The three hundred and sixty-eighth hometown from the tip of the tongue (1)
In the evening of outside time, when a dark night had just passed in the ruins of God's War, Snow completed his prayer to Mr. Fool, and Bernadette also came to his room on time.
She thought she would see a table of novel food, but in fact, there was only an incense burner with curling smoke, a maid making tea, four plates of dried fruits, and four plates of candied fruits.
"Is this a hometown dish?" Bernadette looked at the dried fruit preserves on the table and confirmed that they were common fruits in the northern and southern continents. She was slightly surprised, but then she heard Snow say:
"Well, after all, the recipe list of hometown dishes alone can fill a library. For a moment, you asked me to choose. I have difficulty choosing. I really don't know what to order, so I finally decided to just follow a formal banquet process. Forget it, you are an angel anyway, so there is no problem of not being able to eat it."
"Banquet?" Bernadette frowned a little at this time. As the princess of Intis, she deeply understood that the dishes at palace banquets are typically flashy, and in order to ensure social interaction, most of them are in the form of cold meals. But thinking about it, Dried fruit preserves seem to be understandable. As for recipes that can fill a library... Just listen to this. Intis cuisine, which is famous for its delicious food, also has a wide variety of dishes, but after thousands of years of changes, the contents are suitable for modern people's tastes. Yes, it would be good to have 1%.
However, from an observation point of view, she was not disappointed. After all, palace banquets involved more culture and food processes than simple food. After nodding slightly, she sat down and looked aside. The dark-haired maid in strange clothes poured herself a cup of tea.
The tea is bright green in color and tastes bitter but sweet. It is not the popular black tea in Lunen. However, when I was a child, I seemed to have drunk something similar, but I didn't pay much attention to it at that time.
"Since it's a banquet, would you mind telling me the specific process?" Bernadette Xiaoxiu sipped the tea, and Snow pointed at the incense burner with a faint fragrance and said:
"Of course, the golden scented medicine and the beauty's tea are the welcome gifts for the banquet, and the four dried fruits and four candied fruits are the snacks provided before the official start."
"It is indeed a palace banquet... and the etiquette is very good. The so-called 'guxiang' is probably an empire that was once very powerful and prosperous, and it was relatively rich in products."
Bernadette was thinking, and saw the sacrificial light door behind Snow suddenly opened, and the spirit maids came out one by one carrying plates, and her spiritual sense told her - don't use the peeping pupil to look at that person. door.
At this moment, the speculation that "Snow is the paradox who has not yet ascended to god" seemed to have been finalized.
Of course, if this paradox is willing to deliver food to believers, that is another matter.
This time, three plates and a bowl were served. Seeing how steaming they were, Bernadette was slightly surprised, and Snow's voice also came to mind:
"The four kinds of pastries, well, they are four kinds of pastries. They can also be eaten separately for breakfast. Considering the taste, I chose crystal shrimp dumplings, crab roe soup dumplings, sea urchin siomai, and sour soup wontons."
"Is this the appetizer?" Bernadette motioned to the spirit maid to open the steamer. Looking at the four exquisite snacks, Bernadette picked up the silver chopsticks that the maid placed in front of her.
"Similar to the chopsticks used by elves... shrimp dumplings, crab roe and sea urchin are all aquatic products, and guxiang should be coastal or have a large number of inland lakes..." Bernadette was silently summarizing a series of information in her heart, but the chopsticks had already picked up the
The so-called crab roe soup dumplings, compared to the shrimp dumplings and siu mai that you can tell at a glance, she is very interested in this "package".
When she bit it gently, hot juice immediately poured into her mouth, but Bernadette was an angel after all, and her mouth didn't get burned like those who ate soup dumplings for the first time.
She gently inhaled the soup into her mouth, and the umami flavors of crab roe and crab powder poured into her mouth in an instant along with the umami flavor of kelp stock. The elegant taste of vegetarian stock and the saltiness of crab roe filling were distinct from each other. Even though they were soaked by the soup, they still remained.
The tough bun skin makes the taste not inferior at all.
Bernadette's brain quickly analyzed the process of making crab roe soup dumplings based on the taste, but mentally she still chose to feel the taste of the food first.
As if taking into account the problem of appetite, the number of dim sum was not large. After tasting the shrimp dumplings, siu mai and wontons, Bernadette nodded slightly.
The taste is no less than that of modern food. Considering that this food culture has not been spread, it should not be the result of continuous improvement in modern times. This shows that guxiang has a developed food culture. It is different from roasting, stewing, and boiling techniques. It should be used
Steam is used for heating. This seems to be able to save fuel, but this is somewhat contradictory to previous speculations. A wealthy empire has done so many processes for the ingredients, but it has chosen to save on the cooking method? Or, is it?
To be able to cook more food at the same time?
Thinking of this, Bernadette had a somewhat special thought in her mind. Is it possible that... the most common users of this cooking technique are civilians?
As soon as this idea arose, Bernadette denied it from the bottom of her heart. After all, common people have no connection with food. This is the consensus of everyone. Food means more consumption. How can ordinary people have the opportunity to study food? And there are
Rich people are even less likely to study how to save money. Even if they occasionally research it, they will never make it public in order to maintain their dignity.
"Perhaps it's just that there is a shortage of fuel within the empire's territory?" Bernadette explained with this thought, but then, the maid who removed the dinner plate came in again carrying four plates.
"There are four appetizers, namely abalone, spicy tripe, braised deer tendons, and rabbit with tangerine peel. I don't need to explain the appetizers. They are similar to Intis truffle foie gras and popcorn."
Snow looked at Bernadette's somewhat astonished eyes, and seemed to have heard the voice of "This is the appetizer", but Bernadette was thinking about another question at this time -
Where exactly is the territory of this hometown?
Judging from the pastry, it was obviously a setting of agricultural civilization + coastal areas, but now deer sinew and rabbit meat appeared in the recipe, which forced her to consider the inland environment and hunting customs.
Bernadette ate the four "appetizers" in a daze. As the cooking methods were instinctively analyzed in her mind, she gradually began to understand what Snow meant when he said it takes time at noon.
But why would a chef who can perform such extravagant cooking steps cook some weird parts?
Belly silk and abalone are just fine, but tendons... shouldn't those things be used to make bow strings?
This empire is so luxurious that it can eat this thing?
Bernadette picked up the deer tendon and brought it to her mouth. As her teeth nibbled on it, the deer tendon was first made into dry food, then soaked in bonito stock until it was 80% boiled, and finally braised in her sauce.
It unfolded in my mind, especially the unique sticky feeling on my lips, as if I was having a passionate kiss...
Although Bernadette didn't know what a passionate kiss felt like, this thing alone gave her such an impression.
