It was dark, and there were bonfires everywhere in the camp. The soldiers worked in small teams to cook. Everyone gathered around the bonfire and heated naan bread with bayonets. Each person had a can of luncheon meat.
Yang Fan never eats this stuff because he is tired of it. But Lin Yueru and Xiao Niangpi like to eat it. They think it is very delicious.
Yang Fan thought for a while but still didn't tell them that it was all animal offal and starch, and the taste was all added with spices. It was complete junk food.
The key is that spices are a good thing in this era, and there is no way to tell them about it.
In addition to naan bread and canned luncheon meat, there is also a large pot of vegetable soup. Fill a large pot with water, pour in a bag of dehydrated vegetables, and then throw in soup stock such as soup stock. Add oil, salt, and pepper.
type of seasonings.
These dehydrated vegetables are all transported here. Modern frozen dehydrated vegetables, as long as they are soaked in water, will immediately return to their original appearance. The color, texture, and taste are all restored very well. The nutrients are also fully retained.
Soldiers like to drink vegetable soup very much. In this era, vegetables are divided into seasons. Yang Fan's soldiers can eat all kinds of vegetables all year round. They are all dehydrated vegetables.
Each team is also rationed a pound of chili oil every day, which is the favorite of the officers and soldiers. Now that the grassland has begun to get cold, chili oil is added to the soup, which warms the whole body.
Chili oil is unique to Yang Fan's system, after all, chili peppers are still in America.
The farms where Yang Fan grows chili peppers are all enclosed with high walls. After harvesting, the seeds are removed, and then the cheapest palm oil in modern times is used to fry the chili oil into a pound or a small tinplate bucket of chili oil for sale.
This is an exclusive monopoly business. It is sold in supermarkets and costs one or two silver for a small bucket.
In addition to canned meat, there is also bacon on the ship. After all, there is no refrigeration equipment, so it is difficult to preserve fresh meat.
Although there is no fresh meat to eat, there is also cooked pig head meat in a 50-pound iron bucket. This is similar to canned food and has a shelf life of 6 months.
Yang Fan has now put into tinplate production and started large-scale production of tinplate.
With tinplate, the canning industry can develop.
Tinplate is not a high technology, it is just tin plating process.
Tinplate originated in Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic and Slovakia). This place has been rich in metals since ancient times, has advanced technology, and knows how to use water power for machine manufacturing. It has been producing tinplate since the 14th century.
Now is the period of the great famine in the late Ming Dynasty, and the situation will not be greatly alleviated in the next twenty years. Food that can be preserved and transported for a long time is extremely important.
The climate on land is now bad, and food production has plummeted.
But the ocean was not affected, and in this era there were no tens of millions of tons of trawlers fishing every year like in later generations.
There are a lot of fish resources in the sea. Whales even occasionally appear in the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea is full of fishing grounds.
Now that we have steam engines, it is no longer a problem to develop deep-sea fishing. Trawlers have no difficulty. The key is that it is difficult to preserve catches, and dead fish will stink in a day.
Especially deep-sea fish, they die when they come out of the water and quickly rot and deteriorate.
Therefore, it must be processed immediately, the internal organs are removed, and salt is added to preserve it. Once it reaches the shore, it is transported to the canning factory and made into tinplate cans.
After high-temperature sterilization, different cans can have a shelf life of half a year to two years. In this way, they can be transported long distances to the mainland of Ming Dynasty. This can greatly alleviate the problem of food shortage.
Yang Fan's pig heads, trotters, pig meat, and fat are all purchased from abroad. These things are very cheap abroad and cost only a few dollars.
But these are good things after being poured out by Ming Dynasty, and they were directly made into tinplate cans by Yang Fan, with a bucket of 50 kilograms. You can open them and eat them.
Today's military supplies include a lot of boneless, canned pig head meat in large barrels, canned pig trotters, and canned sewage, etc.
The fat meat is refined into meat oil and used as barreled military supplies. At the same time, the fat meat frozen in the underground icehouse is sold directly in supermarkets to supplement the oil shortage in the capital and territory.
