Chapter 101: Buried Pork

The two bankers that Shi Lei found to focus on cultivating naturally have their advantages, or they would not have been selected by Shi Lei.

These two are rare and careful people among the bankers. It's not like the other old pawns, they're all a bunch of rough old men.

Although when they go to the battlefield, they can find even the smallest things, but in life, they become a guy who can't even think of helping the oil bottle when it falls down.

Although the two of them also have a more typical husband's figure, with a big head and a thick neck, no matter how you look at it, they also have a sense of toughness, but the knife skills are light and agile, at least let them practice knife work, which is still more reliable.

With the quasi-head under their hands, do some work such as changing knives and slice knives, and they will soon be able to get started.

Of course, if you want to practice the knife work of making a skull with one hand, you must still be a little short of the heat, but it is enough to make stir-fry.

As for the plating skills commonly used in later generations, as well as the food carving that decorates the plates, it is better to arrange a guy who can get by with a carver separately.

In the past, I carved wood, but I went back and carved some food. There is not much difference in the technique, and the hardness of the material is much lower.

You don't need to use other large tools such as planers, you can make the desired effect with just a pair of hands and a variety of carving knives.

With the help of these two people, Shi Lei was temporarily liberated, and he just needed to tell them how to take care of the ingredients at hand. The two people who have had the experience of the fire head army are still sure of the fire and the like.

This will be what the two of them are working on, which is the big dish that Shi Lei plans to take out. A dish of sauerkraut fish and a poached pork slice.

Needless to say, this sauerkraut fish has been prepared by the family for a long time, and there is a habit of pickling sauerkraut in this place in Shuzhong.

The environment here determines that if you want to store all kinds of vegetables, making sauerkraut is the most durable way, so the variety of sauerkraut is very rich.

Shi Lei just chose to pickle the vegetables according to the habits of his previous life, and the color is indeed very eye-catching.

The fillets are very easy to do, just a good time to train their knife skills.

A river fish that was transformed by Shi Lei and focused on improving its deliciousness soon became a fillet, and it was also carefully placed into a beautiful pattern.

Add some peppers with a strong flavor, and the dish will be lived.

In a similar way, boiled pork slices can also be cooked quickly.

What Shi Lei chose here was pork that he ate relatively less in this era.

In terms of popularity, it seems that there are more people eating mutton than pork at this time, and the audience is larger.

In Shi Lei's view, one reason is that pigs look more buried.

Walking around in the mud every day, and making himself poop from time to time, the image and smell are not flattering.

So he has been in a state of being despised, and his status is even inferior to dog meat, so he will definitely not be able to get on the big table. Relatively speaking, the poor eat more, and the price is cheaper.

It's just that the pigs are home-raised. If you don't do it, you have to use a lot of food, otherwise it won't grow fast, and there is no meat.

No matter how bad the food. It's all good stuff now, and no one wants to waste it on pigs.

And the feeding habits of sheep. It's much cleaner when it looks like it's grassy.

The body never looks so buried, much cleaner than a pig, which is reassuring to look at.

Besides, sheep food can be found everywhere, which is not the afterlife, and it is difficult to find a lawn.

The food of the sheep is very rich, and you don't need to take care of it, just throw the sheep to that, and then take it home when you are full, which is more trouble-free and easy to raise, and the cost is low, and there are more natural sheep.

The second one is the problem of taste.

Although mutton has a bad smell, there is no shortage of spices in Datang today, and how to deal with mutton is a very simple matter for most people.

Most of the delicate dishes of various rich and noble families use mutton as the main ingredient, which naturally greatly increases the popularity of mutton.

Of course, Shi Lei feels that this also has a lot to do with the previous historical process.

The large number of integration of the grassland people and the original Han people, and even Li Er has a bit of Hu blood, whether it is effective up or down, and the changes in eating habits brought about by it are also obvious.

In addition, at this time, the people of the Tang Dynasty were more respectful of all kinds of things from the Western Regions, including all kinds of food and spices.

Taken together, the status of mutton has risen a lot.

As for pork, because the castration technology has not been promoted, most pork will have a peculiar smell that is difficult to remove.

This smell is unbearable for many people. Even with various spices covered, there are still many people who can't get used to it.

Of course, for the poor who can't even eat meat, how can there be so much care, it would be good to be able to eat a meal of meat.

The combination of various reasons has created a situation where pork is not as popular as mutton.

Especially at this time, Gao Fu Shuai almost definitely doesn't touch pork, at least he doesn't eat pork often.

As for beef, cattle farming is an important labor force in every household, and it even needs to be filed with the government.

It is illegal for ordinary people to kill ploughing cattle, even if it is their own ploughing cattle, and the chance of being able to eat beef is really very slim.

For example, in the Water Margin, it is said that heroes from all walks of life come to a few catties of beef at every turn, which can only show that they are a group of people with a rebellious spirit, and they do illegal things every day, which is obviously deliberate by the author.

However, the law also states that it is illegal to kill an oxen, and it does not say that cattle cannot work in the fields.

For example, yaks that will die of heat when they come to the mainland, and bison, which are no smaller than rhinoceros, are not explicitly stated to be within the scope of prohibition.

There are a lot of articles that can be done here. Shi Lei already has some ideas, maybe when, he will be able to operate beef at his own time.

But that's all for the future, now, Shi Lei plans to let a few guests feel the charm of pork.

Shi Lei had already told the farmers that the pigs needed to be castrated.

Knowing such a secret skill, several veterans swore to keep it secret in front of Shi Lei, and gambled on the lives of the whole family.

Today's people even value their vows more than their lives. It's not like the people of later generations, who take swearing as if they were drinking cold water, and they don't take it seriously at all.

Even if it is a contract with legal significance, it must not be afraid to think of the other party as the worst, and try to plug all possible loopholes.

If you are caught by your opponent with even the slightest omission, you may tear up the contract and take the opportunity to trap you.

If such a secret really leaked out from these veterans, Shi Lei didn't even doubt that they could hack the whole family to death with a knife to make amends to Shi Lei.

Shi Lei couldn't stand this kind of thing, so he stopped the oath of all the veterans early, believing that they would still desperately protect such technology.

Sure enough, soon there was a deep cellar in the homes of these veterans, and the role was self-evident.

The pork that Shi Lei used this time was obtained from the old army, and it was part of the pigs he had specially transformed.

Let this part of the pig have the attractive aroma of a small fragrant pig, as well as the elasticity, but not the slag of the meat. Only boiled meat can definitely conquer a large number of discerning tongues.

It's a pity that Shi Lei himself can't taste this delicacy now, so he can only cheapen these guests first, and by the way, he can also treat a few uncles.