[Use the Medicinal Cuisine Skill Secret Recipe?]
A system prompt appeared!
Qin Lin immediately chose to use it.
A moment later, all the information about the cooking skill for this medicinal cuisine was imprinted in his mind. As before, it included information about the herbs, their medicinal properties, and the related cooking skills.
This medicinal cuisine required quite a few herbs, and they had to be of a certain age. That meant they would be very expensive.
After obtaining the information, he looked online to check the prices of herbs old enough to meet the requirements. Sure enough, they were beyond what ordinary people could afford.
The ingredients that could be used for the medicinal cuisine in this recipe for Emperor Qianlong were extremely varied. In fact, most of the rare delicacies the emperor could get his hands on could be used.
That was right—the emperor in question was Emperor Qianlong, supposedly the longest-lived and most pleasure-loving emperor in history.
He remembered a TV drama that claimed the emperor had lived so long because he possessed a special health-preserving recipe. He had supposedly come across it by chance while traveling through Jiangnan.
Legend had it that Empress Wu had also used this health-preserving recipe. One of her male favorites had sent it out of the palace, and it had eventually made its way among the common people of Jiangnan.
After exiting the game, Qin Lin went online and looked through several books of traditional Chinese medicinal cuisine recipes.
They had all been posted online by the Chinese Medicine Association, though no one had ever verified how much useful information they contained.
But in a book titled Imperial Secret Recipe, Qin Lin used the names of the herbs to run an intelligent comparison and actually found a relevant passage.
However, the