The authentic sour plum soup must be made with rock sugar. Black plum and hawthorn are oily and greasy, appetizing and spleen-relieving, plum soup has a good taste, and it avoids excessive sugar intake for drinkers.

Li Yuqing saw a recipe in modern times, which is said to be the authentic method of old Beijing, and she also tried it herself, and the sour plum soup made was quite delicious.

Use two taels of black plum, two taels of black dates, two taels of hawthorn, one penny of licorice, two coins of tangerine peel, four taels of dried osmanthus, three taels of rock sugar, and twelve liters of water. (In the ancient method of measuring with the unified currency of Qin, one tael = 30 grams, one coin = 3 grams, and one liter = 200 milliliters.) ）

There are a lot of people in her house now, and there is a lot of sour plum soup to boil, just increase the amount of each serving according to the proportion of the recipe.

Li Yuqing first soaked the black plum, black date, hawthorn, licorice, and tangerine peel in warm water for two quarters of an hour, which not only could remove the dust outside, but also added more flavor when boiling.

Let the maids make a fire, and when the time is up, put the soaked things into the pot and boil, only half of the water.

By the time it boiled, the soup had turned reddish-brown, and gurgling bubbles bubbled out of the bottom of the pot, bursting on the surface of the water, escaping with the air, and filling the room with a sour smell.

Green orange swallowed his saliva: "It smells so sour, won't it be very sour!" ”

Fan Sakura sniffed the air carefully, and couldn't help but ask, "Is Miss boiling a medicine?" ”

Hearing Fan Sakura's inquiry, Red Rose quietly paid attention to this side, watching Li Yuqing's reaction to Fan Sakura. She knows a person's personality from people's behaviors, and she wants to know what kind of person her young lady is, so that she can plan for her future actions.

Li Yuqing smiled, very gentle and harmless: "This is not medicine, it is a drink, called sour plum soup." Later, you have to add sugar again, it is a sweet and sour taste, and after being chilled with well water for a few moments, it is the most suitable for summer drinking, appetizing and relieving the heat. ”

As Li Yu's words fell, a wave of expectation rose in everyone's hearts, there are not many ideas to cool off the heat after the heat, and most people are tormented in the summer.

There are merchants who make ice cellars in the winter to store ice cubes and sell them in the summer, the price is very expensive, and it is a consumable, and it is not used up.

In previous years, Mama Yang could only buy a little ice, which was only enough for Li Yuqing to put on the bedside when she was sleeping.

Another way to beat the heat is to chill the melons and fruits in well water and eat them, these melons and fruits must be juicy, such as watermelon. However, Li Yuqing learned that the watermelons here are still not cheap, there is no modern planting and selection technology, the yield is not high, and the sale is expensive.

Then find a shady place to rest, drink cold water, play a fan, take a cold shower and other methods that can only temporarily reduce the heat.

Now that I have a drink to cool off, I am naturally very happy. Hongmei forgot her purpose in excitement for a while, staring at the sour plum soup in the pot without blinking.

After boiling, Li Yuqing poured out the soup to dry, put the base into the pot, poured in the remaining half of the water, and boiled over high heat.

Don't think that the second use of the boiled base will make the soup lighter, on the contrary, the second time you boil it, you can fully exert the effect of the base and boil out the essence inside.

Wait until it boils, turn to low heat and boil slowly for two quarters of an hour, then add rock sugar, after the rock sugar melts, you can turn off the fire, and at this time you can also add some osmanthus into it, so that the taste of sour plum soup is more sweet.

Li Yuqing forgot to ask Zhou Quan to buy some dried osmanthus and came back, so he didn't add it this time. She will definitely remember to buy it next time, the sour plum soup with osmanthus is really perfect.

After mixing the first boiled and the second boiled together, she and Bihe put the sour plum soup into the well and chilled it, and then enjoyed it when they were cold after dinner.

Several people boiled in the kitchen for a long time, although they were sweating from the steaming water, Li Yuqing was still very happy, and there was a cold sour plum soup at night to relieve the heat.

Finally, I can enjoy the cool pleasure for a while, and get rid of this annoying heat. Although it was only for a moment, it was a familiar smell that made her heart calm and serene.

It was still very uncomfortable to be slimy, so she went back to the wing room and asked Mama Yang to arrange for someone to carry some water to take a bath, and asked Hongmei and the others who followed her to the kitchen to take a bath. She sweated, and so did the people with her.

After taking a shower, it was still bright, but it was already evening. The white clouds are like soft marshmallows, and they occupy the blue sky one by one, revealing only a few traces of blue, and tomorrow will be sunny again.

Li Yuqing looked up at the clouds in the sky and muttered to herself.

She didn't have much appetite for dinner, and she kept thinking about the sour plum soup chilled in the well, and looked at the plain white porridge in front of her with a few side dishes, and only moved slightly.

After everyone had eaten, Li Yuqing took out the sour plum soup from the well, left a small half and continued to put it in the well for tomorrow to drink, took some to the inner courtyard, and asked the servants to divide the rest.

