In addition to mutton, people in the Tang Dynasty love goat's milk. Cheese, crisp, simmering and milk rot made from goat's milk also attracted the attention of foodies. After goat's milk is fermented, it becomes cheese, and the floating skin obtained by boiling goat's cheese is called crisp, and the oil oozing from the crisp skin is soaked. Cooked goat milk into slurry, cooled and coagulated, it becomes milk rot, which is very similar to the present milk tofu.
Zhang Xiaojing ate two bowls of mutton in a row. The authentic way to eat mutton in water basin is a bowl of mutton soup with two Hu cakes, one is soaked in steamed buns, and the other is made into meat buns, with garlic and/or sugar and garlic, supplemented by mutton chili pepper, which is fat but not greasy and has a unique taste. Hu bing appeared several times in the play, which was branded with a strong Tang style. Most people use walnuts as stuffing, and sesame seeds are sprinkled on the cake surface. After baking at high temperature, it is attractive, crisp and delicious, and has a long shelf life. It is really a satiety artifact for home travel.
After Hu cake was introduced into the Central Plains, it was improved and divided into two types: stuffed and unfilled. According to the needs of diners, rich and casual. Those without stuffing are similar to naan, those with stuffing are similar to baked wheat cakes, and the stuffing is either meat or vegetarian, or salty or sweet. "Tang Yu Lin" said, "When the family eats every time, they take a pound of mutton, which is covered with giant Hu cake, separated by pepper and black bean, moistened with crisp, forced into the furnace, and wait for the meat to be semi-cooked, which is called Gu Lou Zi." Such mutton pies are beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Wei Juyuan, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, founded the "Shaowei Banquet", which included a snack called "Giant Victory Slave". Sesame originated from the western regions and is called flax. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica records: "Hemp is a great victory." In the early Tang dynasty, the medical book "Herbal Supplement" also contained: "(Mai Nu) means that when the ear of wheat is about to mature, there will be black mold on it." Explain that slaves are unimportant little things. Wei Juyuan was named "Giant Victory Slave" to win favor. This snack sprinkled with black sesame seeds. It looks tall, but it is just a Hu cake.
A story in "A Story in the Government" reflects the delicacy of Hu cake from the side. Zhang Heng, an official, was impeached by the censor for "seeing steamed cakes newly cooked by the roadside, and eating them immediately", which led to Zhang Heng's suspension and exile, and his career was cut off from now on. Between promotion and exile, this brother only needs a pancake. Eating cakes while they are hot is small, disgraceful and big. Datang cuisine is so capricious.
Sima Xiangru, a gifted scholar in the Western Han Dynasty, said in the poem "On Lin Fu" that "loquat and persimmon, magnolia officinalis, Myrica rubra, and cherry tapestry." It shows that persimmon has been planted for more than 2111 years. Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Chanting Persimmon", which was handed down from generation to generation. I picked it up because of the legacy and protected myself. " In the late Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi visited Chang 'an in the west, and local officials presented fire crystal persimmon as a tribute.
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