Chapter 1551: One rice per person (Additional update for jelly and fertilizer, and celebrate the 4 million words of this book.)

Mrs. Zhou was extremely happy: "You really come from the palace, there are so many etiquettes! Eat food, eat food, don't just talk."

It was also when Zhao Xu was growing that he ate very deliciously. Finally, he filled a bowl of rice with chicken soup and saw that there was a small paper basket made of red cardboard next to each guest: "This is another one."

What is it?"

The colander said: "This is a casual gift for the guests. After the banquet, everyone can take it home. If there are unfinished dishes on the table, you can also divide them and take them home for your family to taste."

Zhao Xu was curious: "How do you know about the colander?"

The colander pointed at the table in front of him: "Brother servant, look..."

I saw that the guests at the table in front had already begun to leave. Before leaving, everyone put the bacon, sausages, smoked fish, crispy meat and other dry goods on the table into cardboard boxes. After thanking Su You again, they took them and dispersed.

Fang Zhiwei, the head of the banquet team who came over to help immediately brought people up to clean up. In a blink of an eye, a table was laid, and soon it was full again, and the dishes started again.

This is called a flowing water mat. Times have been getting better in recent years, and weddings and funerals have gradually become popular in Bianjing City.

Zhao Xu thought it was fun and opened the red paper basket. There were fruit candies, milk candies, halva candies, frosted peanuts, spiced peanuts, dried fruits and the like.

Everyone in the Zhou family handed over their share: "Everyone's life has been much better in the past few years. It is said that the people in Bianjing City are all thanks to the empress and the officials, but they heard that the palace is not eating again. This is terrible

It’s really sad.”

"The little official will bring this to the official family, so that the emperor and the official family will not lose money. I heard the boy reading the newspaper said that there are now 150 million people in the Song Dynasty. Even if one person saves a

A grain of rice, not inferior to the Empress Dowager and the official family!"

"Hahaha..." Zhao Xu couldn't stop laughing: "Situ said that if the people pay enough taxes, money and food, they have fulfilled their obligations to the country, and no trace of it can be added rashly."

"But I will definitely take these words to you, madam. It is also my sincerity to the Tian family."

"And now that the drought has eased, meals have been resumed in the palace. Don't worry, Madam."

The Su family's dishes were so novel that Zhao Xu didn't know the names of many of them, and Madam Zhou couldn't tell them, but Colander was clever and introduced them to her eldest brother.

For example, braised eel with garlic and bean paste, three fresh squid and magnolia slices, the most amazing ones are the golden corn made with salted egg yolk and corn kernels, and the colorful jelly made with gelatin, konjac powder, various jam syrups and diced fruits.

It can be said that in terms of food, Suyou has made the Song Dynasty no different from later modern times.

Almost all children love jelly, and Zhao Xu ate it happily: "Can this be packaged and taken away?"

This made Colander worried: "How about I teach my brother to make it himself? It's easier than packing it."

Gelatin is extracted from animal bones and seaweed. In the past, due to lack of bleach, it could not be made transparent and colorless, and it also had a fishy smell. When used in cooking, it must be high-end products such as fish maw, or add seasonings.

Making low-end goods like pork rind jelly.

Animal hide glue can be turned into a colorless and odorless grade that can be used to make jelly, but it is because of something that cannot be beaten with eight sticks - chemical fertilizers.

In decades of research, agriculturists in the Song Dynasty have discovered the role of the three elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in promoting plant production. Among them, nitrogen fertilizer is the easiest to obtain, and the research on phosphorus fertilizer and potassium fertilizer is also on the agenda.

The best fertilizer is the guano of seabirds, which is rich in three substances. After the South China Sea War, a group of guides received schooners as rewards, but they had no money to purchase.

Their first pot of gold came from the guidance of the great city governor, who transported mountains of guano on the Xisha Islands to Hangzhou and Kunshan to be used as fertilizer in the Sitong cotton and oil fields.

Later, the wars caused by the competition for guano resources in the South China Sea were not two incidents at the same time.

Spurred by profits, Sitong began experimenting with phosphate rock and potassium salts as new fertilizers.

The effect was not ideal at first, until chemists from Tianshifu added an excess solution of potassium chloride and ammonia as a regulator, and finally prepared a qualified double-effect fertilizer - potassium dihydrogen phosphate.

Later, medical scientists from Tianshi Mansion first discovered that this thing could greatly increase the yield of yeast and distiller's yeast.

In the process of studying potassium dihydrogen phosphate, it is inevitable to also study another similar salt-sodium dihydrogen phosphate.

