But in Xiao Peng's eyes, fish and chips and potato beef stew are probably the only things he can eat in British cuisine.

Led by Judy to the kitchen, she opened the refrigerator and saw that there were two kinds of fish, Pacific cod and flounder, the former has a tight meat and strong seafood, while the flounder has a smooth-tender taste and a refreshing flavor. Xiao Peng thought about it and chose Pacific cod.

However, he did something a little differently, he just found a rolling pin and began to roll out the fish.

Judy also makes fish and chips, but she can't figure out Xiao Peng's first move, Xiao Peng explained with a smile: "This can make the meat soft, and can make the flavor of the noodles and the taste of the fish better combined." ”

After processing the fish, Xiao Peng began to process the batter again, Xiao Peng did not use water, but used soda and beer, which produced rich carbon dioxide bubbles and made the batter more loose. This batter is wrapped in fish and fried, and it is fluffy like fried bread, and the texture is even softer.

After processing these, Xiao Peng found another canned pea and boiled the peas directly in salt water. After all this was taken care of, Xiao Peng took out the potatoes and began to cut the fries.

Because the Eagle people advocate the original taste of potatoes, the Eagle fries are different from the French fries, the shape is thicker and shorter, so although the English fries are not as crispy as the French fries, they can make people better appreciate the aroma and glutinous taste of the potatoes.

Xiao Peng fried the fries first, and when it came out of the pot, Xiao Peng directly sprinkled salt on the fries, poured a layer of malt vinegar on them while it was hot, and the kitchen was instantly filled with a rich potato aroma and acetic acidity, so that the vinegar could penetrate into the fries well and bring out the sweetness of the starch. Let the guests dip on their own.

Xiao Peng, on the other hand, does a good job of frying the fish, and the fluffy shape looks more like a hot dog, and Xiao Peng adds a little lemon juice to each fried fish when it comes out of the pot, and the slightly sour taste can neutralize the greasy feeling of the fried fish, which makes people appetite.

Finally, boiled peas in salted water are placed in a small bowl as a side dish, and the fish and chips are so easy to make. Judy is still very professional, and after helping everyone deliver one first, she can't wait to eat it.

"Uh。。。。。。h Judy took the first bite and felt the aroma of the potatoes explode in her mouth. Judy looked at Xiao Peng in surprise, this is completely different from the taste of Eagle Country fish and chips she has eaten for more than ten years!

Xiao Peng smiled at her, nodded, and motioned for her to continue eating. Judy didn't care about her image anymore, she grabbed the fried fish and stuffed it into her mouth, not caring about her image at all.

The rest of the people couldn't help but taste Judy's eating appearance when they saw it, and the result was 。。。。。。 Can't stop at all.

Especially Emilia, her mouth was full, and she said with a happy face: "Xiao Peng, I really didn't expect that fish and chips could be so delicious." Especially this french fries, I couldn't have imagined that they could be so delicious. ”

Judy raised her hand: "I swear, I can't eat such delicious fish and chips in the Eagle Country!"

Xiao Peng smiled: "Amilia, don't underestimate potatoes, this little potato is the fourth largest staple food in the world, after corn, rice, and wheat." It can also be said to be an important reason for the independent establishment of Ireland, if it were not for potatoes, Ireland might still be British territory. ”

Emilia was puzzled: "What does Irish independence have to do with potatoes?"

Xiao Peng explained: "You also know that Ireland and the Eagle Country have been fighting for hundreds of years, since 1169, the Eagle Country has been invading Ireland, the movie "Braveheart" is about what happened at that time, until 500 years later, in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Eagle Country completely occupied Ireland under the leadership of Cromwell, and Ireland became the territory of the Eagle Country. ”

"What does that have to do with potatoes?" asked Judy, curious about it as a native of the Eagle Nation.

"After the occupation of Ireland by the Eagle Nation, most of the Irish were forced to move westward, and the western part of the island of Ireland is mountainous and barren, making it suitable for growing cereals, but suitable for growing potatoes," Xiao explained. Potatoes are grown without cows, horses or mills, but with manpower and shovels. Although the storage period is not as good as that of cereals, it is still more than enough compared to other vegetables, and potatoes are even more nutritionally balanced than cereals, with almost no disadvantages with milk or cheese------ and cows can also live by eating potatoes, so the whole of Ireland is dominated by potatoes, and now it seems that this is also an inevitability. ”

"After the large-scale cultivation of potatoes, Ireland, which was not short of food, ushered in a population explosion, and potatoes helped to double the population of Ireland, and how to deal with the explosive growth of Ireland's 'inferior population' was also a topic of daily controversy in the Eagle Nation media. You all know this book, right?" asked Xiao Peng.

Emilia and Judy nodded together, and Emilia said, "We went to school. Judy said, "This used to be a banned book in our Eagle Country, and I was just curious to check it." ”

Xiao Peng shrugged after hearing this, the content of "A Gentle Suggestion" is undoubtedly a piece of literature that slaps them in the face too much for the gentlemen of the Eagle Country.

