1. Poems about cakes

Hepu mooncakes in Su Dongpo’s poems Su Dongpo, one of the “Eight Masters of Classical Literature in the Tang and Song Dynasties” at that time, the Minister of Rites of the Song Dynasty and a scholar of Longtuge, lived in Hepu At that time (July-August of the third year of Yuanfu, that is, 1100), many good stories about food, clothing, transportation and housing were left behind, such as Dongpo Pavilion, Dongpo Well, Dongpo Pond, Dongpo Li, Dongpo Inkstone, Dongpo Pork, Dog Luo Luo Hua, Mingyue Bird, etc.

Some local specialties of Hepu were even praised by Mr. Dongpo. The poem "Lianzhou longan has a unique quality and taste, rivaling that of litchi" has long been familiar to the people of Zhuxiang. However, although Hepu mooncakes also received poetry praise from Mr. Dongpo, few people know about it.

In a poem titled "Farewell to Zhang Zuozang", Su Dongpo described Hepu mooncakes like this: They are made with beans and pigs and painted with Jin. The cookies are like chewing the moon, with crispy and sweet fillings in the middle.

Xuanzhi is from Hepu and recites Dongpo's poems. Fortunately, Zhenyijiu, "Drunk for Me" in Zongzi's poem is a small pig cage made of shrub strips. The cage contains piglet cakes with black beans as eyes. The piglet cakes are also painted with various colors. colors of paint.

This is the Hepu pig cake that Mr. Dongpo saw. It can be seen from the poem that the piggy cakes Mr. Dongpo saw in Hepu were almost the same as the piggy cakes in the Hepu Mid-Autumn Festival market today. There was no big difference. Therefore, it is said that there are many famous dishes directly related to him. There are more dishes named after them, such as "Dongpo elbow", "Dongpo tofu", "Dongpo jade grits", "Dongpo legs", "Dongpo sprouts", "Dongpo black carp", "Dongpo "Dongpo cake", "Dongpo crisp", "Dongpo bean curd", "Dongpo meat" and so on.

"Dongpo Collection" records: "Sichuan people value celery, buds, spinach and mixed dove meat for it." Spring dove breast is fried turtle dove breast shreds with celery.

Later called Dongpo Chunjiuwan. Su Shi liked mutton soup, so he wrote: "Qin cooks only mutton soup, while Long delicacies have bear wax." < /p>

The good pork in Huangzhou is as cheap as dirt. The rich will not eat it, but the poor will not know how to cook it.

If you get up in the morning, you will have two bowls. "Su Dongpo. Using his favorite bamboo shoots to cook with pork, at a gourmet party, Su Dongpo wrote a limerick in handwriting: "No bamboo makes people vulgar, no meat makes people thin, not vulgar but not thin, braised pork with bamboo shoots" ".

The delicious but poisonous pufferfish has also become his favorite delicacy. "A few peach blossoms outside the bamboo are a sign of the warmth of the spring river. The short reed buds on the ground are full of wormwood and artemisia, which is exactly what pufferfish is craving for." "Time" is a carefree seven-character quatrain, which also writes about bamboo shoots, fat ducks, wild vegetables, and puffer fish in spring. It can be said that one line is a delicacy.

"Autumn comes, frost and dew fill the east side of the garden, and the reeds bear children and mustards produce grandchildren. I am full of hatred, and I don't know why I eat chickens and pigs."

In his opinion, These vegetables are more delicious than the chicken, duck and fish. Fenghu was Su Dongpo's favorite place for picnics. He compared the vines growing by the lake here to the water shields in West Lake in Hangzhou: "There are vines in Fenghu, which seem to be rivaling the water shield soup."

