A more representative snack of the Song Dynasty

Dongpo meat: "I heard that it is delicious, but I have never eaten it."

In the Song Dynasty, there were famous pastries: honey cake, jujube cake, chestnut cake, wheat cake, flower cake, etc.

1. The honey cake is steamed with tea (glutinous) rice crumbs and sugar, after steaming, it is pinched and pressed, and it is cut into a small cake with a thread that is two inches long, an inch wide and three or four minutes thick, and the red store name is printed on it, and two pieces are sold in autumn and winter.

2. Jujube cake is one of the top ten pastries of "Manchu and Han full banquet". Jujube cake was originally the royal pastry of the Qing Dynasty, once had the reputation of the first pastry of the court, its taste is far away, the entrance is sweet, containing vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients.

3. Chestnut cake is a delicacy, and the main ingredients are melon kernels, pine nuts, chestnuts, etc.

4. Wheat cake, the name of steamed bread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, is similar to steamed bread in appearance and production method. It is a traditional local snack in Zhejiang, which is commonly found in eastern Zhejiang (Ningbo, Taizhou) and other regions, among which the wheat cake in the Datang area of Dingtang Town, Xiangshan County is more famous.

5. Chongyang cake, also known as "flower cake", is named because it is eaten during the Chung Yeung Festival, and is a traditional seasonal food of the Chung Yeung Festival. It is commonly found in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and is not very popular in all regions of the country. In order to eat it beautifully, people make Chongyang cake into colorful colors, and sprinkle some wood rhinoceros flowers on the cake surface.

Southern Song Dynasty delicacies include dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, sugar cakes, milk cakes, jujube cakes, etc.

饆饠 is also written as "Bi Luo". It is a kind of pastry made with a filling. Beginning in the Tang Dynasty and ending in the Song Dynasty, there is no record in the books on food and drink, and the name may have been changed or lost.

It can be seen from the historical materials of the Tang Dynasty that the dumplings need to be fried, and the filling inside is mainly meat, but sometimes there are fruits, such as cherry dumplings, but generally they are lamb liver dumplings, crab roe dumplings, etc., which are mainly meat fillings, which are roll-shaped and open on both sides.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a convenience food called "馉饳", which was pronounced similar to "Guduo". This is a stuffed food, and the method is a little more complicated than dumplings and wontons: cut out a boxy dough, hold it in your hand, put it in the meat filling, fold it diagonally, pinch the edges tightly, and come out with an isosceles right triangle.

Then close the two acute angles of the triangle together, stack them, pinch them tightly, and the finished product is like a flower bone budding to be released; Then fry it in an oil pan and skewer it with a bamboo skewer, and it's done.

Poultry and livestock such as chicken, duck, and goose meat also often appeared on the dinner tables of the Song people, and the cooking techniques were varied. For example, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Tokyo City Food Market sells chicken mushrooms, steamed goose and duck steaks, lotus duck skewers, chicken skewers, duck stalks, steamed goose with bamboo shoots, goose steaks, etc.

The Tang and Song dynasties were the peak of food culture, and they were overly exquisite. "Suxuan Voice Department, Gangchuan Picture Sample", the most representative is the roasted tail feast. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the staple food was mainly boiled and eaten pasta, more specifically, pasta is a variety of cakes, in the Tang Dynasty notes ** "Because of the Words" mentioned "Shizhong Cake Eat".

In various historical books, **, poems, there are often words such as steamed cakes, pancakes, hu cakes, soup cakes, etc., which is enough to prove that people's diet in the Tang and Song dynasties was based on cakes.

So what's the point of eating meat?

Let's feel it from a passage, "The Son of Heaven eats too fast, cattle, sheep and pigs are all three, the princes eat cattle, the Qing eats sheep, the doctor eats pigs, the scholars eat fish, and the people eat vegetables." "In the Tang and Song dynasties, people believed that only cattle and sheep were the best meat, and in the Song Dynasty, this habit was deepened, until now, beef and mutton in the market are more expensive than pork, probably due to the influence of ancient customs.

Even if beef is eaten, only cattle that have died of natural causes or diseases can be skinned or sold or eaten, regardless of whether the cattle are old, weak, sick or disabled, they are all prohibited from killing. From this, we can also see that the democracy of the Tang and Song dynasties, even livestock, was not allowed to be killed indiscriminately, and we can also foresee the reasons for the prosperity of the Tang and Song dynasties at a certain level.

The food culture of the Han people developed into the Song Dynasty was already broad and profound, and due to the prohibition of beef, mutton became the main meat of the royal scholar class during this period.

Eating sheep in the Song Dynasty was a popular custom in the royal family, and the imperial kitchen slaughtered 350 sheep a day during the Song Dynasty, and because of the huge consumption of mutton, pork was introduced, but pork was still considered a low-grade meat. It was later Su Dongpo who created his own "Dongpo meat" that made the pork tainted with some aristocratic atmosphere.

The staple food is millet in the north and rice in the south. Non-staple food northern sheep, southern pigs. The drinks are tea and liquor in both the north and south.

Grains, vegetables, meat and aquatic products, fruits, beverages, condiments.

No potatoes, no peppers, no coffee, no cigarettes, no opium.

Rice, a lot of snacks, I have a snack.