Chapter 150 Eat and drink well, everyone!
Because the entire team is riding or riding a carriage, there are no walking people, and there are enough horses to transfer, the entire team is still moving very fast.
The entire team first passed through Mecklenburg, entered the Brandenburg Electoral State, and then entered Poland through Pomerania...
The team was under the banner of the Hanseatic League Chamber of Commerce and was not embarrassed. If they were under the banner of running for the commander of the Teutonic Knights, they might be stopped by the Poles. You know, Poland and the Teutonic Knights are mortal enemies. The reason why the Teutonic Knights declined was because they lost to the Polish-Lithuanian coalition in the Battle of Tannenburg.
Fortunately, the road in Poland was not long, and the entire team rode horses. The team quickly passed through the northern coastal areas of Poland, crossed the Vistula River, and entered the territory of the Teutonic Knights.
Everyone rushed to Cornisburg (now Kaliningrad), the capital of the Teutonic Knights, before settling down.
The Lamarck family has a great influence. In Corniesburg, about 16 Teutonic Knights with voting rights come from the Principality of Clifford and Markber. Of course, there are some people in other parts of the Teutonic Knights, and they are not usually in Corniesburg.
With the help of these 16 knights, Prince Philip rented two larger houses connected together to serve as temporary residences.
These two houses are owned by the great merchants in the Teutonic Knights. However, the Hanseatic merchants have more than just this kind of property. Many merchants have their own properties in many cities in the Teutonic Knights. After all, the Teutonic Knights is also the third largest business district of the Hanseatic Alliance. There are not too many rich Hanseatic merchants here. Of course, in the Teutonic Knights, the Hanseatic merchants have the shadow of the Teutonic Knights behind them to ensure the interests of these merchants. When these Teutonic Knights need them, the merchants with good relationships with them will free up two large houses that are close together for Prince Philip, who is the candidate for the great leader, and his subordinates.
After settling down, Marin sent someone out to inquire and found that Frederick, the Duke of Saxony's youngest son, arrived a week ago, and seemed to have a very high voice.
However, Frederick is too young, only 23 years old, which makes many mature and persistent knights a little worried. After all, the German nation is also a relatively conservative nation and does not like to boldly use young people.
However, this time, the former leader of the group did not choose a suitable heir before his death, so everyone felt a little sudden and didn't know who to choose to be the new leader of the group.
A week ago, with Prince Frederick of Saxony, the situation seemed to be a little clear. Many people seemed to have accepted their fate and planned to leave.
Unexpectedly, Prince Philip, the younger brother of John II, Duke of the Principality of Cliffer, also came over, giving everyone another choice.
In fact, in terms of background strength, Prince Philip is not as good as Prince Frederick. Because Saxony's strength is much stronger than the Principality of Cliver and Markle.
However, Prince Philip is older than Prince Frederick and is 30 years old. This is Prince Philip's advantage. Because, generally speaking, a 30-year-old man is definitely much more stable than a 23-year-old young man.
Therefore, although not having the advantage, Prince Philip's disadvantage is not too great. Moreover, there are no candidates in other places. However, the origin is too small and cannot be compared with these two.
But no matter what, Prince Philip's origin and background are still worse than Prince Friedric, and he is even less wealthy than Prince Friedric. Therefore, we must find a way.
To this end, under the arrangement of Marin, the five chefs he brought him bought a lot of ingredients and spices and started cooking...
Then, under Marin's arrangement, Prince Philip began to feast the official Teutonic knights of the Westphalia and Rhineland in the city in Cornisburg, and came to Prince Philip's residence to have a lot of food and drink.
Although the Teutonic Knights of the Westphalia-Rhineland League basically support Prince Philip because there is no better choice. But Marin could not guarantee that one day a new candidate would appear, also from the Westphalia-Rhineland region. As long as such a person appears, it is easy to share Prince Philip's votes, causing a decline in vote rate.
Therefore, for the Teutonic Knights, who originally belonged to the Westphalia-Rhineland League, Marin was the first to think of them and invite them.
In these two mansions, Marin arranged more than a dozen tables to invite more than 100 members of the alliance in Cornisburg to the banquet.
In order to let this group of men with voting rights eat and drink, Marin asked the chefs to make the purest braised pork, spices and sugar for free. As for stewed chicken and roast duck, it is even more common. Moreover, Corniesburg is near the sea and fresh aquatic products are easy to buy. Various sweet and sour braised seafood are also essential. In addition, in order to entertain everyone, Marin specially bought a beef and let the chefs make beef sauce. The pork also uses wild boar meat inside, and the small steaks on it are all made into delicious sweet and sour pork ribs...
