Ye Qing stood up, thought about it and said, "Also, you go find a piece of gauze half a foot square, and then give me a half-foot long string, which will be used to wrap spices in a while." ”

"Okay, I'll get it right away." Ye Ying answered, and then got up to find the stove in the corner of the stove.

In a few moments she made a fire, put a small pot with water on top of the stove, and went to find a piece of gauze and string.

Ye washed her hands and dried them, and after she dried them, she found out the big ingredients she had bought during the day.

She packed star anise, cinnamon, fennel, licorice, kaempfera, peppercorns, sand kernels, cardamom, grass fruits, cloves, etc. into gauze according to the proportion in her heart, and tied the mouth with string to make a spice bag.

The water boiling on the stove was boiling, and Ye Qing put the cleaned pig's large intestine into the pot and boiled it for a while, then took it out and drained it.

Then wash the pot, take a piece of washed ginger and pat it, and wash the green onion with the roots and knot it for later use.

After the small pot on the stove was heated, Ye Qing poured a little peanut oil into it, put some rock sugar, and made syrup over low heat first.

Add half a pot of hot water, then add ginger and shallots, add salt and spice packets, and a few dried chilies.

After boiling, she changed to low heat and slowly boiled for a quarter of an hour, and only after the strong aroma came out did she put in the scalded pig's intestine.

"Qingqing, I think this tastes really fragrant, it should be able to be used to marinate some other food, right?"

Ye Qing thought for a while and said in a low voice, "Well, it's okay." However, each lo-mei will have a better effect with different spices. ”

Ye Ying nodded, "It's a pity that it's too hot, and the food that comes out will not be stored for a long time, if you can't finish it in winter, you can put it for a few days." ”

"Actually, if you can, you can dig a Xiaoice cellar in the inn, or make your own ice cubes."

Ye Qinghui said this because the earliest ice refrigerated drink originated in ancient China.

At that time, in order to cool off, the emperors had their slaves take the ice in the winter, store it in the cellar, and then take it out to enjoy in the summer.

Around the end of the Tang Dynasty, people mined a large amount of saltpeter in the production of gunpowder, and found that saltpeter would absorb a lot of heat when dissolved in water, which could cool the water to freeze, and people could make ice in summer.

Later, there were people who bought and sold ice, and they added sugar and spices to the ice to attract customers.

In the Song Dynasty, there were more kinds of cold food in the market, and merchants also added fruits or juices to it.

Merchants in the Yuan Dynasty even added fruit pulp and milk to ice, which was very similar to modern ice cream.

Ye Ying just smiled when she heard this: "The amount of silver needed to dig the ice cellar and store the ice is not a small amount, and we civilians don't even think about this kind of thing."

Even there are only two ice cellars in the town, one is from the government, and the other is left by Huang Shangshu's family in the previous dynasty, in fact, if you want to eat ice, you can go to the Huang family's ice shop to buy it. ”

"There's an ice shop in town?" Ye Qing was a little surprised.

"Well, the people of the Huang family took out large ice cubes when they were in the sky, shaved out ice chips with a planer, and mixed them with sugar water and spices to sell. However, the price of a piece of ice is very expensive, and a one-foot square piece of ice costs a penny. ”

"It's expensive, but it's a good thing to have ice, and I can teach you how to make some summer snacks." For example, cold shrimp and chilled sour plum soup, there are also cold foods that do not require ice, such as cold noodles and cold skin. ”

"Really?" Ye Ying said happily.

"Hmm." Ye Qing nodded.