The bean juice in the copper kettle on the stove kept making "gurgling" sounds under the blessing of firewood, and white bubbles emerged above the copper kettle.........

It is rare for people like Cao Shuang to enjoy the fact that their wife washes hands and makes soup for you. It is also rare. It is not as common as it is in later generations.

Sun Luban looked at the fish sashimi cut in the lacquer plate and said regretfully: "It's a pity that there is no fresh Jiangdong sea bass, Jiangdong mullets, and fish sashimi made from sea bass are the most delicious."

At this time, the precious fish sashimi material was sea bass, but sea bass was not the top material for fish sashimi.

Sun Luban thought about it and said with great nostalgia: "I remember once my father once discussed with the sorcerer Jiexiang what kind of fish is best to make sashimi. Jiexiang recommended mullet to his father.

The father sighed and said, "The mullet comes out of reach in the East China Sea."

Jie Xiang sent someone to dig a small hole in the middle of the hall and fill it with clear water, and then caught mullets from the pit."

Mullets are commonly known as zie fish, mullets, and fish meat and roe are both delicious and famous. They were once a rare dish for the Southern Song Dynasty. However, mullets were rarely obtained in ancient times, which was difficult for the people to taste.

Cao Shuang looked at Sun Luban and said, "It's okay, only the fish sashimi made from fresh fish is very delicious."

There were no refrigerators in ancient times, so it was really difficult to ensure the freshness of the ingredients.

According to the "Wu Yue Chunqiu·Biography of Helu", after Wu Zixu returned from war, King Helu of Wu "heard that the three divisions were coming and he controlled fish as stools." As a result, Wu Zixu delayed for a while and the fish meat was already stinking.

After the King of Wu discovered it, he ordered people to make sashimi again, and then the host and the host were happy. The "sharp" mentioned here, "made by Helu", specifically refers to sashimi or fish.

Wu has many rivers and lakes, and is rich in aquatic resources, so the King of Wu can change fish sashimi at any time; but if it is in the north, even if it is like the overlord Cao Cao, he will inevitably sigh that "the few are Wu Songjiang perch as sashimi."

The aquatic resources in the north are not as good as those in the south. In order to prevent the ingredients from rotting, they are often pickled.

Cao Shuang continued: "The north is not as good as the south. Most people eat fish sauce. Even the abalone that Emperor Wu liked to eat at the beginning was also marinated. Now we can eat fresh fish."

The most common one is "龙", which is fish sauce. Pixian County, Sichuan has always been well-known for its bean paste, but during the Three Kingdoms period, a fish sauce was also produced here.

According to Volume 926 of "Taiping Yulan" cited "Four Seasons Food System": "Pi County Ziyu, yellow scales and red tails, comes out of rice fields, can be made into sauce."

Take the newly hatched fish and raise them in the rice fields, which can also be made into fish sauce. It can be listed specifically by Cao Cao in the recipe. You can imagine the taste of Pixian fish sauce.

The pherry (i.e., abalone) that Cao Cao likes to eat may have also undergone special treatment.

According to Cao Zhi's "Application for the Conquest of the Past Kings", he asked Xuzhou Governor Zang Ba to bring 200 abalones to worship his father.

According to Volume 938 of "Taiping Yulan", Cao Pi's "Letter to Sun Quan" records: "Now Zhao Zi has caused a thousand fish."

After Cao Pi became emperor, he gave Sun Quan a thousand abalones, a good horse, a coat (white fur coat) and five hu of stone honey. One is said to be rock sugar made of sugar cane, and the other is said to be cherries.

But as a gift for diplomatic relations between the two countries, the stone honey you see here should be rock sugar, so that it will not deteriorate during the long-distance transportation from Wei to Wu.

Similarly, abalone should be dried abalone after air-dried. Moreover, from the perspective of origin, these abalones mostly come from Xuzhou, which is close to the East China Sea. Therefore, Zang Ba, who has been entrenched here for many years, is the "Lao Mo" who often delivers fish to Cao Cao.

There was also the method of pickling in ancient times. "Yan Family Instructions" once warned the children of the clan to not live with evil people, saying that this behavior "is like entering a bay of abalone, which will smell after a long time."

