said that the food in " A Dream of Red Mansions " is the best in the past and present, but the young masters and ladies eat too expensively. They eat crab and roasted venison, and they pay attention to the refined taste of literati, without any appearance of gluttony. Eating here is just an excuse, and viewing flowers and reciting poems is the highlight.
But the diet in "Jin Ping Mei" is different. The most frequently appearing foods are cooked goose, roast duck, hoof, pork ribs, and fresh fish. It is purely eating in the market and eating in the world, and there is no sense of isolation when reading. Because those things have been eaten by our common people for hundreds of years, and will always be loved.
During Shi Taijun’s two banquets at the Grand View Garden, Grandma Liu ate a mouthful of eggplant (xiǎng), with a look of disbelief: “Don’t coax me, eggplant doesn’t have this taste!” Then chewed carefully: “Although it has a little eggplant fragrance, it’s not as fragrant as it is. Eggplant, grandma, tell me how to make it, and I will go back and do it."
Feng said: "It's not difficult. Peel the fresh eggplant, just clean the meat, cut it into small cubes, and fry it in chicken oil After that, use chicken breast meat and mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, dried five-spice dried fruits, and dried fruits of various colors, cut into cubes, simmer in chicken broth to dry, collect the sesame oil, mix it with bad oil, and put it in a porcelain jar The inside is tightly sealed. When you want to eat, take it out and mix it with fried chicken and melon.”
Hearing Grandma Liu call Buddha, “I want a dozen chickens to go with it!”
When the problem comes, press Wang Xifeng Can the recipe be made? Someone really tried it, and the result was that the "eggplant" was not delicious. Mr. Deng Yunxiang, who personally tasted the "eggplant" in Beijing Red Mansion Banquet , said, "It's not the food in "Dream of Red Mansions" at all, but like 'Kung Pao Chicken with Roasted Eggplant'." Not eating, but aesthetics. Just like the Grand View Garden, even if it is rebuilt according to the map, it may not be the Grand View Garden. Baoyu was beaten and wanted to drink "little lotus leaf soup".
Wang Xifeng said: "The taste is not noble, but it's a bit gritty, and it's troublesome to make. With the fragrance of new lotus leaves, it's all thanks to this good soup. I took out a few chickens from the kitchen and added something else, and made a dozen. Come in a bowl. Why don’t you take advantage of the situation to make some for everyone to eat, and I’ll try something new too.”
To make this soup, you need a mold, a silver mold that is more than one foot long and one inch square, with pea-sized chrysanthemum and plum blossoms engraved on it , lotus pod, water chestnut, thirty or forty kinds, very delicate.
Aunt Xue expressed her "posture": "Your family has also thought about it, and you want this for a bowl of soup!" Her family is an imperial merchant, and she is considered a wealthy man, but in front of the lotus leaf lotus soup, she also changed into Grandma Liu in seconds. Baoyu went to see Baochai , and what he ate was bad goose palm duck letter and sour bamboo shoot soup, which is a common southern snack, very homely. The lotus leaf lotus pod soup takes the high-end literary and fresh route, focusing not on what to eat, but how to eat.
This is very aristocratic, the aristocrats even pay attention to Daiyu every step of the way, always caring. Because my mother said that "grandmother's house is different from other houses", people eat at a table, and the maids next to them are obsessed with whisking dust, rinsing bowls, and handkerchiefs, and they finish their meal in silence without a cough; The gatekeeper, and a bunch of sedan horses, Grandma Liu wanted to brush off her clothes, and walked to the corner door to talk.
pays attention to the extreme, even if the words are not good, the food is not good, and the eggplant has no eggplant taste.
People who don't have rich life experience can't write this kind of style.
I don't believe it, after forty chapters of reading, Gao E didn't contribute a decent dish. Daiyu , who was sick, ate "fire meat and cabbage soup", "rice porridge" and "five-spice kohlrabi" mixed with sesame oil and vinegar. Poor Daiyu also said it tasted good. A bowl of soup with a bowl of porridge and pickles is also contrary to common sense. This is a fundamental understanding of life.
also has never been rich, Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng is different.
He has a boundless love and curiosity for life. He enthusiastically wrote about eating, drinking, Ximenqing's banquet, Pan Jinlian's snacks. The eating and drinking men and women in his works are steaming hot, lively and fragrant.