The author of this article, the Irishman Jonathan Swift, is also the author of the famous "Gulliver's Travels". He is extremely good at irony. He sympathized with the Irish people's struggle for national independence, and wrote a large number of political essays criticizing the colonial policies of the Eagle Nation at the time, most notably "A Moderate Proposal", perhaps the most tear-jerking satirical essay in the history of English literature.

In view of the Eagle Nation's long-day political argument on how to solve the problem of Ireland's population boom, Jonathan suggested to the Eagles that the Eagle Nation authorities should take the babies raised by the Irish to eat, and financially calculated for the government that this would save a lot of money, and he also explained how to cook babies, how to eat them deliciously, and how to make them more nutritious。。。。。。 Jonathan pointed out that the colonial policy of the Eagle Nation was simply eating the meat of the Irish people!

Xiao Peng continued: "Although Jonathan's remarks made the British government unhappy, but what happened later, the British government was not happy. Since potatoes rely on vegetative reproduction, genetic diversity is extremely low, and there is no seed bottleneck, so they are extremely susceptible to disease, from the 18th century, there were dozens of small-scale famines in Ireland caused by potato blight, until 1845, the biggest agricultural tragedy in modern Europe appeared, that is, the Irish famine, commonly known as the potato famine. ”

Judy heard this and hurriedly said, "I know this, it was a famine that happened between 1845 and 1850. At that time, due to the infestation of a fungus known as Phytophthora infestans, Ireland's potato harvest failed, and it was only with the help of the Eagle Nation that it was able to get through!"

Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this: "Judy, that's what Eagle Country said about this??"

Judy was inexplicably laughed by Xiao Peng, but still nodded: "Yes, that's how we learned when we went to school." ”

Xiao Peng stopped laughing: " Then the teacher must not have told you when you went to school, potatoes were the main source of food in Ireland at that time, without potatoes, the whole of Ireland fell into hunger, in the first winter of the famine in 1845, there were about 400,000 deaths, this disaster lasted until 1851, Ireland with a population of nine million, more than a million became bones, more than a million became immigrants, ninety percent of them came to the country of Stars and Spangles, because the Irish economy still did not improve after the disaster, in the next fifty years, another four million Irish people left their homes, and by 1900, the population of Ireland was more than three million。 It is less than half of what it was in 1841, and it has not recovered to its pre-disaster level to this day. ”

"And the Eagle Nation has been worrying about Ireland's population growth, and now it's okay, don't worry about it at all. And at that time, the Eagle Kingdom was busy opening the door of our China, launching the Opium War, and was still making every effort to prepare for the first World Expo in human history, so it didn't bother with Ireland at all, allowing the disaster to spread and the Irish people to throw corpses all over the field, and even when the first grain ship arrived in Ireland after the disaster, people found that the disaster relief corn transported was inedible at all! And even for this inedible relief corn, it is an extremely complicated procedure for the victims to apply for it, and even the Eagle Nation government has blocked spontaneous humanitarian relief. For example, at that time, the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Meced announced that he would donate 10,000 pounds to the Irish disaster victims, but Queen Victoria asked the Sultan to donate only 1,000 pounds, because the queen herself donated 2,000 pounds, and even the Indian tribes across the ocean collected donations for Irish refugees at that time. But what about the Eagle Nation government?"

Xiao Peng smoked a cigarette and looked at Judy, who was shocked, and answered this question by herself: "The Eagle Country government, out of the need for its own interests, abolished the "Corn Laws" during the famine, undermined the right of Irish grain to be freely imported into Britain, and in turn destroyed the agricultural economy of Ireland, because of the repeal of the "Corn Laws", the landlords of the Eagle Country in Ireland, ignoring the famine in Ireland, changed the original cultivation of wheat to animal husbandry, which greatly weakened the ability to resist the famine, thus aggravating the development of the famine to a considerable extent. In the worst years of the famine, Ireland's eagle landlords still exported grain to the Eagle country, making Ireland a net grain exporter throughout the famine. In the end, millions of Irish died of famine. ”

Judy asks everybody's question, "Why are they doing this? Isn't that cruel?"

Xiao Peng shrugged: "From the ruler's point of view, it is understandable that they did this, after all, the population growth of Ireland is not conducive to their rule, and at that time, the Eagle Kingdom was plundering wealth from China and opening up new colonies, so it led to this situation, but unfortunately in the end, the chicken and the egg were beaten." Ireland is still independent, and the reason for all of this is fundamentally because of this little potato. ”

Emilia looked at the fries in her hand: "Xiao, this potato can eat so much knowledge." ”

Xiao Peng nodded: "So, you must eat potatoes with reverence! ”

Emilia looked at the large pot of fries in front of her and said bitterly, "But that's too much, isn't it?"

"Nonsense, isn't it because you've done too much, who will tell you these stories? I don't care, I just eat as hard as I can, and no one is allowed to leave here until I eat them all. ”

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