Hundred Poisons Mushroom Soup (Extra Update Seeking Subscription)

The food Gu Xi was preparing this time came from the Plague Cookbook. It was the first soup, called Hundred Poisons Mushroom Soup.

The method was fairly casual. It mainly involved boiling more than ten poisonous herbs together with more than five poisonous mushrooms in a pot. Once it turned dark green, deep purple, or crimson, the soup was considered complete.

There were no major requirements for the quality of the herbs and mushrooms used.

The only requirement was a ratio of two herbs to one mushroom.

Of course, it would be even better if one considered the flavor, the Five Elements Intergeneration and Counteraction, or the roles of chief, deputy, assistant, and envoy among medicinal ingredients.

If one did not consider those things and simply tossed everything in at random, the soup could still be made.

It was just that whether the resulting soup could be consumed was another matter.

Although Gu Xi was making dishes from the Plague Cookbook,

he was not doing it to practice his proficiency.

If it were merely for proficiency practice, he could have handed the cookbook to the Chefs in the kitchen.

There would have been no need for Gu Xi to think so carefully about it.

Gu Xi was doing this now because he wanted something to eat.

Thus, as he handled the ingredients, Gu Xi was quite meticulous.

If all these herbs had not been poisonous and inedible without processing, Gu Xi might even have tasted them directly.

Still, Gu Xi had his own methods. He gently kneaded the ingredients in his hands and judged their condition from the scents they released.

Though he could not judge them with complete accuracy, he could at least smell sourness, bitterness, spiciness, and other flavors.

As for simmering the soup, it was not difficult