Lying on a lounge chair in the midday sun, feeling the sea breeze, holding a cup of cold tea in hand, and with two plates of light pastries beside, this is a day that even gods wouldn't want to have. These pastries were specially prepared by Yu Xiuming's family. When uploading them, he even brought a chef and a master pastry chef, so that they could eat fresh pastries at any time. These were even Wang Shiyu's favorite pastries that were not particularly sweet.
Just when Wang Shiyu went to the kitchen to ask if there were any pastries, the chef brought out two plates for her and asked her to eat them first, saying that the new ones would not be out for a while. As everyone was busy cleaning the kitchen when they got on the boat, they had to arrange the things they brought so that it would be easier to take them, so the fire had not been started yet.
"Miss Wang, the fire hasn't started yet. These are the pastries I brought from home. They might be a little sweet. Please eat them first while I start cooking."
Two plates of pastries were brought over, one was mung bean cake and the other was lily and lotus seed cake. They were beautiful in appearance, but tasted a bit sweet. Maybe too much sugar was added when making them, or maybe it was the unique taste of people in this era. This did not suit her taste, but it was okay to eat a little occasionally. Moreover, there was already something like granulated sugar here, which was even sweeter than modern white sugar. They were all handmade, and I don’t know how they were purified.
Wang Shiyu had specifically inquired about it before, and heard that it was someone in the royal family who specifically proposed to improve the formula. As for who in the royal family, no one knew, because when it was promoted at the time, it was only mentioned that someone in the royal family proposed to change it. There was only one white sugar in these formulas, and the rest had no changes. In fact, Wang Shiyu was a little curious. Compared with the difficulty of refining white sugar, it is actually easier to refine refined salt. Why didn't he directly tell them the method of refining refined salt? If the method of refining refined salt was told, they would no longer have to eat large grains of salt that are slightly bitter, yellow in color, and unpalatable.
That's right, Wang Shiyu's family now eats coarse-grained salt with a slightly bitter taste. Even though Wang Shiyu has a way to purify it, she has never used it. She even keeps the formula secret and has never revealed it at all. Salt is a strategic material, whether in modern times or ancient times.
It was not something a commoner like her could interfere with. She might have just purified the refined salt, but she would be buried in a foreign land the next moment, deader than dead. Her face would probably be scratched.
Otherwise, even if you refine it for your own consumption, you will still be guilty, and there will even be a collective responsibility system. If others find out that one of your relatives is making salt and you don't report it, then your nine clans will start playing Candy Crush, unless they are those nine clans that are relatively far away.
Make sure that there will be no communication between the two parties, so as to avoid the Nine Clans Candy Crush. The reason why Wang Shiyu wants to bring the old man and others to Jinling is also because of this. The old man has done too many tricks, and Wang Shiyu simply can't stand the old man's suicidal behavior.
That's why he tried every possible way to send the old man to Jinling. The old man in Jinling would definitely seek death and become even more powerful. Anyway, they were far away in Jizhou City and would not be implicated at all. Moreover, there was a stepmother in Jizhou City who wanted to kill them. Zhou Qingyun had already written to them to explain what the Princess Zheng wanted to do, and asked them to be careful when going out during this period of time so as not to be taken advantage of by others.
It was not during this period that Wang Shiyu directly sent the old man away with all her tricks. She finally breathed a sigh of relief and went straight to the sea with Yu Xiuming and the others to start playing. Otherwise, if the old man was there, she would have no mood to go out and play. She just wanted to stare at the old man every day to see how he did things, and not let him get herself into trouble.
So the salt they ate was coarse salt bought directly from the grocery store. Salt is actually quite expensive nowadays. After all, if you want to sell salt, you must have merchant qualifications, and merchant qualifications need to be purchased with money, so the salt they sold was not cheap at all. They even had to be exclusive agents. The emperor gave people distributor qualifications, and then people below could sell it.
On the contrary, white sugar has become cheaper. I heard that some sugarcane forests were planted here. I heard that the sugarcane forests have a very high sugar yield, which is why the price of white sugar has been slowly lowered. And through step-by-step purification, we have granulated sugar, and even brown sugar has become popular.
These are what Wang Shiyu heard from Aunt Niu and the others. If she hadn't suddenly remembered this matter while eating the cakes today, she probably wouldn't have taken it to heart. After all, she still had a lot of sugar, so she didn't care too much about it. But now that she thought about it, she suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong.
It’s the method of purifying white sugar. I guess it must be related to the time travel. I just don’t know who is so unlucky. He only did this one thing after the time travel and there was no follow-up. What’s the matter? Was the whole family directly wiped out?
Because Wang Shiyu specially sent people to investigate the food in various places and bought some various recipes to see if there were any customs and habits that were particularly similar to modern ones. Except for the granulated sugar, there was no difference in other aspects. There were even quite a lot of snacks, and no one knew who developed them.
Moreover, there are many differences in the recipes that Wang Shiyu came up with. In fact, they all exist, but the names are different, and the ingredients in them are also different, and the tools used are even more different. Therefore, the things in her dowry recipes are basically the improved taste of the original ingredients. Many spices are even brought in from overseas. The Yu family is a big maritime trader, so this matter is very easy to handle. Even if they only sell seasonings in the future, it will also make a huge amount of money.
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