Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 20 The ingredients cannot be let down

Inside the house, Zhao Si and Wang Li were involved in the same case.

There are chopped mutton, chicken, buttermilk, beans, meat sauce, glutinous rice cakes, salt, leek sauce, unknown vegetables, etc...

A small tripod was placed beside the table, roasted over charcoal fire, and clear water boiled.

"In the barracks, the food is poor, forgive me!" Wang Li said with a smile.

"It's already very rich!" Zhao Si smiled and shook his head.

The official food provided by the Qin Dynasty is often directly related to the rank of the title.

Zhao Si's title is only one level now, this was decided when he was in Langya, everyone has been promoted to one level, and is the lowest rank of public servant.

The official meals for low-ranking titles consisted of only a bucket of coarse grains and poor-quality salt.

Coarse grains are really coarse grains, not coarse grains in the modern traditional sense, but grains that are not shelled.During the Qin Dynasty, the shelling technology was also relatively backward, and the shelling process was time-consuming and laborious, and the cost was relatively high.

Zhao Si's life on the boat was already bad enough. Dried vegetables, and all kinds of wild fruits, fish, kelp, and shells that were almost spoiled. The troublesome thing is that many places are completely deserted, and you may not be able to replenish food after you land.

Fish and all kinds of seafood were not eaten less, and there were still a lot of dried salted fish in the cabin, which really made Zhao Si want to vomit.

Going ashore and having a good meal is one of the driving forces behind Zhao Si's return to Qin.

Unexpectedly, he was directly controlled by the military when he came down, and the food in the military camp was even more difficult to describe.

Coarse grains are really throat-piercing, even if they are cooked through.

Zhao Si even misses the days of eating dried salted fish.

Wang Li deserved to be a big dog, even in the barracks, he could treat him to such a luxurious meal.

Unfortunately, there is no beef that Zhao Si loves most.

However, Zhao Si, who is familiar with online novels, knows that farming cattle were extremely important in ancient times, and were even directly protected by law. After all, this thing is closely related to agriculture.

I don't know if the Qin Dynasty has relevant laws.

"Let's eat together!" Wang Li saluted with a smile, presumably it was the etiquette for a friend's banquet?

Zhao Si didn't know etiquette either, so he could only imitate vaguely, holding up the buttermilk on the case table and signaling to drink it up.

not wine...

Zhao Si noticed the rice grains in the buttermilk. He thought it was rice wine or something, but it didn't taste like wine at all. It tasted sour.

After drinking the buttermilk, Zhao Si put the salted mutton in a cauldron and boiled it with ease.

This form is very similar to eating hot pot, or this form is the predecessor of hot pot.

Grilled, boiled and marinated, four mainstream cooking methods.

Cooking is naturally the same as before. The food is cooked. Common people use earthenware pots to cook food. A big dog like Wang Li is more particular about eating. The ingredients are placed on the table and the diners cook by themselves.It's not much different from hot pot.

Needless to say, broiling is roasting. Can it be considered the predecessor of barbecue?
Pickled is pickled pickled vegetables, meat sauce, dried meat, salted fish, etc. all belong to the category of pickled.

Sashimi is to eat raw, sashimi, raw meat... all the rage in this era of lack of cooking methods.In modern terms, it is eating sashimi.

Of course, there are not a few people who ate to death in historical records.

The mutton is placed in the cauldron, and mixed with the miscellaneous spices in the cauldron, it starts to boil slowly, white smoke billows, and the fragrance comes out.

Zhao Si tasted the glutinous rice cakes on the table again.

It is a kind of snack, it should be made of rice flour, it tastes powdery and glutinous, at first taste it may feel like a normal taste, the sweetness is very light, the taste is not strong, but it is not greasy, and it will not look particularly dry. It tastes very smooth.

While chatting with Wang Li, Zhao Si ate some unknown vegetables.

Tastes like cabbage?

But it is far from the modern cabbage in shape, and has not evolved completely?It doesn't look like a cabbage either, giving people a half-baked feeling.

Meat needs to be cooked for a longer time. Firstly, Zhao Si likes to eat cooked food, and secondly, because in this era, if infected with parasites, it is really hopeless, unlike later generations who can still go to the hospital to struggle.

Zhao Si ate the green vegetables first, but considering that there might be insect eggs on the vegetables, Zhao Si also cooked them for a long time, and the main thing was to save his life.

After rinsing, spread the leek sauce and taste it.

The taste is not special, it is the sweet taste of green vegetables and leek sauce.

Then I tried dipping in dark meat sauce again.

Zhao Si frowned...

"What the hell meat is this meat sauce?" Zhao Si thought to himself.

Salty, bitter, and fishy...

Zhao Si gradually realized that something was wrong. He might have overestimated the food standard of this era. The lack of seasonings and ways of eating, coupled with the lack of science and technology, may make it difficult for Zhao Si to be influenced by technology and hard work since he was a child. guy satisfied.

When the meat is cooked, as expected...

Tasteless...can be eaten with leek sauce and salt grains.That's it...

It's not that Zhao Si is picky, she can't even eat anything.

He ate more than this garbage on the boat.

The main reason is that there is something wrong with his mentality. He came here with the mentality of enjoying delicious food as a reward for the taste. There are so many ingredients that are precious in this era, it tastes really tasteless.

Wang Li noticed Zhao Si's eyebrows, and said with a look of surprise: "But the food is not tasty enough?"

Zhao Si nodded, and then explained in order to avoid Wang Li's misunderstanding: "The ingredients are already rich enough."

Zhao Si didn't want to waste a lot of ingredients, so it was a disrespect to excellent food to eat it so blandly.

Thinking about it carefully, the peppers brought back from overseas were still in stock, Zhao Si gradually became aware of them.

Zhao Si looked at Wang Li and said, "I brought a spice from overseas. It's spicy. When I put it in a pot, the meat tastes delicious. Do you want to try it?"

When Wang Li heard that it was a brand new crop from overseas, and he had never seen it before, he immediately nodded in agreement.

"Can you have butter and pepper, one or two would be better!" Zhao Si asked.

"Have!"

Butter and peppercorns are both precious. Needless to say, butter, peppercorns are almost completely wild now, produced near the Qinling Mountains, and they are also spices.

Spices were soft gold in ancient times.At least before it is widely planted, it is priced like gold.

Unfortunately, these were nothing to Wang Li.

As a guy who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, and was loved by his grandfather Wang Jian, and had never experienced Wang Ben's loving father's education, Wang Li can say that he can have whatever he wants.

Wang Li ordered someone to fetch it, Zhao Si saw that his servant was about to leave, but in the end he couldn't hold back.

"If you have beef, you can cut some more beef..."

Although very embarrassed, but there is no way, Zhao Si is really greedy for beef.

(End of this chapter)