Yuan Mu's Menu of Eating with the Garden and Li Huanan's Record of Awakening the Garden are two great food works in ancient China, which have a far-reaching influence on the food culture in China. Bird's nest is recorded in detail in both books. Today, let's look at how the ancients made bird's nest.
Why does Suiyuan Food List have a profound influence on China's food culture? Because this book not only talks about what to cook (it's a recipe! ), but China ancient cooking technology combined with the chef's practice at that time, systematically sorted out and summarized it, upgraded it to theory, and directly established its academic status, while Yuan Mu also established its position as the first gourmet.
When Yuan Mu wrote about bird's nest, he first spoke out some popular bad habits and wrote about the mistakes in the popular bird's nest practice at that time: in order to enhance the aroma of food, previous chefs liked to cook a pot of lard first and pour it on the dishes before serving. Even the purest bird's nest has been defiled by this. ? Yuan eats a lot and not only vomits? Was the hungry ghost reincarnated in a previous life? .
Let's see how Yuan eats a lot of bird's nest! Soak the bird's nest before stewing. Now people soak their hair in pure water. Yuan Mu uses natural springs. What is natural spring water? It's rain. Fortunately, the environmental pollution in ancient times was not serious. If we put it aside now, boy, it's all acid rain. After the bird's nest is soaked, pick out the black silk with a silver needle. And after that? Roll up with tender chicken soup, good ham soup and new mushrooms and watch the bird's nest turn into jade. This thing is too clear and not greasy. ?
What Mr. Yuan Lao despises most is that many people stewed shredded chicken with bird's nest at that time, and even covered the bird's nest with meat, and then swallowed it to evaluate them? Beggars sell money, but they are poor? , it seems that Yuan Ning's black skill is also possible.
Fortunately, another book, Wake Up the Garden Record, was published later, otherwise the two would easily scold each other. Why? Yuan Mu is from Qiantang River, located in Suzhou and Hangzhou, with a light diet, but Li Huanan is really from Sichuan. Is Li's bird's nest practice really good? Sichuan? .
The foam of bird's nest is different, whether it's Mr. Yuan's. Melodramatic? It's still water in essence, but Li's is different. People add charcoal ash to boiling water. After the water quality became clear, they poured out the water and put the bird's nest in it. Even the moldy bird's nest will become clean. After all, it is equivalent to soaking in alkaline water.
As for the practice of bird's nest, it is the kind that Mr. Yuan doesn't like. Fill a bowl with shredded chicken and shredded pork, pour a few spoonfuls of rolling broth, pour the bird's nest with rolling broth, then put the bird's nest on the shredded pork, add sweet wine \ soybean oil to the deoiled broth, and finally mix with pepper. There is a second way to combine bird's nest with meatballs. This way of eating is really beyond people's imagination now!