyang and the wormwood of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Apricot is the flower of the doctor, and the grass of the doctor is the grass. The Dragon Boat Festival is the turn of spring and summer, and it is the time when the temperature changes, and all diseases are easy to occur. Around the snake's den, there will be good grass to dissolve the snake's venom within seven steps; In the spring and autumn miscellaneous diseases, the cure for the disease can also be found in the ditches.

In addition to mugwort leaves and mugwort stems can be boiled into a decoction to dispel diseases, when Chinese medicine implements acupuncture, it is often used to knead the mugwort leaves into a ball to fix the needle tail, and it is used as an auxiliary treatment after ignition.

Because of this medicinal properties, wormwood that has entered the folk customs has been endowed with miraculous functions. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood is picked and hung at the head of the door, which is said to be able to ward off illness and evil spirits. On the same day, you can also pick and hang a kind of grass blade called calamus, this grass leaf resembles a sword, has the meaning of slaying demons and eliminating demons, and there is also a folk proverb that says: "Calamus drives away evil and welcomes joy, and mugwort leaves avoid evil and keep peace." ”

As a Finn, although Talili likes ingredients in the mountains and forests in their country, the use of herbs is not extensive, and Batisian's own research on spices is higher than the use of herbs, so for a while, I can't figure out what Sikong Yao is going to do.

Batisian can also name more than a dozen kinds of desserts that need to use vanilla, but the speculation in her heart was quickly dispelled by the fragrant wormwood that Sikong Yao took away, and she would use wormwood desserts, at least in her knowledge world, she had never seen them.

Sikong Yao carefully observed Xiang Ai and Fanilan, although he already had a bottom in his heart, he still showed curiosity and awe about the two herbs that he had never used.

Ta Lili's cuisine is infused with emotion, crowned with feelings for her own country, so that people can taste the kind of emotion that the cuisine wants to convey to people, in the face of such an opponent, Sikong Yao will definitely not be hasty, even if it is just a friendly match, you must show enough sincerity to do it.

Since Talili's Kalirea pie is a cultural dish, and rice porridge and eggs are also Finns' favorite foods, Sikong Yao is also thinking about what kind of dessert to make to reflect the cultural heritage.

Sikong Yao didn't come up with an answer at the beginning, so he kept searching, recalling his own knowledge about desserts, and soon came up with the answer, in Italy, tiramisu coveted his wife's attachment to the expeditionary soldiers, in France, macarons represent a positive and innocent romantic feeling, and in Japan, Wagashi means a beautiful hope of auspicious reunion.

China's culture is lower than these countries are more far-reaching and long-lasting, 5,000 years of civilization has created an unshakable gastronomic status, Sikong Yao thought of a kind of cuisine that foreigners can never copy, that is, medicinal food.

Medicinal diet is a delicacy made by combining medicinal materials and ingredients, which is the product of the combination of traditional Chinese medical knowledge and cooking experience. It is "medicine in food", both the medicine as food, and the food is given medicinal use, medicine borrows food power, food helps medicine, the two complement each other, complement each other, Chinese medicine and some foods with medicinal value are compatible, using unique food cooking technology and modern scientific methods to make delicious dishes with a certain color, aroma, taste and shape, which is the embodiment of Chinese cultural heritage in cuisine.

Wormwood is also known as the herb of the doctor, if you use it to make a dessert, it is not in line with the concept of "medicine and food", so Sikong Yao thought of a dessert comparable to Kalirea pie, that is, Qingtuan. (To be continued......)