As a result, he accidentally invented the phosphoric acid neutralization method and obtained an important chemical substance - hydrogen peroxide.

Use phosphoric acid and sodium dihydrogen phosphate to neutralize the sodium hydroxide solution to a certain extent, and a hydrogen peroxide solution of sodium dihydrogen phosphate will be obtained.

The solution can then be cooled to below five degrees, allowing sodium dihydrogen phosphate to precipitate in large quantities in the form of sodium dihydrogen phosphate undecahydrate crystals. After separation, the hydrogen peroxide can be evaporated.

This is a very widely used bactericide, disinfectant, oxidant and bleach. Each one has its own use. Shi Wei is interested in it for medical disinfection and sterilization and the production of transparent or white oil-based ointments and cosmetics.

Su You's interest in it is to improve the quality of animal gelatin to the point where it is almost colorless and odorless, and to make jelly that children like.

With high-grade gelatin powder, making jelly is actually a simple and fun task, and the colander is often made with his father.

Of course, there are also advanced puddings, milk tofu, cakes, mochi, taro balls, etc., but these are things Colander has not learned yet.

When Su You came back from the ceremony, he found that the two children around the Zhou family were missing. He was not worried about the colander and asked, "Has the junior lieutenant returned just now?"

Everyone in the Zhou family also stood up: "I have to say goodbye after congratulating Tanhua Lang. The kid didn't leave. He went to the kitchen with Master Colander and said he wanted to learn how to cook."

After saying that, he shook his head and said: "You go out to do errands at a young age, poor and sensible person..."

"What?!" Su You was a little panicked. He didn't care about the last sentence of Zhou's overflowing motherly love, and hurriedly walked towards the kitchen. It would be better if he got burned.

When they arrived at the kitchen, they found that all the cooks, including Chef Zhou, had been driven helplessly against the wall. The people controlling them were the middle officials who came with Zhao Xu to issue the edict, giving up the largest room in the kitchen.

Space, the colander was pointing Zhao Xu to pour gelatin into a plate of wine glasses with diced fruits.

"Hahaha, it's so simple. Just pour sugar water on it. I know how to do it!" Zhao Xu was very happy: "What should I do with the colander next?"

"The next step is to put it in an ice cellar and refrigerate it until it becomes jelly tomorrow morning. But since September is approaching, I'd better eat as little cold stuff as possible," Su You said.

He handed a jar of gelatin powder to a lieutenant and said, "My servant has been out for a long time. I'm afraid the saints in the palace are still waiting for a reply. Be careful if you go back late, you will be taught a lesson."

Zhao Xu took the jar and held it in his arms: "Yes, it's time to go back to the palace. I'm very happy today. Situ, don't forget to write down the dishes at today's banquet in the "Cooking Classic", well, especially the golden sand corn and

The frozen crust cake that the colander said."

"I will definitely do as I'm told." Su You respectfully invited Zhao Xu out of the kitchen and to the front door.

The naughty kid finally left. Su You just breathed a sigh of relief, but Zhao Xu, who had only walked a few steps, suddenly turned back: "Situ, don't forget the recipe!"

"I must, I must..."

The lanterns are on at night, the wedding room is decorated with candles, and the guests are leaving.

Su You lay down on the bed and let Wei'er fan him with a white cattail fan: "But I'm so exhausted..."

Shi Wei lay sideways next to Su You, with her left arm supporting her chin and half supporting her body, and fanning herself with her right hand: "Your Majesty is a little naughty. He pretended to be a middle official and came to announce the decree. I don't know how long he pestered the Empress Dowager before he agreed."

Su You smiled and said: "Actually, this is good. Your Majesty is still a child after all, and children should have a child's temperament. Sometimes the court officials are too harsh on Your Majesty."

After finishing speaking, he added: "I don't know what's going on over there with the flat jar. Guan'er's body looks weak."

Shi Wei smiled: "I can't stop worrying about you. Guan'er is also doing morning exercises, but the exercises for men and women in Tianshi Tao are different, so they won't change the body shape greatly."

Only then did Su You feel that this was indeed the case. Chen Wu, for example, looked as weak as ever, but his strength was not small. When he saw him shooting, he knew that the recoil of the gun did not seem to have any effect on him.

Seeing that Su You was silent, Shi Wei said, "How about I go take a look? Go up to the roof without disturbing them."

"You should stop it quickly." Su You directly raised his leg and pressed it on Shi Wei's leg: "How grown up are you now?"

Shi Wei didn't see any movement, Su You's legs were bounced up and returned to their original positions. Shi Wei said angrily: "It's so hot and it's so hot!"
Chapter completed!