Food in Rongguo Mansion丨Misunderstanding of Red Mansion No. 33 2015-02-25 10:10 Taste is often our guide, taking us back to the past.

The cookie that accidentally fell into the tea in "In Search of Lost Time" activated all the author's memories. His old days are hidden in this subtle taste. When the cookie fell unexpectedly, it got

An opportunity for release.

So that man described those flavors with meticulous meticulousness, such as crab, venison, and tea made from snow water, bringing out the sounds, faces, and faces that overlapped with the flavors. His brushstrokes turned into a high-definition camera.

, slowly cruising, turning, hesitating, and stopping, even in the dark night, you will not miss a single thing.

These seemingly irrelevant details were like gravel in a puddle. He stepped on them and moved forward step by step.

It is said that some people who read "Dream of Red Mansions" only love to watch those who eat. However, this is not the case. Among the classical novels, it is the most interesting book about eating.

The food in "Water Margin" is the most monotonous, with two kilograms of beef at every turn, and Song Jiang likes to drink a bowl of fresh fish soup. Unfortunately, this gangster has a bad stomach, and a few mouthfuls of fish that he had eaten overnight made him feel upset.

The little girl Zhu Bi said: In "Journey to the West", all the monks can only make a fuss about the fruit vegetarian diet. What caused Sun Wukong to get into trouble was the flat peach and the ginseng fruit. Now there are two fruits with this name on the market. The ginseng fruit is out of stock.

It was unexpectedly bland and tasteless. The flat peach tasted okay, but it was flat and not at all like the rosy and plump appearance in the picture on TV. In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", all heroes are not very particular about food and sex. As a casual writing

Across the way, the green plums and wine used in green plum cooking are just props, just to make the three words "On Heroes" more sonorous.

None of the other three masterpieces can compare with "Dream of Red Mansions". I read it several times in the middle of the night. I was so hungry that I had to get up, but the refrigerator was empty, so I had to open a bag of small green peppers to replenish the quantity.

1. Is it really that delicious? Mr. Cao has a thing for making ordinary things fascinating.

For example, Sister-in-law Liu made a set meal of two dishes, one soup and dessert for Fangguandan: a bowl of shrimp ball and chicken skin soup, a bowl of steamed duck with fermented wine, a plate of pickled rouge goose breast, and a plate of four cream pine pulp rolls.

Crispy, and a bowl of hot green rice with fragrant green rice stalks. The description alone makes people appetite, and the color is beautiful. The rouge goose breast is paired with green rice, which is delicious and goes well with rice.

This kind of green stem rice is often eaten in "Dream of Red Mansions", but it is rarely seen in the market. I saw it in a supermarket in Vietnam. A small box of half a catty cost about five yuan. It was dry and flat.

Daxiang could make "green" rice, but for the sake of a knot, he still put it in the basket. Later, when he went to the counter to check out, he realistically remembered that he had bought too many things along the way, and he added this half

The green rice packed in pounds was put down again because I was afraid that it would be difficult to hold it.

In addition to green rice, Rongguofu also ate red rice, which is probably the red glutinous rice in supermarkets today. But at that time, it seemed to be rarer than green rice. Not only was it specially used to make porridge, Jia Mu only ate half a bowl.

Then he ordered it to be sent to Sister Feng. Sister Feng may not have such a special case. Of course, it may also be that Rongguofu's family has declined and red glutinous rice has become more valuable.

At the same time, he also gave Baoyu and Daiyu two bowls of food. One of them was terrible. It was dried civet. I didn’t know how delicious it was before. After the SARS incident, I couldn’t help but “talk about civet.”

The visitor's taste buds are also controlled by consciousness.

Compared with green rice and red rice, white stem rice seems to be inferior, but in Chapter 75, the Jia family's situation worsened, and even white stem rice could not be supplied normally.

You went to Jia's mother to say hello. The first bowl was white stem rice. Before she could finish it, the waiter gave her a bowl of rice from the servants. This small detail reflected that You was not respected.

Even Jia Mu found the situation outrageous and asked someone to bring the third girl's food. The timid Youshi refused to make too much noise and quickly said to herself, "This is enough." Yuanyang said, "You are enough."

Now, I can’t eat it?

On the surface, he seemed to be contradicting Youshi, but there was pity in his harsh tone. It was bleak enough that Youshi had gotten so far that a maid could pity him.

However, I would rather eat "servant's rice". The rice made from stem rice is too glutinous and will get boring after just a few mouthfuls. It is also not suitable for soups and vegetables. The rice grains stick together and are not easy to taste.

Add some sugar and it will look like rice dumplings. No family will eat rice dumplings all day long.

Many delicacies in Rongguo Mansion have this characteristic, the form is greater than the content, such as the eggplant fish, a dozen chickens, many processes, I heard Grandma Liu chanting Buddha, but it is said that some good people cooked it the same way, and the taste was not satisfactory.

Even Sister Feng admits that the "teeth-grinding" little lotus leaf lotus soup is boring, but it is made so solemnly that you are embarrassed to look down upon it.

There are also some foods that are simply named. For example, in the forty-fifth chapter, Baochai sent someone to deliver bird's nests to Daiyu. By the way, he also sent a pack of cleansing powder, plum slices, and snowflake candy. Listen to the name, cleansing powder plus plum slices.

Add snowflakes and sugar, and it's quite tempting, although I haven't figured out what it is yet.