Chapter 741: Brother to brother and brother to brother
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Li Yi responded, then glanced at Hao Libao and said with a smile: "As expected of Master Hao, you can tell what dish to cook at a glance."
Hao Libao chuckled and waved his hand before explaining: "This dish is quite special. The meat filling of this dish needs to be washed, but anyone in this industry can see that."
Zhang Guoli heard from the side and was a little curious: "I also wanted to ask, why do you wash such good meat fillings? I have never seen anyone washing meat fillings.
After washing the minced meat, isn’t the meaty smell gone? "
Hao Libao explained with a smile: "This dish is a famous dish in Hubei Province. It is also called bean dragon dish. The locals call it chopped dish. It is usually the first bowl at a banquet.
It is said that this dish was invented in the Ming Dynasty. The emperor at that time was Zhu Houzhao. He had no sons. After his death, he had no sons to take over as emperor.
So the Queen Mother sent a message to Zhu Houzhao's two uncles and his cousin Zhu Houcong, telling them that the one who arrived in the capital first would be the king, and the one who arrived later would be the minister.
But Zhu Houzhao's two uncles were only a few hundred miles away from the capital, and Zhu Houcong's fiefdom was more than 3,000 miles away from the capital.
Later, Yan Song gave him an idea and asked him to pretend to be a prisoner, sit in a prison car, and drive day and night. In this way, no one would dare to stop him, and no one would dare to respond, which would save a lot of time.
Those two princes thought that the road was approaching, so they must have made a big fanfare. Officials from various places must have been vying to see them off, and there would have been constant banquets day and night.
In this way, Zhu Houcong will definitely be able to arrive in advance.
But there is a problem. Since you have to ride in a prison car, you must eat prison food.
In order not to attract attention, the followers could not light a fire to cook and cook hot meals for Zhu Houcong.
Moreover, the prison food must be relatively simple, and no meat or fish can be seen, otherwise people will definitely find out.
So Zhu Houcong immediately ordered his family to cook a dish that included meat but no meat.
A cook named Jando came up with a way, which was to chop pig fat, lean meat and fish into a paste, mix it into stuffing, wrap it in white potato skins, and steam it in a pot.
The dish made in this way will look like white potatoes and will not attract attention.
However, in order to make the meat inside whiter and more like a sweet potato, when chopping the stuffing, the lean meat must be washed with water to wash out all the blood and water inside.
The lean meat washed in this way will be white after steaming, just like white potatoes. "
After listening to his explanation, Zhang Guoli suddenly realized. He smacked his palms and said with a smile: "So that's it, wonderful! I didn't expect there to be such an allusion."
In the live broadcast room, the audience was also fascinated by what they heard, and everyone was chatting excitedly.
“Good guy, is this where the story of the tortoise and the hare originally developed?”
“There is a race to choose the emperor. Whoever runs faster will win? The people of Lao Zhu’s family are indeed extraordinary, haha!”
"It's such a big thing to seize the throne, but you still have the thought to consider whether the prison food is delicious? It's okay to eat real sweet potatoes! When you become the emperor, don't you just eat spicy food?"
“Haha! It sounds funny, but it’s a bit fake. At first glance, it’s just a plot to make Emperor Jiajing’s position unfair.”
“I am from Jingmen, Hubei Province, and my grandfather told me this story. So when I was a child, I liked to eat rolls when eating at banquets. I thought that if I ate too much, I would become an emperor, haha!”
"This must be fake, right? How can the replacement of the throne be such a trivial matter?"
In the live broadcast room, some people ridiculed and some questioned.
This story is indeed a widely circulated local allusion, and many people know it, but its authenticity is indeed doubtful. According to Li Yi's understanding, it is recorded in "Records of Emperor Wuzongyi of the Ming Dynasty" that during the Zhengde period, that is, when Zhu Houzhao was still alive, because his surname was Zhu and his zodiac sign was also a pig, he was taboo about eating pork. He once issued an edict Pork is prohibited nationwide.
His cousin Zhu Youqiu, the father of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong, was granted the title of King Xing in Anluzhou, Huguang at that time.
Zhu Youqian knew that the common people could not live without pork, but he could not directly disobey the emperor's order. In order to work around it, he invented this kind of rolled cut that eats meat without seeing the meat.
Later, with the accession of Zhu Houcong to the throne, the ban on pork was lifted, but this roll cut was also passed down.
This record is relatively credible, because Zhu Houzhao himself was a fun-loving emperor who did not follow routine administration.
The reason why he died was because he went out for fun and drove a boat to catch fish in a pond. However, he accidentally capsized the boat and fell into the water. As a result, he caught a cold and died of illness.
The cause of his death also shows how unreliable he is, and it is normal for him to issue such a ban.
Moreover, Anluzhou, Huguang, where Zhu Youqi was located, is now ZX City under the jurisdiction of Jingmen, Hubei Province.
ZX City is the birthplace of sakigiri, and it is also recorded in the local county annals.
The most important thing is that there are clear rules for the succession of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
It is clearly written in "Huang Ming Ancestors" that if there is no prince in the court, the younger brother will eventually succeed him.
So after Zhu Houzhao died, the one who should take the throne should have been Zhu Houzhao's brothers, who had nothing to do with the two uncles and the prince.
So it can be seen that the so-called story that the three candidates rushed to the capital to **** the throne is itself unfounded.
But the reason why a story is a story is that it is fun to tell, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it.
So Li Yi didn't talk too much, he just washed the meat filling and squeezed out the blood from the lean meat to make the meat whiter.
After washing the meat five times, the water for washing the meat finally became clear, and the lean meat stuffing became almost as white as the fat meat.
Bringing the meat fillings to the counter, Li Yi asked Zhang Guoli to help bring over the fat meat fillings that Zhang Tielin had chopped.
The grass carp stuffing was chopped in the morning, and Li Yi also brought it over.
Subsequently, Li Yi went to the storage room to take out the rice noodles ground yesterday and started to prepare the fillings.
This rice noodle is not a strip of rice noodle, but the rice noodle residue left after soaking indica rice, grinding it into rice slurry, filtering out the water and then drying it.
Flour or starch needs to be added to the roll to increase the stickiness, otherwise it will be difficult to shape the meat after it is cooked.
Modern businesses that make rolled cuts add starch directly.
The dough-forming effect of adding starch is indeed good, but the texture is more like ham sausage and there is no rice flavor.
Traditional rolled cuts are made with rice flour residue.
The rolls made in this way will not only have a meaty aroma, but also a rich rice aroma, which is much more delicious than starch rolls.
After mixing lean meat, fatty meat, and fish into the meat filling in a ratio of 1:1:1, Li Yi added one-fifth of the rice flour residue into the meat filling.
After adding minced ginger, garlic, salt, pepper and other ingredients, Li Yi began to stir.
Soon, the meat fillings were all mixed evenly.
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