Jingwen distributed gold jewelry to those masters and brothers, and everyone was happy. Now Jingwen is also an official, although he is a petty official of the eighth grade, but he is also an official. Jingwen went out from their imperial dining room, it can be said that the imperial dining room is Jingwen's maiden home, and they have an official here, and they also feel honored! So, now they have all attained enlightenment one by one, and the chicken dog has ascended to heaven.

However, someone will be there to inform you soon.

"Ladies of the Imperial Dining Room, the princess told you to hurry up and make her a snack that she had not eaten." A eunuch eunuch said.

When the cook in the imperial dining room heard this, he was also speechless for a while, but the eunuch eunuch quickly left.

"Master, why are you so sad?" Jingwen asked.

Master Hu said: "Recently, the fifth princess seems to want to eat some novel food, so the emperor asked us to make some things that we didn't have before. But what we are good at in the imperial dining room is at making dishes, and we are not good at making this kind of food that children want to eat. But the emperor gave an order, and we couldn't do it, so ......"

"Fifth princess? Which princess is it? Jingwen asked.

Master Hu said: "She is the eldest daughter of the emperor and the queen, and she is very favored by the emperor and the queen. Now that he wants to eat this novel snack, of course the emperor wants to put this pressure on us. That is, the princess ate the dates you made last time, so I feel that the snacks we made are not delicious. ”

Jingwen then remembered that this princess was the famous Changle princess Li Lizhi of the Tang Dynasty, but she should not have received the title of Changle princess yet. Last time, Jingwen also saw this princess Changle, that is, the princess who ate the princess's dates. This is the eldest daughter of Emperor Li Shimin, and it can be said that she is the most favored daughter. Li Shimin's princess is the most favored by the eldest grandson, the princess born or raised, and nothing else is taken seriously. Since this princess is in need, doesn't Li Shimin take off the moon in the sky and give it to her?

"If you want to make something new, I can do it!" Jingwen said.

Master Hu asked, "Can you do it?" What are you going to do? ”

"Master, go get some rice from the south!" Jingwen said.

"What do you want rice for? We have less here, I'm afraid there aren't many, is this enough? Master Hu asked.

During this period, the staple food of the Tang Dynasty was not rice, but a thing called corn, which was called yellow millet in later generations, which belonged to a kind of coarse grain. And rice has not really been popularized on a large scale during this period, so it is still a relatively novel food, even if there is not much in the palace.

"Hurry up!" Jingwen said.

Jingwen's status in the imperial dining room is now much higher than that of Master Hu, so as soon as Jingwen speaks, someone will prepare it immediately. Soon, a few catties of rice were brought, after all, there were still some in the imperial dining room.

Soon, Jingwen brought some butter, that is, the fat of the cow, and slowly smeared it on the bottom of the iron pot. After the entire iron pot was buttered, Jingwen slowly heated it over low heat. When the pot started to heat up, Jingwen put some rice into the pot. Then firmly close the lid and try not to let the air out.

"Poof, poof, poof......"

"It's done! It seems that my craft has not disappeared yet. Jingwen shouted.

Jingwen took out the lid of the pot, and found grains of rice, which swelled to several times the size in an instant. And Jingwen took out a grain of rice and put it in his mouth.

"Well, the popcorn is done!" Jingwen said.

"Xiaowen, what is this?" Master Hu asked.

Jingwen said: "This is popcorn, a new type of snack. Wait a minute, we can put some sugar in it, and then it can be sweetened. But don't eat too much of this kind of thing, this popcorn is puffed food! ”

"Xiaowen, why did you put this kind of rice in the pot and then it burst open? We've done this before, but we can't get out. But you actually exploded, what is the reason for this? Master Hu asked.

"This one is because I put the lid on the pot and then he is ...... because of the pressure of the air flow Hey, I can't explain it anyway. In short, you can use this iron pot to make this popcorn in the future, which is a good snack for small children. However, this kind of rice is actually not the most suitable for popcorn, and the most suitable rice for popcorn is actually corn! Jingwen said.

"Corn? What kind of rice is it? Is it rice as precious as jade? How much does that cost? Master Hu asked.

Jingwen was helpless, and he didn't know how to explain the corn. The current corn is actually still in the New World of America, and it is still far from spreading to China! And this kind of rice flower is actually rice flower, not corn flower. In later generations, this kind of rice flower was more used to make a kind of rice candy, which was glued with sugar glue, and some of them were like the kind of cut cakes in Xinjiang.

Then, Jingwen continued to make some popcorn and put some sugar in the pot so that the rice could be stained with sugar and sweetened. And soon, a few catties of rice turned into grains of rice flowers, and the senior brothers were also surprised when they saw this method of bursting the rice.

"Senior brothers, let's try it!" Jingwen said.

"Ahem, cough, cough......" Everyone started eating.

"Delicious! Very tasty! Everyone agreed.

Jingwen was secretly happy, this kind of popcorn can be said to be the first time in this era, and even people before had never thought about it! This kind of popcorn didn't learn from watching the daily diet column, because when he was a child, he liked to eat popcorn, but his parents refused to buy it for him, so he went to learn to make popcorn by himself. As a result, he finally learned to make zuò popcorn at a roadside stall that made zuò popcorn, and he made his own zuò popcorn from then on. Later, I learned to make rice and use wheat to make popcorn.

"Master, you give this popcorn to the princess to taste! Hope the princess will like it. Jingwen said.

"Of course, I'm afraid everyone likes this kind of thing. In this case, one sheep is to drive, and two sheep are also to be released, we might as well do more and send them to the prince and other princes and princesses, so that they should like it more. At that time, I am afraid that as soon as the emperor is happy, maybe there will be another reward. Master Hu said.

Jingwen was speechless, this Master Hu seems to have used the wrong analogy, right? actually compared the crown prince and the princess to "sheep"!