Chapter Ninety-Eight: Peanuts with Sugar
"It's a pity, I can't do it at home, I'm not good at cooking, and I can't use this stove."
Chen Chu felt a little regretful, and could see that some peanuts in the pot had been fried and burnt, but mixed with the golden and fragrant flavor of the fried, it did not spoil the overall taste.
"It's appropriate to stir-fry this in sesame oil." Chen Chu tasted a few of them despite the hot hands, and smiled and bared his teeth.
Then it is put on a plate and sprinkled with sugar, Datang does not seem to even have sucrose at present, and it uses paste-like starch sugar, which can also be said to be called maltose.
This thing is sprinkled into the fried peanuts, and it tastes weird.
Although it is also sweet, the white sugar is granular and does not affect the taste of the peanuts themselves, but the caramel wraps the peanuts.
Chen Chu frowned when he ate it, the taste was good, but he felt very weird, and he didn't have that original feeling.
So he took another plate, and simply put only a little bit of caramel to make them reflect a little bit of flavor, and nodded with a little satisfaction.
During the day, Chen Chu had been following at least one of the three daughters by his side, and An Yijia followed him to Sinong Temple throughout the whole process, but she had not said anything, and she was also waiting outside at this time.
Called her in, and the two of them walked out with two large plates of fried peanuts, and when they saw the next person, they asked them to do it for them, and went all the way back to the living room to put it down.
At this time, Siyan and the two girls also heard the sound, followed the fragrance and looked over, knowing that the adults should have researched new food.
"Let's try it, which plate is better?"
Chen Chu tasted it himself, and he couldn't make any fair evaluation, after all, he was preconceived.
The three girls naturally couldn't be indifferent to the food, so they used chopsticks to taste it.
"It's delicious, fragrant and crispy, what is this!" Siyan asked happily.
Si Lan expressed her opinion, and she looked at the plate that was sweetened by Chen Chu: "I think this plate is more delicious." ”
An Yijia liked Chen Chu's plate, and Siyan too, but they both said that the other plate was also extremely delicious.
Because it was not original, Chen Chu's appetite was not too high, and after calling An Chu and the others back from the backyard, they opened the beer and ate it together.
Chen Chu asked the two about the method of extracting oil from plants to see if they understood.
The two of them really knew something, and they had squeezed vegetable oil by themselves when they were in seclusion, and listening to the narration of the two, they also hooked up some of Chen Chu's memories in books.
Finally, I vaguely remembered the process of a small oil mill in the modern countryside.
Although he didn't have an oil press, the manual was the same, and at most the purity and other aspects did not meet the standards of modern technology.
But who cares, as long as you can squeeze out the oil and dispose of all the impurities that can be handled, the taste can be close and you can eat it.
And never underestimate the wisdom of the ancients.
Chen Chu himself can't improve the method of manual oil extraction, but there are many Tang laborers, so many people have not improved the method of oil extraction?
In the future, this process will get better and better, and I believe that peanut oil will get closer and closer to modern standards.
Thinking of this, Chen Chu's heart was overjoyed, and he decided to take some time to squeeze oil with the second elder, make the first peanut oil to come out, and cook the first pot of fried vegetables made of peanut oil!
"This one is called peanuts, this one is raw, you can taste it too."
Chen Chu grabbed a handful of raw peanuts and gave them and continued to speak.
"Its output is also good, and it is used in many places, seasonings, dishes, snacks and even staple foods can be used, which can help Datang further increase rations and increase the diversity of Tang people's recipes."
Hearing Chen Chu say this, the three girls were very respectful to Chen Chu, and An Chu and the two were also emotional.
For thousands of years, the population of China has not been able to rise, because it has not been able to find better staple foods than millet and rice, the yield per mu is low, and the plants are delicate.
But what about Chen Chu, how much food has been found in this cultivation?
In the future, they will be planted on every piece of land in the whole Tang Dynasty, will there be a famine in the world? Will the population of Datang still be so large as it is now?
The country is rich and the people are strong, the population is constantly increasing, who else in the world dares to try the edge of the sons and daughters of China?
The two old men sighed at first, and then Chu Ziqi couldn't help but cry when he thought of the famine and chaos he had experienced, and when he thought of the hellish scenes where corpses were everywhere and people were displaced.
"Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the land of the Central Plains has gone through the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms, the two Jin and Northern Dynasties, the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, and the short-lived Sui Dynasty before there was the Tang Dynasty."
"Although the two Jin Dynasty are nominally unified dynasties, the court is weak, and the scholars only know how to enjoy fun, and the soldiers are constantly fireworks, so that the Hu people almost completely wiped out the Han people."
"It can be said that from the end of the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, it is a turbulent history of the Central Plains, fighting and killing for four or five hundred years! How hard the lives of ordinary people are. ”
As he spoke, Zhong Ziqi actually got up from his chair and knelt down to Chen Chu.
"The old man replaces the people of the world, thank you Lord Chen for your grace of recreation!"
"If these three foods are really promoted all over the world, how many millions of people will avoid starvation in the future? Will the number of Han Chinese increase by millions as the population rises and falls? ”
One knelt down, and the other four actually knelt down to Chen Chu together, which caught him off guard.
As a modern person, Chen Chu has never had enough to eat, no matter how hard he has lived.
But he also knew that for many ordinary people struggling in the feudal dynasty, eating enough was the greatest wish and the greatest satisfaction in itself.
Chen Chu was ashamed to bow to the five people, after all, these foods were brought by his fake system.
But they also deserve it, if it weren't for him, they wouldn't have appeared in Datang.
"Okay, get up, I dare to guarantee that the hard days of our Chinese children have passed, and the future will be better and better."
Chen Chu asked a few people to get up: "In the future, we will not only increase in population, but we will also have enough to eat, we will be able to wear warm clothes, and we will even be able to live a colorful life." ”
In fact, he also wants to say that my Tang Dynasty's soldiers will also be invincible, and they are all Tang soil as far as the eye can see.
However, considering the wrong occasion, I didn't say anything.
Of course, his grandeur has not changed, and he is angry when he thinks that the sons and daughters of China will continue to be bullied by nomadic minorities in the years to come.
He longed to turn himself into a sharp blade and slaughter their ancestors now, leaving no trace of fertile soil for them to multiply.
The morning dynasty dispersed.
The people who received the reward also left the imperial city in awe and joy.
However, for some people, although they were able to come to the Imperial City to receive awards, and they did get the beer and other things they coveted, it was much less interesting than they imagined.
Speaking of which, I didn't catch up last time, and the stone tablet engraved on the merit platform can't be exchanged for any reward.
Forget it, don't donate next time, whoever wants to donate will donate.
It is the most stupid thing to try your luck with so much real money in exchange for the reward of the restaurant owner, and it is better to think of other ways.