Historians have verified that the oldest recipes in the world were discovered in foreign countries before 2700 AD. There are no more than a dozen soups in that cookbook, and there is no soup still in use today, which is the "pigeon eggs Soup" that "hangs the golden moon in the silver sea" outside the cookbook.
The recipes of foreign emperors can be regarded as a collection of foreign dishes and foreign soups. Empress Dowager Cixi is the most famous gourmet in foreign history. There are not eight cooks cooking soup for her. Her favorite soup is "duck tongue chicken", and the ingredients are chicken, duck tongue, shredded ham, abalone and scallops. Duke Delingha once said outside her "Yingtai Bloody Case": "That Lafayette seems to have eaten duck tongue soup all his life, and he has forged a bond of inducement."
Soup has no magic, that is, no matter how rich a meal is, soup, as the most outstanding dish, will stay out of people's memory in a prominent way. There are many kinds of soups, including clear soup, thick soup and thick soup (usually made of fish, shrimp and clams). ) and this soup (usually made of vegetables such as ribs, oxtail and chicken). Soup is usually eaten hot, but people in some areas like to drink cold soup, such as Spain.
Every country doesn't have my favorite soup. French people are proud of onion soup: put a lot of onions in beef soup, cover it with grated cheese, and then bake it until the cheese forms a golden skin. In addition, cream clam soup is also one of the "famous soups" in France.
The tyrant Lunan XIV was a gourmet, and he loved soup very much. Many famous soups in France came from his royal kitchen. Lunes Gouy, one of his chefs, wrote outside the Book of Soup: "Soup is indispensable on the dining table. No matter how many dishes there are, there is no soup, just like there is no wife at the dinner table. " In the inclusive catering industry in France, people pay special attention to the use of soup.
According to the records outside the book completeboodofcookdery in the United States, there are no more than 1000 kinds of delicious soups in the world. The United States drinks more than 30 billion bowls of soup every year, which is second to none in the world. The chicken noodle soup outside is the favorite canned soup for Americans. At the end of 19, John dorrance, an American chemist, added water to the canned soup made by joseph campbell Canning Company and heated it for consumption. The United States sold nearly 4 billion cans of soup in 1995.
Similarly, Russia has no Luo Songtang; Italian thick broth, without mung beans and macaroni as seasoning; Spanish cold soup; There is no beer soup cooked with fish, meat, eggs and vegetables in Germany; There is no curry soup in Britain and India and so on. Soup does not seem to be a typical representative of food culture in various countries. When you taste those soups with different mouths and stomachs, you can also appreciate their unique curiosity.
Since ancient times, people have not had the habit of eating and drinking soup. Westerners like to drink soup before eating, foreigners like to drink soup while eating, and people in some countries like to drink soup after eating (rice). Although there is no difference in the order of eating soup, the principle of eating and drinking soup is unchanged.
On the contrary, because soup is the main position outside diet, it has formed the climax of "soup culture" in the world. The research on the development and utility of soups is booming.
Crock simmer soup
Since ancient times, China's soup culture not only has a long history, but also has a close relationship with taking medicine. For example, the saying of "soup medicine" in Guangdong and Fujian means to make soup for almost every meal.
Look at the crock that is more than three meters high. It's amazing. Looking further inside, the small crock in the crock was destroyed layer by layer, and raw materials such as native chicken, snake, turtle, gastrodia elata, Hericium erinaceus were taken out and simmered with soft charcoal for seven hours. Because the pot outside the pot is conducted by the heat of gas, the internal heat of indirect stewing is avoided, and the stewed soup is delicious and nourishing.
All kinds of soups are served after simmering, and the tin foil is still sealed at the mouth of the jar. When sprayed, the soup is particularly thick and mellow, and the entrance is beautiful. The reason why crock soup tastes particularly good is that crock has the characteristics of no water absorption, no air permeability and no heat resistance. This substance is blocked and heated by low temperature for a long time in the crock, and the nutrients are enriched and overflowed. If this soup tastes original, soft and delicious.
As the saying goes, the taste of an old crock is a century-old soup. Therefore, the more times the crock is used, the more delicious the soup will be. Comrade, please drink a can of soup! Soup can refresh the mind and nourish the kidney.
