The diet in the book is very subtle, which is different from the common eating methods in folk novels such as Jin Ping Mei, such as "Taizhou duck eggs in Hongdengdeng, king melons mixed with Liaodong golden shrimp, fried bones, bald, fat, dried and steamed chicken". Eating in a dream of red mansions is also subtle and elegant. Eat new, be smart and have style.
For example, after Baoyu was beaten by his father, Grandmother Jia, Xifeng and others all went to visit him. Baoyu coquetry mouth, proposed to eat "boiled lotus leaf, lotus soup." It turned out to be lotus leaf soup. Four pairs of silver molds for soup: more than one foot long and one inch square, engraved with beans, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms, lotus plums and water chestnuts. There are thirty or forty kinds of * * *, which are exquisite. Lotus leaf soup is a dish cooked with Jia, because it is too complicated, after all, it is not a home-cooked dish. Xifeng said to Aunt Xue, "I don't know what to print. I want to borrow the fragrance of new lotus leaves. All because of the good soup. It's boring after all. Who often eats! "
Lotus leaf soup is a seasonal dish in summer. It tastes fresh and has the smell of fresh lotus leaves. Jia's home cooking style also uses "borrowing flavor" incisively and vividly. The most famous one is the eggplant that Grandma Liu has eaten.
Granny Liu, the banker, ate Jiafu's "eggplant" for the first time, but she couldn't believe it was the eggplant she saw in the field every day. She tasted it carefully before getting a hint of eggplant. Not because her tongue doesn't work, but how to cook this dish:
"New eggplant, peeled, as long as the net meat, cut into broken nails, fried with chicken oil, and then with chicken breast and fragrant bacteria, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced dried fruits, cut into nails, simmered with chicken soup, a closed sesame oil, and mixed bad oil, put it in a magnetic jar and seal it. When you want to eat, take it out and mix it with fried chicken and melon. "
Eggplant is still an ordinary eggplant, and a famous dish is made by borrowing the umami flavor of chicken. No wonder granny Liu said with emotion, "My Buddha! I want a dozen chickens with him. What a strange smell! "
When I was a child, I saw Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts works. I almost forgot all the martial arts moves in the book, only the dishes inside. In "The Condor Heroes", Hong Qigong and Ouyang Feng fought fiercely at the peak of Huashan Mountain for several days, during which they boiled centipedes in snow, which was very fresh and tender and shared with Yang Guo. Although Hong Qigong is the leader of the Beggars' Sect, he is a gourmet. In The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Huang Rong tried his best to please him and cooked many exquisite dishes.
Among them, Moonlit Night on Twenty-four Bridges is the most popular. It is a tofu dish with this elegant name. "That tofu is no small matter. First, cut a ham open, dig 24 round holes, cut tofu into 24 small balls and put them in the holes, tie the ham and steam it. When steamed, the umami flavor of the ham was in the tofu, but the ham was discarded. " In this way, tofu has the flavor of ham, but it is more tender and delicious.
The so-called "the beauty of food lies in taste, and the beauty of taste lies in tune", and borrowing taste is the usual cooking method. Although vegetarian dishes such as tofu and auricularia are of high nutritional value, they taste very weak and it is boring to eat alone. It is said that a real chef can make the most delicious meals with the simplest and most common ingredients and show exquisiteness in ordinary places.
It can be seen that the real delicacy lies not in how precious and rare the ingredients are, but in the cooking method. A chef who can perfectly use "borrowing flavor" can naturally make the most common vegetarian dishes make the diners' index fingers move.
Huang Rong smiled and said, "Qigong, you haven't eaten my best dish yet." Hong Qigong was pleasantly surprised and asked, "What dish? What dish? " Huang Rong said, "I can't say it for a while, such as burning cabbage, steaming tofu, stewing eggs, cutting meat in white ..."
My heart yearns for it.