To make shrimp dumplings, you naturally have to have chives.

Color and fragrance, shape and meaning.

Without chives, this shrimp dumpling is a big difference in the word fragrant.

Moreover, chives also have antipyretic and expectorant, antibacterial and antiviral, anti-cancer and anti-cancer, and prevent colds, headaches, nasal congestion, etc., so the crystal shrimp dumplings that Ivan is going to make now must be added with an appropriate amount of chives as ingredients.

Chives are a seasonal vegetable, suitable for planting in spring and autumn, and the growing season is as long as two or three months, so there are no chives in Jinling in this season.

So when Wu Xiaozheng took out a handful of chives from the flannel bag, Dong Xiaowan immediately exclaimed: "How can you have chives?"

How can I have chives?

In later generations, greenhouse vegetable technology was popular, and it was available all year round!

Ivan really couldn't explain this.

"You don't care about this, hurry up and let Xiaocui take it to wash, I'll wait to use it." ”

Since there is no way to explain it, then simply do not explain it.

Before Dong Xiaowan reacted, he took out something again.

He pulled out a large glass bottle filled with white and thin crystals.

"Clear glass bottle?"

Dong Xiaowan exclaimed again.

It was impossible for her not to scream.

In ancient times, glass is the narrow name of glass, but also a very valuable item, known as the first of China's five famous vessels (gold and silver, jade, glass, ceramics, bronze), one of the seven treasures of Buddhism, since ancient times, glass has been the exclusive use of the royal family, there are extremely strict grade requirements for users, so the folk are rare.

Its value is far more precious than later generations can imagine.

For example, the sand monk in "Journey to the West" was demoted to heaven because he broke a glass cup.

In the Ming Dynasty, the ancient method of making glass has been lost, leaving only the incomplete part, and the glass made is very impermeable, so this thing is more valuable in the Ming Dynasty.

And what Ivan is now taking out is a fully transparent exquisite glass bottle, in Dong Xiaowan's eyes, its preciousness can be imagined.

If such a bottle is taken out and sold, it can at least replace the entire Qin Tower.

Ivan realized something was wrong.

Although he checked the information all night, there were still many places that could not be found properly.

Dong Xiaowan's reaction made him realize that this bottle is not simple.

"Well, this thing is worth a little money, you keep it well, don't let outsiders know. ”

His reaction was still okay.

Dong Xiaowan stroked her chest, and didn't dare to reach out to pick it up.

At this point, she was a little frightened.

She began to wonder about something else.

"What's in there?"

She was thinking, such a precious bottle, the contents must be precious, right?

"Refined salt. ”

An answer that she didn't expect.

No way?

Such a precious thing to hold salt?

Salt is precious, but it's not a big deal!

For example, the Simon man who wanted to protect her yesterday was a smuggler of salt.

What she didn't know was that this salt was different from the other.

In the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of salt was obtained through salt lake refining and rock salt mining, among which, the lake salt crystallization is the so-called refined salt, which belongs to the high price of the nobles, and the common people eat more ground salt, which belongs to coarse salt.

But even the refined salt here is not bitter, and it will taste a little bitter.

This is because the removal of bitter brine requires the use of a large amount of soda ash, which was still difficult to manufacture in batches in the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why Ivan wanted to bring the refined salt was because he tasted the bitter taste of the salt here.

That's not allowed for a chef who strives for perfection.

"Hurry up!"

Seeing that Dong Xiaowan was still in a daze, Ivan urged.

"You should keep such a precious thing yourself, if it is broken, I can't afford it. ”

Dong Xiaowan still refused to answer.

"If it's broken, it's broken, I still have it. ”

Seeing that Dong Xiaowan insisted on not answering, Ivan put the bottle on the board at random, and began to take things out of the flannel bag again.

This time it's a small glass bottle, just as delicate, but with some yellowish powder inside.

"What is this?"

Dong Xiaowan was already a little speechless, and no longer entangled in the preciousness of the glass bottle.

"Pepper. ”

"Oh. ”

Dong Xiaowan replied solemnly, thinking to herself, this thing is almost the same as a glass bottle, and it is indeed much more precious than refined salt.

In this day and age, pepper was also a precious thing.

Pepper is native to the west coast of India and has been imported from Central and South Asia.

Because it is a foreign product, the value of pepper is golden, and Tao Gu of the Song Dynasty called pepper "the messenger of golden pills" in the "Qing Yilu Medicinal Spectrum". And gold is common, pepper is hard to buy.

Therefore, in the Tang and Song dynasties, having pepper in the home was a symbol of status and wealth.

One thing that says about the special status of pepper.

According to the "New Tang Dynasty Book: The Biography of Yuan Zai", when Yuan Zai, a corrupt official of the Tang Dynasty who had been an official to the prime minister, was raided by the imperial court, he actually copied out "pepper to 800 stones". Yu Qian, a patriotic minister of the Ming Dynasty, once made a big comment on this, and he said in the poem "Untitled": "Eight hundred peppers, a thousand years of shame." ”

By the Ming Dynasty, pepper had begun to be cultivated in small quantities, and its price had dropped because of the maritime trade, but only a small number of aristocratic families could afford it.

As a lotus cook, Ivan deals with pepper and other seasonings every day, and is very familiar with the role of pepper.

He brought not only pepper, but also other condiments.

"It's light soy sauce. ”

"It's cooking wine. ”

"It's fuel guzzling. ”

......

He brought out all the necessary seasonings.

And it's all in clear glass bottles.

Looking at the beautiful glass bottles resting on the board, Dong Xiaowan was already a little numb.

She shifted her attention to something else.

Derpy's treasure bag.

All these precious things are taken out of this treasure bag!

"Anything else?"

"It's gone, it's gone. ”

Ivan again flatly denied it.

It's really gone, and the materials and ingredients needed for crystal shrimp dumplings are basically complete.

No, there's one thing missing.

Ivan almost forgot.

"Oh, and one more, watercress. ”

He reached into his pocket again.

What he took out was actually lettuce, which was used for decoration on plates, but lettuce had not yet been introduced to China in this era, and Ivan changed his name in order not to surprise everyone.

Dong Xiaowan grabbed the flannel bag, carried it first, made sure that it was light, opened the bundle again, reached out and touched it, it was indeed gone.

"How did you conjure up so many things?"

She finally got to the heart of the matter.

Obviously, there are so many things that this bag can't hold.

She was expecting Ivan's explanation.