Nineteenth Baoyu said Xiangyu story: the seventh day of the first month of Lunar New Year, the only rats to rise to the table, said, "tomorrow is Lapa, the world are boiled Lapa congee," Yun Yun.

The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, passed for the founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, so the temple to take the fragrance of the Valley and the fruit for Buddha, called Laha congee, also known as the Buddha congee, and then the folk also followed the custom. Ming and Qing dynasties, the sheng of Lapa congee. Liu Ruoyu "Ming Palace History" fire set recorded: December "the eighth day, eat Lahai congee, the first period of several days, will be broken jujube bubble soup, to the eighth morning, plus round-grained rice, white fruit, walnuts, chestnuts, diamonds, rice porridge, for the Buddha in front of the Holy, Households, garden trees, wells and stoves above the distribution of each. All families eat, or also give each other, boast exquisite also."

2. the south side of the bad things

Eighth, Baoyu boasted Ningfu Zhen sister-in-law's good goose palms, duck letter, Aunt Xue heard also took some of their own bad to taste with him. The fiftieth written tanchun personally poured warm wine served with Jia mother, Jia mother then drank a mouthful, asked: "What is that plate?" The people were busy holding over, back to say is bad quail.

Bad stuff is a specialty of the South, many varieties, delicious, durable and not deteriorate, transported to the North is more precious. Li Hsu served as Suzhou weavers, has also been tribute to the bad wild rice, bad sauce wild rice, see the forty-fourth year of Kangxi, forty-five years of Zaozuo. It can be seen that the feudal rulers at the time tired of eating the sea food at the same time also like to eat a different flavor of the south side of the bad things to spice up the taste.

3. oil and salt fried wolfberry buds

Sixty-first, the Liu family said: "a few days ago, the three girls and the treasure girl accidentally discussed to eat a oil and salt fried wolfberry buds to send a sister with five hundred dollars to me. I laughed and said that the two girls is the belly of the Maitreya Buddha, can not eat five hundred dollars, this three or twenty money, but also prepare for the up?

Press: Chinese wolfberry is most parts of our country have trailing shrubs, wolfberry and wolfberry leaves are available for medicinal purposes, especially the Ningxia wolfberry, is nourishing the kidney, moistening the lungs, tonic yin, Ming Ming purpose of the famous tonic. Wolfberry spring buds, taste bitter with sweet, can also be used as food.... Jiafu lords and wives, young masters and young ladies in the tired of eating mountain delicacies, fish and meat, and then thought of oil and salt fried wolfberry buds for a change of taste.

4. plum snowflake foreign sugar

45th, aseng wuyuan a mother-in-law, with an umbrella with a lamp, sent a large package of top grade bird's nests, and a package of clean powder plum snowflake foreign sugar, said ?quot;This is better than buying ......"

Press: Plum snowflake foreign sugar, to put it bluntly, is the Milky white sugar.

5. Cream fried small noodle fruit

Forty-first written by the Grand View Garden crowd to eat snacks. Maiden lifted two several to, but also served two small box. Uncovered to see, the box is the same as an inch big small dumplings, the same is the cream fried small noodles fruit. When Liu Lou Lou saw that the dumplings were exquisite, she chose one with a peony pattern and laughed, "The most skillful sisters there can't make such a paper dumpling. I love to eat it, but I can't afford to eat it, so I'll wrap up some family clouds and give them a flowery look."

By the way: Creamy fried small noodle fruits, when referring to the oil-crisp dough fried into the color of the flowery snacks, small and exquisite to please the young masters and young ladies in the rich family. With the garden food list - xiao beauty of dim sum" cloud: "Yi Zhen south door outside xiao beauty of the good production of dim sum, all steamed buns, cakes and dumplings, and so on, small and lovely, white as snow." Also, the Qing Dynasty Wild History of the Great View of the "addiction to noodles" article cloud: "Manchu addiction to noodles, not often addicted to rice, the types are very diverse, there are kang, steamed, fried, or made with sugar, or salt, or pepper, or do the dragon, butterfly, and flower-shaped." Jiafu's deep-fried noodles have "peony flower shape", when it is very fine.

