Friends who watch live broadcasts will find that some anchors often refer to people who watch their live broadcasts as "old iron". In fact, Lao Tie is a dialect of the Northeast region, referring to a particularly good friend. And why does old iron have this meaning? It is said that this is also related to a "appetizer".
For some people who love wine, whether they are loose or not, they must give themselves something to drink. So in the past, when the conditions were not good, there were some appetizers that seemed strange today.
Poor drink "poor exquisite"
For example, pebbles, round and slippery, washed clean, soaked in soy sauce, soaked in a little salty aroma, and then drank a sip of wine, licked a stone; more importantly, directly with iron nails under the wine, drink a sip of wine, sip a nail, but also weird and refreshing... This practice of licking iron nails and drinking wine is still the "pioneering deed" of a certain fallen Eight Flags disciple in the late Qing Dynasty.
According to this, some people have verified that this "old iron" originally referred to the friends who had drunk wine with iron nails, after all, the people who had drunk wine together were all righteous brothers who suffered the same hardships.
This method of drinking is generally called "poor drinking", but "poor drinking" must also be "poor and exquisite", and must not be ambiguous.
Just like the old Beijingers were poor, although they could not enter the hotel and could not afford to go to the restaurant, there were vendors with wine stalls full of hutong strings. Open the barrel, the aroma of shochu wafts out, the other end of the stall, there is a dish, even if it is made with the cheapest materials, such as the water, but also with a small plate of four meat and four vegetarian, it is said that this is also the legacy of the fallen Eight Flags at that time.
Exquisite appetizer
Poor drinking should be exquisite, and when there is surplus, it is more exquisite: different wines, with different dishes, more flavor.
For example, the rich flavor of sauce wine, with the same outstanding flavor of meat delicacies, such as braised pork, sweet and sour tenderloin, kung pao chicken and the like, can make the taste of wine and food complement each other, a sip of wine and a bite of meat, very beautiful.
Many foodies are very well studied in appetizers. For example, the writer Liang Shiqiu wrote about a dish of boiled clams in his food book "Yashe Talks About Eating", "Green clams... The method is simple, first blanch in boiling water, then break the shells, one by one are placed on the plate, sprinkled with cooking wine ginger pepper, you can serve, for the best wine. ”
There is also Mr. Wang Zengqi of the same period, who specially wrote a book about wine dishes, "Home Cooking Wine Dishes", from edamame pods, fried peanuts, tea eggs to a wide variety of patterns, all-encompassing. The Ming Dynasty literary scholar Yuan Hongdao even in the monograph on wine "Zhen Zheng", according to different dishes, the appetizer dishes are divided into five categories: qing products, different products, greasy products, fruits, and vegetables.
Wine and dishes should be consummated
There is a good wine, you need good dishes to accompany, and with good dishes, there is no good wine is equally regrettable. Wine and appetizers, like two conjoined babies, inseparable. However, in another sense, wine is "more expensive" than vegetables.
At the beginning of its birth, wine was used to sacrifice to the gods tomorrow, and later became a kind of "ritual", with a sacred and supreme social status. Therefore, in this sense, the initial drinking is based on wine, the dish is subordinate, there is wine and no vegetables abound, and there is wine and vegetables that are the most complete, so there is wine meat, wine dishes, and appetizers.
To this end, the ancients of "bold, wild road" also invented and created a "good wine" of "wine" and "dish" - lamb wine!
"Lamb wine" is detailed in the Song Dynasty wine monograph "Beishan Wine Classic", which is made by dipping mutton fat in rice milk and then fermenting with koji. It is impossible to know when this wine was born, but in the Song Dynasty, it was generally brewed, but its specific brewing method has now been lost.
It is said that this lamb wine, mixed with the aroma of wine and meat, is extremely fragrant. This is the best way to combine wine and vegetables!
(Image source network, if there is infringement, please contact us to delete)