Su Dongpo ate a ring cake made by an old woman, and couldn't help but write a poem: "The jade color is uniform when rubbed with delicate hands, and the tender yellow is deep when fried in green oil. When the night comes, spring sleeps and knows the weight, flattening the beautiful woman's entanglement Arm gold. ”

A mere 28 words outline the characteristics of the ring cake’s thinness, fresh color, and crispness, as well as the image of a beautiful woman’s ring. "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and glutinous rice in them." "When I go around the wheat fields to ask for wild shepherds, I force myself to cook mountain soup for the monks." "When the Yangtze River goes around Guoguo, I know the fish are beautiful, and the mountains with good bamboos feel the fragrance of bamboo shoots." "When will the bright moon come? "Ask the sky for wine", "I can't finish the cup, the taste is especially long when I'm half drunk", "I occasionally get the taste of wine, but I always hold the empty cup"

"It's okay to eat three hundred lychees a day." Born in Lingnan. "Su Shi loved drinking tea, and he often praised tea in his poems. "The two flags are new under the Baiyun Peak, and the greasy green is long and fresh in the spring of Grain Rain" describes the scenery of tea gardens in the mountains and plains outside Hangzhou.

"It has always been "Good tea is like a beautiful woman" and "I want to compare the West Lake to the West" in another poem were compiled into a famous couplet of teahouses and teahouses. Su Dongpo's poetry manuscripts include many good articles related to food, such as "Cai Geng" "Poetry", "Pork Eating Poems", "Bean Porridge", "Whale Walk" and the famous "Old Taoist Fu"

2. Lu You was a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, and he was also a good cook. Experts, in his poems, there are hundreds of poems about delicacies, "There is nothing meaningful in the world, how can I get jade clams and water shields?" This "jade clams" refers to what Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty praised as " "Jin Yu Yu" from "Southeast Delicious Food".

"Jin" refers to thinly sliced ??fish fillets; "Ji" refers to chopped pickles or pickles, also extended to "finely chopped". "Jin Yu" "荍" is made of frost-white seabass as the main ingredient, mixed with finely chopped golden cauliflower.

"Silk shield" is a soup made of shield flowers, which is also The famous dish of Wu. "The Sutuo offering in the sky is not the same as the hanging one." That is to say, the noodles made with scallion oil are the same as the Sutuo in the sky.

He wrote in "Mountain Living Food". The preface of "Mei Bu Rou Xi Zu" records the recipe of "sweet soup": "Make it with a mixture of water spinach, yam, taro, and cabbage, without adding fermented glutinous rice sauce, and cook it with the delicacies of the mountain chef."

"Poetry: "I always lived with a handful of thatch by the lake, and talked about the village wine and mountain delicacies.

Over the years, the sweet soup method was introduced, which made Wu Suan laugh at him. ""Buy pig bones at Dongmen, minced rice paste and some orange scallions.

The steamed chicken is the most famous, and the fish and turtles are even more beautiful. ""彘" means "pig", and "彘bone" means pork chops.

The ribs are cooked or dipped in sour sauce mixed with orange peel and other spices. In addition, the poem praises Sichuan's Chives, rice dumplings, soft-shell turtle soup and other foods.

“The vegetables are light and sweet after the frost, and the seedlings are tender and not green in spring. It's ready to be cooked after harvesting. There is no need to add half a baht of salt and cheese. "

He summed up the choice of vegetables without seasoning, and they tasted very fresh. "When I first visited Tang'an, I cooked barley, and the cooking was as good as the beautiful ones.

The whiteness, smoothness and fragrance of the barley, which is as big as amaranth (chicken head flesh) and as big as amaranth (chicken head meat), are as smooth as jade and slippery as a spoon and fills the house with fragrance." "Eating Porridge" 》: "Everyone in the world learns about the years, but they don't realize that the years are in the present."

I learned from Wanqiu (the name of the immortal) that I would only eat porridge to bring immortality to me. "The crispy seabass and wild rice are delicious in a spoonful, and the (Mai Qiao) cooked oil freshly made cakes are fragrant."

Since ancient times, great people have despised wealth and wealth, but fell in love with the local flavor and recalled their hometown. ""The color is like a jade version of cat head bamboo shoots, and the taste is as good as the hump of an oxtail orangutan."

"Xinjin has no yellow chives in the world, and the color is like goose yellow for more than three feet. "The mountains and rivers of the motherland are infinitely beautiful, and the elders in my hometown will not suffer from poverty." What day will the light clouds come out of Xiu? The taste will be as mellow as the local flavor. "

"When will I be full and my son will be the same, and I will fry Shi Ming's floating chamomile" "There are no plums to break in the warmth of the mountain, and only crabs in Jiangqing can hold it." ” 3. Poems of the Tang Dynasty.