Su Tang didn't laugh for too long, because the recipe in her hand was almost finished.
But there was still trouble.
It's not that the recipe is not going well, this thing is put here, there are definite numbers in how to make it up, but people are different.
When I first compiled this cookbook, Su Tang was laughed at.
But now, many households want to put their own recipes on it, after all, they can leave their names on it.
What an honor it is to leave your name on the book.
Those who can be selected are naturally overjoyed, but if they are not selected, it is another expression.
So many people have used their brains, want to intercede with Su Tang, and choose their own recipes.
For example, the one in front of you is the wife of a third-rank official under Yushitai. Madam Liu said with a smile: "My daughter has loved to delve into food since she was a child. I have eaten her recipes and they are delicious. Why can't they be put in the book compiled by Miss Su Tang?" inside?"
Su Tang also laughed: "Needless to say the taste, but not everyone can eat the prawns used in it. This is a home-cooked recipe, so naturally we have to take care of most people."
"It's just shrimp? Which household in the capital doesn't often eat it? If Miss Su Tang thinks this is rare, then we will send some over every month." Mrs. Liu said directly.
After saying this, Mrs. Liu also felt something was wrong, but she just didn't like Su Tang in her heart, after all, her family was clean and scholarly for three generations.
But now, for a book matter, Su Tang actually found her, and Su Tang didn't appreciate it.
Su Tang's tone was much lighter: "If Mrs. Liu can give shrimp meat to everyone in the world, then this recipe can naturally be added. If it is only given to me, it is not a common practice."
Saying that, Su Tang said to Nanny Li: "I'm tired, let's see off the guests."
This is a drop off
This is clearly driving people away!
But Su Tang also found out that the recipes sent over recently are getting more and more outrageous.
The shrimp meat is all good, and some people directly use minced chicken as an auxiliary ingredient, that is, mash the chicken that the common people can't afford, and then use it as an auxiliary ingredient.
I'm afraid that the people will feel distressed when they see it.
Su Tang has rejected several such people.
This made Su Tang's reputation, which was originally good, become precarious again.
But now Su Tang also understood.
She is not a traditional lady in the capital, so why care about her reputation.
What those people said will affect Qi Tianyun's liking for her
Or is it affecting the business in her shop
If you don't know it, why should you care.
Su Tang didn't intend to have any explanation at all.
In fact, everyone knew it well and just wanted to talk to her about it.
But she really doesn't care about these things.
But what Su Tang didn't expect was that her approach made many Qingliu people in the court feel admiration.
Especially the group of people in the Hanlin Academy, they didn't get along very well with Yu Shitai.
Su Tang compiled the book this time under the name of the Hanlin Academy. The officials of the Imperial Academy have always been direct ministers. They appreciate this style. Besides, they have been in contact with Su Tang for a long time, so they naturally know Su Tang's temper.
She is very organized in compiling the book, and many practices are quite useful.
In particular, the practice of catalogs can make it easier for people to flip through books.
Su Tang's only regret is that the Arabic numerals have not been transmitted yet, otherwise it would be really convenient to have a table of contents and page numbers.
Under Su Tang's insistence, all of these hundred dishes are the most commonly used ones.
Maybe the only difference is that at the end of the hundred dishes, yams are added, which is the way of potatoes.
There are 20 kinds of potatoes for cooking, starting from simple potato rice and mashed potatoes, to French fries and potato stew.
It even wrote precautions for potatoes, such as sprouted potatoes that must not be eaten.
Not only that, but at the very corner, a simple method of planting potatoes is drawn, which also indicates what weather to plant and how long it takes to harvest.
At that time, the officials of the Imperial Academy also asked that the current yams, that is, potatoes, were still under experimentation and could not be harvested until March.
Everyone has never seen this crop.
Could this be a home cooking
Su Tang knew the benefits of potatoes, but he couldn't say it right now. He just said: "I think this potato can be spread as widely as our taro. Those foreigners have already said it, and their poor people eat it. So this thing It will be very productive."
After a long time, everyone knew that Su Tang was really foresight in this matter.
In particular, sprouted potatoes cannot be eaten, which has saved countless lives.
But Su Tang was also surprised. In fact, everyone was shouting potato. I don't know when they started calling potato.
It seems to be because it grows like beans in the soil, so it is called potatoes.
Anyway, it's just a name.
In other words, there are actually 20 home-cooked dishes in this book of 100.
There are even more planting methods.
This played a very important role in the promotion of potatoes in the future, and the planting method also directly benefited many people.
Some people even bought this book, as long as the following planting methods are used, and they don't read the recipes.
This is another story.
Anyway, finally in February, Su Tang's home-cooked cookbook was finally compiled and handed over to the academicians of the Imperial Academy.
It will take about ten days for them to review before giving the result.
When everyone got the first draft, many people frowned at the cover.
On the cover of a normal book, you only need to write a few words on it. Only unscrupulous books will draw a beautiful cover on it.
But the painting on the cover of this book is a country house, the smoke from the kitchen is faint, and it has a feeling of seeing Nanshan leisurely under the Dounan Mountain.
