There is a saying among northerners that it is better to feel better than upside down, and it is better to eat dumplings. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The main raw material of dumplings is flour, or wheat flour, which was introduced to China from West Asia for 5,000 years, and it is also the history of the development of Chinese civilization.

There is a legend about the origin of dumplings that Bian Que during the Warring States period used herbs to treat frostbite when treating people with frostbite in their ears by mashing herbs for treating frostbite and rubbing them on a sheet of dough, and then wrapping the dough around the patient's ear.

In ancient times, when there was a shortage of food, the patient reluctantly threw away the used dough wrapped in Chinese herbs and wasted it, so he boiled this piece of dough and ate it.

I didn't expect this dough to taste good, so it gradually became popular, and the original name of dumplings was "pouring ears" or "flat food", which to some extent also confirmed this statement.

However, the origin of dumplings recorded in historical records was in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and this inventor was also a famous Langzhong, named Zhang Zhongjing.

At that time, it is said that in order to treat the sick and feed the sick, Zhang Zhongjing mixed Chinese herbs into a filling with mutton, and then wrapped the dough into the shape of an ingot, cooked and fed to the patient.

However, in the later Three Kingdoms, Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Tang Dynasty, this ingot-shaped pasta, for some reason, was called wonton.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, dumplings in the shape of ingots were still called wontons, and dumplings pinched into the shape of ears were called "slots", which may be the origin of the word dumplings.

The grain and meat production of the Northern Song Dynasty was much higher than that of the previous dynasties, so it was also during this period that dumplings really entered the lives of ordinary people.

The dumplings of the Northern Song Dynasty, both the filling and the production process are no different from the modern dumplings, the only difference is that in ancient times, when fresh vegetables were still relatively scarce, the types of fillings of dumplings could not be compared with later generations.

Hundreds of internal guards in Jin Jutang have become relatives, and Yang Huairen also gave them annual leave and let them go back to his father-in-law's house for the New Year.

Where did these people really celebrate the New Year before? This time they really have a wife and a family, and they can spend the New Year with their dear family, and their hearts are indescribably moved.

The rest of Yang Huairen's family stayed at home to make dumplings. If it is in the Yangjia Zhuangzi in Kaifeng Prefecture, there may still be some fresh vegetables to use, but at the moment, the vegetables that can be bought on the street are radishes in addition to cabbage.

Yang Huairen felt that whether it was cabbage filling or radish filling, the taste was relatively ordinary, so he decided to wrap dumplings with a more trendy filling in later generations, and the main ingredient of this filling was braised pork.

The preparation of braised pork is very simple, take pork belly with skin, cut it into small pieces of one inch square, and blanch it with hot water to remove the blood foam.

According to personal taste, stir-fry in a pot with spices such as Sichuan pepper, star anise, grass fruit, green onion and ginger, add white wine, soy sauce or dark soy sauce to taste, then add caramel juice made of icing sugar to color, put a little salt and water, cover the pot and simmer over low heat.

Simmer normally until the soup is viscous and the meat pieces absorb the flavor of the soup, and a pot of braised pork is completed.

The lotus root in the south is ripe in July and August, and the lotus root in the north is not delicious until October and November.

Speaking of the Yang family's lotus root was sent by Xie Changli, Yang Huairen didn't like this slippery old man very much, but people have been doing well recently, out of the principle of encouragement, Yang Huairen still praised him a few words, he made a few colors of wax some time ago, and gave him some, which is a courtesy.

Xie Lao'er was moved to cry bitterly, and after thanking him for a thousand thanks, he took the duck and sausage in his arms as if they were treasures, covering his body with a smell of bacon.

Simply using minced braised pork, in fact, can also be used as a filling, but it is fragrant so delicious, but it is easy to get greasy, and the braised pork and the washed lotus root are chopped and mixed together, and the meat aroma of the braised pork and the sweet and crispy lotus root are matched together, which is another balanced delicious taste.

The dumplings are boiled in the pot, and when the water boils, they take cold water to dip in it, and when they roll three times, the dumplings are boiled one by one, and when the belly bulges up as if they are pregnant, they can be out of the pot.

The steaming braised pork dumplings were served on everyone's table in the Yang family, and the white jade-like transparent dumpling skin was wrapped in a crimson meat filling, which was lovely to look at.

Pick one up with chopsticks, dip it in the vinegar, sauce or garlic in a small dish, put it in your mouth and chew it a few times, and then take a sip of wine.

The family sat happily around the group table, eating dumplings and drinking wine, recalling the past year, it was really full of mixed feelings.

Yang's mother sighed that God has eyes, she has such a good son as Yang Huairen, so that the family can live such a good life, and Yang's father may be relieved to be in the spirit of heaven.

He Zhiyun sighed with emotion that if she hadn't met Yang Huairen, she didn't know if she was still the second thief in charge, and her wandering mother, I don't know how she is doing now, whether she will still remember that unbearable past when the sun sets.

Erya sighed that she not only had good things to eat and good clothes to wear in the past year, but also her brother and sister-in-law who loved her, and she also had rotten eggs, hairballs and friends like Li Qingzhao's sister to play with her.

The two sisters, Ying'er and Seng Er, came to Yang's Mansion at the latest, but their sense of happiness is the strongest, thinking of the previous life, it is simply incomparable with today's life, there are men like Lian Zigeng and Ke Xiaochuan who are willing to give their true feelings to them, and they don't know what else to ask for.

Xuan Shen missed this Ke Xiaoxiao, looked at a dumpling on the chopsticks, and thought to himself that Ke Xiaoxiao didn't know where he was now, and whether she had a warm place to live in this Chinese New Year's Eve, and whether she had delicious dumplings to eat like him.

Ke Xiaochuan also misses his sister, thinking that Tao Yong has taken care of her all the way, I believe that she will not be wronged, and the monk doesn't seem to spray him much recently, but always stares at him thoughtfully, I don't know if he is being targeted or not, he is uncomfortable.

Tianba's younger brother has been frightened since he came back from the blind date meeting, and he was more afraid of seeing his daughter than seeing a tiger, so he only cared about eating dumplings with his head buried in his head, and two hundred dumplings went down, so he became happy and continued to eat another two hundred.

Yang Huairen misses his father in later generations, and I don't know if he is also eating dumplings with braised pork filling, because this kind of dumpling is what he taught his son.