In the dynasties before the Tang Dynasty, there was actually a delicacy of roast suckling pig, but because of the lack of many ingredients, the taste of this dish was greatly reduced, and with the discovery of the Americas and Australia, many new condiments appeared, and Li An used these new ingredients to make roast suckling pig, which made the taste of this dish change dramatically, at least many times more delicious than before.

This dish is also a famous specialty of later generations, many places take this dish as a top dish, and even as one of the sacrifices to ancestors, it is an indispensable festival thing for every household, first use roast suckling pig to commemorate the ancestors, and then relatives gather to eat.

There are several theories about the origin of the dish of roast suckling pig, one of which is that a long, long time ago, one day, a fire suddenly broke out in the yard of a family, the fire was fierce, and it must be peeled, and soon the flames soared into the sky and burned all the things in the yard. At this time, the owner of the house hurried home, only to see a ruin, and was stunned. Suddenly, a scent came to my nose. The owner followed the scent and found that it was from a burnt piglet. The owner looked at the other side of the little pig, and the skin was roasted red and simple. He tasted and tasted and tasted good. He was sad that the yard burned down, but he was relieved that a new way of eating pork had been invented.

The second statement seems to be very mythical, and it is false when you hear it, saying that there was an expert pig hunter in ancient times, who usually hunted wild boars for a living. His wife bore him a son and named him the Fire Emperor. When the son is a little older, the parents go up to the mountain every day to hunt pigs, and the son raises piglets at home. One day, the Fire Emperor accidentally picked up a few flints, and then he beat and played near the thatched hut where the pigs were enlived, and suddenly sparks splashed, and the thatched hut caught fire, causing a fire. The Fire Emperor is an ignorant child in the end, and he has never seen anything interesting in his daily life, and when he saw the thatched hut on fire, he was not only not worried or scared at all, but felt very happy. He listened in amazement to the crackling of firewood and grass and the howling of the piglets before they were burned to death. When the cries of the pigs stopped, the fire caused by the Fire Emperor also extinguished itself. An unheard fragrance wafted through the burned ruins, what was it that smelled so good? The Fire Emperor picked up the debris and explored it by taste. He searched around and was amazed to find that the tantalizing aroma came from the charred piglets. The alluring color and gluttonous aroma had already made the Fire Emperor salivate. He couldn't help but lift the pork leg with his hand, but he was slammed by the squeaky oil on the surface of the pigskin, and he was busy licking the burning finger with his lips, but he unexpectedly tasted the delicious taste.

When the Fire Emperor's parents came back from the hunt, they saw that the pig shed had turned to ashes and all the piglets had been burned to death, and when they were about to call the Fire Emperor to ask what was going on, they saw that the Fire Emperor presented a delicious dish to his father - a roast suckling pig that was grilled with a charred oil and a strange fragrance. Instead of blaming his son, the father jumped for joy that he had invented a new way to eat pork! It is said that it was at this time that humans first learned that animals were more delicious when cooked.

The legends must be false, but this delicacy is indeed delicious, this one cannot be wrong, and with the gradual completion of various ingredients, the taste of this delicacy will become more and more delicious, and it will become more and more delicious from generation to generation.

After listening to the two stories told by Li An, Li Yu and the others did not show disbelief, although they knew that these two were just stories, maybe it was because Li An told them too true, so they would believe it so much.

"Is Li Shilang going to cook himself again today?"

Li Yu asked.

Li An nodded and said: "This is natural, today is a few emperors and grandsons want to eat roast suckling pig, I naturally have to do it myself, although the servants at home can also make roast suckling pig, but it is always not good enough." ”

"Among all the officials in my Datang Dynasty, only Li Shilang can cook, can you find a second one?"

"There are cooks in the official's house, so they don't need to cook by themselves, they occasionally go out to play, and there are barbecue meats, but there is really no one with such superb cooking skills as Li Shilang."

"Although the gentleman is a good cook, it is also a pleasure to cook by himself! Especially cooking food like barbecue is definitely a great pleasure! ”

"Li Shilang, why don't you teach us too! In the future, when there is nothing to do, we can also cook with our own hands. ”

Several emperors and grandsons asked.

