At this time, the donkey skin glue was what was called "Ejiao" in later generations. It is said that it is made from the skin of a small mountain donkey with a black back and white belly, which is native to Dong'e, and was later called Ejiao by the world.

During the Great Cause period, people's consumption of Ejiao was not as popular as in later generations, because people had not yet discovered that Ejiao had the effect of nourishing yin and replenishing yang, moisturizing dryness and beauty, so it was more used as an earthwork for women who had given birth to qi and stop bleeding.

How did Ejiao gain royal favor and turn it from a local earthwork to a royal food?

There is a folk story that has been passed down for thousands of years in Dong'e, which says that Li Shimin was repeatedly frustrated when he conquered Wang Shichong, and had to retreat to Dong'e to rest, and the locals used donkey skin glue to boil soup to entertain the Tang army.

Strange to say, Li Shimin, who drank donkey skin glue soup, was in a big state of mind the next day, and actually defeated Wang Shichong in one go.

Of course, this is nothing more than folklore, and there is no historical evidence to prove it.

However, it is recorded in the Tang Dynasty's "Yuanhe County Chronicles" that Li Shimin sent the general Chi Gongbing to Dong'e County to seal the special well "Ah Jing" for boiling ejiao, and ordered: local idlers and other people are not allowed to open the well to boil glue without permission, and only the official family can "open the seal and take water" and "boil glue to pay tribute". Violators will be killed.

Since then, Dong'e donkey skin glue has become "Dong'e Agong glue", and ordinary people can't ask for it even if they have money.

Donkey skin glue, which was originally a local cheapness, has become a "royal special" thing.

The reason why Ejiao became popular later was entirely due to Yang Guifei and the "Quantang Poems: Supplement to the Palace Ci":

The lead is washed away and abundant,

The rain falls on the lotus leaf beads and is difficult to stop.

Secretly obey Ejiao and refuse,

But he said that he was born to be a gentleman.

In this poem, the Tang Dynasty poet Xiao Xingzao secretly disclosed the shocking secret that Yang Guifei's beauty in the city was continued by secretly taking Ejiao.

It is precisely because of this legend that Ejiao has become a holy medicine for beauty and beauty.

But it's a pity that even if the people know that Ejiao has the miraculous effect of beautifying and nourishing the skin, even if you have money, there is no way to get the royal tribute that has been appointed.

It was not until after the Yuan Dynasty that Ejiao's status was loosened, and it was no longer exclusively for the royal family, and slowly spread outside the palace.

What I didn't expect was that this small step from the palace to the outside of the palace has also become a big step for Ejiao to be passed down through the ages.

For a time, the beauty technique of eating ejiao became a trend. Large families who have the ability to find ejiao have begun to study various ways to eat ejiao.

Among them, there is a method that is most favored by rich wives and daughters, so much so that it is widely sung in the pen of Bai Pu, one of the four masters of Yuanqu.

Bai Pu has clouds in his "Autumn Night Sycamore Rain on the Brocade Flowers": a bowl of ejiao, a cup of sesame seeds, and candied fruit with white rice and red filling. The pink cheeks are ashamed, and the apricot blossoms are smiling. moistened the youth, preserved the days, and had the capital.

Why should it be boiled with ejiao and sesame ingredients to have a beauty miracle effect, the principle of which was naturally impossible to verify at that time, but this did not affect ejiao and sesame seeds to become the beauty recipes of Zhongmingding's food house.

This recipe developed to the late Yuan Dynasty, and the momentum not only did not disappear, but it also intensified, involving a local custom. Hundreds of miles around Dong'e, all the families who marry their daughters and wives must have the tradition of sesame ejiao cake as a dowry.

In the era of the last life, people added walnuts, peanuts, red dates, longan, wolfberries, honey and other ingredients to this recipe to make peach blossom Ji Ejiao cake with higher nutritional and medicinal value.

The reason why Lai Cheng knows this recipe is entirely because he has seen the promoters of Ejiao manufacturers in the hypermarket, and he learned to boil Peach Blossom Ji Ejiao cake on the spot.

It's not realistic to get all the ingredients together all at once, but you can still find ordinary honey, red dates and other things.

After discussing with the owner of the donkey skin rubber shop, and getting the promise of the other party to help, he went to the opposite pharmacy to buy red dates, wolfberries and longan, and finally went to the restaurant to buy a small jar of rice wine, and then returned to the donkey skin rubber shop.

Xu Shiyun and Cheng Yanjin also bought flax and walnut kernels, and followed them into the shop.

I borrowed a medicine mortar from the shopkeeper and put the flax and walnuts that had been slightly fried into it and mashed them. Cut the red dates, wolfberries and longan meat into fine cubes and put them together in a bubbling plastic pot to boil.

When the aroma of the food comes out, the shopkeeper will follow Lai's instructions and heat the heat. I saw that the originally transparent glue was gradually cooled and drawn, and then poured into the rubber tray to press and form.

After pressing out all the bubbles in the glue, use a sharp knife to quickly cut the rubber cake into a two-finger-wide and four-finger-long strip while the gap between the ejiao cake has not yet condensed into lumps.

In this way, the first peach blossom Ji Ejiao cake was formed and shipped.

Have the shopkeeper divide all the strips into eighteen boxes in the best packaging, and then bundle them into a stack of three boxes for a total of six stacks.

He took a few gold beads and was ready to pay the bill, but the shopkeeper refused to accept anything, and after pushing, the shopkeeper said: "This son, once you come, this old donkey skin glue is not worth so much money." Second, the old man still wants to have a reluctant request, and implores the son to agree. ”

Lai nodded his head: "The old man has something to say, as long as the kid can do it, love will not be postponed." ”

The shopkeeper said with some embarrassment: "Lao Yu is looking at the unique formula of Childe's glue cake, and it can increase the chance of selling after changing medicine into food, so I want to ask Childe to allow the small shop to make and sell according to the recipe." ”

Let's laugh "haha": "The kid thought it was a big deal, but he just wanted to boil peach blossom cake and sell it." ”

The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly: "Exactly, exactly." The little old man didn't dare to be greedy for the merits of heaven, and he boiled peach blossom cake for sale, and he would definitely hang the name of the son. The money sold, the surplus in addition to the materials of the capital, how is the old decay and the son divided? ”

Cheng Yanjin laughed when he heard this: "Come brother, I didn't expect you to come to Dong'e County and make money, not bad." ”

After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "It's okay, the surplus boy only needs to be thirty percent, and this Cheng Dalang will come to pick it up regularly in the future." ”

After saying that, he pointed to the grinning Cheng Biting Jin.

It's not that it's a mess, it's really a lot of places to use money in the future, although the ants are small, they are also meat, and a little more income is a little more.

In addition, I also want to hold a rubber expert, and in the troubled times in the future, the use of Ejiao may be far more than now.

When the shopkeeper heard that there was only a surplus of 30%, he was even more happy: "Thank you, thank you." In the future, if there is a place for decay, Childe can speak. ”

came to say goodbye with a smile and gave Xu Shiyun a look.

Xu Shiyun listened to the sound and knew that when everyone walked out, he deliberately left behind, and put a few gold beads on the shopkeeper's counter.