Heavenly Dao Formula Chapter 201: Luxury
In the Privy Council, in the lobby of the headquarters.
"Come on, it's done." Xia Fan put the plate full of snacks on the long table, "Come and try the taste."
"Oh!" Qianzhi was the first to raise his hand and replied, "Chichi, good at tasting!"
followed by Li and Shanhui.
Fang Xiandao stared at Xia Fan for a while before raising his eyebrows, "You guy... is really strange."
"How?"
"You are already a fifth-rank official, there is no reason to cook yourself. Shouldn't this kind of thing be left to servants, cooks and maids?"
"The official position has nothing to do with what I want to do, or it is because of this position that I have the energy to do these things." Xia Fan said dismissively, "Besides, few people did this stuff before. Yes, naturally I have to do it myself. Don’t be wordy, you can try it first."
Fang Xiandao picked up the bowl--he also had to admire it, this is definitely a bowl of delicious food. At the bottom is crystal clear ice flakes, all of which are very close in size. A layer of emerald green powder was sprinkled on it, which looked like a small mountain bag at first glance. Through the "mountainside" part, you can see the golden sandwich inside.
He used a spoon to dig a spoon into his mouth, and his tongue suddenly felt sweeter than ever!
The taste level of this thing is far more complicated than he thought.
Fang Xiandao couldn't help taking another bite.
The top thing should be related to tea. He can taste the unique fragrance and astringency of green tea. Then came the coolness brought by the melting of the borneol, and the sweetness that filled the whole mouth.
That golden thing, maybe honey?
But the sweetness is clearly beyond the range of honey, and it almost hit his mind like a wave.
Even though he didn't want Xia Fan to have any chance to be proud, he still couldn't control the hand that was subconsciously stretched out.
This thing is definitely the best cold product!
The habit of eating ice is also found in Lingzhou, especially in the dog days when it is hot and humid. Whether you add ice to the water or enjoy it with goat milk or fruit, you can quickly relieve the discomfort of the hot weather. After all, for the Fang family, ice is not a rare thing. Sometimes they will give free ice to residents around towns as a gift to increase their fame.
But he has never eaten such delicate freezing points.
If adding ice is a means of cooling off the heat, the thing in his hand has already made the ice itself a main dish.
Wait... Fang Xiandao suddenly realized that even he was like this. Isn’t that Qianzhi——
He looked at the living dead and found that Chichi had already held the bowl and licked it.
"Chichi still wants it."
The little girl stared at the plate on the table and said.
"Yes, after all, you are the main force in making shaved ice." Xia Fan smiled and said, "As long as you come to me in the future, there will always be shaved ice to eat."
This guy... won't be still beating the dead, right?
fang first coughed twice, "Chichi? Whenever you go out, you must get my consent first? You should understand this, right?"
The other party showed a hesitant look that was rare.
Live to hell! Is it possible that Young Master Fang's family is not as important as a bowl of dessert in her eyes?
Fang Xiandao stared at Xia Fan in a hurry, "If you do this, I can only say goodbye."
Xia Fan’s helpless stall? "Okay, okay? The recipe for this thing is not complicated, it doesn’t hurt to tell you. Even if you leave Jinxia in the future? You can make a bowl by yourself."
Although he does have some thoughts, it is mainly for admiring Li Xie's expression? Especially when he sees the fox demon so satisfied that his ears are hanging down? This shaved ice is not for nothing.
"I just want to know, why is its sweetness so special?" Fang Xiandao was relieved, "It looks like honey, but honey can't achieve this effect at all."
"It's actually very simple. I just added some salt to the ice."
"Salt?" Fang Xiandao was taken aback? He really couldn't associate salt with strong sweetness.
Xia Fan took out a small crystal bottle from his arms and placed it in front of him? "Not bad. But compared to the common coarse salt, this kind of salt is more rare."
"What a white salt!" Chichi yelled, "Chichi can't find it in memory!"
"The memory that you have forgotten after you have seen it is still no effort!" Fang Xiandao waved her hand before picking up the crystal bottle, and placed it in front of her to examine it carefully. This thing is completely different from the salt in his impression. It is no longer a piece of variegated particles? It is evenly proportioned like fine sand, and the color is even more white as snow. "Can salt be refined to this point?"
"The method is not the key? The key is to have a large amount, like such a small bottle of refined salt? The substrate requires a large bucket of salt." Xia Fan explained, "When the salt is pure to a certain level? can be combined with sugar. Together it produces a strong sweetness."
For example, sea salt ice cream is in this genre.
Although the sweet party and the salty party are fighting hard all day long? But sugar and salt are not the incompatible rivals of fire and water? On the contrary, they can reinforce each other. For example, adding a small amount of sugar to salty stir-fry dishes. To increase the freshness, adding a little salt to the dessert will also make the sweetness more distinct.
But the premise of this practice is that the salt is fine enough. Otherwise, the bitterness and astringency of low-purity sea salt and mineral salt is enough to break the delicate balance of sweetness and freshness.
Fang first smacked his tongue, "Isn't it said that this small bottle of salt is worth tens of taels of silver?"
"To be precise, it is priceless. Because salt itself is not something that is easily available, no one will turn the cart before the horse and refine the precious salt into refined salt."
But the situation is completely different for Jinxia City, which has salt fields. Although recrystallization is still troublesome, it can at least minimize the cost.
"So you let me try such a valuable thing, I must have a plan." Fang Xiandao suddenly increased his vigilance.
"Don't be nervous, I just want to give Fang's a few bottles of refined salt so that more people can taste it." Xia Fan said bluntly. "Since you are in Yancheng, it is obviously reasonable to send some local specialties back."
In essence, this is marketing.
Because refined salt is destined to be impossible to popularize in the short term, he simply defined this subsidiary product in the category of "luxury" and went directly to the high-end route. And those who can afford luxury goods are either a big family or a wealthy family. The most effective way to get through this kind of circle is undoubtedly one-to-one precise delivery.
"Hey, let’s say it first, Lingzhou is not a place of wealth. Even the Fang family’s financial resources are far less than those of the Fei, Luo and other big clans." Fang Xiandao pouted, "If you want to get from Fang’s Make money~IndoMTL.com~ The only thing you might get in the end is disappointment, let alone I didn’t remind you in advance."
"It is not only money that can measure wealth. Specialties may be commonplace in the local area, but the value is incalculable in other places." Xia Fan touched his chin, "For example, the living dead—"
"Are you still staring at the living dead!" Fang Xiandao quickly interrupted, "Other specialties can be considered, but the old lady of the living dead will never agree to you! Do you know how rare a living dead is, even if it is Fang family The chief disciple, the living dead are replaced by generations. Take Chichi as an example, she has served as a partner for many Fang's family members before guarding me."
"Eh? Why doesn't Chichi know?" The little girl showed a dazed expression, "Isn't the young master the first group of people Chichi knew?"
"Because of you--" Fang Xiandao suddenly showed intolerable expression halfway through, "Just forget it if you don't remember."
"Isn't the living dead of the Fang family given to outsiders?" Xia Fan asked curiously.
"It's...it's not nothing." Fang Xiandao paused, "If you help the other party a lot, or if you provide something that the old lady or the old lady desperately desires."
"What you crave? For example?"
" can help divination to obtain classics, or powerful sacred spells, etc. The former encompasses everything in the world and reveals the knowledge of the unknowable mysteries, while the latter is either a lost secret record or Yuyi’s experience. "Fang Xiandao waved his hand, "But don't think about it. The Fang family has worked with Youzhou Luo's family a long time ago, and they can't even provide a few valuable books, let alone you."