Back in the front yard of the inner house, Bihe and the others set up the tables and chairs, she found a transparent glass cup from overseas, and poured a full cup. Lying on the chair leisurely with his legs crossed, tasting this damn sweetness.

The breeze blew lightly, lightly touching her cheeks, and the slightly hot wind became gentle and comfortable under the infection of her good mood. Sure enough, happy water is still happy water, a familiar and beautiful taste, which makes her feel comforted and satisfied in this lonely world...

She drank happily, the sweet and sour taste, the cold taste, from the tip of the tongue to the stomach, were invaded by this fascinating taste, and the exhaled air was dyed with a trace of sweet and sour beauty.

Hongmei and the others tasted it carefully, and they were amazed by the taste at the beginning.

There are almost no girls who can resist this sweet and sour taste of love, and they are even more intoxicated with such tea. I'm afraid that I'll accidentally finish drinking, so I take small sips and cherish the taste.

Li Yuqing caught a glimpse of their actions, and hurriedly said: "Don't drink so carefully, just take a big sip!" The ingredients of this sour plum soup are not worth any money, so I will make some of them every day in the future, and I will be able to drink enough to relieve the heat! ”

A few people's eyes lit up, if they could drink this sour plum soup every day, it was delicious and relieved of the heat, wouldn't it be difficult to have a good summer?

"Drinking this kind of fairy water every day, isn't it a fairy-like life, Miss, I have never seen this kind of sour plum soup, how does Miss know!" Bihe was amazed and puzzled, and her little face changed two expressions, looking very entangled.

Li Yuqing chuckled, how could there be a formula from modern times, how to explain it, "Well, I saw it in a miscellaneous book before, I just wanted to give it a try, but I didn't expect it to be really successful." ”

It's okay to perfunctory Bihe's girl like this, Green Ju won't ask more, and the two of them don't know the situation. Mama Yang and the books in Zimo's study are often read, I don't know if I have read them, if I have read them all, this answer is really untenable.

Trying to think about the memories in my head, Mama Yang will come over in a while, and she will definitely ask about it, you have to think of an idea quickly!

Hey? It seems that the original owner's mother still left a box of books, which she brought from Zhou's house, and locked it with a key, only she could read it, and then Zhou Hui died, and the box was kept in her boudoir, and the key was also in her hand, and she hadn't seen it yet.

I don't know what kind of books are inside, I guess it should be an important family study of the Zhou family, if there are some special diet recipes in it, it is also said in the past... She had to find a moment to see what books were inside, and then she suddenly remembered that there was such a box of books, and she was also curious.

Sure enough, after a while, Mama Yang came over, praised the sour plum soup, and asked Li Yuqing what she thought of.

"My mother left a book in the cage to read, and said that there was a recipe, so I tried it."

Mama Yang nodded, "What my sister's mother left behind are all good things, so you have to take a good look at them seriously." ”

He also advised: "The books inside should be taken care of, they should be the books of experience slowly handed down by the ancestors of the Zhou family, and they should be respected." ”

Li Yuqing nodded sincerely to indicate that he understood.

At this time, there were already more mosquitoes, and Li Yuqing was waiting for the cool outside, so he used wormwood to smoke the wing room and study for half an hour to repel mosquitoes and kill insects.

Wormwood has a strong smell of herbs when it burns, and it doesn't smell very good, and Li Yuqingjue's taste is a little choking, so every time after smoking, he has to burn a light spice to remove the smell before he is willing to go in.

After it got dark, Li Yuqing went to the study to get a few books and went back to the boudoir. She completed the task of transcribing today, so she stopped writing in the evening, and only took the book to be examined repeatedly.

I also brought a newly bought book, and when I was tired of reading the book, I looked at the picture book and adjusted my thinking - an article I read from modern times, changing my thinking is equivalent to letting my brain rest. She thinks it's very useful, and she uses this method to learn in high school and college, and the effect is that she has experimented well.

Before I finished drinking the sour plum soup, I took it to the side room and continued to drink it. While reading a book, I drank sour plum soup, and I was in a very good mood and more efficient.

Today's vigil is a vigil for the cherry blossoms, and the new maid has taken a new shift. Pink cherry blossoms embroidered the purse with words ordered by Li Yuqing today. The three of them went back to rest, she didn't like too many people to accompany her.

Pink Sakura was a little cramped, her teeth biting her lower lip, letting go, biting again, and so on.

Li Yuqing looked at Fan Sakura's entanglement, thinking that she should be alone and not very accustomed to her new master.

Fan Sakura was abducted by traffickers when she was a child, and she was sold to her when she signed a current account to be a maid in several houses, and she was sold to her at this time.

Fan Sakura is a person who knows how to measure herself, and she has experienced several mansions, and she is sensitive and intelligent, but she is a little cautious. She also deliberately asked today to test what kind of master she was, and after listening to her answer, the whole person was a lot more relaxed, and at this time the two were alone but nervous.

Li Yuqing led Fan Ying to chat for a while, and made her smile.