Pan Jinlian asked someone to buy a jar of Jinhua wine, a pig's head and four hooves, and taught Laiwang's daughter-in-law Song Huilian to cook it. Song shaved and brushed the pig's head, mixed it with a large bowl of oil sauce, fennel and aniseed ingredients, and fixed it. Only one firewood is used, and it takes less than two hours to burn the skin and flesh. It is served with a ginger and garlic dish, served on a large ice tray, and brought over. haveWith this unique skill, Song Huilian will live in the hearts of many people.
looks so mouth watering. For such food, we really have no barriers. It can be seen that the taste of Chinese people has not changed for thousands of years. This snack cost five taels of silver. Ximen Qing’s secretary, Wen Xiucai, earned three taels of silver a month, and Chang Zhijie spent 35 taels of silver to buy a small courtyard.
But compared to Rongguo Mansion, it is still far behind. The pigeon eggs that Grandma Liu accidentally dropped on the ground cost one tael of silver each. Good guy, a plate of pigeon eggs in Rongguo Mansion can buy hundreds of pig heads! Spectacular!
In addition to Song Huilian brand pork head meat, Ximen's family often eats roast duck, fresh fish, young pigeons, nothing more than chicken, duck and fish meat, with a strong market atmosphere.
Once, Earl Ying and Xie Xida ordered seven bowls of noodles at Ximen Qing's house, served with garlic sauce and pork stew, which was very down-to-earth. "Pan Jinlian hit Sun Xue'e ", Ximenqing wanted to eat "lotus cake and whitebait soup" early.
Whitebait is said to be a famous delicacy since the Spring and Autumn Period, while lotus cake, which sounds very artistic, is just a common white flour pancake in the north.
That's right, Ximen Qing served pancakes, while Baoyu ate lotus leaf lotus soup.
lives elsewhere. Therefore, Qingwen asked Liu's sister-in-law to make "stir-fried artemisia gluten" to eat, Tanchun and Baochai discussed to eat "stir-fried wolfberry sprouts with oil and salt", and gave the kitchen another 500 yuan to make it; Xiangyun even roasted deer Meat, fat and powdery girls cut fishy and eat mutton, and Baoqin also joins in the fun. Daiyu has a weak stomach and can only be a crowd of onlookers.
Xue Pan got "such a thick, so long, pink and crispy fresh lotus root, such a big watermelon, such a long tail of fresh sturgeon, and such a big Siamese tribute cypress scented Siamese pig", and invited Baoyu to try it out , a new and strange picture.
Grandma Liu came to Jia’s house for the second time. Before she left, she ate and drank a load of things. All kinds of dried vegetables, gourd strips, we all like to eat them here.” This taste makes proper city dwellers yearn for farmhouse fun.
By the way, the green japonica rice is not ordinary white rice, it is a special offer. In Wang Zengqi's "Eight Thousand Years", it is written: "A store of late rice fragrant japonica - this kind of rice is specially used for cooking porridge. When the porridge is cooked, the rice is half an inch long, the color is light blue like Biluochun, and the fragrance is strong. It is Dongxiang Sanduo is a specialty product with low output and extremely high price.”
From here, the eating habits of “Dream of Red Mansions” tend to be southerly. What about the staple food of Ximen Qing's family? Generally pancakes, spring cakes and noodles, obviously northerners. Some people say that Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but I don't believe it.
"Jin Ping Mei" is steaming hot, cook according to the recipe inside, good quality and low price. Someone really sorted out the "Jin Ping Mei Diet Guide", which is said to be very operable. However, it is difficult to cook according to the delicacies in "Dream of Red Mansions". Not to mention eggplant and lotus leaf lotus pod soup, even the side dish "pepper oil and water shield sauce" that Mrs. Wang honored to Jiamu during the Mid-Autumn Festival can't be cooked.
Cao Gong wrote about eggplants, crabs, and lotus leaf lotus soup. He wrote about distant memories and nostalgia for a better life.
Just like Proust in "Remembrance of Things Past", the moment he tasted the "Petite Madeleine" cake, the past time came, and he thought of the garden of Swann's family, everything about Combray...
Snack Not just dim sum, eggplant is not just eggplant.
Reading "Jin Ping Mei" and watching them eat, what I saw was loneliness and the endless desire of the heavy flesh. Reading "A Dream of Red Mansions" and watching them eat, what you see is sadness, the prosperity, youth and love that will never return.
And Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng and Cao Xueqin , they write about eating, know how to eat, and have a passionate and desperate love for life in their bones.
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