The dish Gu Xi intended to cook this time was the main soup from the Plague Recipe, called the Hundred Poison Mushroom Soup.
The method was rather casual, involving more than ten kinds of poisonous herbs combined with over five kinds of poisonous mushrooms, all boiled in a pot. Generally, once it turned a deep green, deep purple, or dark red, the soup was considered done.
As for the quality of the herbs and mushrooms used, there were no strict requirements.
The only requirement was the ratio of two herbs to one mushroom.
Of course, if you could consider the flavor, and then think about the mutual generation and restriction of the Five Elements, or perhaps the roles of the herbs in terms of hierarchy, it would be even better.
If you didn't consider this and just tossed things in randomly, you could still make the soup.
However, whether the soup would be edible was another question.
Although Gu Xi was making the Plague Recipe,
he wasn't doing it to practice proficiency.