6. Lotus Leaf Soup

Thirty-five wrote Jia mother and other to visit the beaten Bao Yu, Mrs. Wang asked: "What do you want to eat?" Baoyu laughed and said, "Rather, it is that the one time to do that small lotus leaves, small lotus seed soup is still better." The following article writes four pairs of silver molds for making soup, all more than a foot long, one inch square, chiseled with the size of a bean, also chrysanthemums, also plum blossoms, also lotus flowers, also diamonds, *** there are thirty to forty sorts of, playing a very delicate. Sister Feng told Aunt Xue said: "This is the old year to prepare meals, they think of the method. I do not know what to get some of the face print out, borrow some of the new lotus leaf fragrance, all rely on a good soup, in the end no fun, who often eat it!"

According to: here written lotus leaf soup, raw materials and method are not known, Cao Xueqin only write four exquisite silver mold, and said that this is the preparation of meals - the emperor ate, it is enough to aspire to. Presumably this is a kind of flour (perhaps which is also mixed with the juice of fresh flowers or fresh leaves) and even, shaped in the mold, with fresh lotus leaves, broth, for its light fragrance and appearance of exquisite.

7. Almond tea

54th written Lantern Festival Eve, Jia mother feel a little hungry, but want to eat some light, Phoenix busy: "and almond tea."

Press: almond tea is a delicious drink. Almond tea in Jiafu, the practice should be very sophisticated. According to the Qing Hao Yi line "sun book of the Hall" records, almond tea, also known as "apricot cheese", the method is: "take sweet almonds, water immersion, peeled, small mill fine, add water to stir thin, into the pot, with glutinous rice crumbs with the decoction, such as sorghum paste method. To the amount of sugar, feel free to grits into."

8. noodle tea

Seventy-five wrote You've washed up, and Li dandy, Baochai ate noodle tea.

By the way: Qing Fang Yuan - "Iron Boat Poetry. Wing Door food for haiku harmonic style" in the "tea - and fried noodles" sentence has a small note under the cloud: "fried noodles for mince, known as noodle tea." Today, there are still in the north of the noodle tea as a meal, the system, will be fried flour, let go of water and blend, slightly salt, for a thin porridge-like diet.

9. gluten tofu

Seventy-five, Mrs. Wang said: "Today I eat vegetarian, nothing else. Those gluten tofu old lady and not much love to eat, only to pick the same pepper oil Brunswick finely chopped sauce to."

Press: gluten and tofu is a common dish, but can be on the table of the House of Jia, when it is also extraordinary. Qing Liang Zhangjui, "Wanderlust" Volume IV has "tofu" and "gluten" article, described the refined gluten, tofu flavor. Such as "gluten" article cloud: "this vegetarian gluten, if you get a good chef refined, and tofu can be called the same as the best products, but cooking this difficult, but also with tofu. Yu in Guilin, the cook is the most refined this flavor, to pay the same person, not surprised as rare. ...... this thing since ancient times that is important, "Mengxi Bianchuan" cloud: "Where the iron of steel, such as the face of the tendons, Maundy all the soft side of the face plate is to see, steelmaking is also. The Notes of Lao Xuean (老學庵笔记) said, "Zhongshu was addicted to honey, and tofu and gluten were all impregnated with honey. Recently, there is also a method of making dried gluten in the "One Spot Record", which is also elegant and clear, and is not known to the common people." See gluten, tofu, although the rich and noble families also often eat.

10. dried grey strips of vegetables

Forty-two times, Ping'er said to Liu Lou Lou: "to the next year, you only sun that dried grey strips of vegetables and cowpeas, lentils, eggplants, gourd strips of all kinds of dried vegetables to bring some of our up and down here love to eat

dried grey strips of vegetables is a kind of wild vegetables, can be consumed as a vegetable, air-drying will become dried grey strips of vegetables. I want to think of Jiafu up and down tired of eating mountain delicacies, big fish and meat, but also want to strip dried vegetables, but also a strange thing.

