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I have seen Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" before, and one of the details left a deep impression on me. That is, Guo Jing and Huang Rong met for the first time in Zhangjiakou, and Jing Ge invited Rong Er to dinner. Huang Rong was also kind and rude and ordered a table of food.
Huang Rong (Teacher Liu Mintao): "Hey, buddy, four dried fruits, four fresh fruits, two sour and salty fruits and four candied fruits first. There are no fresh fish and shrimp as appetizers here. Ok, let's have eight so-so tables. "
Shop assistant: "What does the guest officer like to eat?"
Huang Rong (Teacher Liu Mintao): "The eight dishes are: boiled quail, fried duck's paw, chicken tongue soup, deer belly Jiang Yao, fried beef tendon with mandarin duck, shredded chrysanthemum rabbit, fried leg and ginger vinegar, gold and silver hoof. I will only pick some expensive dishes that you can cook here, so that we don't have to cook. "
Shop assistant: "The prices of these eight dishes are not small. Just duck feet and chicken tongue soup requires dozens of chickens and ducks. "
Huang Rong pointed to Guo Jing and said, "This uncle is the host. Do you think he can't afford it? "
The bartender stopped talking when he saw that Guo Jing looked like a local tyrant. Soon, fruits, preserves, dining tables and other delicacies were served at one end. Everything Guo Jing has tasted is delicious.
Some of these tables and drinks ordered by Huang Rong were compiled by Jin Yong's father, and some were indeed the delicacies of the Song Dynasty, such as "Boiled Quail with Flowers" and "Chicken Tongue Soup", all of which were top famous dishes in the Song Dynasty. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Jun, one of the "Four Famous Stars of Zhongxing" who is on par with Yue Fei, invited Song Gaozong to the mansion for dinner, and the first snack should be "boiled quail". I guess this "boiled quail with flowers" is probably braised quail.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, Lv Yijian, the prime minister, liked chicken tongue soup very much. After getting up every day, he drinks a bowl of chicken tongue soup. One day, Lv Yijian visited his back garden and found a hill in the corner, so he called a servant to ask about the situation.
Lv Yijian: "Hey, Xiao Lu, who piled this mountain bag?"
Who said, "Hui Xianggong, this is not a mountain bag, but chicken feathers left by killing chickens in the kitchen."
Lv Yijian: "Why did the kitchen kill so many chickens?"
Who said: "Because" xianggong "you have to eat chicken every day."
Lv Yijian: "Nonsense! How many chickens can I eat alone? "
WHO said: "A chicken has only one small tongue and needs a bowl of chicken tongue soup. How many chickens do you have to kill? "
Hearing this, Lv Yijian was very ashamed and never ate "chicken tongue soup" again.
Jin Yong's father should have seen this story, so he wrote "Chicken Tongue Soup" into The Legend of the Condor Heroes. It would be even more interesting if Jin Yong could write all eight dishes ordered by Huang Rong as famous dishes in the Song Dynasty. This is not difficult to do, because the notes of the Song people recorded many delicious foods, and the luxurious banquet that Zhang Jun invited Song Gaozong to dinner mentioned earlier also left a menu.
What exactly did you eat at that meal? Let me introduce you: before serving on the table, serve two rounds of pre-dinner snacks. The first round of pre-meal snacks includes fruit plates, dried fruit plates, preserves, salty and sour, bacon and pickled products; The second round of pre-meal snacks includes sliced fruits, fresh fruits, candied fruits, salted and sour fruits, preserved fruits and candied products.
Appetizers are used before the formal appetizers are served. I drank 15 glasses of wine in this meal, and each glass of wine has two dishes, so there are 30 dishes in total, such as mutton tongue, steamed palm, dairy products, three-crisp soup, quail soup, crab clear soup, blood powder soup, jellyfish soup, quail crystal soup, five-treasure soup and fresh shrimp hoof flower soup.
While drinking, we had seven meals, mainly barbecue, ten snacks and ten "chef's dishes". This chef's dish is probably the dish with wine specially recommended by the chef.
I haven't finished eating after dinner, and there are two rounds of dessert, including honey fried, salty and sour, fashionable and candied fruit, etc. Zhang Jun's guest is the emperor, so it is understandable that the dishes are so rich.
Can ordinary citizens eat so much food when they go to restaurants? Yes Provided that you can afford the price. In the metropolis of Song Dynasty, general food stalls can provide all kinds of dishes, such as braised pork soup, bone soup, hoof flower soup, pig bone soup, fish-flavored soup, chicken soup, miscellaneous soup, North-South soup, etc., as well as fried meat, fried liver, frozen fish, frozen meat, fried duck and fried fish. These are home-cooked meals.
