Shogun's favorite omelet

As a delicate food

Has been prized for a long time

a researcher of food culture history　Hisao Nagayama　

Showa era about 50 years ago

One of the buzzwords is "Giant, Taiho, Egg Yaki". Taiho, a professional baseball giant, is a sumo wrestler

Both were strong and popular with children. Eggs were just as popular as the sweet "eggs"

It was "yaki".

Mass production is progressing by the production method of dense breeding instead of the conventional chicken breeding, and the price of eggs

The case has become cheaper. In the old days, chicken eggs couldn't be eaten unless they got sick.

By that time, ordinary people could easily buy it. After that, the price is much cheaper

It has been said that he is an "honor student of prices".

Eggs have long been prized as a delicate food

Has an excellent protein amino acid balance and is also Vita

A lot of mines and minerals, even lecithin that prevents aging of the brain

Because it is included.

One egg is all tissues from the chick's brain to muscles and skeleton

And give birth to life.

Eggs in the Edo period

Popular enough to have a recipe book

The shoguns of the Edo Shogunate love fried eggs,

I had breakfast every time. Thick omelet 5 or 6 cm long

It is cut into long pieces and has a sweet taste.

It tasted good and soft, and I could eat it even when I had no appetite.

So, it seems that it was indispensable as a favorite of the shogun.

Not only the shogun but also the townspeople of Edo liked eggs.

The cooking specialty book "Manpo Cuisine Secret Box" published in the Edo period is

Many egg dishes were introduced so that it was also called "Egg Hyakuchin".

It was gaining popularity.

A slightly unusual omelet from the "Manpo Cuisine Secret Box"

Let's introduce.

One is "raft egg".

To make it, "Bake the beaten egg thinly in an omelet pan and make it into an appropriate size.

Cut. Wrap this around the shaft of a brush and apply white meat to the seams.

Boil it on the fire, pull out the shaft of the core brush, and it's done. " Cylindrical

If you line up about 3 of these with omelet, it's a raft down the river.

It looks like a sea urchin.

The other is "castella egg", which is made with "eggs and sugar, small"

Mix the flour well, oil in a pan with an iron lid, and heat over low heat.

Bake in. Put a charcoal fire on the lid, heat it, and bake it slowly.

It's done. "