Ten days have passed, and they are getting closer and closer to Luoyi, but because of the windy and rainy weather on the way, their original trip back to Luoyi in 12 days has been postponed to about 24 days.

However, it was precisely because of the postponement that Shang Li and the others finally had more free time, and in addition, the food that Ling Hao had carefully prepared also made them feast.

Especially Zhao Hui, who was originally just accompanying her, but in the past ten days, she actually gained five pounds, which shows the charm of food.

"Senior Brother Ling, what did you do today?"

"It's roasted plums, do you want to eat it?"

Roasted plum, also known as siu mai, is a kind of traditional Shenzhou noodle dish made with wheat flour and water and formed into a hard dough, which is rolled into a ruffle dough with a shaft mallet after being awakened, wrapped in meat filling and steamed in a basket.

Siu mai with hot noodles, that is, with boiling water and noodles, noodles have been half-cooked, and then add cold water and noodles to increase the molding capacity, with a thick middle, two ends similar to a mallet special rolling pin to roll the skin, the skin rolled out is thin and uneven, the four sides are like lace, the middle is filled, no need to wrap, a mention is formed, and the upper drawer is steamed.

The skin is thin and the filling is large, the shape is like a cup, the bottom is round, the waist is thin, the top is like lace, beautiful and delicious.

Most of the fillings are glutinous rice, shiitake mushrooms, radish, cabbage, lean meat, etc., and seasoned soy sauce, salt, sesame oil, edible oil, and sugar are added. When eating, it is served with vinegar and shredded garlic, which is delicious and delicious.

There are many other theories about the origin of the word siu mai. One said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, near Dazhao Temple on Da Nan Street, there were two brothers who made a living by selling steamed buns, and later the elder brother married a daughter-in-law, and the sister-in-law asked to divide the family, and the steamed bun shop belonged to the brother and sister-in-law, and the younger brother worked in the store to make steamed buns and sell steamed buns, and the kind brother had no pennies except for eating enough, and then had no pennies, in order to increase his income and marry his daughter-in-law in the future, when the younger brother steamed the buns, he made some thin skin and opened "buns", and sold them separately, and the money from selling them was given to the elder brother, and the money from the sale was accumulated, and many people liked this bun that was not like the buns, and named it "piggybacking" Later, the name evolved, and when it spread southward, it was renamed siu mai.

There is also a saying that as early as the third year of Qianlong, the Wang family of Beijingli Village, Fushan County, opened a Fushan Roasted Wheat Restaurant at Xianyukou outside the front gate of Beijing, and made fried triangles and various famous dishes. On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve one year, Qianlong returned from a private visit to Tongzhou and went to Fushan Roasted Wheat Restaurant to eat Roasted Wheat. The roasted wheat filling here is soft and fragrant, oily but not greasy, white and crystalline, like a jade pomegranate. Qianlong was full of praise after eating, and after returning to the palace, he personally wrote the three big characters of "all in one place", and ordered someone to make a plaque and send it to the Fushan Roasted Wheat Museum. Since then, the reputation of the roasted wheat restaurant has been greatly enhanced, and its value has doubled. But this has little to do with the origin of the name.

The reason why the top of the roasted wheat is not sealed is because the side dishes brought by the tea guests are of different varieties, some are raw beef and mutton, ginger and shallots, and some are dried radish and green vegetables...... In order to distinguish the side dishes of the tea guests, they will not seal the mouth, and whenever a basket is steamed, the shopkeeper will bring the steamer to the big table in the tea hall and say: "The side dishes of the tea guests are here, and you can choose your own." At this time, the tea guests each ordered their own "crepes and cabbage" and ate and drank at the same time.

Another theory is that siu mai originated from steamed buns. The main difference between it and steamed buns is that the top is not sealed and made in the shape of a pomegranate, except that it uses unleavened noodles to make the skin.

In later generations, the varieties of siu mai in various places became more abundant and the production became more exquisite.

For example, there are stuffed siu mai in Henan, green onion and pork siu mai in Hebei, duck fat siu mai in Anhui, beef siu mai in Hangzhou, egg and meat siu mai in Jiangxi, mutton siu mai in Linqing in Shandong, three fresh siu mai in Suzhou, chrysanthemum siu mai in Changsha, Hunan, dry steamed siu mai, fresh shrimp siu mai, crab meat siu mai, pork liver siu mai, beef siu mai and pork rib siu mai, etc., all of which have their own local characteristics......

