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Chapter 323 Three Courses

Wu Meiniang turned her head to look at Wang Dong and nodded.

At this time, eating meat in Datang is also divided into grades. Rich people naturally eat mutton. The first-class people also have to eat all kinds of chicken, duck and fish. Only the poorest people will eat pork. This is different from later generations. After all, it is generally believed that poultry and other chickens and ducks are the cheapest source of meat.

Because pork is too cheap, pig farmers are not very respected these days.

However, the small farms of Wu Meiniang and Yang's had no way to herd sheep because the land occupied was too small, so they could only raise the main pigs to provide some pork for the poor people in Chang'an City for profit.

After she finished speaking, she looked at Wang Dong and saw that Wang Dong didn't look down on him at all when she heard the words, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then saw Wang Dong ponder for a while, and suddenly said: "I have a few pork recipes. You Yang's place Isn’t there a lot of banquets? When the time comes, put a few plates at the meeting. If those nobles eat well, there may be some nobles in Chang’an City who are willing to buy pork to eat, then you will naturally find a way to sell these pork.”

Hearing this, Wu Meiniang was a little surprised.Is Wang Hui going to teach her how to cook?Wu Meiniang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, she knew that Wang Hui liked to study all kinds of strange things, otherwise he wouldn't have filled the yard with astronomical instruments and cameras, but the gentleman is far away from the kitchen, Wang Hui is such a general, he is still studying cooking at home, She is absolutely unexpected.

Wang Dong couldn't help it either, the system asked him to have a good relationship with Wu Meiniang, but he and Wu Meiniang had just met and had nothing in common.Can't let him suddenly start reciting poems for female voices just to please girls like the protagonists in those novels?Let's not talk about whether this trick is a bit too ridiculous, but it is a bad idea to read poems to Wu Zetian in order to impress Wu Zetian.

Since Wu Meiniang said that he raised pigs outside the city, and pork is not easy to cut these days, he should start from this point.

Here Wang Dong got off his horse and asked He Luo to bring him a roll of ephedra paper. At the same time, he took out a brush and dipped it in the ink from the ink cartridge, and began to write the recipe.

"You still have a pen and paper with you?" Wu Meiniang asked curiously.Wang Dong nodded, there is no way, he often goes out to buy some things, and he can’t tell what people call these things at this time, or simply drawing pictures is a much better method than dictation when designing some instruments, So He Luo always carried a pen and paper for him.

Wang Dong dipped his pen in ink and began to write. Wu Meiniang's eyes lit up with the neat regular script in European style.This year is the heyday of Ouyang Xun's regular script calligraphy, and people in Tang Dynasty like this tone very much.

Wang Dong quickly finished writing the first recipe, and introduced to Wu Meiniang: "This method is called braised pork, and the material used is pork belly, which is the fat and thin piece of meat on the belly of the pig. The ingredients are also very simple, rice wine. Sugar, just add a little green onion, ginger and garlic. No complicated spices are needed, the taste can be very good. The authentic braised pork only uses sugar color. If it is not thick enough, you can also add some sauce to cook together. We are in Shanzhou I have bought some high-quality white sugar, and I will ask He Luo to bring two packs to your house, and you can ask the maid to cook it at home first, and after you learn this dish, you can cook it for the people in the Yang residence."

Wu Meiniang looked at the recipe and nodded. Although she has a lot of life skills since she was a child, she is a noble woman after all, she doesn't need to cook by herself, and she is not the kind of character who likes to walk around the stove, so it is really I don't know how to cook, so I can only go back to the cook when I get Wang Dong's recipes, and let them try to make them, but seeing Wang Dong's serious appearance, she feels quite trustful in the man in front of her if she didn't come , so he dried the braised pork recipe very solemnly, folded it and put it in his clothes.

At this time, Wang Dong showed Wu Meiniang the second recipe and said, "This is sweet and sour pork."