Since they were going to learn cooking skills, how could Li An not teach, nodded and said, "Okay!" Then let's make a roast suckling pig together, and let the ingredients be prepared! ”

Everyone said and walked down the suspended passage, came to a secluded building, this building is a two-story building, it is not easy to find from the outside, because it is camouflaged too well, looking at it from a long distance, it is a very big banyan tree, the windows are not very large, but the number is relatively large, very similar to the house in the cartoon of later generations, very fairy tale color.

The view on the second floor is better, however, the first floor is more convenient, and in the end I chose to make food on the first floor.

There is not much difficulty in making this delicacy, and it is not very tiring when it is actually processed, mainly because the preparation is more tedious and troublesome.

This is true of any food, it takes a long time to prepare, and when everything is ready, the food can be easily prepared.

There is definitely more than one way to make roast suckling pig, but no matter which method it is, some basic condiments must be prepared, and these are left to the next person to prepare.

It didn't take long for the servant to bring in a cleaned wild boar cub, and told Li An that there was a total weight of six catties, and then handed in a lot of condiments, regardless of whether Li An could use it or not, they would prepare it first anyway, and if there was anything missing, they would just prepare it.

The size of the little wild boar is not very large, but it is also not accommodated by solar barbecues, so it can only be grilled over an open flame.

Ordinary firewood can be used for barbecue, however, ordinary firewood smoke is too big, and it will be very choking when grilling, especially in the case of indoor barbecue, the smoke is even more unbearable, so it is better to use a professional charcoal fire.

In the era of the Tang Dynasty, professional barbecue charcoal fires have long existed, such as the charcoal fires used by nobles for winter heating, many of which are smokeless charcoal fires, after all, the charcoal fire for heating is to be placed indoors, if the smoke is too big, then no one can stand it, and the smokeless charcoal fire can well meet the demand.

Li An had long thought that he would barbecue game here, so he had already asked his servants to prepare a number of smokeless charcoal fires in the valley, and the amount was enough to use.

After the smokeless charcoal fire was fetched, the metal barbecue grill was also brought, and after the fire was lit, Li Ang put the cleaned little wild boar on the barbecue grill.

"Li Shilang, how long does this take to be grilled."

"The barbecue must be thoroughly grilled to be delicious, and it will take at least half an hour!"

"At least half an hour, it's too long!"

"What's the hurry, are you hungry now?"

"I'm not very hungry, but it takes at least half an hour to cook, and it's too hard, so it's better not to learn, just let the servants do it."

The royal grandchildren, who were still very interested, heard that it would take a lot of time to cook the roast suckling pig, and they immediately had little interest, feeling that their status was so noble, how could they spend a lot of time doing such low-level things, if the food could be completed in a short time, that was what they could accept, such as cutting the meat slices thinly and putting them in the solar barbecue, and the meat would soon be cooked, so that they would find it interesting, and the long wait was intolerable to them.

Li An shook his head lightly and said: "If you are willing to learn, you can watch, and if you don't want to learn, you don't force it, anyway, you can't eat until half an hour later." ”

For these emperors and grandsons, Li An naturally can't force people to learn the method, this is not a skill they should learn, if they are interested, learn a little, forget if they are not interested, it may not be a good thing for the emperor to be too interested in cooking, or once they become emperors in the future, but they are interested in cooking, it will be very troublesome.

For example, the carpenter emperor of a certain dynasty, as a whole, does not know how to deal with national affairs, and knows to be a carpenter, which will definitely delay the governance of the country, not the blessing of the country and the people, but if he is just an idle prince in the future, it is good to like cooking, at least, obsessed with cooking all day long, there is no heart to compete for the throne, isn't this the blessing of the community.

No matter what they thought, Ang Lee was going to start cooking by himself anyway, constantly flipping the wild boar so that the whole wild boar could be evenly heated.