"It's steamed, you have to be careful, it's hot. Ling Hao took down a drawer of steamers, only to see dozens of roasted plums lying steaming in it.

Steamer originated in the Han Dynasty and is a wonderful handicraft of China's food culture, among which the bamboo steamer is famous all over the world for its original taste, steam water does not flow back, and the color, flavor and flavor are all over the world.

As an ancient handicraft. The types of bamboo steamers are mainly divided into green skin bamboo steamer and green skin Nanzhu steamer, green skin bamboo steamer is relatively rare, mainly because of the low price, poor quality, the material of the steamer to go to the green skin is mostly made of bamboo bamboo, using bamboo pieces to tie together, because the material is hard and strong, relatively thick, so it is necessary to remove part of the thickness of Nanzhu, leaving about 5-6 mm of bamboo as the main material.

"During the Gaozu period of the Han Dynasty, the general Han Xin used bamboo and wood to make cooking utensils when marching, and used steam to cook food to prevent the smoke from exposing the location of the barracks, and the cooking of dry food was easier to preserve, which is the origin of bamboo steamers. In fact, there is solid archaeological evidence that bamboo was used to make utensils as early as ancient times, and steaming was a method of cooking as early as the Zhou Dynasty. The ancient "steamer" was made of pottery and bronze, and the ancient kitchen mural in the Eastern Han Dynasty tomb at No. 1 Dahuting in Mi County, Henan Province is the earliest existing evidence of the origin of the modern steamer, dating back nearly 2,000 years.

The reason why you want to use a steamer to steam is of course because the steamer has good air tightness and will not lose the taste, which can lock in the gravy in the roasted plum and maintain the delicious taste.

"Huhu...... Scalding. ”

"Let's eat it with chopsticks, it's more convenient. Ling Hao gave each of them a pair of chopsticks.

"Wow, it's delicious! This dough is so crispy and soft! It's a little chewy. Shang Li said.

"I also have a vinegar dish with shredded ginger here, you can dip this and eat it. Ling Hao said and took out a few small plates.

"Senior Brother Ling, you are really amazing, if anyone marries you as a wife in the future, it will definitely be very blessed!" Zhao Cheng said.

"It's just that I usually like to ponder these things, and I can't get into the elegant hall. Ling Hao waved his hand.

"Brother Ling, what is this roasted plum dough made of? ”

"This is made of wheat ground into flour, kneaded into dough, and steamed after waking up. ”

"Eh, wheat? ”

Wheat is a gramineous plant, is a cereal crop that is widely cultivated in the world, wheat fruit is one of the staple foods of human beings, ground into flour can be made into bread, steamed bread, biscuits, noodles and other foods, fermented can be made into beer, alcohol, liquor, or biomass fuel.

Wheat is one of the three major cereals, almost all of which are eaten, and only about one-sixth is used as feed. The Lianghe River Basin is the first region in the world to cultivate wheat, and Shenzhou is one of the earliest countries in the world to grow wheat.

In the Erlitou cultural site of Saponaria sinensis, wheat is found to be cultivated, and it accounts for the fourth place of grain crops. Illustrates that in the Xia Dynasty, wheat was one of the main food crops.

The oracle bone inscription unearthed in Yinxu has the records of "suing wheat" and "eating wheat". "The Book of Poetry, Zhou Song, Qing Temple Siwen": "Yi I come to Mou", also known as "麳麰". The Three Kingdoms Wei Zhangyi (3rd century) "Guangya" has a record: "barley, dean, tear family, koji".

In later ancient documents, wheat was abbreviated as wheat, and other wheat species were preceded by the words "big" and "穬" to distinguish them from wheat. According to the area represented by the "wheat" mentioned in the Book of Songs, it shows that wheat was widely cultivated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in the 6th century BC.

According to later historical records, wheat was cultivated in the south of the Yangtze River in the 1st century AD and in the southwest in the 9th century AD. By the time of the Ming Dynasty's Tiangong Kaiwu (1637), wheat had spread throughout the country and occupied an important position in grain production.

Wheat is native to the Fertile Crescent in Western Asia. The earliest discovery of wheat sites in China was near the Hemudu River Basin. The Peacock River Basin in Xinjiang, also known as Loulan, has also been found in the Xiaohe cemetery in Loulan, where carbonized wheat from 4,000 years ago has been found.

