Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 172 Recipes
After seeing the word Topkapi Palace, Liang En's interest in this book suddenly increased.Because this palace is famous in the travel brochure as the old palace.

For the ancient Ottoman Empire, the history of the country can be roughly divided into three places: Edirne, Topkapi Palace and Dolmabahce Palace.

Among them, Edirne, also known as Adrianople, was the capital of the Ottoman Empire before the capture of Constantinople, and it also represented the development period of the empire.

The Topkapı Palace was the royal palace established by the Ottoman Empire after the capture of Constantinople. It witnessed the rapid development of this empire and became a powerful country spanning Europe, Asia and Africa.

The last Dolmabahce Palace is a European-style building built in the mid-19th century, representing the decline of the Ottoman Empire known as the sick man of West Asia.

The reason why Topkapi Palace is called the Old Palace is precisely because of the construction of the new palace, Dolmabahce Palace.It's just that a modern palace has not been able to make the entire empire great again as the ruler imagined.

After briefly checking the paper used in the notebook, Liang En found that the paper was about 200 years old. Considering that the name of Topkapi Palace was written on the recipe, he finally decided to buy the book.

"This book written in Arabic looks a bit old." Liang En tentatively said, "It looks very interesting. If I want to buy it, how much will it cost?"

"Let me have a look." The shopkeeper took the book and looked at it roughly, then counted the pages and said. "The book is 157 pages long, just give me $940, trimming off the odds."

"Wait, you said $940?" Liang En pointed to the label on the shelf and said, "Aren't these things $3 a piece? I should only need to pay you $471."

"No, no, of course not." The shopkeeper shook his head, then pointed at the label. "You turn over that label, I have written it very clearly."

Hearing what the shopkeeper said, Liang En immediately reached out and turned the label over, only to find that behind the label was a black pattern on the front of a cigarette box, on which someone had written a line of small words with a black gel pen.

"The price of all systematic materials on the bookshelf is twice that of the same number of scattered materials, and the price of books is three to five times that of scattered materials."

"It seems that profiteers are the same all over the world." Liang En realized that he met a profiteer this time as soon as he saw the line of words clearly.

However, Liang En still decided to buy this document. On the one hand, it was because of the history of the document and the imprint of the Topkapi Palace on the last page. On the other hand, he saw the value of these recipes.

After buying the dairy farm last time, Liang En looked for a lot of books related to the dairy industry, including recipes for various dairy products.

On the premise of a rough grasp of this knowledge, Liang En realized that the recipes in the notebook he got now were real, and not just ordinary dairy products.to
At least according to the contents of the books he inquired before, the production of ordinary dairy products does not need to go through so many processes, nor does it need to have such high requirements for raw materials.

After paying $940 in cash, Liang En took the small notebook and left the room, then joined his companions waiting at the door and left.

"What exactly did you buy?" Looking at Liang En's expression, Fan Meng knew that he should have found some treasure. Old paper is not so good to judge.

"Recipe, this is a cookbook that records various methods of making dairy products." Liang En took out the book and pointed to the words on the cover after seeing that he had walked a certain distance.

"Isn't there some other secret recorded in it?" Pierce said suddenly. "For example, the secrets of treasures recorded by some people, or a certain period of forgotten history."

Pierce, who had personally experienced the level of Liang En's sixth sense, didn't think that only one recipe could attract Liang En, so he immediately asked, because he didn't believe that Liang En only found one recipe after searching for a long time in the store.

"This thing is really just a recipe." Looking at the inquiries of the two companions, Liang En shook his head with a helpless smile. It seemed that the impression he made on his companions a few times before was too deep.

"You know that I have a small ranch, so I know a little bit of knowledge about making dairy products. The method of making dairy products in this booklet is definitely high-end dairy products in ancient times."

"More importantly, this one has the words Topkapi Palace on it, and the paper is also two or three hundred years ago. So it is likely to be a recipe that flowed out from a wealthy family."

"Then why not Sudan's recipe?" Fan Meng asked curiously. "You said it had Topkapi Palace on it."

"Because the royal chefs of the Ottoman Empire didn't have such recipes at all, all knowledge was passed on by word of mouth." Pierce, who is a professional, replied.

"In the Ottoman court in the past, recording recipes privately was punishable by death. The reason for this is to maintain the glory of the sultan through those unique foods."

"Understood, it's the same as the imperial banquet that Huaxia's emperors ate in the feudal dynasty." Fan Meng nodded with a comprehensible expression. "For example, those Fangshan dishes only appeared after the fall of the empire."

"Yes, just like the Asitane restaurant we went to before, the main dishes of this restaurant are Turkish imitation meals, imitating the court dishes of the Ottoman Empire." Liang En said with a smile.

"Don't look at the restaurant that claims to eat living history, which is court food from 1532 to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, but if you check the restaurant menu carefully, you will find that there are only simple dishes like barbecue and almond porridge. The dishes have a long history.”

"That's right." Fan Meng and Pierce nodded. When they went to this restaurant before, they saw that there was a time next to each dish on the menu of this restaurant. Parts are written with a 19th century date.

"Because only when the Ottoman Empire declined in the 19th century, those ancient traditions would be destroyed." Liang En explained to his two companions. "So those people can bring out the complete recipe."

"And if we push back the time, to the golden age of the Ottoman Empire when the Imperial Palace was still the Topkapi Palace, the era when the ancient regulations were still strictly followed. The recipe can only be guessed from the side of various documents."

"At least in the case of some dishes with simple preparation methods, or dishes that are not exclusive to the imperial court, the restoration will not be too difficult, and the restoration result will be very close to the original appearance."

"But when faced with those complicated dishes exclusive to the court, it's too difficult to rely on the simple introduction in the notes to restore them." Speaking of this, Liang En shook the broken notebook in his hand.

"And now I suspect that the content recorded in this book is likely to be the menu given by the Sultan as a reward to his subordinates, and it was secretly recorded by a chef from a prince's noble family."

(End of this chapter)