High-end restaurants attract diners with rich dishes, including hot dishes, cold dishes and cold dishes. The dishes are so rich that customers can choose from them. If you order a famous dish in Song Dynasty Hotel, but the waiter tells you that the restaurant can't do it, you can complain to the shopkeeper about the waiter and chef.
By the Song Dynasty, cooking techniques such as frying, roasting, frying, frying, boiling and steaming had matured. The same ingredient can be fried, boiled, fried, salted and eaten raw. Different cooking skills can make different flavors of food.
Mutton and other ingredients are chopped, wrapped in pig oil and fried. This kind of food was called "signature vegetable" in Song Dynasty.
Pickled food was called "Fu" in Song Dynasty. Mutton, fresh fish, shrimps and crabs, chickens and ducks, birds, goose feet, etc. can all be pickled into "Fu". In the Song Dynasty, there was a delicious pickled food called "Fu Xuan", which means "Xuan, Xuan, Xuan". It is a delicious food that can be eaten immediately after being pickled with salt, distiller's grains and other seasonings, similar to the raw pickled blood clam and raw pickled shrimp in Cantonese cuisine today.
People in the Song Dynasty also liked to make fresh fish and fresh meat into candied fruit. What is candied fruit? It is sashimi, sliced raw meat. After this food was introduced to Japan, it became Japan's "sashimi".
During the Song Dynasty, people developed rich ingredients, such as those grown in the ground, those running in the mountains and those swimming in the sea, which were all gifts from nature. The favorite ingredients of Song people are probably crabs and mutton.
(Teacher Liu Mintao): "People in the Song Dynasty liked to make crabs."
(voiceover): "What is a crab?"
(Teacher Liu Mintao): "Chop raw crabs, soak them in hot sesame oil, cool them, add fennel, pepper, ginger, pepper and other seasonings, add onion, salt, vinegar and wine, mix them evenly and marinate them for a while, then you can eat them."
(voiceover): "Kind of like raw pickled crabs now?"
(Miss Liu Mintao): "Yes. People in the Song Dynasty also called this dish' hand washing crab'. "
People in the Song Dynasty also loved mutton. A poem said: "Life is a little rich, and I am interested in Yingkou's belly. Mandarin fish buy fish and mutton buy meat. " In the eyes of Song people, the most delicious meat is mutton.
Even the royal meals eaten by the royal family in the palace are mainly mutton. People in the Song Dynasty said that the royal family "eats cheap and smells bad, and the royal chef only uses mutton". During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Imperial Restaurant in Dajing, Tokyo consumed 430,000 Jin of mutton every year, while the consumption of pork was only over 4,000 Jin. It can be seen that the royal family in Song Dynasty loved mutton.
However, what impressed me most was not the abundance of food in the Song Dynasty, but that an emperor in the Song Dynasty kept a rare restraint in the face of the temptation of food. The emperor of the Song Dynasty was Song Renzong.
Once, a banquet was held in the palace. There is a dish at the banquet, steamed crabs, a total of 28. At that time, crabs had just entered the market. The chef knew that Song Renzong liked crabs, so he sent someone to the street to buy a small basket. Injong looked at the crab at the dinner table and asked, "New crab? I haven't eaten this year I don't know how much it costs? "
The left and right answers: "As long as you have consistent money."
Hearing this, Emperor Injong immediately pulled down his face and said, "I have warned you many times not to eat so luxuriously. A crab has always been very rich. When this chopstick comes down, it needs to be passed 28 times. " Resolutely do not eat crabs.
On another occasion, Song Renzong went to the early dynasty and looked very ugly. The minister asked, "Is Your Majesty unwell?"
Injong: "Nothing, just a little tired, it doesn't matter."
Hearing this, the minister thought that the emperor was addicted to beauty, exhausted his energy, and was afraid of getting sick and seeing a doctor. He gently reminded Injong: "Your head has the color of a knife. Your majesty, you should pay attention to your health and' maintain the holy bow'."
Renzong couldn't help laughing: "Qing and others are wrong. There is no such thing. I was just hungry last night and couldn't sleep. "
The minister was surprised: "Insomnia? What is this? "
Injong: "I was a little hungry last night. I want to eat roast mutton. The more I think about it, the hungrier I get. As a result, I can't sleep. "
Minister: "Why don't you ask the chef to do it?"
Injong: "I didn't know I could ask a chef to do it." However, according to the family law of our ancestors, roast mutton was never served at night. I don't want to solve this case. Once this case is solved, I wonder how many sheep will be slaughtered at night. So, I'd rather endure it. "
The minister was very excited after hearing this. Seriously, I'm a little emotional, too. Faced with the temptation of delicious food, few people can hold their mouths and refuse to eat. For friends who are overnourished and want to lose weight today, it is worthwhile to study hard.