One hundred and eight white swallows
In the afternoon, Mrs. Zhang personally came over and told Zhao Shuang that the eldest young master wanted to eat bird's nest for dinner, the bird's nest of Zilingzhou.
The white swallow of Zilingzhou is a tribute, and the production is scarce, and only a little bit can be produced in March and April every year.
By reading the books left by Miss Zhao before, Zhao Shuang learned that the best bird's nest in Tianhong Kingdom is the white bird's nest produced in Zilingzhou, which is crystal white in color, and even the hairy bird's nest is rarely mixed with feathers.
For the white swallows of Zilingzhou, Zhao Shuang has long been greedy, but it is said that the output is very small, and it is only enough as a tribute every year. I don't know if this Governor Liu will be able to get the real Zilingzhou Baiyan.
This eldest young master knows the world without going out, and he stays in the house all day long, and as soon as he can eat, he even orders Bai Yan from Zilingzhou, probably because he wants to make up for his injury that he can't eat well for so many years.
Rou Niang said: "I have always heard that big families like to eat bird's nest, when I was a child, I poked the bird's nest under the eaves of my house to taste, phew, where is delicious, a mouthful of mud." ”
Yuan Xi said with a smile: "It's not the bird's nest produced by our swallows here, the bird's nest of our swallows here is mud, and the bird's nests of the swallows in Zilingzhou don't use mud, it's white." ”
Zhao Shuang was surprised: "Have you seen the bird's nest in Zilingzhou?" "If even Yuan Xi has seen the white swallows of Zilingzhou, then the white swallows of Zilingzhou will not be as rare as the book says.
"I haven't seen the white swallows of Zilingzhou, but when I was in Mengfu, I saw the bird's nest eaten by the masters, the color is a little yellow, it should not be the white swallows of Zilingzhou, and it has not reached the quality of white swallows."
Rou Niangqi said: "Miss Shuang'er, bird's nest doesn't need to be made of mud, so what is it made of?" ”
"Spit."
"What?" Rou Niang thought she had heard it wrong.
"The swiftlet of Zilingzhou, its mucus glands are very developed, and they will fly to Zilingzhou in March and April every year to build nests and breed offspring, at this time the mucus glands will secrete a large amount of saliva, and the swiftlets will use saliva to build their own nests." Zhao Shuang said in popular science.
"Hahahaha," Rou Niang laughed, "It turns out that the treasure eaten by rich people is bird spit, hahaha...... I really laughed at it! ”
In the kitchen, the housekeeper personally sent a box of bird's nests: a whole semi-circular bird's nest, bright white in color, crystal clear, without a trace of stray hair.
This quality is really the quality of the tribute, it seems that this Liu Governor is not simple.
But there is only such a piece, and it has to be made for the eldest young master to eat, and whether he can taste it depends on the technology.
At Mrs. Xiang's dining table, Mrs. Zhang personally served a bowl of crystal clear bird's nest, decorated with bright red wolfberries, which looked pleasing to the eye.
Mrs. Xiang said: "Didn't this piece of Baiyan from Zilingzhou be used by the eldest young master to make it?" Why, the eldest young master has a bad mouth, and he can't even eat the white swallows of Zilingzhou? ”
Mrs. Zhang said with a smile: "The eldest young master has already sent a bowl there, and this bowl is for Mrs. Xiao." That Miss Zhao's cooking skills are really good, such a small piece of bird's nest actually made two bowls! ”
In fact, Zhao Shuang made four bowls, and the other two bowls were being eaten in their small courtyard.
Mrs. Xiang nodded: "This Miss Zhao is really a wonderful person!" ”
It's a pity that the eldest young master's anorexia shouldn't be cured, since he has been cured and has done something he shouldn't do, he must have the intention to suffer the consequences.
Mrs. Xiang scooped up a spoonful of bird's nest with a spoon and put it in her mouth, "Sizzle-" Silky, delicate and refreshing, there is no original fishy smell at all, it is simply delicious!
Mrs. Xiang originally didn't like the taste of bird's nest very much, but the taste of this bowl of bird's nest was really beyond her original impression of bird's nest.
Miss Zhao, the cook, should be kept for a while before dealing with it.