The Cooking Skills Of Song Dynasty

Economic prosperity, North and South in close exchanges, Rich in products and market supply isabundance. These favorable conditions promote the restaurants of Song extremely developed. The entireprocess of food cooking Increasingly Normatively.In the selection and early processing of raw foodmaterials, The people of Song Dynasty can do: familiar and master the origin of food ingredients anddifferent categories, Select in merit.Understand the golden season of raw food materials in growth and harvest, choose the best foodingredients and to be flexible whenever necessary, Note distinction of different parts of its food ingredientsand cooking purposes should be rational use of. Pay attention to food raw materials, health status and itsrole in health care. Herbal medicine has been widely used as food ingredients seedlings in the diet cookingof the people of Song Dynasty, this has become an important feature of the Song of food cooking. Thepeople of Song have discover some medicinal value of food, Such as yellow, Chun root, licorice, five plus,basil, chamomile, wolfberry seedling, rhizome, Cassia and so on, and be well applied to the cookingpractice. After the selection of raw food materials, must also be the beginning of its processing, this step isparticularly necessary for those fresh ingredients in cooking, such as fresh vegetables, seafood, poultry,livestock and so on. Initial processing of cooking materials a process of Machining and preparation, that is:Slaughter, peeling, optional washing, decontamination and remove odor or remove the inedible parts of thefood ingredients.Then washing and finishing, so as to meet the requirements of the net material whencooking dishes. The early processing of raw food materials in Song Dynasty is a more comprehensive andcomplex process, including slaughter, ptional tick, stripping profile, stalks, fade hair, disassembly, bubble,washing and so on.The cooking materials of Song Dynasty have assisted natural seasonings and processingseasoning. The natural cooking adjuvant material of Song Dynasty mainly refers to the nature of a numberof aromatic plant materials, such as onions, ginger, garlic and other vegetable plants and Chinese plantssuch as Huang, Chun root, licorice root, five plus, Basil, chamomile, Wolfberry seedling, Huang Jing,Cassia and so on. Some natural and cooking adjuvant material in Song Dynasty, from the planting,cultivating, harvesting to the classification under the specific circumstances of use, Are in line with local conditions, and the time the principle of need. Consumption of natural cooking and use of adjuvantmaterials are more widely in Song Dynasty. Many natural materials of cooking, have not only the functionof seasoning but also the important food ingredient. Song adjuvant material consumption of natural cooking,Assisted materials processing and cooking of Song is refers to the cooking ingredients of oil, salt, sauce,vinegar and sugar.The cooking skill of Song Dynasty is on the basis of developments since the Sui and TangDynasty, even more comprehensive and mature. The people of Song can be finished according to the needsof food delicacies, combined heat and cooking characteristics of different seasoning, performancecharacteristics of different texture and food ingredients, to be flexible to take a different cut with a knife.The side dishes can be divided into raw and cooked with the two categories of Song Dynasty, inthe end with the use of raw or cooked with the method of preparation, it depends on the texture of food andraw material requirements of prefabricated dishes. Pay attention to the dishes on the quantity, quality, taste,color and match. The people of Song pay attention to the grasp of the heat in the cooking of food. For thefood ingredients before cooking heat, there are boiling water, the oil, the popularity and so on. Seasoningmethods of Song is different in each place. But, to sum up, Can be divided into heat before seasoning,seasoning and heating the heating season. In the cooking process, in addition to add some spice andseasoning outside, the people of Song also use a number of methods Similar to modern such as starching,sizing and starch method. The people of Song can combine the food ingredients themselves with the naturalcolor, shape and taste, to be clever and seasoning mix, so that the flavor, color, shape were able to integratewith each other, complement each other, set off each other, so as to achieve the desired cooking results.These are all shows the superb level of cooking skills of the Song people.There emerged Female chefs, by virtue of their cultural cultivation and cooking skills flow in thecommunity in the Song Dynasty. Compared with the previous generation, The degree of specialization ofvegetable production has been markedly improved in the Song Dynasty, Mainly manifested in theformation of vegetable production bases. The vegetable contributed to the cultivation techniques has alsobeen a certain degree of development.Vegetarian has become part of the ethos of all sectors of society generally respected diet. Theproduction of imitation meat or fish dishes and popular representatives of the highest achievements of cooking skills of the Song Dynasty. Normal years, the people of Song Dynasty diet with vegetables, fruits,soy and gluten and vegetables; Famine years, their food and clothing will be a problem. Part of the rich andpowerful, wealthy extravagance of diet pursuit, caused a great waste of the country's human, material andfinancial resources, increased the burden on the people's. But they are precisely the Contribution,whichdirectly to the groups of food culture in the Song Dynasty.With the development of cooking skills in the Song Dynasty, diet on the market have a highergrade of delicacies, even welcomed by members of the royal family, these members of the royal familyoften sent people to the extrauterine market and restaurants in the feeding. Southern food, Northern foodand Sichuan and vegetarian discrete in the Song Dynasty, Chinese style genre in its embryonic form. Thisphenomenon reflects the increasing specialization of the culinary division of labor in the Song Dynasty, thisis the inevitable result of Cooking skills to a certain level. Prosperity and development of the Central Plainscooking skills in the Song Dynasty, Attracted the nation residents around which continue their learning.In the food storage and processing, On the basis of inheriting the outstanding achievements ofpeople in the previous generation,Song in succession before the food storage tradition of excellence basedon the processing, The people of Song were mainly taken two types of technology to processing andstorage of fresh dried to storage processing,which is storaged processing and dried storage processing.Thepreservation storage methods are basically as follows: cache method, refrigeration method, sealing method,mix law, possession of law ash and so on. The preservation storage is more used in food\fruit andVegetable.Depending on the methods and characteristics,the dried storage of food can be divided intodrying, curing method, bad system of law and sugar Method.In the process of preserved foods, the peopleof Song can combine methods such as heating and sunshine law,which purpose is to get the storage effectto achieve the best preserved.Song in the diet also has a lot of stress, such as pay attention to food hygiene, freshness, foodideas, food taboos and food treatment methods.