Emperor Shuang: The counterattack started from the Gaopingling Incident Chapter 378: Lunch in Ajiucheng, a meal that was difficult to eat during the war
Chapter 378: Lunch in Ajiucheng, a meal that was difficult to eat during the war
Cao Shuang, Ma Jun and the personal guards around them got on their horses and rushed towards the old city of Na'a like a torrent, also imprisoning the horses under them from their brief liberation.
After all, it is rare for good horses to have freedom in the wild. Only the horses of the Huns and Xianbei tribe in the northern grasslands can be so lucky.
As the steaming copper cauldrons were carried out of the kitchen by the cooks with happy faces, the aroma of the cooked meat inside was overflowing. Although there was no seasoning added, the simplest, most honest and primitive taste was still there.
It’s something that can satisfy your appetite. In addition to pork, there is also dog, sheep, chicken, and duck meat. The variety of meat is very rich.
The cooks all held big wooden spoons and said loudly: "Brothers, let's eat. Take as much as you can eat, don't take more." The people in Ajiu City were waiting for this moment with their crude pottery bowls in their hands.
Cao Shuang, like everyone else, poured some soup and meat, took a few noodles, and found a rough bench in the hut in front of the kitchen to sit down, and had this unexquisite lunch. Ma Jun also
Sit down and eat aside,
Ma Jun was embarrassed and apologized: "Prime Minister, the food here is poor. Please be patient."
Cao Shuang picked up a piece of pork with chopsticks, put it into his mouth, chewed it, looked around and said with a smile: "This is already very good. It's hard to eat it on the battlefield. Do you think the brothers eat it well?"
The voices of craftsmen and soldiers kept coming from all around, "The food today is really good. I haven't had it since I was a child!"
"Don't be too hasty to be happy. We will be able to eat meat every three days in the future. The Prime Minister really treats us well. He also gives us money and food every month, which is enough to support our family." There were such comments all around, people chewing on food.
The sound of swallowing is endless...
At this time, it was common for people to eat pig and dog meat. When talking about righteousness, every time more dogs are slaughtered, you will understand the main job of the butchers, and dog slaughterers are a group that is despised.
After all, cows, sheep, and pigs are still sacrifices. Horses and cows have their own functions and cannot be killed casually. Killing cows casually is basically a capital crime.
With the price of chicken at that time, civilians were not able to consume chicken at will, but today, the soldiers and craftsmen at the lowest level are still lucky enough to have a feast.
When Yan Fei was the prefect of Jingzhao, he asked people who did not have cattle at home to raise some pigs and dogs, and then sell the money to buy cattle. This also proves that pork and dog meat were the main meats during this period.
There is also a lot of fish. For example, Chen Deng liked fish meat, which is sashimi, and Cao Cao also liked to eat fish. He wrote a book "Four Seasons Food System", which recorded many fish species.
Records about the "Four Seasons Food System" are scattered everywhere, and the surviving records include 14 kinds of fish. However, with so many people today, there are not so many fish to buy and eat from the market.
Cao Shuang also heard his father say that when Emperor Wu Cao Cao hosted a banquet to entertain guests, he sighed, "Today's banquet is full of delicacies, the only thing missing is the Wusongjiang seabass." Foodie Cao Cao is online... Then it's time for Zuo Ci's performance,
Not only Wusongjiang seabass but also Shuzhong ginger were produced.
"Today's high meeting, I have prepared a few treasures, but Wu Songjiang is the only one who has lost his ear" - "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Biography of Fang Shu"
During the Three Kingdoms period, Shen Ying wrote "Linhai Soil Chronicles" and "Linhai Soil and Foreign Object Chronicles". The latter recorded a lot of seafood, including crabs, shrimps, sea cucumbers, etc.
Shrimp has been included in the diet for a long time. Father Yu Xiao and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had talked about shrimp...
"Someone said that Xiu Xiu had a shrimp with ten feet long, but Xiu didn't believe it. Later, he went to the East China Sea and took a shrimp with a length of four feet and four feet. He sealed it as a sign of Xiu, and Xiu obeyed it.
You can see all kinds of delicacies in "Salt and Iron Theory". Here are some common foods in restaurants in the Han Dynasty:
Young dolphin is roasted suckling pig, leek eggs are scrambled eggs with leek, dog zhé is dog meat slices with soy sauce, horse meat soup is horse meat soup (controversial), fried fish is fried fish with soy sauce, and cut liver is boiled pork liver. The sheep is marinated in mutton.