4,000 years ago, the desert oases along the lower reaches of the Tarim River and the Peacock River had abundant water resources and up to 40% vegetation coverage.

There were fish wandering in the water, animals running in the forest, green meadows for grazing, and land suitable for farming.

It has quite a good living soil in a small environment. But the only problem, and the most critical one, is the fragility of the desert oasis ecology, and the slightest change can cause unexpected disasters to life.

Wheat was rarely grown in the south, and it was gradually spread to the south after the Han Dynasty.

The Book of Jin and the Five Elements Chronicles says: "In the second year of Emperor Yuan's Daxing (319 AD), Wujun (now Jiangsu), Wuxing (now Huzhou, Zhejiang), and Dongyang (now Dongyang, Zhejiang) had no wheat (the grass here refers to rice), and there was a great hunger. It can be seen that at the beginning of the fourth century, wheat had achieved a certain status in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Since then, it has been promoted one after another, mainly because of the spread of the peasants themselves, and sometimes by the dynastic government or local officials.

In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, a large number of northerners migrated to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Fujian, Guangdong and other provinces. The northerners were accustomed to eating wheat, and the sudden increase in the demand for wheat led to a sharp rise in the price of wheat, which stimulated wheat production. As a result, the cultivation of wheat spread rapidly.

Zhuang Jiyu of the Southern Song Dynasty said in his "Chicken Rib Weaving" (early twelfth century): "At this time, at a glance, the continuous wheat fields are no less than Huaibei. That is to say, it is no less than the North.

The growing seasons of wheat and rice are different, as long as the arrangement is good, you can plant wheat after harvesting rice in autumn, and transplant rice after harvesting wheat in summer, and the same field can be double-cropped in a year. The spread of wheat does not hinder the cultivation area of rice.

Zhu Changwen of the Northern Song Dynasty said in the "Continuation of the Tujing of Wu County" (1084): "The land in Wuzhong is fertile, the products are abundant, and the rice is planted after harvesting wheat, and the rice is harvested twice a year, and the rice has morning and evening. Later, the Southern Song Dynasty Chen Yang (fūskin) "Book of Agriculture" (1149) and Wang Zhen's "Book of Agriculture" (1313) also talked about the double cropping system of rice and wheat.

Moreover, according to the records of Wang Zhen's "Book of Agriculture", the south has a considerable level of technology for wheat planting, and the yield per unit area is relatively high, which is not worse than that in the north.

But despite this, in this world, people have not yet tapped out its remaining other use value, for them, wheat is still in the scope of grinding steamed buns and making noodles, as for the rest, I am afraid no one cares, and no one will try it.

There is a record in the second volume of "Urgent Chapter": "Cake bait, wheat rice, sweet bean soup." Yan Shigu notes: "Wheat rice, grinding wheat and crust and cooking; Sweet bean soup, boiled with rice swill and adzuki beans; One is said to take the adzuki bean as the soup, not to the sorrel, its taste is pure and sweet, so it is called sweet bean soup. Wheat rice and bean soup are the ears of savages and farmers. “

In the eyes of the ancients, wheat was for the poor.

It is no wonder that Shang Li and the others were very surprised when they heard that the dough of this roasted plum was actually made of wheat.

"So, the reason why this thing is so delicious is because it is carefully made with wheat flour?" Zhao Cheng looked at the roasted plum in his hand, showing a rare trace of curiosity.

"That's natural, as long as everyone has to eat and drink, that's what interests me, and if everyone in the world can eat such good things, it would be a good thing. ”

"Ling Jun meant to remind us that only when the people eat and drink well, will they really support us. Shang Li held the roasted plum in his hand and said very seriously.

"Miss Shang is really smart, she has this intention, if she can let everyone in the world eat and drink well, they will naturally not complain, and there will be no more starvation and death, I don't want to see that scene anymore......," Ling Hao said.

In fact, just before that, they had traveled all the way by water, and along the way they found some scrawny people on the shore, who had lost their ability to work, and no one even wanted to approach them, so they were basically left to fend for themselves.

Everyone came all the way, and they all saw all this, but they are not people of the same class after all, at most, they just give them some food to help them, and they can't suffer on their behalf, they don't have this realm.