Jing Wen distributed gold jewelry to the masters and senior brothers with golden sleeves, and everyone was happy. Now Jing Wen is also an official. Although he is an eighth-rank official, he is also an official. Jing Wen went out of their imperial kitchen. It can be said that the imperial kitchen is Jing Wen's mother's home. There is an official here, and they also feel honored! So, now they are all enlightened and have become a chicken and a dog.

However, someone will inform you immediately.

"Dear chefs in the imperial kitchen, the princess asked you to make a snack that she had never eaten before for her." said a eunuch.

The chef in the imperial kitchen was speechless when he heard this, but the eunuch left quickly.

"Master, why are you so frowning?" Jing Wen asked.

Master Hu said: "Recently, the fifth princess seems to want to eat some novel food, so the emperor asked our imperial kitchen to make some things that we had not had before as soon as possible. However, our imperial kitchen is good at cooking dishes, and is not good at making such things that children want to eat. But after the emperor gave the order, we couldn't ignore it, so..."

"Fifth Princess? Who is it?" Jing Wen asked.

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

Jing Wen then remembered that this princess was Li Lizhi, the famous Changle princess of the Tang Dynasty, but she probably has not yet obtained the title of Princess Changle. Last time, Jing Wen also met this Changle princess, that is, the princess he ate the princess candied dates. This is the eldest daughter of Emperor Li Shimin, and can be said to be the most beloved daughter. Li Shimin's princess is the most beloved by Empress Changsun or the princess she raises, and nothing else is taken seriously. Since this princess born in need, wouldn't Li Shimin pick the moon in the sky and give it to her?

"I can do something new!" Jing Wen said.

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

"Master, go get some rice produced in the south!" Jing Wen said.

"What do you want rice for? We have fewer here, probably not much. Is this enough?" Master Hu asked.

During this period, the staple food of the Tang Dynasty was not rice, but a kind of thing called corn. This corn was called yellow millet in later generations and belonged to a kind of coarse grain. Rice had not been truly promoted on a large scale during this period, so it was still a relatively novel grain, even if there were not many in the palace.

"Hurry up!" Jing Wen said.

Jing Wen's current status in the imperial kitchen is much higher than Master Hu, so as soon as Jing Wen speaks, someone will prepare immediately. Soon, a few kilograms of rice are brought in, after all, there are still some in the imperial kitchen.

Soon, Jing Wen brought some butter, that is, the fatty oil of beef slowly applied to the bottom of the iron pot. After the whole iron pot was buttered, Jing Wen slowly heated it over low heat. When the pot started to heat up, Jing Wen put some rice into the pot. Then cover the pot with force to prevent air from coming out.

"Puff, puff, puff..."

"It's done! It seems that my skills have not disappeared yet." Jing Wen shouted.

Jing Wen took out the lid of the pot and found that the rice was swelling several times the size in an instant. Jing Wen took out a grain of rice and put it in his mouth.

"Well, popcorn is done!" Jing Wen said.

"Xiao Wen, what is this?" Master Hu asked.

Jing Wen said: "This is popcorn, a new type of snack. We can add some sugar to it later, and then it will become sweet. But don't eat too much of this kind of thing, this popcorn is a puffed food!"

"Xiao Wen, why does this kind of rice pop up in the pot and then it pops up? We have done this before, but it can't pop up. But you actually pop up. What's the reason?" Master Hu asked.

"This is because I covered the lid of the pot, and then he was under the pressure of the airflow... Alas, I can't explain it clearly anyway. In short, you can use this iron pot to make this popcorn in the future. It is a good snack and suitable for children to eat. However, this kind of rice is actually not the most suitable for making popcorn. The rice that is most suitable for making popcorn is actually corn!" Jing Wen said.

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

Jing Wen was helpless, and he didn't know how to explain corn. The current corn is actually in the New Continent of America and is still far from spreading to China! And the rice flowers he made are actually big rice flowers, not popcorn. Later generations were more used to make a kind of rice candy, which was glued with sugar, and some were like the kind of cut cakes in Xinjiang.

Then, Jing Wen continued to make some popcorn and put some sugar in the pot so that the rice can be stained with sugar and can become sweet. Soon, a few kilograms of rice turned into grains of rice. The senior brothers were surprised to see this method of popping the rice.

"Dear brothers, try it!" Jing Wen said.

"Ahemhem..." Everyone started to eat.

"Delicious! Very delicious!" Everyone agreed.

Jing Wen was secretly happy that this kind of popcorn was the first time in this era, and people even thought about it before! This kind of popcorn was not learned by reading the Tiantian Food Column, because when he was a child, he liked to eat popcorn, but his parents refused to buy it for him, so he learned to make popcorn by himself. As a result, he finally learned to make popcorn at a roadside stall making popcorn. Later, he learned to make popcorn by himself. Later, he learned to make big rice and use wheat to make popcorn.

"Master, give the princess this kind of popcorn to try! I hope the princess will like it." Jing Wen said.

"Of course, I'm afraid everyone likes this kind of thing. Since this is the case, one sheep is driven and two sheep are put away. We might as well make more and send it to the prince and other princesses, so they should like it more. At that time, I'm afraid that the emperor will be happy and may be rewarded again." Master Hu said.
Chapter completed!