But the famous gourmet Mr. Cai Lan wrote a book "must eat before death", directly tell you must eat before death food, the first dish is lard rice! Mr. Cai old lard can be said to be obsessed with, someone once asked the old man "you think the most boring piece of health advice is what?" Mr. Cai replied, "Don't eat lard." "Frying eggs or fried eggs, if you do not use lard, must not be fragrant, everything is in vain," "Noodles must put lard ah, do not put lard, how to eat ah!" "Among the cereals, white rice is the best, a bowl of rice with lard, eat the tears of gratitude. What? You don't dare to eat lard? Then die! There is no salvation."
Haha, you see Master Cai's love of lard, a big if you do not love pork simply brain problem!
Lard with rice is also really good, just out of the pot of white rice, still smoking hot, put a few spoons of lard, and then pour write soy sauce or soy sauce, the fried half-raw green onions on the pouring so a stir, the aroma of the nose. It is said that in the south, when you eat rice with lard, you will add some sugar, some people will say that this is not greasy on top of greasy, right? But the flavor is so sweet and fresh that it will make you wonder how you can make something so delicious with just a few simple ingredients.
Lard is really a good thing, I do not know if you have ever eaten the oil residue? Although some nutrition experts pointed out that these things are not healthy, high cholesterol, but just fried out of the fragrant meat residue with spicy green pepper a fried, is really a rice gods, can not say good.
You do not think that the lard mixed rice is inconspicuous, people also have thousands of years of history! The son of Zhou was honored enough, what he ate every day? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some lard!
The emperor was so humble that he ate rice with lard? Let's take a look at the menu of the Prince of Zhou and learn about the food culture of the Zhou Dynasty!
From the point of view of a foodie, from the Zhou Dynasty began to lay the gene of our Chinese people eaters ....... Eating is no longer a matter of making ends meet and coping, it has truly become a rite of passage, a ceremony and a culture. The Zhou people set up a national policy specifically for eating, eating as the first of the eight government (which are food, goods, rituals, Sikong, Sikou, Sikou, Bing, teacher) reflects the Zhou people for the importance of eating, such attention not only requires people to talk about etiquette, rules (such as table manners), but also from the food utensils, ingredients to do the requirements.
Some people may say that at that time there is no cooking technology, even if the Zhou Emperor ate is probably boiled meat, right? The Chinese people have always been a great fan of the Chinese ancestral spirit of food," he said. The so-called "where the king's feed, eating six grains, drinking six clear, delicacies with a hundred and twenty products, treasures with eight things." Let's first introduce the eight treasures, sitting in the first two chairs is "Chun boiled" and "Chun mother", you do not look at the sound of special complexity, in fact, is the lard mixed rice! What is "Chunjiao"? "To fry minced meat and add it to the rice, and then make it into a paste." In fact, it's a sauce made by boiling meat and putting it on top of rice and then pouring lard on top of it. And Junmu? It's just replacing the rice with yellow rice, which is kind of the ancestor of the rice with lard we eat now! Of course, Zhou Tianzi ate more extravagant than us, but also in the lard on the rice with minced meat, that is, a kind of meat sauce, the hot aroma of lard mixed with steaming rice, coupled with sweet meat sauce, stirring a little bit can not help but to drool!
The next step is to "shell the dolphins" and "shell the sheep", which means that the pigs and sheep are killed, cleaned of their entrails, and then their bellies are filled with jujubes, wrapped in clay and roasted over a fire, and then the clay is removed after the roast is dry, and then rice flour is used to make a thin paste and smeared over the pigs, which is then fried in a wok. Put in the oil wok frying (mom, just write so I crave, hear the pork in the frying pan sound, bubbling aroma), these two dishes skin crispy, inside meat tender and crispy, I said this is 2,000 years ago our ancestors ate rice, you will believe it?
The so-called "pounded Jane", in fact, a bit like we now eat the piss cow balls. The first thing you need to do is to hammer the beef to thin, and this dish is "to take the cattle, sheep, elk, deer, the meat of the quail, must be executed. Each thing and the cow if a, whacking sideways, go to its bait, which out of the, go to its scab, soft meat." Zhou Tianzi eat can be much more advanced, with cattle, sheep and deer, the meat of these animals mixed together repeatedly pounded, burned and then add spices to eat.
