2059 The source of freshness
Doctor Huang Xie received Xiao Letian's secret instructions at Said Port and began to refine the first MSG product in the world. In fact, the refining of glutamate is not difficult. Anyone with a little chemical foundation can complete this task.
Although Doctor Huang Xie is a Chinese medicine doctor, he has been studying Western medicine and chemistry with Dr. Buck for several years, and he still understands basic laboratory operations.
The freshest kelp is harvested from the Mediterranean coast. Europeans do not eat this wild grass in the sea. Only Eastern people, especially ethnic groups in some parts of East Asia, have the habit of eating this plant.
Therefore, Huang XieDi’s behavior did not arouse anyone’s suspicion. In the eyes of the British, perhaps Huang XieDi is an amateur botanist.
Choose the most mature and fresh kelp, chop it and start boiling it. The coal stove has not been extinguished for a long time. Start simmering ten large iron pots on low heat, and slowly boil the glutamic acid in the kelp a little bit.
Stew slowly over low heat and stir frequently. This is how humans' original MSG is boiled. After hundreds of kilograms of kelp are boiled into ten pots of thick soup, filter the residue and the soup starts to be added to the pot.
Doctor Huang Xie and his three most loyal subordinates slept for three hours a day. After two days of busyness, he boiled ten pots of thick soup into a pot. When the pot of sticky brown and nauseous liquid began to dry, Doctor Huang Xie plucked up the courage to pick a little with his little fingers.
To be honest, at that time, Doctor Huang Xie really tried this sticky brown liquid like a snot. After this little mucus entered the mouth, several of his little apprentices vomited two of them.
But I never expected that such a disgusting thing would produce an extremely strong umami smell when it was touched on the tongue coating. It was a umami smell that did not exist in my memory at all, and it was strong and had the essence.
Doctor Huang Xie cried out in tears. He quickly filled a small bottle of secretly sent it to Xiao Letian. As a result, such a delicious concentrated juice was exchanged for the head of state to shake his head.
"First, you have to add salt to it. Without saltiness, you cannot improve the umami flavor!"
"Second, you have to air-dry these things and crush them into powder, the thinner the better, and then put them in high-end antique porcelain bottles!"
"Third, this is our secret weapon. You can try adding some poppy extracts into it... Poppy is big smoke! You have to try it. What proportion can increase the flavor and it is not easy to be discovered by the other party..."
"Just these three things, we can use them to harm Europeans!"
With Xiao Letian's instructions, Huang XieDr. continued to devote himself to chemical research. In order to complete the task of the head of state, he even tasted the poison himself and tasted the extract from the tobacco paste.
However, after many experiments, Doctor Huang Xie and those doctors were always able to taste the unique taste of tobacco paste. No matter how diluted it, it would not be able to hide the sense of smell and taste from people.
Xiao Letian's requirements are very clear. This new source of freshness must be a certain addictive nature while ensuring the umami flavor, but it cannot allow Europeans to taste the taste of opium.
This is a difficult problem! In the end, Doctor Huang was about to collapse and did not come up with an effective solution, so he had to ask Xiao Letian to apologize.
Xiao Letian laughed as soon as he heard this, "Are you stupid? Do you have to use horse hoof soil? Can't you use poppy shells to soak water? Is it good to change your thinking..."
In his previous life, Xiao Letian ate hot pot and soup base with added ingredients. In the 21st century Chinese catering industry, using poppy shells to increase flavor is already a semi-public secret.
Even in the United States, poppy seeds are as common as Chinese people use sesame seeds. Many American breads are soaked with poppy seeds instead of being soaked like China.
It is true that poppy is poison, but poppy itself is also a very good spice, a spice that can make people addictive.
Tobacco paste is a high-purity drug extracted from poppy juice. It will definitely be discovered by people using this thing directly, but what if you use poppy shells and kelp to make soup together?
The excited doctor Huang Xie started another round of kelp boiling work, and this time it was a great success, and finally extracted the fresh source of such a flat porcelain bottle.
When Xiao Letian looked at the porcelain bottle of MSG in front of him, he made himself a bowl of seaweed egg flower soup without saying a word. The strong MSG water smell in later generations made him feel happy.
"First of the People... drink less, there are poppy shells here!" Doctor Huang Xie quickly reminded.
"I know, I know! I know... You will remember in the future that there are two kinds of fresh source processing, one is the export product with ingredients, and the other is the one without ingredients, we eat it ourselves!"
"But... Head of State, isn't it a bit unethical for us to add this kind of material?" Huang Xie Doctor asked carefully.
"Impotent? Hum! What do you know... Do you know how much opium Europeans sell to China a year? No less than a million boxes! If we add some poppy shells to them, it will be immoral? We are revenge..."
"Old Huang! You have to remember that just because of opium, how much wealth in China has flowed out to Europe? If you don't stop this momentum, let alone harming the Chinese people's bodies, I'm afraid that the family wealth that the ancestors of China had accumulated for thousands of years would flow to Europe in decades..."
"That's all real money! But our current force is not strong enough to stop this trend... What should we do? Then we have to have our secret weapon, an irreplaceable top-secret commodity, to pump water and wealth from Europe to China!"
"This is how the business competition between countries is. If their pumps want to drain our China's wealth, then we have to put the pumps over and draw the wealth of Europe..."
"Otherwise we will be doomed!"
Doctor Huang Xie was bewitched by Xiao Letian and his eyes were red and his fists were clenched. "Yes! The head of state is right. I will order the amount of poppy shell extract three times. I will make all the Europeans addicted to eating it!"
"Hey hey... don't be so extreme, don't be extreme! Your formula is pretty good, it tastes so good that it won't let them find clues. Let's do this production area first!"
"This time we will take action against the British nobles and let them be our voluntary propagandists!"
Facts have proved that Xiao Letian is a very revengeful person. He is not a gentleman in his bones. Today, the Duke of Newcastle made him lose his grudge and he couldn't stay overnight.
Although you can't take revenge immediately, the interest rate must be collected. I will try the poison with the Duke of Newcastle at noon today!
Let you dig out my corners and add a double source of freshness to you!
Note: Today is the third update, the third update! Don’t worry...
Chapter completed!