There are countless delicious foods described in the book, including not only northern and southern cuisines, nutritious soups, but also various fruits, snacks, and drinks. , unimaginable.

For example, the eggplant dish is one of the most impressive. It appears in the section where Grandma Liu enters Rongguo Mansion to visit the Grand View Garden. It is intended to show that Rongfu has a profound heritage and its living conditions are extraordinary. People can imagine it.

Original text "Grandma Liu said in surprise: 'Really eggplant? I ate it for half a day in vain. My aunt will feed me more and chew this bite carefully.'" This dish has gone through dozens of processes and has long since disappeared. The original taste of eggplant was lost.

"Take off the skin of the eggplant you just picked, clean the meat, cut it into dices, fry it with chicken, then use the chicken breast meat and combine it with mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and five spices. Cut dried bean curd and various dried fruits into dices, simmer them with chicken soup, add sesame oil and mix with the vinegar, put it in a porcelain jar and seal it tightly. When you want to eat, take it out and mix it with fried chicken and melon. ."

This complicated recipe shocked Grandma Liu who came from the countryside. One dish was worth half of their family's living expenses.

Eating evaluation of Dream of Red Mansions

The dish of fat goose breast appears in Chapter 62. The Liu family sent a food box to Yihongyuan, which contained A dish of pickled rouge goose breast was eaten together with three other items. Fangguan felt that it was greasy, so he only ate a bowl of porridge and a piece of goose breast.

Eating goose meat has been mentioned many times in "A Dream of Red Mansions" because goose meat has a fresh and tender texture and a fresh and mellow taste.

It can be seen that in the Dream of Red Mansions, it is not only about eating, but also about dietary supplements. This link that ordinary people rarely pay attention to is not only fully reflected in the Jia family in the Dream of Red Mansions, but also implemented throughout. It also reflects part of the traditional Chinese medicine culture that permeates Dream of Red Mansions.