Chapter 1106 Knight's rice box
Marin has a very good impression of these wandering knights who are willing to learn. He believes that only officers who love to learn can have the potential for progress. After hearing that some wandering knights like to visit camp layouts and want to inquire about common sense about marching and fighting, Marin sent several officers to them as guides and commentators, and was responsible for answering their questions.
Of course, those things listed as confidential, such as military training methods, will not be disclosed by the officers. Moreover, these wandering knights who are keen on visiting and learning, Marin also asked the officers who serve as guides and commentators to silently record their names. After the trial competition begins, these people will receive points bonuses. Because these people are more willing to use their brains, which is a necessary quality for middle and senior officers.
Marin also secretly remembered the wandering knights who went to drink all day long and fought and caused trouble. Of course, these were all done secretly, and they also obtained Adler's consent.
Of course Adler had no objection. After all, Marin was a commander-in-chief of the European god of war. His suggestions were definitely no problem.
In order to collect information about these wandering knights, Marin issued an identity wooden sign to each wandering knight for easy verification. In addition, it is convenient for Kohler's spies to secretly record the words and deeds and performances of these wandering knights.
If these wandering knights knew that before the martial arts competition, their words and deeds would be recorded in small notebooks, and they would definitely complain - the city is so difficult, I want to reply...
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The function of the identity wooden sign is not only to facilitate the inspection of the guards and Kohler's spy records, but his other role is to get a box lunch with this sign...
Yes, I'll get a box lunch...
Lunch boxes are synonymous with low-end in later generations. They are usually migrant workers, hard-working staff or supporting actors squat in the corner or sit on dirty tables and benches to eat. But in this era, lunch boxes are absolutely tall and generous...
You should know that in this era, ordinary farmers or ordinary soldiers ate baguettes mixed with soil and stones. That thing can be used as bricks. At most, it is served with some wild vegetable soup. Only during festivals or when the army is about to usher in a war, ordinary farmers or ordinary soldiers will eat some salted fish, bacon, sausages, etc., and even many poor people may not be able to eat bread, and can only cook some porridge with difficult to swallow rye and wild vegetables.
Therefore, the boxed lunches provided by Marin, which are three vegetarian and one meat, are definitely high-end products in this era. Generally speaking, only fief knights with territory can afford it. Ordinary people are afraid that only big festivals such as Christmas can be so luxurious.
Moreover, even if you have money, you may not be able to eat such a boxed lunch. Because this is Chinese food, Europeans in this era will definitely not be able to eat it.
The only difference between the lunch box in later generations is probably the rice inside, which was replaced by the black bread that Germans often ate.
Although the Kohler bread provided by Marin is mixed with grass bran, the taste is a bit rough. However, this is a bread fermented with baking powder, which is relatively soft and is many times better than the baguette that can be used as a tiling.
Even these wandering knights from noble families who were born in aristocratic families would not have any problems when eating Kohler black bread mixed with grass bran. You should know that when they were at home, these wandering knights might be able to eat soft bread. But after becoming a wandering knight, they might not be able to eat soft bread. Sometimes, baguettes mixed with soil, stones, wood chips and wild vegetables can be dealt with. Therefore, although the taste is a bit rough (nonsense, can the grass bran mixed with pigs not be rough), the bread is still very soft and easier to digest.
And the three vegetarian and one meat in the lunch box are very amazing...
Because the vegetables in these lunch boxes are all fried, and they are fried with oil...
In Europe at present, I am afraid that only nobles and wealthy families can enjoy food cooked with olive oil. Moreover, even those nobles and wealthy families are very simple and crude when cooking with olive oil - their cooking method is usually to cook the dishes and then drop a few drops of olive oil, which is very similar to the way for women to lose weight in later generations...
What? You said to pour olive oil on a frying pan and then fry it? Please, that was a popular method in later Europeans. And the French feast, the most peak of this cooking method, is just starting out, and it was tinkered with by Marin. Otherwise, the French would have to wait for decades to enjoy this so-called "feast"...
Moreover, even if it is the prototype of this French feast, it is currently only meteors in the French aristocratic circle. Because this cooking method consumes too much olive oil and most people cannot afford it.
Ordinary people cannot afford to enjoy dishes made from olive oil. The only way for them to get oil and water is to obtain fat. Therefore, ancient people regarded fat as good meat, while lean meat was inferior.
