The catchy slogan of wheat

When you see green rice seedlings, you can smell the smell of steamed bread. Steamed bread is one of the most important foods in China. Hot goods, white steamed bread and hot steamer can always bring back childhood memories. The raw material for making steamed bread is wheat flour, which is basically used in the west. Why did we invent steamed bread and they invented toast bread?

Wheat is one of the three largest cereals in the world, and it is widely planted all over the world. The earliest "training" of wheat can be traced back to tens of thousands of years ago, and by 6000-7000 BC, wheat had been planted on a large scale in Central Asia. Around 3000-4000 BC, China began to grow wheat gradually, first in the Yellow River valley, and then all over China. The birth of wheat has continuously enriched the diet of China people, and many special foods have appeared since then. Steamed bread is one of them.

"Oversleeping" has created toast bread, which is the staple food in some western countries and is very popular because of its softness, sweetness and convenience. Legend has it that about 2600 years ago in front of the park, an ancient Egyptian slave was making pancakes with miscellaneous grains. Because he was so tired, he accidentally fell asleep. When I woke up, the stove was out. I don't know why the batter is getting softer and bigger. Afraid of being criticized, the slave quickly lit the stove and stuffed the batter in, concluding that the baked "cake" was soft and sweet and immediately became fashionable.

From the origin of steamed bread and bread, we can know that their inventions have a long history. What are the reasons for these differences? There are different kinds of wheat.

Wheat flour can be roughly divided into high gluten flour, high gluten flour and low gluten flour, and the difference among them is usually protein content. High-gluten flour protein is taller, stronger and more suitable for making bread. In our country, wheat is generally polished with medium gluten flour, which is more suitable for making steamed bread or something.

Chinese and western cooking habits are different.

Steamed bread is eaten and bread is baked, which is also the main reason for the difference between the two. Steaming is a cooking method that uses steam to improve ingredients. China is the first country in the world to apply this method. After learning to use fire in society, the most intuitive cooking method to eat delicious cooked food is charcoal barbecue. After that, all kinds of cooking equipment were created, and the form of water blanching gradually became fashionable. Our ancestors discovered the beauty of steam when stewing water and created a unique steaming method. Cooking can retain the original flavor of ingredients to the greatest extent, and it is a very healthy cooking method. When wheat appeared, everyone always ate rice. The main ways of rice and millet are cooking porridge and steaming rice with water.