A list of food in the garden
This was written by Yuan Mei, a famous writer in Qing Dynasty. The book is divided into 14 aspects: information list, warning list, seafood list, river fresh list, special animal list, miscellaneous animal list, feather family list, aquarium scale list, non-family scale list, miscellaneous vegetables list, small menu, dim sum list, rice porridge list and gourmet wine list.
Wake up the garden record
It was written by Li Hua-nan in Qing Dynasty and sorted by his son Li. It was named "Wake Up the Garden" because there was "Wake Up the Garden" at home. The book is divided into two volumes, and records the methods of making 120 kinds of spices, drinks and foods. The dishes collected in the book are mainly Jiangnan flavor and Sichuan local flavor.
Record of gourmet treasures
This is one of China's ancient books on diet, written in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Yu Zong, a native of Yuyao, was a devout believer in the Southern Song Dynasty. His official position was Huang Menlang, who was promoted to the son of the prince in the Southern Dynasties and later served as the minister of the ancestral temple. From 483 to 493, Emperor Wu was in power. Once the emperor asked him the secret of cooking, and the conversation was speculative. The emperor didn't feel drunk and was very uncomfortable. Yu Zong provided a "sober shark", which helped the emperor a lot.
Yu Zong's "Treasures of Foodstuffs" recorded the most precious cookware among the famous families in the Six Dynasties. For example, "Chef Yang-ti eats with a nine-toothed plate", "Xie Chuan has a soup method", "John can make a cherry with the same color", "Jinling's cold utensils bother Shili people" and so on. All these reflect the high achievements of China's ancient food culture.
Yiqing road
Qing Louis is a collection of essays written by Gu Tao in the Northern Song Dynasty, covering the period from Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Five Dynasties. The book includes 648 articles in 37 categories, including astronomy, geography and vegetation. Among them, there are 238 articles related to diet, including fruits, vegetables, poultry, animals, fish, wine, tea and glutinous rice, accounting for more than one third of the book. The characters have humorous entertainment style, which reflects the rich history of food culture in many ways. The book records the Sui Dynasty's "Xie Satire Food Classic" and the Tang Dynasty's "Burning Tail Food List", which is the only relatively complete food list that we can see today for the court and government of Sui and Tang Dynasties. Other cooking materials, such as fruits, vegetables, poultry, animals and fish, are valuable materials for studying the development of cooking technology.
Gourmet classic
Xie satirized Shi Jing in Sui Dynasty, which is one of the famous works in the history of food culture. This book records about 50 kinds of food in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty. Among them, there are pickled vegetables, soups, cakes, cakes, rolls, roasted noodles and cold food utensils, as well as dishes mainly made of animal raw materials, such as "flying twins", "plucked chicken" and "sliced fish soup". Judging from all the top scholars at present, such as "Northern Qi Rising to the Yangbian River", "Yue Guo Gong Broken Golden Rice", "Broken Wake", "Ace Sheep" and "Yuehua Rice with New Treatment in Spring" are all for nobles to drink. However, some people pay attention to all kinds of names, such as "thousands of gold broken cookies", "dry sesame cakes with pulp all over the sky" and "a handful of high-tech cakes packed in the altar", which reflects that drinking at that time has reached a very elegant and noble realm.
Ben Xin Zhai recipe
The author's signature is Chen Da of the Song Dynasty. Because the room is called Ben Xin Zhai, it is also called Ben Xin Weng. The author's self-report: I often sit around the study and ponder the Book of Changes. There is a plum blossom account beside the bed and I make tea with Shi Ding, so I advocate a light diet. A tourist from other places showed a hungry look on his face. The author asked extremely to serve a vegetarian meal. After the guests tasted it, they all said that there was no earthy smell. This book was formed when the host and guests were discussing recipes. All the 20 categories of vegetable foods are marked with vegetable class names, such as vegetable soup, leek, yam, bamboo shoots, lotus root, mung bean vermicelli, water-induced butterfly noodles, water polo, white rice and so on. There is a praise behind each category, which is concise and has sixteen words. There are also "small quotes" to explain its compilation method or reveal its characteristics. For example, "water polo" is made by adding powdered sugar and soaking it in fragrant soup. Zanwen is "Tuan Tuan powder, a little sugar cane paste, soaked in bath, sweet and fragrant." This narrative way shows that the author is rich in literary literacy, and because the praises used are simple, rhyme-like and easy to recite, it is easy to popularize.
Confessions of the Mountain Family
Shanjia Qing Palace is an important cooking work in the Southern Song Dynasty. The content takes vegetarianism as the core, including 104 kinds of foods that were circulated at that time, which are rich and colorful. In the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu had a poem: "The mountain family steamed chestnuts to keep them warm, and the wild rice shot new moose." In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin Hong wrote "Confessions of a Mountain Family", that is, the mountain family and the fat in Du Fu's poems, which means a light drink for the mountain family to entertain guests. There are two volumes in the book. The first volume lists 47 kinds of drinks, and the second volume lists 57 kinds of drinks. Description is mainly vegetarian dishes, but there are also a few meat dishes, such as rice, soup, soup, cake, porridge, cake, bacon, chicken, fish, crab and so on. Most of the materials are domestic vegetables, wild vegetables, flowers and fruits, grain, rice, and some are taken from birds, animals, fish and shrimp. Although the materials are ordinary, the wonderful cooking techniques also give people rich inspiration and reference. Many dishes are unique and unique, which can give people a glimpse of the level of cooking technology and art at that time.
Many books are diet drinks made from Chinese herbal medicines. For example, the article "Radish Noodles" is called: "Dr. Wang promised that he would often pound radish juice to find noodles to make cakes, saying that it could detoxify noodles." Ophiopogon japonicus soup is a pure medicine, and its name is: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, the roots are removed, the juice is mashed with honey, and the soup is cooked with silverware. If you simmer it, store it in a porcelain and take it with warm wine, it will benefit you. " This shows that it is a health drink made of pure drugs and honey. In a word, this book provides a good historical material for understanding the diet style of Jiangnan and the cooking history of the Southern Song Dynasty.