Apart from eating meat, ordinary people have no chance to consume oil and water. Even the knights rarely want to buy olive oil. Unless it is a wealthy knight like the French knight with a wealthy and strong fiefdom of up to 1,500 acres. But even the rich French knights can afford olive oil at most, but they will not use olive oil every time, which is too luxurious.
But the boxed lunches with one meat and three vegetables provided by Beihai Kingdom are fried in oil, which makes the wandering knights feel very happy, not to mention the delicious Chinese food.
"Oh, God, this vegetable is actually cooked, and... oil... what kind of oil is this?" After eating the lunch box, a wandering knight exclaimed and questioned.
Why do you ask if vegetables are cooked? Because, the way Europeans eat vegetables in this era is very nonsense - they all eat them raw...
In contrast, those apples and other fruits were cooked and eaten by Europeans...
You can imagine what the cooked apples taste? This is pretty good, raw vegetables... Oh my god...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! This year, there are also a shortage of vegetables in Europe, mainly including carrots, turnips, cucumbers, beets, onions, garlic, leeks, cabbage (cabbage), lettuce, spinach, peas, broccoli, celery, etc. No green peppers, no shredded potatoes, and no tomatoes...
There is nothing wrong with eating four vegetables: carrots, turnips, cucumbers and beets. But what the hell is eating raw onions, garlic (leaf), leeks, etc.? If it is put on modern people, eating them like this will kill people...
But this is how Europeans eat these days...
So, after eating fried onions, garlic and leeks in the lunch box, many knights didn't find out what kind of vegetable this is. Because the fried onions, garlic and leeks have a very different taste from those eaten raw. Moreover, it is so delicious that it is countless times. Also, it is fried in oil...
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So, after the meal, there were many wandering knights who had fun, so they found the temporary cafeteria and asked what dish they had just eaten...
"It's just frying onions, frying garlic and frying leeks..." The chef in the cafeteria replied innocently.
In fact, Marin asked them to keep it confidential and claimed to be pouring oil in a frying pan and frying vegetables... The effects of the two are different, but there are many similarities. However, frying is very oil-consuming...
I heard that it was fried vegetables, and these wandering knights suddenly became wilted. Why? They still know what fried is. That is a luxury cooking method of pouring oil into a frying pan, which is not affordable for ordinary people. Because the oil consumption of fried food is much larger than that of stir-frying. Of course, in order to save costs, the vendors of fried food in later generations reused the oil and even used gutter oil. Otherwise, according to strict hygiene standards, the oil consumption would be too large. Even if cooking oil in later generations is cheap, the cost would be too high.
In this era, those who could often eat olive oil fried food were all great nobles or rich people.
So, for Marin to entertain them with fried vegetables, these wandering knights suddenly felt full of style and felt that they were treated as big shots.
In fact, stir-frying is very oil-efficient, with a large pot of vegetables only a few spoons of soybean oil. The North American colonies of Marin now produce a lot of soybean oil, soybean oil is not expensive. Unlike European-style frying dishes, you have to pour a lot of oil on the pan before soaking the dishes in the oil. For example, the French feast in later generations, why is the portion small? The portion is large, and the layer of olive oil in the pan cannot soak all the dishes in oil! The large pot of stir-frying can allow a small amount of oil to quickly cover all the dishes.
Therefore, later generations have argued about which one is better, Chinese cooking or French cuisine. The cooker can proudly say - I'm just fuel-efficient, large in quantity, and delicious...
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So, more than a thousand wandering knights misunderstood Marin, thinking that in order to entertain them, Marin poured the olive oil into buckets (they weren't sure if it was olive oil, after all, these wandering knights were also very rustic) on a frying pan and fry vegetables... This is definitely a vassal treatment...
Moreover, boxed lunches with a lot of oil are easy to fill. Usually, when there is no oil, these wandering knights can eat three large pieces of bread. With three vegetarian and one meat-sized person, their large piece of black bread is actually full...
What surprised these wandering knights the most was that the untreatable vegetables such as onions, garlic and leeks became very delicious after being fryed in oil...
But unfortunately, even if they know that the fried onions, garlic and leeks are delicious, they can't afford it. Because olive oil is too expensive... Even if they successfully become fief knights, they don't have the ability to eat fried food every day, at most they can eat it during the festival...
However, they didn't know that as Marin's territory penetrated into the North American continent, the North American soybean production will increase greatly in the future. At that time, soybean oil will be very large. I dare not say anything else, it is still okay to supply the Beihai country. As long as you can become a noble family in the Beihai country, the supply of soybean oil is not a problem...
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Chapter completed!