Chapter 103: Han Xing's Westeros Lunch
In view of the success of last night's night attack, Han Xing had a full day of rest, and he sat in his room, which was a room in a tower as high as the city wall, located on the second floor of the tower, which was connected to the city wall to the left and right, and there was a "skylight" above that led to the terrace above, where the archers stayed.
This room has two windows, and as a town, Shitang Town was only defended to deal with some robbers or bandits, so the windows in the tower were much stronger than the "observation hole" in the castle.
The length and width are about half a meter, and the only drawback is that this window can't be closed! In the middle of the night, Han Xing even felt a little cold, so he had a linen-covered cotton blanket on his (chuáng), and the reason why he didn't use the blanket was because the blanket was too (rè).
And if the blanket is stained with sweat, it will be easy to breed bacteria and even mold. The most important thing is that the furs of this era are full of animal "original", (sāo) stinky and salty, and Han Xing wants to vomit when he smells it. No wonder this room is so ventilated!
Linen is a breathable, cool material, and has a long history, the material is tough, the only problem is: it is particularly rough, and it can kill people when worn (shēn)! Therefore, the outside must be covered with a layer of cotton cloth, which is equivalent to a summer cool quilt. To be sure, sleeping in this tower room in the winter is definitely "torture", because this place feels "leaking", and even if you have a fire in the fireplace, it will not be much better!
Fortunately, it is summer, and there are always too many windows, compared to the other rooms in the whole Shitang Town, this room is definitely the most ventilated, and Han Xing can feel the wind blowing on him (shēn) when he sleeps at night, taking away the cool (rè) on him (shēn).
This room is about 50 square meters, and there are some tables, chairs, fireplaces, and most of them are shelves for weapons, shields, and armor. Here's the good news: there's still a lot of delicious stuff on the ground, like fruit and bread, and even onions and sausages hanging from the ceiling. Obviously, Han Xing wasn't the first person to find the place well ventilated.
The seasons in Westeros are different from ours, and although they do have four seasons, winter and summer are obviously longer, while (chūn) days and autumn are like "spices" for the first two, just as spices. Winters and summers in Westeros can last for years, years, or decades.
This may mean that Westeros' planet has a long orbital period? So the question is: how do they define the year? Theoretically, a year is the time it takes for a planet to make one revolution around the star, and the four seasons are produced by the relative distance between the planet and the star, and each rotation of the seasons is a year.
Or is Westeros actually a Inner Earth? Their sun is actually the center of the earth (so it seems)?
In any case, autumn in Westeros is more of a prelude to winter, as if it were a so-called "salute before soldier", and the autumn before the long winter usually leads to a good crop, which greatly increases the chances of surviving the long winter.
Han Xing was interested in cooking a hearty lunch for himself, anyway, the ingredients were ready-made, if there was anything less wishy-washy, I am afraid that there was no (nǎi) oil and butter and no condiments such as salt and sugar, but there were several round (nǎi) cheeses, and I don't know if they were made by sheep (nǎi) or cow (nǎi).
But this is not difficult for Han Xing, he is going to have a teppanyaki, he finds a piece of metal (the iron sheet covered by the shield), and then uses "broken heart" to cut the sausage into long pieces ("broken heart": I am a famous sword of Westeros, and you actually used it as a kitchen knife!). I miss my former owner so much! 555), then put the metal sheet on the stove and fry the sausage slice until it was charred and a lot of grease came out, and then it was inserted into the plate with a "broken heart" (it is true, in the Middle Ages, when there were no forks, food was held with a knife or by hand, but Westeros did have forks!). )。
Then Han Xing cut a few more slices of bread, as a famous anointing place, the food production of the river land is far stronger than that of the royal leader, so the bread here looks brown, although it is also limited by scientific and technological conditions, but it tastes much better than the black bread eaten by the soldiers of the king army! And the flour is also sifted through a fine sieve to ensure that there is not a single sand left! This is a luxury, because flour is powder, and it is scattered into the air during the sieving process, and you can't get it back, which is a proper "loss"!
Of course, it is also possible that the flour is milled by a hydraulic mill, so the flour is grinded more finely, and even the sand is ground to the end! In Han Xing's opinion, this is the top bread, not only delicious, but also healthy, although there are better bread, more delicate, more white, but Han Xing is not interested, because that kind of bread has less wheat bran content, except for good looks!
What's even more terrifying is, do you know what they use to whiten?
Bleaching powder? Think beautifully! They use ashes! That's right, ashes! Of course, not human ashes! Animals! Anyway, don't we also enjoy the same taste when we gnaw on pork ribs and drink bone marrow? Actually, it's okay, it's not as good as I imagined, but it still sounds disgusting and weird, doesn't it?
Han Xing put the bread on a greasy iron sheet, then cut it brown on both sides, and put it on a plate, then got two cabbage leaves and some onions, and scalded them on the iron plate. Then Han Xing cut a slice of (nǎi) cheese and sandwiched it between the sausage and bread, and added cabbage and onions, and Han Xing managed to have a sandwich.
In particular, the (nǎi) cheese, which melts into a semi-solid and semi-liquid state after being subjected to (rè), pulls out long threads with a single bite, the spicy taste of onions, the burnt aroma of fried sausages, and the rich taste of fat and semi-melted cheese. Han Xing definitely has to give his cooking skills a full score.