It should be noted that the "abalone" in historical books is not equivalent to "abalone". It generally refers to a wet and salted fish that is salted after being salted and rotten due to high temperatures, rather than what we now call abalone.

After Qin Shihuang passed away, Prime Minister Li Si and CRRC Mansion Commander Zhao Gao used "alphabet" to cover up the stench of corpses in order to achieve the goal of not causing a secret funeral.

Sun Luban continued: "Husband, don't think that only the north has pickled fish. When my grandmother was young, she also asked me to make fish and croakers. Sometimes she would take her mother and concubine to make them in person."

In comparison, the taste of fish croaker is better. This is a pickled product that is boiled in salt water and then fermented. It has a unique flavor and is very popular during the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Meng Ren of the Eastern Wu was poor when he was young. His mother was weak and her old man wanted to eat bamboo shoots. Meng Ren was very filial. After seeking fruitlessly, she hugged the bamboo and cried. Unexpectedly, "filial piety is the world, and the earth is broken in a moment, and the bamboo shoots are several stems." This is the "crying bamboo shoots" in "Twenty-Four Filial Piety".

Later, Meng Ren served as the Sima of the Prisoner and was responsible for the fish pond. After catching the fish, he was reluctant to eat it, so he made a croaker and sent it to his mother. But Meng's mother also refused. She sent her son a message saying, "You are the fish official, and the croaker is not to avoid suspicion." She returned the croaker and returned it.

Fish and croakers are a specialty of Wu. Not only Meng Ren wants to eat them, but also the aristocratic families of the Eastern Wu, Cao Wei, and Shu Han also have the habit of eating croakers.

The idiom "popular" originally refers to delicious food that everyone loves to eat. Later, it is extended to be well-written in poetry and essays, which are widely praised and spread by the world.

The delicacies mentioned here originate from two ancient ways of eating, one is the "cake" mentioned above, and the other is "roasted".

"Shuowen Jiezi" says: "Roil, roasting meat. From the meat on the fire."

Duan Yucai's note said: "There is also a fire that is added to the fire." It can be seen that roasting means skewers of meat and grilling on the fire, just like today's barbecue.

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the famous assassin Zhuang Zhu was entrusted by Gongzi Guang (later King Helu of Wu) to assassinate King Liao of Wu.

For this reason, he went to Taihu Lake and spent three months learning about grilled fish. After he had achieved success in his studies, Zhuanzhu approached King Liao of Wu on the grounds of offering grilled fish, and took out the fish intestine sword hidden in advance from the fish's belly and successfully assassinated it.

It seems that grilled fish was already there in the pre-Qin period.

During the Han and Three Kingdoms, although roasted fish was rarely seen in historical records, it was still a very common delicacy.

With the advancement of productivity, the method of grilled fish has become more and more sophisticated.

Before grilling fish in this era, people also scraped off the scales and washed them clean. Then they used a knife to cut a few thin openings on the fish body, and marinated them in seasonings such as ginger, scallion, orange peel, soy sauce and other seasonings to make them taste.

When grilling fish, "bake half cooked with light heat", grill the fish over low heat until it is half cooked, then brush with the sauce made of bitter wine, fish sauce, and soy sauce, and wait patiently for a while before eating.

In fact, the fish at this time can not only be eaten, but also become strategic weapons.

The Jianghuai area is rich in fish. Some fish are fatty and are not suitable for consumption, but can be made into fish paste.

At the beginning of Jian'an, Liu Fu was appointed as the governor of Yangzhou and stored thousands of hu of fish paste as a weapon to defend the city. The fish paste mentioned here is fish oil.

For example, during the Battle of Red Cliff, Huang Gai, who was pretending to surrender, came to Cao Cao's navy with a clutch full of fish oil. Taking advantage of the "southeast wind" to set fire to "burn up all the northern ships", which eventually led to Cao Cao's defeat and return.

But this does not affect Cao Cao's love for eating abalone. How could a person who can write such an open-minded poem that can leave a shadow on the originally innocent abalone because of a big defeat and dare not eat fish?
Chapter completed!