Chapter 20 Ingredients cannot be let down

Author: March

Chapter 20 Ingredients cannot be let down

Inside the house, Zhao Si and Wang Li were alone.

There are chopped mutton, chicken, buttermilk, beans, meat sauce, rice dumplings, salt, chive sauce and unknown vegetables on the table...

Place a small cauldron next to the table, bake it over charcoal fire, and boil the water.

"I apologize for the poor food in the military camp!" Wang Li said with a smile.

"It's already very rich!" Zhao Si smiled and shook his head.

The food provided by the Qin Dynasty officials was often directly related to the level of the title.

Zhao Si's current title is only one level, which was decided when he was in Langya. Everyone has been promoted to one level, and he is the lowest rank.

The official food requirement for lower-level titles is only a bushel of coarse grains and low-quality salt cubes.

Coarse grains are really coarse grains, not coarse grains in the modern traditional sense, but grains that are not shelled. During the Qin Dynasty, the shelling technology was also relatively backward, and the shelling process was time-consuming, laborious, and costly.

Zhao Si's life on the ship was already bad enough, with dried vegetables, as well as various wild fruits, fish, kelp, and shells that were almost spoiled. In short, when traveling around the world in this era, don't think about how rich the food can be.

This is a troublesome thing. The terrible thing is that many places are completely deserted, and you may not be able to replenish food after you dock.

There was plenty of fish and various seafood to eat, and there were a lot of dried salted fish in the cabin, which really made Zhao Si want to vomit.

Landing ashore and having a good meal was one of the motivations for Zhao Si to return to Qin.

Unexpectedly, I was immediately put under military control when I came down, and the food in the military camp was even worse.

Whole grains really irritate your throat, even if they are cooked thoroughly.

Zhao Si even misses the days of eating dried salted fish.

Wang Li is indeed a rich man, even if he treats him to a meal in the military camp, he can be so luxurious.

It's a pity that Zhao Si's favorite beef is not available.

However, Zhao Si, who is familiar with online novels, knows that cattle were extremely important in ancient times and were even directly protected by law. After all, they are closely related to agriculture.

I don’t know if the Qin Dynasty had any relevant laws.

"Please eat with us!" Wang Li smiled and bowed, which was probably the etiquette of a friend's banquet?

Zhao Si didn't understand etiquette either, so he could only imitate it vaguely, and raised the buttermilk on the table to indicate that he would drink it all in one gulp.

Not wine...

Zhao Si noticed the rice grains in the buttermilk. He thought it was something like rice wine, but when he drank it, it didn't smell like wine at all. It tasted sour and sour. It tasted okay and appetizing, and was equivalent to a flavored drink.

After drinking the buttermilk, Zhao Si put the mutton salt in the cauldron and boiled it.

This form is very similar to eating hot pot, or this form is the predecessor of hot pot.

Zhizhi, boiling and pickling are the four mainstream cooking methods.

Cooking naturally means cooking the food as it is in front of you. Common people use clay pots to cook food. Rich people like Wang Li are more particular about their food. The ingredients are placed on the table and the diners cook it themselves. It is not much different from hot pot.

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Needless to say, broiling is roasting. Can it be considered the predecessor of barbecue?

Pickling means pickling pickled vegetables, meat sauce, dried meat, salted fish, etc. all belong to the category of pickling.

Eating raw fish, sashimi, sliced ​​meat... is all the rage in this era when cooking methods are scarce. In modern terms, it means eating sashimi.

Of course, history records that many people ate to death.

The mutton is placed in the cauldron, and combined with the miscellaneous spices in the cauldron, it begins to boil slowly, white smoke rolls, and the aroma is fragrant. The mutton rises and falls, disappearing and appearing.

Zhao Si tasted the rice dumplings on the table again.

It is a kind of snack, it should be made of rice flour. It tastes pink and glutinous. When you first try it, you may think it has an average taste. The sweetness is very light and does not stimulate the taste strongly, but it is not greasy or particularly dry.

It tastes very smooth.

While chatting with Wang Li, Zhao Si rinsed some unknown vegetables again.

It tastes like cabbage?

But the shape is far different from the modern cabbage. It has not evolved completely. It doesn't look like a baby cabbage either. It gives people a half-baked feeling.

The meat needs to be cooked for a longer time. Firstly, Zhao Si likes to eat cooked food, and secondly, because in this era, if you are infected with parasites, it is really hopeless. Unlike in later generations, you can go to the hospital to struggle.

Zhao Si first rinsed the vegetables and ate them. However, considering that there might be insect eggs on the vegetables, Zhao Si rinsed them for a longer time. The main thing was to save his life.

After it's rinsed, put on the chive sauce and taste it.

The taste is not special, just the sweet taste of green vegetables and chive sauce.

Then I tried dipping it in black meat sauce.

Zhao Si frowned...

"What the hell kind of meat sauce is this made from?" Zhao Si thought to himself.

It's salty, bitter, and fishy...

Zhao Si gradually realized that something was wrong. He may have overestimated the food standards of this era. The lack of seasonings and eating methods, plus the lack of technology and hard work, may be difficult for Zhao Si, who has been influenced by technology and hard work since childhood.

The guy is satisfied.

When the meat is cooked, as expected...

It's bland...you can eat it with chive sauce and salt. That's it...

Zhao Si is not picky, he can't even eat anything.

He ate more on the boat than this piece of garbage.

The main reason is that there is something wrong with his mentality. He came here with the mentality of enjoying delicious food to reward his taste. So many ingredients that are considered precious in this era are really tasteless to eat.

Wang Li noticed Zhao Si's brows, his expression paused and he said, "But the food isn't delicious enough?"

Zhao Si nodded, and then explained in order to avoid Wang Li's misunderstanding: "The ingredients are abundant enough."

Zhao Si didn't want to waste a lot of ingredients. Eating it in such a bland way was disrespectful to excellent food.

After thinking about it carefully, Zhao Si gradually became aware that the peppers brought back from overseas were still in stock.

Zhao Si looked at Wang Li and said, "I brought a spice from overseas. It's spicy. I put it in the pot. The meat tastes delicious. Do you want to try it?"

When Wang Li heard that it was a brand-new crop from overseas that he had never seen before, he immediately nodded in agreement.

"Is there butter and sesame pepper? It would be better to pair it with one or two!" Zhao Si asked.

"have!"

Butter and peppercorns are both precious. Needless to say, butter and peppercorns are almost completely wild now. They are produced near the Qinling Mountains and are also used as spices.

Spices were soft gold in ancient times. At least before they were widely cultivated, they were as valuable as gold.

Unfortunately, these are nothing to Wang Li.

As a guy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and was doted on by his grandfather Wang Jian, without experiencing Wang Ben's loving fatherly education, Wang Li can say that he can get whatever he wants.

Wang Li ordered people to go get it, but Zhao Si saw that his servant was about to leave, but in the end he couldn't hold it back.

"If there is beef, you can cut more beef..."

Although I was very embarrassed, I couldn't help it. Zhao Si was really hungry for beef.
Chapter completed!