The old Guangming Teahouse near Jokhang Temple is famous, and the Magpie Pavilion in Barkhor Street is more suitable for ordering a pound of butter tea in the morning when there are few visitors in this old Tibetan house, and drinking it slowly all morning. Sweet tea is boiled with milk, and butter used in butter tea is milk fat separated from milk, that is, cheese.
It is a long-standing habit of nomads to drink milk and eat cheese. In the Yuan Dynasty, Hu Sihui wrote a method of making cheese, that is, boiling the milk of cattle and sheep and stirring it frequently. After boiling and cooling, you can take off the floating skin, think it is crisp, add a little old cheese, and seal it with paper. According to the quotation of Taiping Yu Lan, there were also records of raising sheep to sell cheese and paying for fula in the Han and Jin Dynasties, and there were also various ways to make cheese in Qi Min Yao Shu. At that time, people in China even believed that eating milk was similar to fairy magic.
The legend of Mu Tianzi mentioned that people from Jusou invited Zhou Muwang to drink the blood of white stork and bathe his feet with milk from cattle and sheep. In the Ten Questions in Mawangdui's silk book, it is written that drinking wild animals' spring English can rejuvenate the old, that is to say, drinking milk from cattle and sheep can lead to longevity and rejuvenation. Therefore, if conditions permit, milking and cheese making are popular in frontier fortress or court. In the Han Dynasty, there was an official named "Whipping Horse", and the official name came from this action of grabbing floating skin when making cheese with horse milk.
A horse-riding official manages milk horses, milks them, holds milk in several buckets of skins, and snatches the grease floating on the surface, which is horse-riding cheese. Yan Shigu noted that horse-riding cheese tastes like wine and can be drunk when drunk, so it is also called horse-riding wine, which is what people now call horse-riding wine. In the border area, the Han tomb stone in Sunjiayuanze Village, Dangcha Township, Hengshan County, Shaanxi Province has a portrait of milking a goat, and the person who tried to milk a horse was kicked by a horse.
Buttered tea has its peculiar smell. However, if it is in the far west where people rarely live, even the buttered tea can drive away the cold and save hunger like desert showers. Even if the tea maker just grabbed cow dung and threw it into the stove, he grabbed the tea and sprinkled it into the water pot. There is no doubt that wool is still floating in the tea served.
make milk tea when you can't drink buttered tea now. Sprinkle white sugar into the pot, heat it, and burn it into a brown melt. Be careful not to agglomerate it. Pour milk, put tea leaves, and mix it with water according to taste. Because I have no income for a long time, I often mix a lot of water. After all, milk is not cheap, and milk tea can be drunk with a small fire. It is similar to sweet tea. When I drink it, I occasionally think of a desolate and desperate wilderness.
author: a fool. (WeChat official account: a big reader)
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