The so-called (nǎi) cheese, I guess everyone has seen "Cat and Mouse", right? Childhood memories! (nǎi) cheese is the kind of yellow and empty lumpy food that the rats like to steal, and in the Celestial Empire, it is also transliterated as cheese and cheese, in fact, it is the same thing: (nǎi) cheese.
Unfortunately, the old version of the porous (nǎi) cheese was eliminated due to excessive bacteria and a strong sour smell, so we can't find it in the market today, but there may still be people in the Inner Mongolia area, but it's also enjoyed at home.
Han Xing remembered that when he watched "Cat and Mouse", he pestered his parents to buy (nǎi) cheese for himself to eat, but the (nǎi) cheese he bought felt like "Western tofu (rǔ)" with a salty taste, and it was as unpalatable as a ghost!
Later, I learned that cheese was to be used in piping hot food, such as freshly fried ribs or sausages, and then melted by it. It's worth mentioning that the white layer on top of the pizza that can be drawn is melted (nǎi) cheese.
Han Xing gulped down the delicious homemade sandwich, and then brought a glass of red wine, which he repeatedly confirmed that was definitely not stepped on with his feet when juicing (surprised?). There are vintages where white people step on the grapes with their feet, put the grapes in wooden barrels, and then take off their shoes and step on them, and it is worth mentioning that they do not wash their feet yet! The reason is that it is said that a bacterium on the feet of white people helps to ferment wine), and he drank it with confidence.
Unlike those so-called "good wines", the wine in Han Xing's glass is not very sour or bitter to drink, due to the lower alcohol content, and the long summer (rì) in Westeros is abundant, and the grape photosynthesis accumulates more sugar (which is why the cantaloupe and grapes in Xinjiang are sweet), Han Xing's wine is fruity and sweet, and the color is the color of the reddish color, not the purple-tinge crimson.
In the past, in the real world, Han Xing drank all kinds of alcohol, or "being poured" is more accurate, but all along, he didn't quite understand where the "ignition" of those who drank (ài) was? Whether it's liquor or beer, it's either spicy or bitter to drink, I really don't understand why they like it so much? Or is it just to look like an adult? Of course, it may also be a drink to kill your sorrows! After all, there are always many unsatisfactory things in adult life, alas!
However, Han Xing always likes to add sugar to beer, so much so that he is often ridiculed by his friends, who think that adding sugar to wine is a very low behavior, and it is simply making (jiàn) wine. However, in Han Xing's opinion, seasoning wine is not a particularly excessive behavior! Don't all foreigners like to bartend? Radish and green vegetables are personal (ài), and adding sugar can indeed offset the bitterness of beer!
Han Xing drank the red wine in the cup, he really wanted to learn from those fashionable people, and shook the red wine in the glass, swinging it, the problem was that he used not a glass goblet at all, but a wooden cup made of oak, which was polished very smoothly, and the red wine in the cup also had a fresh fragrance of trees, and it tasted unique.
"It smells so good!" A "big black bear" was attracted by Han Xing's lunch, and he greedily sniffed the burnt incense belonging to (ròu) pieces in the air, and closed his eyes and enjoyed it.
"Robert, haven't you had lunch yet? Would you like to come along? Han Xing looked at the "big black bear" that smelled like a ballet, so he had no choice but to speak.
"To your first question, my answer is: eat! To your second question my answer is: I would love to! Robert couldn't wait to sit down next to Han Xing, rubbing his hands and saying.
"Ahh Grilled sausages! Scald! Whew, it's burning me! Well, it's delicious, fat but not greasy, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside! Robert reached out and took a slice of sausage from the iron plate, and was called out by the scalding, in order to save his hand, he threw the sausage directly into his mouth, so it was his turn to suffer in his mouth, he bit the slice (ròu) in his mouth, and then his tongue was burned and exhaled, and finally he was satisfied with chewing the sausage, and then swallowed.
"Robert, can you help me with some sticks? Something like this. Han Xing still decided to get a cutlery to use, preferably chopsticks, so he gestured to Robert with chopsticks.
"No problem!" Robert turned (shēn) about to go out, and when he was about to step out of the door, he turned back and asked, "What do you want a stick for?" Do you make a barbecue? ”
"If you want to eat, don't ask so much!" Han Xing's roar came from inside, and Robert had no choice but to shrug his shoulders and go to find "chopsticks" for Han Xing with a helpless face. It is not unreasonable for Han Xing to want chopsticks, and it is a bit "overkill" to eat with a "broken heart". ("Broken Heart": Yay!) I don't have to work part-time to make forks, knives, kitchen knives, and spatulas anymore! Han Xing: You're so beautiful! And it's not easy to use, after all, "Broken Heart" is also a sword more than a meter long!
What's more, the usual purpose of "Broken Heart" is to cut people! However, it is said that the European knights used the tip of their swords when they first fed their sons (ròu) blocks... (Sir Certain: Son! You were destined to be a knight! So start getting used to the sword from a young age! If you accidentally cut your mouth, it's a long lesson! )
They are not afraid that their son will get a nickname of "Rabbit Lips" Sir when the time comes!