Chicken cold is cold dish sauce chicken, dong koumi is koumiss, jianjiǎnqiu is donkey meat jerky, stomach breast is sauce tripe, gizzard gizzard is boiled lamb, bean paste is sweet soybean milk, and kou fèn is stewed Bird, wild goose soup is wild goose soup, smelly abalone is pickled abalone, sweet gourd is sweet gourd, cooked beam is rice, and roasted pork is roasted pork.
"Nowadays, cooked food is everywhere, and the market is full of confusion. The work is lazy, and when the food must be interesting, the dolphins and leek eggs are broken, the dogs are broken, the fish is fried and the liver is cut, the sheep are drowned in the cold, the chicken is cold, the horse cheese wine is brewed, and the stomach breasts are caught. Braised lamb and bean paste, braised wild goose soup, stinky abalone and sweet gourd, cooked Liang Zhizhi."
The boiled meat during the Three Kingdoms period did not have to add a lot of pepper and aniseed ingredients like now. Instead, it was boiled directly in white water. After it was cooked, it was served to the table and eaten with various sauces.
But even such simple cooking of meat is still very popular among people nowadays. Even if the cooked meat is not as delicious as barbecue, barbecue is a delicacy that only a few people can enjoy.
As early as the Paleolithic Age, humans learned to use fire. In many sites that were later discovered, animal bones that had been roasted by fire were found. They should have been thrown away by our ancestors after eating barbecue.
A picture of a kitchen in the Han Dynasty shows a scene of barbecued meat skewers. There is a man in front of the oven holding instant noodles with his right hand and fanning the fire. He is also turning the skewers with his left hand. There are 5 skewers on the oven, each with 4 pieces of meat. , there is another person on the right front who is hunching over the kebabs, as if waiting for them to be cooked.
"Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Guan Yu" records that Guan Yu was shot by an arrow and his left arm was seriously injured.
Although the wound healed later, the bones still often ache whenever there is rainy weather. The doctor said: The arrowhead is poisonous and the poison has seeped into the bones. The arm should be cut open and the bones that penetrate deep into the poison should be scraped off to fully recover."
During the process of "scraping the bones to cure the poison", Guan Yu's arm was cut open by the doctor and it was bleeding continuously, overflowing the plate, but he was still eating barbecue, drinking wine, talking and laughing freely.
Barbecue during the Three Kingdoms period was mainly cooked on skewers, much like the skewers in northern China today.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This kind of delicacy that everyone can now enjoy sitting at a roadside stall was only reserved for dignitaries at that time, and the class differentiation was very obvious.
At that time, there were various ways to cook barbecue.
The current stove is basically very similar to the one used for barbecue today. The upper part is a copper stove with a grate for holding charcoal fire, and there is a copper tray underneath for catching charcoal ash.
Slowly, barbecue is becoming more and more common. The Chinese characters "simmer", "fire" and "grill" are all related to barbecue. Not only barbecue is eaten in daily life, but even during sacrifices, barbecue is also contributed to gods or ancestors.
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It should be noted that cumin was introduced to China from the Western Regions in the Tang Dynasty, so the seasoning should be salt or bean paste, while onions were only introduced to China in the Qing Dynasty.
Of course there is no barbecue today, only boiled meat and several large baskets of steaming steamed cakes, sesame cakes and some soup cakes just out of the pan.
All foods processed with flour were named after cakes in the Han Dynasty.
For example, steamed steamed buns and steamed buns are called steamed cakes, boiled noodles and noodle pieces are called soup cakes, and baked flatbreads are called sesame cakes or oven cakes.
The soup cakes of the Han Dynasty were made by breaking and boiling steamed wheat cakes, which are similar to the steamed buns eaten by Shanxi people today.
At that time, the pasta could easily take advantage of the steamer and steam, and thus developed rapidly. After the Han Dynasty, steamed buns became one of the staple foods that northerners relied on for survival.
With the opening of the Silk Road, the barbarians from the Western Regions continued to migrate inland.
Beginning in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty, the living customs of the Western Regions, such as the custom of eating Hu cakes, were also introduced to China, attracting the attention and imitation of the Han people.
"Yu Lan" quoted "Xu Han Shu" as saying: "Emperor Ling loved Hu cakes, and all the capital officials ate Hu cakes."
This kind of biscuit has the characteristics of crispy dough and oily aroma, so it can be seen that it uses oven baking techniques similar to those in Xinjiang today, making it a delicacy different from the Central Plains region.
Of course, pancake-type pasta is still a relatively high-end diet. Common people often eat relatively primitive grain-type steamed wheat rice and corn rice, but it is not surprising that pancake-type pasta is served here.