Now Beitang Shipyard is busy building clippers and warships, and has no time to build fishing boats, so there is not a large supply of canned sea fish. However, canned sea fish will definitely be on the market in the near future.
However, in normal times, meat is not given to the officers and soldiers. After all, when going on an expedition, we have to go on a long journey and use supplies sparingly.
After all, there is no place to thresh grass and grain on the grassland.
Generally, only for lunch every three days, each person will be given 2 taels of pork head meat and 1 tael of white wine.
Usually, each person has a small box of lunch meat for dinner every day. It is used to ensure enough calories. Junk food like lunch meat is very high in calories.
In the evening, after dinner, the cooking class will boil water in a large pot, throw in a large piece of tea cake, and make tea. The tea is provided to supplement vitamins.
Yang Fan's army has a strong water supply and has a special cooking cart. It is very convenient to boil water for cooking. It uses honeycomb briquettes as fuel, which has long-lasting firepower and a long burning time. Basically, the fire is not extinguished 24 hours a day, and it is usually sealed. When it is used, a windmill is used to quickly blow the fire up.
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Briquettes are resistant to burning, so you don't need to use them too much. In addition, there is a special boat in the fleet that pulls all briquettes, which is very convenient for boiling water and cooking.
The steam ship only takes two days to travel between Duolun and Zunhua, and it can be transported at any time, so it can be used freely.
Even before going to bed, everyone can have a small basin of hot water to soak their feet. If there are blisters on the feet, they can be treated to avoid affecting the march tomorrow.
At this time, there was a small kang table in the cowhide gold tent. Yang Fan was sitting on the north side, with Xiao Niangpi on the east side and Lin Yueru on the west side. In ancient times, the east side was respected, so Xiao Niangpi made the east side. This was not careless.
.The ancient rules and hierarchies were very strict.
Yang Fan, Xiao Niangpi, and Lin Yueru had pickled cabbage, white meat, and blood sausage hot pot for dinner. Yang Fan liked to drink delicious pickled cabbage soup. It was his favorite paired with yeasted sugar cakes.
If you flatten the steamed sticky bean buns and fry them into golden pancakes on both sides, it will also be delicious.
"Sir, this pickled cabbage seems to be eaten the way the slaves eat it." Xiao Niangpi said while sipping the pickled cabbage soup.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Well, yes, this sauerkraut is Liaodong sauerkraut, which is different from the southern sauerkraut. This sauerkraut, add water and cook it with the cooked and sliced pork belly, it is simply
Perfect match, super delicious." Yang Fan said while drinking the soup.
At this time, the maids put the freshly cut blood sausage on the hot pot. Then they roasted the dried chili peppers over a fire. The roasted crispy dried chili peppers were rubbed into powder with both hands.
Fell into the soup.
This is Yang Fan's favorite way to eat it. The blood sausage must be tender to have the best taste. Add roasted and dried red pepper powder and it will be absolutely delicious.
Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru drank it, and the tips of their noses were sweating. The pork belly was boiled and sliced and simmered in pickled cabbage soup. It was not greasy at all and was super delicious.
The three of them were sweating while eating.
At this time, Zhang Geda came in and said: "Master, there is news about the Mongols. The Mongols are gathering an army and are heading towards us. They are preparing to besiege the city and call for reinforcements."
After hearing the military news, the three of them all put down their bowls. Yang Fan asked: "How many people have they gathered? Is there any news about slave creation?"
"To tell you what I'm saying, the Mongols left more than 20,000 cavalry to besiege the city, and the remaining 50,000 people are rushing towards us. It is estimated that they will be here tomorrow morning. There is no further news about Jiannu."
Yang Fansi took advantage of Buyan Ahai's letter to Huang Taiji, saying that he please send at least 5,000 elite troops to support them. He didn't know how many people Huang Taiji would send.
But Yang Fan is not worried. This time he went out with all his troops and was fully prepared. Even if the offensive force is insufficient, the defense is more than enough.
If nothing else, just spending a month here with them would kill them.
"Send the order, let the soldiers have a good rest tonight, be on guard, have extra meals tomorrow morning, and prepare for the battle."
This chapter has been completed!