When the [Nanliang Cake] is just baked, the aroma is already very strong.

When the juice inside it oozes, the aromatic smell of the meat instantly makes it even more seductive.

"Hmmm! Fragrant! ”

Zhang Tielin took a deep breath and couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

He craned his neck to look at it and asked curiously, "What kind of meat is this?" Why is it so fragrant? ”

Wu Lei thought for a while and replied: "It's mutton and beef, but that term is a bit awkward, and I don't remember it." ”

As he spoke, he turned back to Li Yi, who was busy working by the stove, and asked, "Brother Yi, what kind of meat did you say yesterday that this meat filling is made of?" ”

Li Yi was pouring ingredients into the broth in the pot, and he didn't look back when he heard the words: "The sheep of the red pith of Caohan, and the calf licking the back of Longxi." ”

"What do you mean?"

Wu Lei asked.

Li Yi put the ingredients into the broth, and while pushing the soup with a spoon, he explained: "Caohan is a place name, on the Linxia side of Gan Province.

It was a county set up in the Qin Dynasty, which belonged to Longxi County, and now it has been changed to a town, called Caohan Town.

The sheep of the red pith of the Ming Dynasty is a kind of tribute sheep bred locally, which has been a tribute in ancient times, and the name recorded in the "Hezhou Chronicles" during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty is the red pith of the sheep of the Red Marrow.

However, the local tribute sheep are generally driven into the mountains of Dongxiang to be released, so since the end of Kangxi, it has been renamed Dongxiang tribute sheep. ”

Hearing his explanation, Wang Gang suddenly realized: "It turned out to be Dongxiang sheep!" I know, Dongxiang has his hands on meat! I've eaten. ”

"Is it delicious?"

Zhang Guoli asked him.

"Delicious!"

Wang Gang nodded again and again: "They generally only put salt in the stewed mutton, without any ingredients, they eat the original taste of mutton, and it is not fat at all when cooked, that is called a fresh!" ”

Wang Gang said, smelling the smell of meat in the air again, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva again and again.

Li Yi saw that the broth in the pot was about to boil, so he turned down the fire and explained: "The calf licking the back of Longxi is the local calf meat bred in Longxi, and the kind that has not been weaned should be selected, and the meat quality is the most tender."

Longxi is the former Longxi County, and now it is a county, and it is more than 100 kilometers away from Caohan in a straight line.

The local landforms are almost the same, they are all on the edge of the Loess Plateau, and the hilly area of the Qinling Mountains, which has been relatively arid and rainless since ancient times, so most of the cattle and sheep breeding are free-range and go to the mountains to graze.

Because of regular exercise, and often eat some natural seasonings such as small white artemisia, thyme, etc. in the mountains, the local beef and mutton are very good. ”

"I'm hungry! Come on and I'll try it! ”

Zhang Tielin looked at the cakes in the tray, and couldn't hold it back, so he couldn't help urging.

"It's too hot."

Wu Lei explained: "You have to dry it a little, or you don't burn your mouth." ”

"It's okay, I'm rough and thick, I'm not afraid of getting hot."

Zhang Tielin didn't care, seeing this, Wu Lei could only take a plate over, take a piece out for him, and put it on the plate.

"Haha! It smells so good! ”

Zhang Tielin took the chopsticks, picked up the cake, and couldn't wait to lower his head and take a bite.

"Wow! Whew! ”

As soon as he bit into the crust, the juice gushed out, and he screamed, and hurriedly blew cool air.

But he was worthy of his evaluation of rough skin and thick meat, and when the heat had passed, he swallowed the crust, and then lowered his head and took another bite of the filling.

"Whew! Scald! Call! Fragrant! ”

He cried and ate sweetly.

Seeing this, Zhang Guoli smiled and glanced at Wang Gang.

Wang Gang understood, smiled and teased in a low voice: "What good things can a person from the Eagle Country eat?" ”

His voice was not small, and Zhang Tielin could hear it.

But with the food in hand, Zhang Tielin didn't care, just took one bite after another, and enjoyed eating.

"Teacher."

Wu Lei picked up another piece, put it on a plate, and handed it to Zhang Guoli.

"Thank you, thank you."

Zhang Guoli took the plate, lowered his head and sniffed it, and said with a smile: "This wheat fragrance also smells good!" The wheat is good. ”

"This is also the wheat of Gan Province, which is from Dingxi."

Wu Lei remembered the name of the wheat: "It's called Dingxi...... Misty... Hato-no-wheat, right? Brother Yi? ”

"That's right."

Li Yi turned off the heat, put out the soup and vegetables in the pot, and explained: "The history of Chinese people eating noodles can be traced back to at least 4,000 years ago, and millet noodles from 4,000 years ago were unearthed at the Lajia site in Qing Province.

However, the area where Chinese people ate noodles in the early days was mainly concentrated in the Guanzhong area of the Qin Dynasty.

At that time, the ancients believed that the stable area of Longzhong, which is now Dingxi of Gan Province, the quality of wheat produced locally was the best.

The flour used for this cake was ground from wheat grown locally in Dingxi. ”

"I sharpened it with my own hands."

Wu Lei smiled and asked for credit, he grinded for two hours the day before yesterday before grinding out more than seven catties of flour.

Listening to Li Yi's explanation, Zhang Guoli was surprised: "Is it so troublesome to make this cake?" Do you have to grind your own flour from wheat from a specific origin? ”

"In order to pursue the original, I can only try my best to restore it."

Li Yi explained: "This [Nanliang Cake] is the first recorded high-luxury pastry, which is to order wheat from the West, use the stone mill from Luoyang to grind into flour, and then make the crust and puff pastry.

The stuffing inside should be made with the sheep holding the red pith and the calf licking the back of Longxi.

The seasoning ingredients should also be used to the green onion of Hedong Changruo, the soybean of Zhangye North Gate, and the salt of Jibei should be adjusted, and the chicken of Xinfeng should be filed.

When roasting, you need to use the orange covered with frost in Dongting and the pepper of Qiuchi Lotus as fuel to make it. ”

"To be so troublesome?"

Zhang Guoli was very surprised.

He looked down at the cake in his hand and sighed: "These conditions, in that era, I don't know how much effort it took to make such a piece of cake." ”

"This is all people's fat and people's ointment!"

Wang Gang on the side opened his mouth with emotion.

Hearing his words, Zhang Guoli looked at him and asked with a smile: "You Heshen, are you embarrassed to say such things?" ”

Wang Gang was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly made up for it: "So it's better now!" Science and technology are developed, and even this kind of good things can be eaten, and our life is better than that of the ancient emperors! ”

Listening to their conversation, the audience in the live broadcast room was also discussing.

"Corrupt officials, both in ancient and modern times, are alive and well."

"Heshen in history, if you want to eat such a [Nanliang Cake], I'm afraid it's not a problem, right?"

"It's a pity that I can't afford to eat it, whether it's ancient or modern."

"Ji Xiaolan in history is not a good person!"

"When I watched TV series when I was a child, I liked Ji Xiaolan very much, but when I grew up, I liked He Shen instead!"

"People have taken your money, it's really a job!"

"When you grow up a little more, you will hate Heshen again."

"If I were the emperor, I would also like Heshen, although he is a little greedy, he is really capable of doing things!"

"It's a pity that you were not an emperor in ancient times, but a disaster victim who ate bran, and what He Shen was greedy for was your food money."

"What Nanliang cake, compared to my meat sandwich bun, it's far worse! What I want is semi-fat and lean, add meat, bite down, sizzle and oily, beautiful drops! ”

(End of chapter)