To be honest, these dishes are basically regular dishes and there are no vegetables. But in this era, nobles were popular with these meat dishes and big dishes. If you want to serve vegetables, maybe people are not happy and think you despise them.
There is no pepper powder on the plate for everyone to dip, but when cooking, there are also many spices such as pepper, cloves, cinnamon, etc. Especially the main dish, braised pork, which is fully placed.
Europeans seem to prefer sweets, and Marin also seems to have this flavor. Therefore, when cooking, in addition to the fashionable spices such as pepper, cloves, cinnamon, etc., Marin directs chefs to add a lot of sugar when cooking. At the same time, ginger, garlic, and green onion are also essential.
One ingredient is made into many ways. For example, wild boar meat includes braised pork, fried shredded pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, etc. Considering that Europeans are still not used to the internal organs, Marin does not have the Chinese classic dishes such as fried large intestines.
Beef, there are beef sauce, pepper fried steak, etc. As for lamb, Marin directly served grilled skewers, sprinkled some cumin, salt, etc., and grilled with charcoal...
As for stewing old hens and roasted goose and duck, it is also a must-have dish. However, in these foods, Marin puts a lot of seasonings, spices, sugar, etc., and they are not put in randomly, but they are not like Europeans. They just put in spices to mess up the taste. Instead, after confirmation by Marin, the "gourmet", we can choose a specific recipe...
In addition, Marin also sent people to buy a lot of good wine in the local area to please these men. As a very pleasant German knight, how could he liven up without fine wine?
Many German Knights prefer German stout beer. For this reason, Marin purchased a large amount of stout beer and ale with higher alts, which are the "barrels" that deal with these alcohol tests...
After the banquet began, these knights were really satisfied...
Originally, I was unhappy about Prince Philip not serving a pot of pepper. When the first dish braised pork was served, I immediately conquered these knight masters...
What surprised Marin was that these knight masters like braised pork and the fatty meat in braised pork...
It seems that people in this era like to cook or roast because of their simple cooking techniques. Therefore, they have to lack oil and water. Therefore, these heavy-mouthed German men liked the fat and heavy braised pork. Because the braised pork is half fat and half thin, the oil and water inside is so full, so it is very popular with the knights. Many people even prefer fat that they are not greasy. Moreover, these knights are all big eaters...
At the beginning, each table had a pot of braised pork, which was a small pot according to the food standards of the troops. However, unexpectedly, a whole pot of braised pork was not enough for those knights to eat.
Although these guys didn't use chopsticks, Marin prepared a large spoon for them. Then, the men who fell in love with the taste of braised pork began to use the big spoon to pull the braised pork into their plates...
As I saw that before the second dish came, more than a dozen basins filled with braised pork were empty, leaving only a group of men who had not yet enjoyed it...
When Malin saw that this was still possible, he waved his hand and made the food faster. So, pots of roasted chicken, roast duck, roast goose, and stewed chicken soup were served.
Damn, these beasts eliminated most of them in a few seconds, and saw that Marin sweated down his forehead...
It is hard to imagine that this is a group of formal Teutonic knights with noble identities. If it weren't for knowing the identities of these people in advance, Marin would have thought they were refugees who had been hungry for several days...
We can't blame these people. In modern times, the Germans have their own food system. Although they can't keep up with China, they have many flavors. Moreover, Europe in later generations also absorbed a lot of Chinese dishes and had their own cuisine. After all, it was impossible for them to have not learned a lot of their cooks at that time. Therefore, although the Germans in later generations also thought that Chinese food was delicious, they would not be so fanatic. After all, there were delicious foods in their own country.
But in the dark era of the Middle Ages, Europeans ate dark dishes, or they just took bread and barbecue to dip them in pepper...
Therefore, Marin launched a Chinese dish with a little heavy taste, which is really suitable for the taste of Europeans in this era... The spices and sugar are very suitable for the taste buds of Europeans in this era. So, the knights present were having a lot of fun...
Even the dark beer and ale, everyone had no time to drink it, and they just ate it with food...
Prince Philip, as the master, also came to each table with a kind look on his face, drank a glass of dark beer with the knights, and then said to everyone with a smile on his face:
"Haha, everyone eats and drinks..."
Chapter completed!