On the difficult March, it is difficult to make hot food. In order to solve the food problem, people invented compressed biscuits by wisdom. In modern society, people think that biscuits are a recreational snack, but in the eyes of soldiers, special compressed biscuits are their energy source.
Unexpected "Biscay"
Military compressed biscuits belong to a special kind of compressed biscuits. Compressed biscuits actually evolved from simple biscuit processing, and biscuits were discovered by accident in an emergency. So it should be regarded as the evolution of biscuits. At first, there were no biscuits in China, and the traditional cakes were "Hetao Crisp" and so on. Cookies were introduced into China as "cakes" and formed after improvement.
Biscuit was first invented by the British, and its original name was Biscay. At that time, British sailboats encountered strong winds while sailing, and the ships drifted around the sea. Unfortunately, the sailboat hit a rock and the sea water quickly poured into the cabin. The crew chose to abandon the big ship and paddle a small boat full of food to a nearby island.
The materials on the isolated island are limited. In order to meet the survival needs of many crew members, everyone tries their best to make food. So, they use flour, sugar and cream, stir them evenly, knead them into small dough, and then bake them with fire. The unexpected delicious food kept the crew on the desert island until the rescue team arrived.
To celebrate their rebirth after the disaster, they named their food after the troubled Bay of Biscay. "Biscay" has also begun to be loved by people, and has been continuously improved into today's biscuits, which is also the "embryo" of compressed biscuits.
A magic weapon to satisfy hunger
Compressed biscuits have been welcomed by the public since they appeared, mainly because they can solve the hunger problem quickly and effectively. As fast food products, instant noodles and compressed biscuits are the most powerful, but instant noodles are not suitable for carrying and need to be brewed, while compressed biscuits are very portable. In the past, dry food always occupied a large part of soldiers' luggage. The appearance of compressed biscuits can effectively reduce the size of luggage.
But in practice, soldiers found that the anti-hunger effect of ordinary compressed biscuits could not last long. Ordinary compressed biscuits can only meet the physical activities of ordinary people, such as energy supplement in short-distance activities such as climbing mountains and running. For soldiers who are active and travel long distances, the function of ordinary compressed biscuits is very superficial. Any ordinary March needs to span a long time and space dimension, and ordinary compressed biscuits can't meet the demand at all.
After research and processing, people invented military compressed biscuits. Compared with ordinary compressed biscuits, the energy of military compressed biscuits is several times higher. This special military compressed biscuit can make you hungry for two days if you eat one piece. Soldiers will feel full after eating thick military compressed biscuits and some fruits. Soon, this kind of food became a necessary food for the army and a magic weapon for field training and combat.
Magic experiment
The magic of compressed biscuits makes many people curious. What can make people feel full in cookies? A young man solved his doubts by experimenting with military compressed biscuits. He learned about the composition and making method of military compressed biscuits. Considering that compressed biscuits are made by compression, will they swell when they meet fruit? With such questions, he did many experiments.
At first, he simply put the military compressed biscuits in ordinary cold water, and the biscuits did not change. So he thought that water must have affected the dilution of biscuits, so he changed the cold water into hot water. However, after adding hot water, military compressed biscuits, like ordinary biscuits, have no change except expansion and foaming. The experiments of cold water and hot water failed to solve the mystery of military compressed biscuits.
After repeated research, the young man chose to add compressed biscuits to water and heat them together. At first, the change was not obvious. But after more than ten minutes, the compressed biscuits still didn't dissolve.
But the boy didn't give up the experiment. He continued heating for half an hour. Slowly, the biscuits began to melt, and the biscuits in the pot turned into paste. The continuous heating made the biscuits expand and finally filled the whole pot. Cookies and water expand when heated, just like cookies are digested in the human body. The expanding volume makes people feel full.
Strict production requirements
The volume expansion of military compressed biscuits after heating is actually inseparable from strict manufacturing technology. The production of compressed biscuits has to go through complicated procedures, and each step has a special role, which plays a key role in the final compressed biscuits. First of all, in the choice of raw materials, military compressed biscuits are very different. In addition to oil, dairy products, sugar, wheat flour and other general ingredients, dried fruits, meat floss and other foods have also been added. A variety of foods with high nutritional value are mixed to provide enough calories for compressed biscuits.
In the production process, it needs to go through the processes of powder mixing, roll baking, cooling, crushing and external mixing. Each working procedure must reach the specified index before entering the next working procedure.
The quality requirements of military food are very strict, whether it is raw materials or senses. In terms of shape, biscuits are required to be complete without serious missing corners; In terms of color, the requirement is yellow or the color corresponding to the variety of raw materials; In terms of content, the section should be strict and there should be no loopholes. In the production process, various trace elements will be deliberately controlled to achieve the purpose of supplying energy.
However, the biscuits produced under such requirements are obviously different from ordinary biscuits in taste. Some soldiers don't want to taste it after a long time. Moreover, eating compressed biscuits will have many adverse effects on the human body, which will generally lead to malnutrition, constipation and other symptoms. If eaten for a long time, it will also cause serious consequences such as stones.
Nowadays, compressed biscuits are mistaken for diet food by some dieters. In fact, their calorie content is just the opposite of losing weight. Some people regard grain as the object of pursuit and begin to buy military grain blindly.
However, in reality, military compressed biscuits and other foods are valuable military foods for combat soldiers and provide important energy for their actions. While loving, we should also cherish it. As a precious food, everyone should cherish it, not to mention the food of soldiers.