The artistic conception is good, and it can be seen that it is a cooking book, but it always feels strange.
When you open the book, first there is the table of contents that everyone praises.
All the dishes are also classified above.
The first is cold dishes, followed by meat and vegetables.
Then there are hot dishes, which are also divided into meat and vegetables.
Then comes the staple food, soup, everything is clear.
They are the most commonly eaten dishes, and each page is drawn to show how to cook the dishes, but the back of this page is a simple text description, using the simplest and most spoken method to write the method of cooking.
There are a total of 100 sheets of paper, that is, 100 dishes. Under each dish, it is written which company provided it.
Of course, there are also unmarked ones, which are all provided by Sutang.
There is no nonsense in this cookbook. In modern terms, it is full of dry goods and has no superfluous words.
And the appendix at the back is the 20 methods and planting methods of potatoes. In addition to the planting methods and edible precautions that use one sheet of paper, these 20 methods only use five sheets of paper. It can be seen that it is also trying to save space. Don't steal the show.
After reading this recipe, many people fell into deep doubts.
Many of them felt professionalism for the first time.
Not mixed with a trace of personal emotion, unlike many books, it teaches you how to grow a vegetable, and also tells you your own insights.
This book doesn't go that way at all.
Just to tell you simply, how to cook any dish, besides? The author is not going to say.
According to Su Tang's words, there is a specialization in surgery, you make a cooking video, and then start to talk about feelings? It's better than watching a video with feelings.
Her book is just to teach you how to cook.
In the end, the Hanlin Academy gave Su Tang the opinion that if there is no opinion, it can be directly published and printed.
Countless people waiting to review the books immediately: ? ? ? ?
Why! ! !
Which book didn't have to be reviewed before it was published, so why didn't she use it? ?
The officials didn't say anything, and showed them the sample booklet sent up.
Have a look at what is professional, do you understand
If you understand it, don't hurry to do it.
Su Tang himself didn't expect it to be so smooth. When the news came out, Su Tang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and told the news to the ladies who participated in the compilation of the book.
Who would be unhappy!
Many people also felt for the first time that it is actually quite interesting not to embroider at home.
Many of them had a good relationship with Su Tang afterwards.
The rest is easy.
Waiting for the bookstore under the Hanlin Academy to print it, it can be distributed to official bookstores across the country of Cangqin.
As the name of the editor-in-chief, Su Tang will also spread to various places.
Su Tang was also completely idle.
Now several restaurants are running smoothly, and with Qi Tianyun's reputation, no one dares to cause trouble.
As long as Su Tang checks the account twice a month, he basically doesn't need to worry about it.
This period of time really allowed her to live a life of eating and drinking salted fish every day.
And her books have also been found in various bookstores in Cangqin Kingdom.
Among them, the most enthusiastic response was an unexpected place.
Jiangnan.
Su Tang herself didn't know how famous she was in Jiangnan.
Not to mention boxed lunches, there are countless places selling boxed lunches in the streets and alleys.
Then there is Mengjing Pavilion. It goes without saying how delicious the snacks in Mengjing Pavilion are.
I heard that there was a rich merchant's daughter who loved to drink the milk tea in it, and she took the whole family to drink it together. Finally, Su Tang heard about it and wrote a letter from the capital to persuade her, saying that drinking too much would make her fat.
The girl endured it a little bit, and the letter also gave a recipe for making small snacks, which can be regarded as a gift.
After this incident, countless people flocked to Mengjing Pavilion, just to let themselves receive Su Tang's letter.
And many dishes made by Su Tang are also popular in Jiangnan, especially crucian carp tofu soup and squirrel mandarin fish.
When Su Tang made it, I knew it and said it directly, this is a special dish in the south of the Yangtze River.
But people in Jiangnan don't know that this is their special dish. Of course, the taste is still very consistent. Maybe it's an unknown place
Anyway, because of these things, the people in Jiangnan have a good impression of Su Tang.
When her book was printed, the first people to support her were the people in Jiangnan.
But countless people found that this book seemed a little too good.
Anyway, after taking it home, it is very practical, and there are not many seasonings and ingredients needed, which are affordable by ordinary families, and you can even have it in your own vegetable garden.
Then follow the steps in the picture and do it bit by bit, and soon a delicious dish is made.
Just like pancakes, every household knows how to pancakes, but how to make them delicious for this disease depends entirely on talent.
But according to Su Tang's recipe, even miscellaneous grain noodles can be made delicious.
Anyway, just do what she says.
Gradually, the benefits of this recipe were discovered not only in one place in the south of the Yangtze River, but also in various places in Cangqin Kingdom.
It turns out that as long as the food is cooked in a different way, it will be delicious
Su Tang chose the simplest and most time-saving method.
It's no longer like eating a good meal takes a long time.
Of course, according to Su Tang's own practice, many parts of this home-cooked cookbook sacrificed the taste of the dishes for the purpose of canceling the contract.
But for ordinary people, this is the most practical and economical.
Chapter 117