And how many times we had been threatened in the media that the sausage is harmful and it is not made of meat, and a lot of additives in it bad!But our people are not easily frightened, but the sausage is still a worthy place on our table.Whence came to us sausage?And who is the great wise man who invented it?A clever man to find this is not so simple, because the sausage - a product so ancient that even the very origin of the word has more than one version.
Some experts argue that the word "sausage" comes from the Turkic word combination «kul basti», which means "grilled meat".Others see Slavic origin, associated with the word "bun".There are scientists who believe that the basis of the word "sausage" is the Latin "bulb", meaning "round", but consensus on the word does not exist.Yes, it is not surprising, because the sausage neither more nor less, and more than two thousand years!
ancient Greeks enjoyed the sausage during noisy celebrations but in ancient Rome were very fond of black pudding.Cook it, from pork bellies chopped cooked meat, pig's blood and all kinds of spices.Curled ringlet sausage smoked, so it can be stored for a long time.It has been not so much a holiday as everyday dish.The sailors and merchants were taken with a sausage in long journeys.Good smoky sausage could be stored up to two years.
Asian steppe nomads, too, loved the sausage, but it was prepared differently.For a basis took mutton or horse meat.They are not smoked sausage, as Europeans and dried it in the sun, this product is dehydrated and well maintained during long military campaigns.This sausage called "sudzhuk."I keep it under saddle rider, buying a flat shape, and was always at hand willing to bite the warrior-nomad.
ancient Slavs, too, were "not born yesterday," sausage loved and knew how to cook it better than other peoples.One suspects that the sausage product is really a national, out of nowhere came to us.Although the first time it is mentioned in one of the Novgorod birchbark documents of the XII century, there is speculation that the ancient Slavs already knew the secret of making this product.How to cook?It's very simple: washed pig intestines, filled them with finely chopped meat, and lard, as well as additives used buckwheat porridge, eggs, pork or beef blood.The resulting sausages cooked or smoked.
For centuries sausage improved.Thanks to the development of new technologies, in Europe there are new varieties, which later spread throughout the world.It should be noted that in Russia, the beginning of mass production of the sausage falls on the era of Peter I, from the time that he wrote from Germany to Russia sausages craftsmen, in order to teach the Russians to do the sausage according to European standards.
Today, problems with the acquisition of the sausage is not, you can buy at any grocery store, and you can, imbued with the spirit of the ancestors, prepare it at home.Believe me, it's worth it!
«If it were from sausages wings, the bird used better not!" - Russian proverb says.This is where old people's expressed love for this wonderful product.Sausage and affectionately - sausage ... no one came up with her, she's always been, is and will be!
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