As the saying goes, "Eating meat is better than drinking soup", and foreigners have never had the habit of drinking soup since ancient times. The conservative diet in foreign countries is unsightly, escaping for "pleasure" and paying attention to "diet is harmful to health". Soup is the most difficult to give consideration to those two aspects. A typical cooking diet, Lu Chunqiu's Ben Wei Pian, has the following characteristics: "Every flavor is the basis, water is the beginning", and "Five flavors and three ingredients, nine boiling and nine changes" have become the "most delicious", which is summarized by predecessors.
The people's crock simmer soup, which won the Tang Boli Award, will be launched for the first time in Huilong Yufeng Restaurant in Huixinli recently, and there will be no improper benefits. That kind of crock simmer soup is popular among the people in Jiangxi. Put a small blue crock in a big crock more than one meter high, and then ignite it with black coke and other materials at a constant temperature for 7 hours, which is called simmering. The universal soup pot is under construction, and it has no small air holes. It is specially made.
It is rumored that there are no five elements in crock simmer soup, that is, fire, water and earth in Jin Mu. Gold means that the soup should be covered with gold foil; Wood means using charcoal fire; Water is pure water; Fire is to use slow fire; Earth refers to a crock, not a clay pot.
According to the restaurant operator, although the production process is very simple, it is actually very ignorant. For example, the mastery of the temperature, the amount of ingredients, and the rational use of "slow fire" instead of "fierce fire" ("slow fire" is a small fire, "fierce fire" is a big fire) are all indispensable when making soup. There is no distinction between soups, such as fire soup, clear fire soup, boiling soup and steamer soup. Especially the steamer soup, it is a must. Soups are all made of steam water. It takes time and labor to make soup. A soup takes at least 6 to 7 hours, and a slow fire takes 12 hours. After a long period of simmering, the delicious and nutritious ingredients of this material can be fully dissolved from the soup. It is rumored that this soup has no poetry: for five thousand years, people have been willing to make it, and visitors from all over the world often linger, and an altar of exotic flowers and herbs has gathered all over the country. After this museum, there is no such shop.
Jiangxi's "old cousin" is actually very particular about drinking soup and is also very good at making soup. Strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, helping the yang to strengthen the body, it is advisable to cook pig's trotters and soybean soup, clear away heat and phlegm, moisten the lungs and induce diuresis, and beauty beauty should often drink stewed shark's fin with old chicken or stewed eight treasures.
Cantonese people are experts in soup tasting and soup therapy. When they recover from a serious illness or feel weak and hot in summer, they should drink Lady Enforcers stewed pig bones or American ginseng stewed raw fish, which can not only replenish qi and blood, but also moisten the lungs and remove dryness.
Stewed tofu with yellow croaker, a common soup outside Hunan restaurant, makes people believe that Hunan people also know soup very well.
Farmers in Hubei have also used their own free-range chickens for the longest time, adding a little ready-made raw materials to cook a pot of fragrant and heavy chicken soup.
Just drinking soup makes people believe that northerners are not as good as southerners when eating.
Needless to say, Cantonese. In the words of a gourmet, "soup is the whole inheritance of Guangdong's food culture, and it is also the happy spring of daily life of men, women and children in Guangdong Province". The long-term soup culture has made Cantonese people experts in soup tasting and soup therapy. When they recover from a serious illness or are physically weak and hot in summer, they should drink Lady Enforcers stewed pork bones or American ginseng stewed raw fish, which can replenish qi and blood, moisten the lungs and remove dryness. When the weather turns cold, we will serve a pot of sea coconut and Fritillaria stewed with rock sugar ... The time and patience that Cantonese people spend in making soup are beyond anyone else's reach.
Jiangxi's "old cousin" is actually very particular about drinking soup and is also very good at making soup. It is said that the local people start their day by drinking soup from dinner and buying a small cup one or two yuan later. Old people cook soup at home and in the city, strengthen the spleen and stomach, help yang strengthen the body, cook pig's trotters and soybeans, clear heat and eliminate phlegm, moisten the lungs and diuresis, and cook wild mushroom king soup. beauty beauty often drinks old hen's shark's fin or Babao soup. The famous folk crock simmer soup is from Jiangxi. Most chefs in Jiangxi start from midnight and cook slowly. Six hours later, Zuo Zuo arrived in the evening and served the guests. Jiangxi soup pays attention to the original flavor, which is heavy but not light. The materials are genuine, paying attention to cooking techniques and temperature.
