"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, why do you let people make so many pots?" The little son followed Wu Yuanqing's ass and bounced up and down to ask.

"It's delicious." Wu Yuanqing touched the little girl's temples and replied.

"But why are these weirdly long, you see that the bottom of this pot is screened, and there is also the middle of that pot is convex, higher than both sides." The little girl pointed to the various pots hanging in a row in surprise and said.

Wu Yuanqing patiently explained while directing people to build a fire: "The flat one is going to burn a kind of cake that you haven't eaten called egg scones, the kind of cake that is high in the middle is also called a pancake that you haven't eaten, and the ,,,,,, and that pot are matched with the stove like the base, because the dry flour cake made from it is to be baked on the wall of the stove."

"Why are they all cakes?" The little boy asked curiously.

"Uh. Because my brother-in-law is making breakfast, I make cakes faster."

Wu Yuanqing found a blacksmith on a whim to make such a variety of pots, and the reason was the autumn harvest some time ago.

After the autumn harvest is over, the new grain will come down soon, and Wu Yuanqing especially wants to eat Hu spicy soup with cakes for breakfast.

Because he lived in the Central Plains for a long time before he crossed over, the most common breakfast he ate every day was either millet porridge, corn paste, or Hu spicy soup, and the strongest flavor in it was undoubtedly Hu spicy soup.

Drinking spicy soup is generally accompanied by cakes, fritters or fried steamed buns.

He thought to himself that the new grain would come down, and the flour made from the new grain, that is, new wheat, or corn, would be the sweetest and the best, and the bread would be the most delicious.

Luoyang is the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the spicy soup originated here, and the natural taste is also the most authentic.

He especially wanted to eat cakes made of spicy soup with new grains. Sometimes someone is such a thought, he can't suppress it, since he has the idea of drinking spicy soup and eating cakes in his heart, he thinks no, no.

His current identity is different from the next generation, what he wants doesn't need to be considered, if he wants it, just let someone find it.

However, he sent someone to look for him for many days, and the result he brought back made him full of disappointment.

The first point is this spicy soup, the people here in Luoyang have not heard the name at all, looking for those who sell snacks, and those who open restaurants and restaurants don't know, so it is basically impossible for ordinary people, because although they find the spice island and no longer have to compare the price of gold as before, but in order not to sell the spices into stalls, the royal and samurai who monopolize the spice resources have a limit to put spices on the market.

Naturally, it is impossible for ordinary people to afford expensive spices.

Wu Yuanqing didn't know that in the original history, the pepper that was inevitably used to make Hu spicy soup was only introduced to the Central Plains during the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, there must have been no Hu spicy soup in the Tang Dynasty before, and even if this pepper was introduced to the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty, it was impossible for Hu spicy soup to appear in a short time, because no matter what spices, the place used at the beginning was on the roasted meat, just like everyone thought of cumin when they saw kebabs in later generations.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were dignitaries and royal families, and the most luxurious dish when holding a banquet was a barbecue, which was called Hun Yang Death.

"Taiping Guangji" says: "Take the goose, simmer it to remove the hair, remove the five internal organs, stuff it with meat and glutinous rice, and reconcile the five flavors." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info first take a bite of the sheep, also boil and peel, to remove the stomach. Put the goose in the sheep and sew it to burn. If the mutton is cooked, it will be gone. Take the goose and eat it. ”

It is the sheep that roasts, but the goose that eats it in the belly of the sheep. This grilled meat is made with pure spices to enhance the flavor.

Wu Yuanqing had never eaten this dish at home, and he felt that it was too cumbersome, he was generally used to eating whatever he wanted, and when he wanted to eat it was not equal for a moment.

However, at the banquets held in the palace, he can often eat it, and others say that it is delicious, but he does not feel that it is delicious, because the entrance is full of spices, just like eating barbecue with cumin.

Maybe it's just at this time that people haven't seen so many spices, and they can't be so extravagant that they put a lot of spices in a meal to feel that it is delicious like a delicacy in the world.

The topic is far away, back to the topic, the original time and space because pepper was introduced to the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty, so according to research, the appearance of Hu spicy soup was later than that of the Tang Dynasty, and it should have appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Because this is a folk snack, not from the court, so in the Northern Song Dynasty, there were more spices, and ordinary people could occasionally eat them.

And at first, it was not eaten as a daily snack, but as a medicinal diet, that is, a dietary supplement. During the Song Dynasty, the medical work "Taiping Huimin and Pharmacy Formula" was widely circulated, and it believed that adding spicy, warm and dry medicines to food was beneficial to qi.

So some doctors prescribed a hot and sour soup that was mainly used to sober up and eliminate food, mixed with meat porridge, and added ginger, pepper, star anise, cinnamon and other seasonings, and finally made a spicy and spicy soup, soothing the liver and rejuvenating the spleen.

Of course, this is formed after a long period of fusion, and there is a compatible process in the middle.

Therefore, even if the Tang Dynasty has discovered the spice island now, spices are no longer something that only the aristocratic and wealthy families can afford, but even if everyone has a family in just a few years, it is impossible to have Hu spicy soup.

It doesn't matter if you can't find the spicy soup, but Wu Yuanqing found that there aren't even many types of cakes in Luoyang.

Well, wheat should be the most widely grown crop in the Central Plains, but the pasta here is not the most.

Far less than Hedong, Guanzhong's ground food is rich in variety, like the pasta in Hedong and Guanzhong in later generations, which are eaten every day in a different way, and you can eat it for I don't know how many days are not the same, but there is no one in the Central Plains.

Later generations of northerners ridiculed southerners for eating rice every day and eating rice every day, and it was not for nothing.

Wu Yuanqing has lived in the south for a long time, and his daily meals can basically be set on rice in the morning, lunch and evening, which is basically porridge or corn paste in the north in the morning and evening, and it is impossible to eat dry rice every morning and evening.

In the south, it is like this every day, either it is rice porridge that is drunk and drunk a lot of the time, such as the rice left over from the night before the next morning and poured water into it and boiled it the next morning to become rice porridge, or the rice at noon and porridge at night.

I'll take it, the staple food is really the same every day, that is, there are enough stir-fried vegetables at once.

If you don't eat rice, it's steamed buns.

You are like the north, steamed bread basically will not be eaten at noon, the role of steamed bread is to eat with porridge in the morning and evening, and the south is to replace rice with steamed bread, and then stir-fry the same food.

The most speechless thing is eating noodles.