Having been in Datang for so long, he probably has figured out the tastes of people at this time. Sweet and sour pork is definitely in line with their sweet eating habits, and it also opens up a new market for his Shanzhou white sugar.

At this time, the price of white sugar is definitely that of an affordable luxury product, and it can only go up the upper-class route. However, if sweet and sour pork is promoted for a while, it is likely to become popular among the upper-class products.

But only on the upper floors.

Cooking a meal is quite troublesome these days. With the population density of Chang'an, every household cooks and burns firewood. There are only so many mountains around Chang'an that can be used for firewood. Just cooking for every household is enough to become a considerable expense. Yes, the so-called firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar tea, firewood is an important source of living expenses together with rice noodles, so the cooking of ancient people is far from as exquisite as in historical legends. In addition to the lack of ingredients, the main reason is also Frying, frying and deep-frying, how much firewood is it?

Ordinary people cut meat or something and boil it in water, chop it for nothing or make it into a stew. How can they have the energy to do those complicated cooking?Therefore, this kind of finely crafted dishes must only be spread among the nobles, and the amount of sugar used will not be very large, just to help myself take the high-end route.

"Sweet and sour pork is also called lychee meat. Do you know lychee? You should like it very much." Wang Dong explained the taste of sweet and sour pork with a smile, but Wu Meiniang was puzzled.

"What is a lychee?"

Wang Dong looked at Wu Meiniang's puzzled face, frowned, and then suddenly realized, oh, that person who loves to eat lychees seems to be Concubine Yang... Oh my god, I misremembered...

"It doesn't matter, this thing tastes sour and sweet, it should be very suitable for your taste. The meat is fried in batter, and then coated with a layer of sweet and sour sauce. The taste, tsk tsk tsk, is wrapped in egg liquid Sprinkle bread crumbs, the children next door are crying, you go back and try it, find a child next door to see if he cries or not, and you're done."

Wu Meiniang nodded because she didn't understand, listening to Wang Dong's meaning, this food seemed to be delicious, which aroused her curiosity, thinking whether she should ask the small kitchen to make a portion for her when she went back, and let her mother Yang Zhi taste it first. One taste.

Then, without Wang Dong's introduction, he directly picked up the third recipe that Wang Dong put on the saddle, and read out the name: "Baiyun Pork Knuckle."

This is Cantonese cuisine, Baiyun Pork Knuckle, which is absolutely high-end and high-grade. Even in later generations, it belongs to the category of Kung Fu cuisine, but it is very suitable for this year, because this thing requires no fire and only labor. To be honest, labor is not enough. There must be expensive firewood.

The three dishes given by Wang Dong are all.It is a dish that takes away the original taste of pork. There is no way around it. There is a reason for the low price of pork these days. People who mention pork in the future will say that pork has a strong meaty smell, but in the description of pork these days It is not fragrant but smelly, this is because of the different breeding methods.The pigsty these days is built under the toilet.Pigs are not blessed to grow up on feed, they can only eat something warm.Can it not stink?
Among the three dishes given by Wang Dong, one is braised pork with soy sauce soup and scallion and ginger water to simmer the pork until it is tender, hiding all the original smell of mutton inside with the aroma of scallion and ginger. The other is sweet and sour pork. It is clear that only the weakest pork tenderloin can be used to make it. The final Baiyun pork knuckle must be boiled and left to float in mountain spring water for several days and nights. Any smell will be taken away. Use this Only the three methods can guarantee that the pork will not be fishy or smelly. If it is made into some kind of farm-style stir-fried pork according to later generations, Wang Dong himself may not be able to eat it, let alone the nobles at this time.

After listening to Wang Dong's introduction, Wu Meiniang nodded and said with a smile: "You are really good at cooking. It sounds good."

She put away the recipe given by Wang Dong, waved her hand and ran away in a very free and easy manner.

"Why don't you still be a kid when you grow up?" Wang Dong looked at the little girl's back and said to himself.

(End of this chapter)