30: Improved recipes

The cold drinks and sweet soups that the system required to be sold actually covered a wide range.

For example, cold drinks included two major categories: frozen beverages and liquid cold drinks.

Within these two major categories, there were multiple smaller subcategories.

For instance, ice cream, popsicles, and ice lollies among frozen beverages.

Liquid cold drinks, on the other hand, included carbonated drinks, fruit juices, tea drinks, and dairy products (such as yogurt).

As for sweet soup, it is a general term for desserts in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, and Macau, belonging to the Cantonese cuisine series.

Its main ingredients are sugar and water, plus various other ingredients, making it incredibly diverse.

If we were to break it down further, just focusing on 'sugar' would require differentiating between the suitable applications for sugar water, rock sugar water, syrup, and sugar gum, not to mention the choices of white sugar, rock sugar, brown sugar, and other types.

Additionally, sweet soups from different regions also have different characteristic ingredients.

For example, Guilinggao from Guangxi uses traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, while double-skin milk from Guangdong uses milk and egg whites. These are all fundamental knowledge points to master when making sweet soup.

In short, Lu Chuan spent nearly an entire night just roughly going through the complete recipe book in his mind.

Because of this, Lu Chuan could only choose two to three items from both cold drinks and sweet soups to sell.

After a night of deliberation, Lu Chuan finally chose ice cream and lemon tea from the cold drinks, and mung bean paste and double-skin milk from the sweet soups.

As for why he chose these specific items, the reason was simply their popularity.

The location was already so remote; if he were to choose unpopular delicacies, Lu Chuan might as well give up struggling and instead focus on preparing for the third week's task.

At this moment, someone suddenly called out from outside the courtyard gate.

Lu Chuan quickly went out to check and found that the large appliances he had ordered overnight, such as the freezer, ice machine, and water purifier, had already arrived.

It must be said, online shopping is indeed a convenient and fast great invention.

After helping the delivery driver move and install them inside the house, Lu Chuan quickly grabbed a few bottles of drinks and handed them to the driver, then saw him off outside the house.

Afterward, he hurried to the tricycle and took out the light cream, milk, and other ingredients that were still being kept fresh in the built-in freezer of the tricycle, stuffing them all into the freezer.

"Alright, it's time to go into the mountains to search. I hope to find something new."

Lu Chuan flipped through the recipe book and ultimately decided to make some improvements.

It's not that the recipes provided by the system were bad; on the contrary, the system's recipes were all-encompassing, with various famous secret formulas, even able to unearth the formula for Coca-Cola.

But Lu Chuan instinctively felt there was a catch.

If he didn't make some changes and simply followed the recipe instructions step-by-step to recreate them, the results would likely be unsatisfactory.

After all, if you want to drink cola, you can just buy it at the supermarket. Why would you go to a half-abandoned amusement park, in front of a Haunted House, to buy it?

Isn't that just pure madness?

With this thought, Lu Chuan once again set foot on Yinhua Mountain, attempting to find some suitable materials to improve the cold drink and sweet soup recipes.

However, having learned his lesson from the previous encounter with the Silver Beast, Lu Chuan would absolutely not venture deep into the mountains this time.

Though, it was quite strange. The Silver Beast he encountered last time looked very much like a wild wolf at first glance.

But how could there be wolves in this area?

Moreover, that Silver Beast only had a wolf-like head, but its body was even larger than the tigers he had seen in the zoo.

Its claws, tsk tsk tsk, were almost as big as a washbasin.

Anyway, after encountering that Silver Beast last time, the first thing Lu Chuan did when he came down the mountain was to report the situation to Uncle De Yang.

Uncle De Yang was also startled and immediately scolded Lu Chuan, saying things like 'not listening to elders leads to suffering,' and so on.

After scolding Lu Chuan, he immediately notified the village's mountain-hunting families that night and then hurriedly left the village by car.

And until now, Lu Chuan hasn't seen Uncle De Yang return to the village, and he doesn't know where the old man went.

Shaking his head, Lu Chuan pulled his thoughts back to the present.

This time, he was going to sell ice cream, lemon tea, mung bean paste, and double-skin milk.

If he wanted to improve the original recipes, he could start from aspects like appearance, flavor, and texture.

lemon tea, mung bean paste, and double-skin milk, needless to say, could only be improved in terms of flavor and texture.

But ice cream was different; not only did its appearance vary, but its colors were also diverse.

Lu Chuan even saw someone online who made a sparkling ice cream that was overall so beautiful it made people reluctant to take a bite.

"The challenge is arduous!"

Lu Chuan sighed, but then a excited smile appeared on his face.

"But that's what makes it interesting!"

Following a path trodden by others, Lu Chuan had already reached an elevation between the foot of the mountain and halfway up.

Further ahead, he would start encountering some medium-sized animals, such as monkeys and wildcats.

And beyond halfway up the mountain, that was where he would constantly be stepping into the territory of the Silver Beast he encountered last time.

Lu Chuan wasn't that reckless.

Climbing this far was already his acceptable limit; going any further was absolutely impossible.

"Alright, with this tree as the center, I'll search one kilometer horizontally. I hope to find something."

Lu Chuan patted a pine tree next to him and began to move to his left.

Honestly, searching for an unknown ingredient alone in the mountains was like ghost-hunting, truly interesting.

At least Lu Chuan had started to like this feeling, especially after he gained cooking skills equivalent to a high-level chef in the real world.

Even with an ordinary wild vegetable, he could instantly conceive suitable cooking techniques in his mind.

It could be said that in the eyes of a skilled chef, a mountain is equivalent to a natural treasure trove of ingredients.

"I really look forward to completing the task and getting intermediate cooking skills. What level will my cooking reach then? A technician, or a senior technician?"

As he walked and paused, Lu Chuan suddenly squatted down and used his hand to push aside the soil at the base of a tree.

Then, a joyful expression appeared on his face.

After the soil was pushed aside, a large clump of dark, unknown mushrooms emerged.

Although Lu Chuan instinctively sensed that this might be one of his targets, he cautiously put on gloves.

Then he took a small knife, cut off a sample, and gently sniffed it about ten centimeters in front of his nose.

His sensitive sense of smell, enhanced by his elementary cooking skills, immediately detected a special, fragrant aroma.

It was like the fresh fragrance of soil in the forest after a heavy rain.

It made one want to smell it again, that captivating feeling of never getting enough.

"A natural additive for delicious lemon tea is found ~"

Lu Chuan couldn't help but whistle.

He took off the basket on his back and carefully cut most of the mushrooms from under the tree, leaving only a small portion untouched.

"That's enough for seven days of stall sales."

Lu Chuan was in a good mood and continued walking.