Diners who have tasted tofu stewed with yellow croaker, which is rare in Hunan restaurant, will inevitably forget the milky, thick and fragrant taste of delicious soup. Only that one makes people believe that Hunan people also know soup very well. Farmers in Hubei have also used their own free-range chickens for the longest time, adding a little ready-made raw materials to cook a pot of fragrant and heavy chicken soup.
When it comes to drinking soup, southerners think of home first. Their mother or wife patiently cooks soup while waiting for me to come home in a house full of fragrant air. Especially in the hot summer, no matter how you lose your appetite and feel depressed, drinking a bowl of soup cooked by a housewife can not only fill up the water, salt and nutrients flowing out of your body, but also get the best nourishing effect immediately; It also brings the care and warmth of the family, forgetting the fatigue of the day, and the happiness brought by a bowl of soup is always better than a thousand words.
Although Beijing people's understanding of drinking soup has not been greatly improved, compared with southerners, we are really far behind. Maybe it's because the traditional diet culture and living habits of the north and the south are not harmonious, maybe it's because of the rhythm of life and the pressure of work, but the most important thing is that their delicate thoughts on my body make us unable to do it. To be a good wife and mother, this summer, women in Beijing can start by learning to cook a good pot of soup. Or, at least, we can know the whereabouts of several families who took their families to drink good soup.
Shousheng decoction for strengthening the body.
Almost every nation has no rich experience in the benefits of drinking soup. Many ethnic groups think that soup is "the cheapest, and it has been proved to be ineffective, healthy and safe." Japanese believe that seaweed soup is not good for medical treatment. Nowadays, Japanese women don't have the habit of drinking that soup after childbirth. People in coastal areas and North African countries believe that garlic soup can prevent diseases; Koreans believe that snake soup can prolong life and cure neuralgia; Scots believe that the best way to cure colds is "onion sparrow soup"; Many families in the United States are also convinced that drinking soup can strengthen the body and prevent disorderly diseases, and chicken soup is the most effective. Many rehabilitation hospitals and nursing homes in the United States regard chicken soup as one of the "remedies" for disorderly diseases.
Foreigners think that turtle soup and eel soup have no effect on nourishing the body, while black fish soup has no effect on lying-in women and wound healing. Since ancient times, foreigners have regarded a special medicinal diet soup as a "medicinal diet" with health care and medical imbalance. It is a kind of table soup without dietotherapy, which is based on drugs and food and boiled with more water. It is the product of foreign conservative medicine and cooking experience. With a long history, there is no record of "medicine and food in the same stream" in ancient books, which emphasizes its function of strengthening the body and prolonging life. Medicinal diet soup is different from the common external prescriptions and the popular diet. This is a clever combination of medicine, food and water. Has the effects of nourishing joints, removing blood stasis, strengthening body constitution, stimulating appetite, and preventing and treating diseases.
There is no obvious use of medicated diet soup to treat common diseases, such as cabbage ginger onion soup and ginger mustard soup, which will catch a cold if you drink it indiscriminately; Asparagus radish soup, Siraitia grosvenorii pork soup can cough indiscriminately; Sanqi lotus root egg soup and ginger leek milk soup can cause ulcers; Honey milk sesame soup and mulberry wurong soup can cause constipation; Spraying banana soup and water chestnut duck egg soup on corn and watermelon will cause high blood pressure. In short, almost every common disease can be cured with medicated diet soup.
A bite of cake and soup.
The foreign soup culture is profound, exquisite and colorful. Old fire soup and raw soup are dizzying. Moreover, it is rumored that to surrender her husband's heart, making soup is the premise. Perhaps this is another reason why Tang Wenhua has been handed down from generation to generation and developed vigorously. Unfortunately, however, I don't have foreign women's conservative virtue, and I haven't learned the basic skills of "training my husband" in soup. In order to gather the strength of the whole country, we can only wander around the restaurant for zero days, drinking foreign Tang Yang soup and continuing that great task. Bilai found another Italian soup-crispy seafood soup, which hooked my boyfriend and me.
