When the bear child ate the sugar gourd, Woody threw his cheeks out in exasperation and nibbled on it as if the sugar gourd that was in pieces in his mouth was his cheeky fifth brother-in-law. The fastest update
However, with Zhu Pingan in the little loli to buy snacks, also gave him a few copies, the bear child’s attitude has a hundred and eighty degree change, mouth inside brother-in-law long brother-in-law short, called the old joyful, long ago Zhu Pingan “bullying” him to the back of the head.
He really has a mother’s milk, ah.
Zhu Pingan swept his eyes at the grinning bear child, slightly shook his head and smiled.
Summer in the Ming Empire, although there is no air conditioning fan, but a variety of cold drinks are still very rich, roadside teahouses, restaurants and even vendors to provide a variety of cold drinks, sugar green beans, watermelon juice, pear juice, ginger honey juice, lychee dew, plum wine and so on, than the modern cold drink variety is not much less.
In addition to cold drinks, there was also shaved ice sold, mixed with sugar and spices for consumption, a prototype of modern ice cream. However, even so, the price of shaved ice is much more expensive than cold drinks, and the price is so high that even people in the imperial capital can only afford to eat it from some of the rich families and aristocrats.
Zhu Pingan led the bear child and the little loli into a tea stall selling shaved ice, and asked for three portions of shaved ice, ready to taste how different the ancient ice cream was from the modern ice cream.
The shaved ice was served in a small porcelain bowl, mixed with fruit juice, sugar, milk and spices, and served in the bowl like rice.
The appearance is far from the modern semi-solid ice cream, the taste and flavour is also very disappointing to Zhu Pingan.
However, the bear child and the little loli are eating happily, especially the bear child eating all over his face.
Then look at the other people sitting in the tea stall, are also eating a face of satisfaction, have the feeling that this thing should only be found in heaven, where on earth can be heard a few times.
This is all so satisfied, that is to say, if you let them taste the modern Haagen Dazs words …… Zhu Pingan touched his chin.
The difficulty was not very great.
Although Zhu Pingan does not know chemistry, but the method of using saltpeter dissolved in water to absorb heat to make ice is still well known.
Although the ancients had mastered the method of harvesting ice in winter and storing it in ice cellars for summer use a long time ago, the ice stored in this way was expensive, and only the great families of the great clans had the financial resources to afford it.
In addition to the ice stored in this way, there is only saltpeter ice this way from the ice. This is the end of the Tang Dynasty, people in the production of gunpowder mining saltpeter, accidentally found that saltpeter dissolved in water will absorb a lot of heat, can make the water condensed into ice.
However, through Zhu Pingan’s observation of the price of shaved ice and cold drinks in the market, it is estimated that there should not be many people who have mastered the method of making ice from saltpeter, or else it should be so expensive, and the price is too much more expensive than modern ice cream, and it is estimated that even if it is mastered, it is still relatively crude.
With the nitrate ice making method, coupled with Zhu Pingan as a senior foodie, the modern ice cream production method has had an understanding of the general is the ice, milk, jam, starch, and eggs together and stir, half an hour or so will form a semi-solidified ice cream, and then use the thin crispy egg cake as a cone. Although there is no do-it-yourself in modern times, Zhu Pingan believes that with a few more attempts, he should be able to make ice cream, or at least it will be much better than the shaved ice in his hands.
If modern ice cream appeared in Daming, how could it be more competitive than Daming’s shaved ice?……
Of course, it was only an alternative.
“Brother-in-law, I still want to eat.”
In the blink of an eye, the bear child’s bowl of shaved ice was already at the bottom, and the little loli nyonya’s still had half a bowl left.
The bear child looked at Zhu Pingan blearily.
Children can’t eat so much shaved ice, it will spoil their stomachs, Zhu Pingan swept his eyes at the bear child and smiled slightly, “There are many delicious food on the street, save some for your stomachs, I’ll take you to try something else later.”
Although he could not eat another bowl of shaved ice, after hearing that Zhu Ping An would also take him to eat something else, the bear child happily licked the bowl.
After eating the shaved ice, Zhu Pingan led the bear child and Little Lori to continue wandering around.
Because of the snacks, the two little ones didn’t feel tired at all, especially the bear child, running happily.
Slowly wandering to the East District.
Dongcheng District Qihua Gate area is also the economic prosperity of the Imperial City, the Imperial City, in addition to the “former three gates”, is the most prosperous and lively Qihua Gate area.
Zhu Pingan led the bear child and little Lori carefully avoided the traffic, stood under the shade of a tree and looked at this prosperous area.
Zhu Pingan stood in the shade of the trees and looked far away from the Qihua Gate, found that from the Qihua Gate in and out of the flow of people and horses did not stop, a food trucks in an endless stream, leaving the capital to send off the officials, into the capital of the officials of the pilgrimage, the merchants from the imperial capital to the south, from the south to return to the imperial capital of the merchants, in the Qihua Gate in and out.
There was a feeling of a modern railway station, with people coming and going in an endless stream.
Zhu Pingan knew that the prosperity of the Qihua Gate area was due to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which was opened by the Sui Dynasty to connect the north and the south, and was the economic lifeline of the entire empire, and all the grain used in the capital was transported through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
During the Yuan Dynasty, Guo Shoujing also presided over the excavation of the Tonghui River, which was called the Imperial River in the Ming Dynasty, connecting the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.
This allowed grain ships from the south to follow the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to Zhangjiawan in Tongzhou, and then continue along the Tonghui River all the way west to the Qihua Gate pier in the capital.
Qihua Gate was the necessary gate for grain to enter the capital. Grain was unloaded from the canal boats to Qihua Gate Wharf, loaded into the city through Qihua Gate, then stored in the city’s major granaries, and then delivered to the tables of thousands of households through shops. Every mouthful of food for the people of the capital is brought in through this gate.
With so much traffic, this was where the business opportunities were.
Zhu Pingan turned his gaze around, well, sure enough, what he could think of, the ancients could also think of, and there were especially numerous shops in this area.
“Let’s go, let’s go to the front and take a look.”
Zhu Pingan held the little loli in one hand and led the bear child with the other, slowly walking along the shade of the trees towards the Qi Hua Gate.
As he moved forward, Zhu Pingan observed that the footmen unloading goods at the docks accounted for a significant portion of the human traffic here.
It was also true that no matter whether it was merchant traffic, grain transport, or contributions from all directions, as long as it passed through the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, Qihua Gate was a necessary place to pass through. The goods arriving at the Qihua Gate pier through the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal were massive, requiring manpower to carry them off the ships and load them onto the carriages.
Before he even approached Qihua Gate, Zhu Pingan could hear the neat calls of the fibremen at the Qihua Gate wharf, as well as the voices of the footmen shouting “Come and carry the goods”.
Near the Qihua Gate pier, there are many shops selling food, selling buns, steamed buns, small dishes, selling fried rice and noodles, selling meat soup, bean curd soup, rice cake and cut meat, etc. There are all kinds of shops. After unloading the cargo of the footmen, boatmen and other labourers door with a towel on the shoulder, groups of people to find food. It is important for them to replenish their energy for their labour.
A bear child stares at the various colours of food in the stalls and shops, his mouth watering. ….
