bookrebus Chapter 268: Making Snacks
Chapter 268: Making Snacks
"Although the wound has healed a lot, Your Majesty still cannot hold a sword, let alone do any strenuous work with the injured hand. You have to rest for at least ten days or half a month."
Ye Jintang warned Xiao Mo worriedly.
"I know."
According to Xiao Mo's previous experience, with such a serious injury, it would be a sign of great medical skills for the doctor to be able to move within three months, let alone ten days or half a month. Now Ye Jintang only asked him to endure not moving his arm for ten days or half a month, and he didn't know how happy he was.
Not only is his wife good at making money, she is also an excellent doctor. He doesn't know what good deeds he did in his previous life to have the blessing of marrying her.
Ye Jintang quickly changed the medicine for Xiao Mo. Not long after they sat down, Lu Zhu brought their meals into the room.
In the past, the two of them often ate separately, but ever since Xiao Mo was injured, they started eating together. After all, it was somewhat inconvenient for Xiao Mo to have only one hand, and Ye Jintang could help him by his side.
After lunch, Zhou Cong brought over the chestnut seedlings he bought, a total of 20 trees of five varieties.
"I have inquired carefully, and the better chestnut cake shops in Mucheng use these varieties of chestnuts."
"Well, what are the names of these chestnut seedlings? Have you marked them all?"
"Have."
Zhou Cong separated the chestnut seedlings and hung a small tag with the name on each seedling.
"Yes, you go ahead and do your work."
"Yes."
The chestnut seedlings are more than one meter tall, look lush and full of vitality.
Ye Jintang waved his hand and took everything into the space.
An ordinary chestnut seedling only takes a cup of tea to grow. By the time Ye Jintang finished practicing archery, the chestnut seedlings had grown into big trees, and each tree was hung with fist-sized chestnut balls.
When collecting the chestnut balls, she was still wondering whether she was collecting chestnut balls or chestnut kernels.
Bamboo baskets appeared one after another at the edge of the field. Ye Jintang looked over and saw that the baskets were full of plump chestnut kernels.
She marked the chestnuts according to their different varieties.
Five bamboo baskets filled with chestnut kernels appeared in Ye Jintang's house.
"Madam, I have bought the chestnuts you asked me to buy, and I have also found a cook."
As soon as Gu Waner pushed the door open, she saw five large bamboo baskets next to the door.
"You've come just in time. Let the cook mix the chestnuts in the bamboo basket with the chestnuts you bought in a 10:1 ratio to make five kinds of chestnut cakes. We'll try them and see which tastes better."
"Okay, I'll send someone to move the chestnut kernels to the kitchen now."
Gu Wan'er borrowed the inn's kitchen and called on the maids, old women, and servants to guard her to make chestnut cakes together.
Ye Jintang had nothing to do in the afternoon, so he ran to find Master Mu and Liuli to study medicinal herbs and pills together.
"Master, do you have a recipe for making honey pills at a relatively low cost? I want to make some honey pills to sell."
"You can't cut corners here. If the ingredients are not good, the honey pills can't be stored for a long time and will go bad in two or three months. That's not worth it."
"Well, it seems that I really can't make any money from making honey pills in the early stage."
Ye Jintang stayed with Master Mu for the whole afternoon, making a lot of Qi Linglong medicinal powder. She was one step closer to making the elixir of life.
Towards evening, Ye Jintang, who was writing a prescription, suddenly twitched his nose, and a faint sweet smell drifted into the room through the window.
"What smells so good?"
"It seems to be coming from the backyard."
Liuli stood up and leaned on the window to look out.
"It's Wan'er and the others who are making chestnut cakes."
Ye Jintang also went to the window and saw that several large pots had been set up in the backyard at some point. There were seven or eight steamers on them, and steam was coming out of them.
As the steam grew larger, the aroma of the chestnut cake became stronger and stronger, and even Ye Jintang couldn't help swallowing his saliva out of greed.
"I'll go down and see when it's ready. I can't wait to try the chestnut cake."
Liuli hurried downstairs.
When I went downstairs to ask, I was told that I would have to wait a while for the chestnut cake to be ready.
It's really frustrating to be able to smell the fragrance but not be able to eat it.
Ye Jintang then went to the kitchen. She was not craving for the chestnut cake, but she wanted to know how delicious the chestnut cake would be if it was made with chestnuts from space.
"What are you doing? It smells so good."
Xiao Mo and Bai Ziyao came to the backyard together. They were also attracted by the rich chestnut aroma.
The other guests in the inn were also extremely curious, and many of them stood by the windows looking back.
"I want to sell chestnut cakes in the grocery store, and I'm making samples now."
"I see. I'll try it later. It smells so good, so it must taste good."
A group of people couldn't just stand there and chat, so Jiang Heng immediately brought tables and chairs for everyone to sit down.
During the conversation, Bai Ziyao talked about the specialties of various places. When he mentioned that Baoning Prefecture, which was relatively close to Ningchuan Prefecture, was rich in cotton, Ye Jintang's eyes lit up.
Cotton is a good thing. If Ningchuan Prefecture can also grow it on a large scale, she can spin the cotton into thread, weave it into cloth, dye it with beautiful patterns, and sell it to other cities in Tianqin State.
"Can Ningchuan Prefecture also grow cotton?"
"There are relatively few cotton plants planted in Ningchuan Prefecture. Even if there are some, they are all near Baoning Prefecture. Further west, the climate is not good, and cotton growth is not good. The bolls will be very small, and the amount of cotton produced will also be greatly reduced."
Ye Jintang nodded, but she was thinking in her heart whether she could cultivate some cotton that could adapt to the climate of Ningchuan Prefecture. If she could really cultivate it, she would make a lot of money.
Just as he was thinking about it, Gu Wan'er, along with a few maids and servants, opened the steamer and brought the steamed chestnut cake to Ye Jintang.
I don’t know where Gu Wan’er found the cook, but her skills are really good. She made four kinds of chestnut cakes, and five servings of each. As soon as they were served, they filled the table.
Looking at the dazzling chestnut cakes in front of him, Ye Jintang was so happy.
The first thing she tried was the osmanthus chestnut cake topped with osmanthus sugar.
Osmanthus sugar is supposed to be very sweet, and when mixed with chestnut cake, it can easily cover up the chestnut fragrance of the chestnut cake.
But when you take a bite of the chestnut cake in Ye Jintang's hand, you can smell the aroma of osmanthus and chestnut intertwined together, and it is not as sweet as imagined. It tastes sweet and delicious, leaving a lingering fragrance on your lips and teeth, making you want to eat a second piece.
After taking just one bite of the chestnut cake, Ye Jintang knew that the chestnuts produced in his space were of absolutely unrivaled quality.
Then she tasted several other varieties of chestnut cakes, compared them one by one, and selected the chestnuts with the best taste.
The chestnuts in Mucheng are generally named after place names. Ye Jintang finally chose Nanchun chestnuts to plant on a large scale in her space.
We tried making chestnut cake today and made a lot. Ye Jintang and his friends couldn’t finish it, so we gave some to the guests in the inn to try.