"Stained", that is, the fresh beef cut into thin slices with wine soak, the next morning and then add a variety of seasonings, including minced meat (sauce), ayi (vinegar), ??? (plum sauce) and other seasoning to eat, a little bit like raw corned beef. "For boiling" is also to pound the beef and mutton. But this time to add ginger, cinnamon and salt and other seasonings fried in oil (of course, can also be dried and eaten directly, but also shows that the Zhou people have begun to use spices more widely). "Grits" is fresh meat and rice cakes, with beef, mutton and pork and rice mixed together, with two rice cakes and one meat cake mixed together and fried (the more I hear, the more it sounds like a hamburger?).
These eight dishes will make your mouth water, won't they? The Zhou people's taste is much wilder than we think, in addition to these animals, the Zhou people also like to eat wolves ...... The dish "Liver Osmosis" is a dish of dog liver roasted in the same oil used to fry the dog and topped with wolf fat (I don't know how it tastes, but it's a lot fancier than French foie gras).
After the introduction of the eight treasures, the following is about the hundred and twenty delicacies. Delicacies are not dishes, but a variety of meat sauces and kimchi (really kimchi!) carefully prepared by the Zhou people. etc. These one hundred and twenty sauces are mainly divided into minced meat and acyl substances, which are further divided into five Qi, seven minced meat, seven minced meat, three 脞 and other varieties, you may be confused when you listen to it, so I'll roughly explain the types of sauces to you! The five qi are calamus, ox lily, big clam, pig's leg, and cattail. Seven minced meat (pickled meat, minced meat, wasp minced meat, minced meat, mirage minced meat, ants minced meat, rabbit minced meat, fish minced meat, goose minced meat) refers to the cattle and sheep, snails, mussels, ants eggs, fish, rabbits, geese, and other seven kinds of meat sauce (even the ants' eggs can be made into a sauce, we are really eating these old ancestors ah). Seven mince (leek, chive,茆, sunflower, celery, 菭, bamboo shoots) refers to leeks, leeks, Brunswick, winter sunflower, celery, moss, bamboo shoots, seven kinds of kimchi. So we Chinese are the ancestors of kimchi making!
One hundred and twenty sauces! We do not know why the Zhou people so valued and loved sauces, may be the Zhou Dynasty after all, can not stir-fry, eat meat if the lack of flavor, so the diet of seasoning are relying on sauce and vinegar! The same as the above with vegetables, the Zhou Emperor also pay attention to the matching sauce when eating, such as Mushroom rice with chicken sauce, rice with dog or rabbit sauce, jerky with ant egg sauce, etc. ...... If you are eating sashimi, eat it in spring seasoned with scallions, in autumn you will season it with mustard; if you are eating roast suckling pig, season it with leeks in spring and polygonum in autumn, curd with scallions, fat with rakkyo, and jujube with vinegar for pork, beef and sheep. It is summarized in the words of Confucius, "Food is always welcome!" In fact, this sentence is not yet finished, there is also "food rancid and clean, fish and meat failure do not eat; color evil do not eat; bad smell do not eat; loss of cooking do not eat; cut incorrectly do not eat; do not eat without its sauce; meat, although more, do not make the winning food gas; only wine, not as much as the chaos; put the wine city preserved do not eat, do not remove the ginger food, do not eat more; sacrificed to the public, do not stay meat; sacrifice meat, not out of the three days, out of the three days, do not eat the carry on. "
It can be seen that the week people are not completely brainless eaters, people also have multiple meals to pay attention to! For example, each season should be different. "Spring more acid, summer more bitter, autumn more Xin, winter more salty", some parts of the ingredients can not eat: wolf to intestine, dog to kidney, beaver to the ridge, rabbit to go to Shiri, fox to the head, dolphin to the brain, fish to the gills, soft-shelled turtle to go out of the hole, and so on.
Said so much may have a sweet tooth eaters will ask Zhou people eat sugar? That must ah! For example, bean flour or rice flour to do the cake: dry bait and powder employees, dates, chestnuts, caramel, wind and so on, and our modern day variety of sweets and chocolates, of course, can not be compared, but at least still be able to taste the sweetness of it!
Said the dishes of the Zhou Emperor let's take a look at the Zhou Emperor used big (food) bowl (ware) ......
The wok (镬), pictured above, was used to steam beef and mutton at the center of a banquet.
Pictured above is the ascending tripod, which was actually a large bowl used to take out the cooked meat and present it for placement, divided between the sons of Zhou and the vassals.
The picture above shows the Shyi Ding, or saucer, used to present various sauces.
Of course, how can the son of heaven eat less music, while enjoying the various delicious food, listening to the musicians ringing the bells to send out a wonderful music, and then drink a little wine (Zhou Dynasty, there is no distillation technology, and drink the wine and rice wine is very similar to the present, but drink too much is also on the head, ah), Tao Tauan, smoky, a small life is also very good ah!
By Hu Yu