11. Western wine

60, Fang Guan took a five-inch-high glass bottle. Welcome to shine, inside the small bottle of half a bottle of rouge juice, but also when it is Baoyu ate Western wine

Press: Tang poetry has "Pope Peach Wine Night Light Cup" of the language, but the Western wine is the beginning of the Qing dynasty from the import of European imports, but the church has it, the scholarly and Western missionaries who have dealings with occasional also try to think that the strange muse. Until the Yongzheng, Qianlong, foreign envoys still have into the red, yellow, white each incompetent wine, and the ministers of the ministers are also proud to get wine, Liu Tinggui "Gezhuang Poetry Notes", Chashenxing "Jingye Hall Poetry Collection" has a Western wine poems.

12. Buns with tofu skin

The eighth, Baoyu asked Qingwen said: "Today I had breakfast in that house, there is a dish of buns with tofu skin, I think you love to eat, and Zhenda Grandma said, only that I stayed for the night to eat, asked people to send over, you can eat it?"

According to: tofu skin buns seem to refer to the tofu wrapped in stuffing buns, the Qing dynasty imperial archives have this thing. With the garden food list. Tofu skin" cloud: "Wuhu Jingxiu monk will rot skin roll tube cut section, oil slightly sizzling, into the mushroom simmering rotten excellent, can not add chicken soup." Visible tofu skin for rolls or for buns, can replace flour. It is characterized by a thinner skin, eating mouth more fine, can be a vegetarian dish or snack

13. cinnamon sugar steamed new chestnut flour cake

Thirty-seven wrote the attacker sent the old Song mother Shi Xiangyun send two small pinch box to go, one of the inside is loaded with the red diamonds and chicken head of the two kinds of fresh fruits, a butterfly is a cinnamon sugar steamed new chestnut flour cake.

According to: chestnut cake in the Southern Song Dynasty, "the old story of Wulin" book, it is clear that the chestnut cake for a very early time. Qing Yuan Mei "with the garden food list" also has "chestnut cake" article cloud: "boil the chestnut very rotten, to pure glutinous flour with sugar for the cake steamed, on the addition of melon seeds, pine nuts, this Chrysanthemum snacks." Another cloud: "The new chestnut rotten cooking, pine nut flavor. Cooks refused to simmer rotten, so Jinling people have a lifetime without knowing its flavor." Jiafu with new chestnut cake with cinnamon, when the Department of the extremely elaborate delicacies.

14. Sugar steamed cheese

19th written Jia Fei gave sugar steamed cheese, Bao Yu ordered to stay with the attacker to eat. Later, Li ugly woman see the cover is cheese, take a spoon to eat. A girl said: "fast don't move, that is said to the attacker to stay" Li ugly woman heard and angry and ashamed, then said: "I do not believe that he is so bad. And not to mention that I ate a bowl of milk, is more valuable than this, it should be."

According to: From the context, it seems that the sugar-steamed cheese refers to milk. Milk at that time was a rare and expensive thing, not a common drink. Qing Dynasty Shen Tai like "Donghua Zuolu" said: "the market also has a market cow's milk, there are condensed as paste, the so-called cheese. Or decorated with melons of the genus, called the eight treasures, red, white, purple and green, colorful. Dissolve it like soup, then white as molasses, like boiling snow, the so-called you (i.e., milk) tea. Scorching you make hot, cooked roll for the slice, there are crispy skin, fire skin of the eye, real hawthorn, walnut, mixed with all the fruits, double roll ends, cut for inch, milk rolls also. The rest or condensed and modeled to mold, such as chess pieces, as a cake; or crumbs for the surface, the actual filling and biscuits, in fact, all the so-called pastry cheese only."