Chapter 82: Roasted Tea
The eldest grandson Yan was stunned, what did he think, how could there be a big iron pot here.
You must know that iron was a scarce material in the Tang Dynasty, and he did have it in his house, but this tea garden has not yet reached that level.
"Didn't you?"
Li Yanran frowned, isn't there even an iron pot here?
"There is no here, but there is one in the Changsun Mansion, Zhao Wu, go back to the mansion immediately and get the iron pot."
Eldest Sun Yan was embarrassed for a while, and immediately instructed Zhao Wu to go back to the house to fetch the iron pot.
Looking at the back of Zhao Wu leaving, Li Yanran also shook her head.
A few people looked at Li Yanran a little overwhelmed, what should they do next without a pot?
"Why don't I make a pot of tea, let's taste the wonder of this new tea?"
Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Changsun Yan was also scratching his head, and he was about to show his tea-making skills.
"Forget it, let's sift through this bud tea first."
Li Yanran said directly, forget about your dark cuisine.
I'm really afraid that I will drink your tea and be poisoned by you.
Everyone poured all the bud tea in the basket on top of a bamboo strip, stared at the big eyes and began to pick tea.
Until everyone was dazzled, Zhao Wu galloped over with the donkey cart of the eldest grandson Yan.
Looking at the iron pot that Zhao Wu took down from the carriage, Li Yanran was also stunned.
This is what you call a big iron pot?
Is this fifty centimeters?
But now it's useless, and I'm not qualified to pick and choose.
instructed Cheng Chubi to cut down a few bamboos, remove the leaves to make a broom for roasting tea, and then put the iron pot on the stove.
Heat it slightly with the stove fire first, feel almost the most than half a catty of bud tea poured into the pot, this pot is too small to pour too much bud tea, it will cause the bud tea to be heated unevenly, affecting the quality of the tea.
Cheng Chubi took a broom made of bamboo and began to stir-fry rapidly according to Li Yanran's instructions, and after about two or three minutes, the tea leaves in the iron pot had become a little dark, which was the phenomenon of the water in the tea leaves being fried.
Raise the iron pot so that the temperature of the iron pot drops slightly, and then wave the broom again to let the tea leaves spin in the pot.
When the tea leaves start to wrinkle, condense into strips, and are sticky, raise the iron pot again to let the temperature of the iron pot drop a little more.
Stir-fry until the tea leaves get into the bamboo of the broom, and after reheating and frying several times, when the leaves of the bud tea have dried up three or four times, Cheng Chubi took an iron pot and poured the fried tea leaves on top of the bamboo strips.
The fried tea leaves are dark and green in color, which is exactly the same as the tea that Li Yanran drank in later generations, and it is almost the same.
Seeing that the first roasted tea could be made like this, Li Yanran was also very satisfied.
"Brother Li, your method of stir-frying tea is peculiar, this tea smells fragrant and peculiar, I don't know what it tastes like when boiled?" Changsun Yan sniffed his nose, and was also a little stunned.
He doesn't say what kind of tea drinker he is, but under the influence of his ears and eyes, he still has some insight into tea.
The tea leaves that are fried in this way are indeed much more fragrant than the best that Daddy treasured.
Li Yanran is full of black lines, if you dare to boil this tea and eat it, I guarantee that you will not be able to step out of this tea garden.
Cheng Chubi grabbed a handful of tea leaves, put it in his mouth, and spit it out after chewing it.
"The tea flavor is very strong, but some of it is hard, if you really want to cook it, it is estimated that it will not be delicious."
Li Yanran glanced at Cheng Chubi, can you put my tea down.
Cow chewing peony, she has a deep understanding.
Li Yanran held the new tea like a calf, and the milk was fierce and fiercely rushed to a few people: "Don't touch my tea, it's not boiled and eaten, it's not eaten raw, it's brewed and drunk." ”
"Soaking and drinking?"
How many people were stunned, soaking and drinking?
What a fairy method this is.
"That's right, there's a spring here, go get a pot here."
Li Feng nodded, and left directly with a water bottle.
There will be spring water in all tea plantations, otherwise, irrigation is a big problem.
After all, relying on the sky to eat is somewhat unreliable.
After a while, Li Feng came back with a kettle, which was filled with clear spring water.
Take a small pot and put it on the stove to smoke the water, and look at the boiling spring water, and everyone's eyes are full of anticipation.
After all, drinking tea, this is the first time they have encountered it.
Li Yanran took out a few teacups, put them in front of everyone, grabbed some freshly fried tea leaves and put them in the teacups, and then Li Feng lifted water and poured them into the teacups one after another.
Brewing with boiling water, the tea leaves curled up in the city began to stretch in the water when heated, and the original clear tea water gradually became green and transparent, looking like a piece of jade, placed in the tea cup.
A light and distant tea fragrance also spreads, and the smell makes people feel shocked.
"Huh?"
"This tea looks really different from what we used to drink."
Changsun Yan is also a little knowledgeable, and he has drunk countless good teas, and this tea is more than a step better than the tea he has eaten before.
As he spoke, he grabbed a handful of salt in his hand and was about to throw it in, but Li Yanran knocked it off directly with a broom.
"This is a tasting tea, don't add anything strange to me."
Li Yanran is drunk, you still add rotten things to me, isn't it bad things?
After that, she picked up the teacup, gently blew the tea leaves floating on it, sniffed it with her nose, and then took a small sip.
It feels okay, and it tastes similar to the dozen or so bags of tea that I bought in later generations.
In the end, roasting tea is a technical job, which is easy to say, but difficult to say.
In addition to the quality of the tea, the more skilled the worker, the better the tea that will be fried.
This is like the chefs of later generations, some people can make the same raw materials at the level of a state banquet, and some people can only make a big mess of stew.
is a new hand, just relying on the video seen by later generations, she can make it, and she is already very satisfied without frying the tea.
Seeing the satisfied expression on Li Yanran's face, several people on the side immediately picked up the tea cup impatiently, followed Li Yanran's example, and began to drink tea.
Changsun Yan and Li Siwen were okay, Cheng Chubi and Wei Chihuan were stunned and blew out in one go, spraying the opposite Changsun Yan's face full of tea foam.
The eldest grandson Yan pulled the tea leaves on his face, gave the two of them a look that you were waiting for, and slowly drank the tea in the cup.
After a cup of tea, the four of them put down the tea cup with a look of aftertaste, and looked at Li Yanran with a hint of admiration.
The tea flavor is fragrant and far away, and the tea is rich in tea flavor, and there is even some sweetness in the end.
Compared with the tea in front of me, the tea I ate before was simply pig food, no, even pigs wouldn't eat it.
At this moment, a voice floated in their hearts, tea, that's how to drink.
After a cup of tea, Cheng Chubi couldn't wait to take the kettle in Li Feng's hand and make tea for a few people again.
This kind of delicacy is really rare in the world, and only Brother Li can have this kind of miraculous ability, which can turn decay into magic.
Just when a few people were tasting tea, the old tea maker also returned from the mountain with the craftsman, smelling the fragrance of tea in the air, and the whole person was surprised.
Straight to a few people, looking at the tea in their cups, a gleam flashed in his eyes.
After glancing at a few people, the old tea maker asked a little embarrassedly: "A few sons, can you... Can you let the old people taste this tea? ”