After being slightly heated, Ang Lee picked up a brush and applied fresh vegetable oil to the body of the little wild boar, and the outer and inner surfaces should be evenly smeared, which can better prevent the wild boar from being burned, and at the same time, the wild boar meat roasted in this way will be more delicious.

After applying the oil, the wild boar meat had begun to give off some fragrance, but there was still a lot of time before the food was ready, and the emperors and grandsons couldn't wait any longer, so they ordered someone to move the stone platform outside, which was a stone platform for Go, and they had to play against each other in the house.

"Li Shilang roasts slowly, let's kill a plate first."

Li Yu beckoned, and began to play Go with his younger brothers, letting Li An work hard to make roast suckling pig by himself.

"Okay, but the roast suckling pig is so fragrant, you must be distracted when you play Go, can you really play?"

Li Ang said with a smile and continued to add condiments to the roast suckling pig.

He felt that Li Yu and the others couldn't calm down at all in this environment, after all, playing Go requires a relatively quiet environment, not only there are many people here, but also the fragrant roast suckling pig, normal people will definitely be distracted, and once distracted, this Go will not be good.

Sure enough, as Li An expected, Li Yu and the others were playing Go on the surface, but their minds were already confused, and the food appeared frequently, and in the end, they couldn't play anymore, so they simply walked to Li An's side again and watched Li An roast wild boars.

"Li Shilang, this roast suckling pig is already very fragrant, it should be ready to eat! Why do you need to keep baking? ”

"It's really cooked now, but roasting it for a while is to make the roast suckling pig taste better, and the roast suckling pig is the best one that is charred on the outside and tender on the inside."

Although he can already eat at this moment, Li An is a very face-saving person, since he has cooked himself, he naturally wants to give full play to the highest level of roast suckling pig, and he can't just fool around, wouldn't this ruin his reputation for superb cooking.

Roasting suckling pig can also be regarded as a chore, because if you want to make the roast suckling pig taste the best, you must keep rolling the roast suckling pig, which requires more human arm strength, and the constant rolling is naturally more tiring.

This low-tech rolling operation can completely allow the servants to come over to do it for you, but the frequency of the rolling is also very particular, these servants are too poor, not as good as Li An's turning, in order to roast the appetite of the suckling pig, Li An can only work hard.

On the streets of later generations, there are a lot of people who buy roast suckling pig, but the general authentic shops are powerful, no diamond diamond does not dare to do porcelain work, but there are also some people who accumulate money indiscriminately, their technology is not in place, or it is estimated that they cut corners, so that the roasted suckling pig color is not right, the taste is not right, if the pork is not well mastered, it will cause too old firewood, and if the seasoning is not complete, it will cause the aroma of the roast suckling pig to be insufficient, which greatly reduces the taste of this food.

"Finally, brush on a layer of cooking wine, and that's about it, and you can start eating it right away."

Li An finally brushed the surface of the roast suckling pig with fishy cooking wine and said with a smile.

At this moment, the aroma of roast suckling pig permeated the whole room, which made everyone swallow saliva unconsciously, and even Li Yu, who had eaten the roast suckling pig made by Li An himself a few times, also looked like a greedy ghost.

Roasted roast suckling pig, the quality has shrunk greatly, there were originally six or seven catties, at most five catties at the moment, Li An and several royal grandchildren, one person can only get more than one catty, or with the weight of the bones, the number seems to be less, however, there are still a lot of hares are also done, if you can't eat enough, you can eat more hares.

Wild boar is the main dish today, but the quantity is insufficient, it is impossible to let everyone eat enough, but when distributed, it must not be evenly divided, Li An is willing to share less, but also let several emperors and grandchildren eat more, especially Li Yu, must be more divided, who made him the eldest grandson of the emperor, the highest status?

Li An first divided the roast suckling pig into two, divided into two completely symmetrical, and then, according to the principle of three ribs and a large piece, divided the rib meat in the middle into a portion, and sent it to each emperor and grandson respectively, the two front legs and two hind legs were also distributed to several emperors and grandchildren, and the pig's head was finally given to Li Yu, and Li An himself only had three pieces of pork rib meat, which was the least divided, and the little was pitiful.