Inside the house, Zhao Si and Wang Li were alone.
There are chopped mutton, chicken, buttermilk, beans, meat sauce, rice dumplings, salt, chive sauce and unknown vegetables on the table...
A small cauldron is placed next to the table, roasted over charcoal fire, and boiled with water.
"I apologize for the poor food in the military camp!" Wang Li said with a smile.
"It's already very rich!" Zhao Si smiled and shook his head.
The food provided by the Qin Dynasty officials was often directly related to the level of the title.
Zhao Si's current title is only one level, which was decided when he was in Langya. Everyone has been promoted to one level, and he is the lowest rank.
The official food requirement for lower-level titles is only a bushel of coarse grains and low-quality salt cubes.
Coarse grains are really coarse grains, not in the modern traditional sense, but grains that are not shelled. During the Qin Dynasty, the shelling technology was also relatively backward. The shelling process was time-consuming, laborious, and expensive.
Zhao Si's life on the ship was already bad enough, with dried vegetables, almost spoiled wild fruits, fish, kelp, and shells. In short, when traveling around the world in this era, don't think about how rich the food can be. This is a troublesome thing. The terrible thing is that many places are completely deserted, and you may not be able to replenish food after you dock.
There was plenty of fish and various seafood to eat, and there were a lot of dried salted fish in the cabin, which really made Zhao Si want to vomit.
Landing ashore and having a good meal was one of the motivations for Zhao Si to return to Qin.
Unexpectedly, I was immediately put under military control when I came down, and the food in the military camp was even worse.
Whole grains really irritate your throat, and the same thing happens when they are cooked thoroughly.
Zhao Si even misses the days of eating dried salted fish.
Wang Li is indeed a rich man, even if he treats him to a meal in the military camp, he can be so luxurious.
Unfortunately, Zhao Si’s favorite beef is not available.
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 had relevant laws.
"Please eat with me!" Wang Li smiled and bowed, maybe it was the etiquette of a friend's banquet?
Zhao Si didn't understand etiquette either, so he could only imitate it vaguely, and raised the buttermilk on the table to indicate that he would drink it all in one gulp.
Not wine...
Zhao Si noticed the rice grains in the buttermilk. He thought it was something like rice wine, but when he drank it, it didn't taste like wine at all. It tasted sour and sour. It tasted okay and appetizing, and was equivalent to a flavored drink.
After drinking the buttermilk, Zhao Si put the mutton salt in the cauldron and boiled it.
This form is very similar to eating hot pot, or this form is the predecessor of hot pot.
Sautéed, boiled and marinated, four mainstream cooking methods.
Cooking naturally means cooking the food as it is before you. Common people use clay pots to cook food. Rich people like Wang Li are more particular about their food. The ingredients are placed on the table and the diners cook by themselves. Not much different from hot pot.
Needless to say, broiling is roasting. Can it be considered the predecessor of barbecue?
Pickling means pickling pickled vegetables, meat sauce, dried meat, salted fish, etc. all belong to the category of pickling.
Eating raw food, sashimi, sliced meat... is all the rage in this era when cooking methods are scarce. In modern terms, it means eating sashimi.
Of course, history records that many people ate death.
The mutton is placed in the cauldron, and combined with the miscellaneous spices in the cauldron, it begins to boil slowly, white smoke billows, and the aroma is fragrant. The mutton rises and falls, disappearing and appearing.
Zhao Si tasted the rice cakes on the table again.
It is a kind of snack, it should be made of rice flour. It tastes pink and glutinous. When you first taste it, you may think it has an average taste. The sweetness is very light and not very stimulating to the taste, but it is not greasy or particularly dry. It tastes very smooth.
While chatting with Wang Li, Zhao Si rinsed unknown vegetables again.
It tastes like cabbage?
But the shape is far different from the modern cabbage, and it hasn’t evolved completely yet? It doesn't look like a baby cabbage, it gives people a half-baked feeling.
The meat needs to be cooked for a longer time. Firstly, Zhao Si likes to eat cooked food, and secondly, because in this era, if you are infected with parasites, it is really hopeless. Unlike in later generations, you can go to the hospital to struggle.
Zhao Si first rinsed the vegetables and ate them. However, considering that there might be insect eggs on the vegetables, Zhao Si rinsed them for a longer time. The main thing was to save his life.
After it's rinsed, put on the chive sauce and taste it.
The taste is not special, just the sweet taste of green vegetables and chive sauce.
Then I tried dipping it in black meat sauce.
Zhao Si frowned...
"What kind of meat sauce is this made from?" Zhao Si thought to himself.
It's salty, bitter, and fishy...
Zhao Si gradually realized that something was wrong. He might have overestimated the food standards of this era. The lack of seasonings and eating methods, coupled with the lack of technology, would probably be difficult for Zhao Si, who has been influenced by technology since childhood. The guy is satisfied.
When the meat is cooked, as expected...
It's bland and tasteless...can be eaten with chive sauce and salt. That's it...
Zhao Si is not picky, he can't even eat anything.
He ate more than this crap on the boat.
The main reason is that there is something wrong with his mentality. He came with the mentality of enjoying delicious food to reward his taste. So many ingredients that are considered precious in this era are really tasteless to eat.
Wang Li noticed Zhao Si's brows, his expression paused and he said, "But the food isn't delicious enough?"
Zhao Si nodded, and then explained in order to avoid Wang Li's misunderstanding: "The ingredients are abundant enough."
Zhao Si didn't want to waste a few ingredients. It was disrespectful to excellent food to eat it so blandly.
After thinking about it carefully, Zhao Si gradually became aware that the peppers brought back from overseas were still in stock.
Zhao Si looked at Wang Li and said: "I brought some spices from overseas. It's spicy. I put it in the pot. The meat tastes very delicious. Do you want to try it?"
When Wang Li heard that it was a brand-new crop from overseas that he had never seen before, he immediately nodded in agreement.
"Is there butter and sesame pepper? It would be better to pair it with one or two!" Zhao Si asked.
"have!"
Butter and peppercorns are both precious. Needless to say, butter and peppercorns are almost completely wild now. They are produced near the Qinling Mountains and are also used as spices.
Spices were soft gold in ancient times. At least before it was widely cultivated, the price was comparable to gold.
Unfortunately, these are nothing to Wang Li.
As a guy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and was doted on by his grandfather Wang Jian, without experiencing Wang Ben's loving fatherly education, Wang Li can say that he can get whatever he wants.
Wang Li ordered people to get it, but Zhao Si saw that the servant was about to leave, but in the end he couldn't hold it back.
"If there is beef, you can cut more beef..."
Although I was very embarrassed, I couldn't help it. Zhao Si was really hungry for beef.