The Frenchman said, "You can't divide soup on the dining table, there are too many dishes. No soup, just like no woman at the table. " There is no Luo Songtang in Russia, no curry soup in Britain and India, and no seafood soup in Italy. However, many restaurants have no details. Generally speaking, Luo Songtang, cream soup and Zhouda fish soup are all common in Billy. Seafood soup is not available in every family. Its name is out of line. When I first tasted it, I wanted to know how to interfere with the soup to make it crisp.
After watching the bartender bring a crispy skin like a mushroom, cover the delicious seafood soup firmly below, uncover the golden crispy skin with a small spoon, and take a small bite, which is fragrant and crisp. The seafood cream soup under the pastry is fragrant, with or without different kinds of seafood (also called pastry seafood soup), or silver snow fish (also called pastry Yin Xue fish soup) and other single categories. The male friend said that it is not bad to try to tear off a piece of cake and eat it all the way. Suddenly, a strange idea came into my mind. That kind of service is nothing like foreign "fried dough sticks", so are fried dough sticks and fermented soybean milk. The effect was taken by a male friend. "How boring!" In fact, in the elegant case of western restaurants, cream soup is not rare, crispy, soup, small pieces of seafood elastic, delicious, pure milk fragrance. Although it seems that women are really scaring people who lose weight, they don't feel light, just like an elegant state of mind with warmth and romance. It's a big mistake to take fried dough sticks and soybean milk away from customers! Even so, comrades with high fat content should remember to have a drink occasionally!
After drinking such sweet soup, people who are leaving the kitchen are also interested in it. After careful inquiry, it is not difficult to make seafood soup. Stir-fry butter and shredded vegetables until fragrant, add water until slightly boiling, add tomato water, and add seafood, salt and pepper. Then cover the bought frozen cakes on the soup bowl, seal them, sweep them with egg paste and send them in. It's in the stove. Although the method is simple, it is very important to control the temperature of the upper skin properly. If extreme or cold, it will destroy crispness, fragrance and crispness. Just after I tasted the soup of many western restaurants in Shenzhen, I found that as long as the soup of Pizza Hut and Greenery Pavilion made me feel right. Of course, if you are not idle, you don't have to go to a restaurant, go directly to the supermarket to buy frozen cakes, and you can probably make them at home.
Old fire soup, really raising people?
Cantonese people like to drink old fire soup, such as peanut chicken feet, green carrot sparerib soup and Codonopsis pilosula pig's feet. It is not said that the longer the soup is cooked, the better it tastes and the less nutrition it has. In fact, the soup without parts is high in fat and sugar, so it is harmless to drink more, especially for those without hyperlipidemia and diabetes. It is necessary to strictly abide by the diet rules, and even the soup should not be drunk indiscriminately, so as not to affect the health.
Medicinal materials should be used with caution.
Old Tang Huo, Master Bao, likes to interfere with medicinal materials. Not only is the soup delicious, but it is also used for health care. However, diabetics should be careful when choosing medicinal materials, such as angelica, codonopsis pilosula and American ginseng. Although it does not have good fitness function, it is not suitable for this kind of patients. If those medicinal materials do not contain sugar, patients should drink less and taste more, and drink 1 small bowl at most every day.
Half a grain of red dates and candied dates.
In summer, many people like to use red dates and candied dates to increase the sweetness of soup, but we should pay attention to the dosage. Fruit red dates and candied dates have high sugar content, especially candied dates are refined with sugar. Adding ten and eight candied dates to make soup and drinking two more bowls will definitely make the blood sugar policy exceed the standard. Therefore, the master must be optimistic about the dosage, based on the dosage of 4 people, not more than 2 tablets. If you want to add delicious soup, you can add one or two scallops, which have low fat content and can also make sweet soup.
Be careful that the old fire soup is greasy.
Generally speaking, the conservative old fireplaces of foreigners actually contain more fat, because most old fireplaces are made of pig bones and meat. If cooked for a long time, a lot of fat and sugar outside the food will be boiled out and melted into soup. If people without diabetes drink the old fire pit with high fat and sugar, it is difficult to supplement sugar in vitro. If this affects your health, you'd better drink less.
Chicken soup should be cooked with chicken skin first.
In order to be healthy, the owner should hope to choose materials when cooking soup, and the meat should be lean; When cooking fish soup, use less oil when frying fish, and use rapeseed oil or corn oil instead; Boiling chicken soup with water and removing chicken skin can greatly reduce the oil content and is suitable for experts to drink.