The people of the Song Dynasty should be the most proficient in eating, drinking and having fun in Chinese history. The catering industry in the Song Dynasty was also quite prosperous. The food culture of Bianjing recorded in "Tokyo Menghua Lu" occupies a large part of the content.
The "Shan Jia Qing Gong" written by Lin Hong, a scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty, records many delicacies of the Song Dynasty. "Shan Jia Qing Gong" roughly means "the light tea and light rice of the people in the mountains". The records in the book are all about the time when ingredients were easily available.
, dishes with simple cooking methods and light taste.
The names of the dishes recorded in "Shan Jia Qing Gong" are also very poetic, such as "Bijian Soup", which is a soup made with celery as raw material.
"Guanghan cake" is a cake made by sprinkling osmanthus flowers with licorice water and pounding rice into powder.
Among them, I think the most interesting dish is "Lianfang Fish Bun". Use relatively tender lotus root, peel off the bottom, scoop out the inner flesh without damaging the skin, and then add wine, sauce and
Fill the lotus chamber with fish marinated in spices, hold it with the shaved bottom, and put it into a steamer to steam until cooked.
The author Lin Hong, whose courtesy name is Longfa and whose nickname is Keshan, was a Jinshi during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting. He not only studied food, but also had attainments in gardens.
"Shan Jia Qing Gong" is not only a cookbook, it also records many poems, anecdotes and celebrity anecdotes. When reading, you can not only understand the food culture of the Song Dynasty, but also understand the interesting humanities of the Song Dynasty, which is also very interesting.