Chen wrote in "Shanghai Golden Branch and Jade Leaf" that a rich lady-the daughter of the boss of Shanghai Yongan Company-is a real golden branch and jade leaf, living in luxury since childhood and having many domestic slaves. After liberation, she stayed at home, and after many years of revolution, she went to the countryside to dig fish ponds and pick dung barrels. Over the years, things have changed, everything has changed, including the shape of her hands. However, she even wants to have afternoon tea! My family was swept away by revolutions again and again, and I was penniless. The electric oven for baking cakes has long since disappeared. What shall we do? She did it herself. She only used a aluminum pot to steam and bake on the coal stove, and skillfully baked a western-style cake without temperature control. In this way, for decades, she drank afternoon tea and ate homemade cakes, enjoying herself, forgetting adversity and quietly enjoying the happiness of the rest of her life.
Once, she took her daughter to Beijing to visit Kang Youwei's granddaughter, a classmate and friend of her own family. They all learned afternoon tea in Chinese and western girls' schools. A classmate and friend told her that she could eat toast without a toaster. As she spoke, she performed a stunt: slicing the bread, putting wires on the honeycomb coal stove, putting the bread slices on it and baking them gently on both sides. In a short time, she made delicious pieces of toast. While eating bread and toast, they didn't say much. They all knew that there might be a more difficult life waiting for them in the future.
No matter how hard it is! They can make western-style cakes with simple aluminum pot baking, and bake delicious bread and toast with simple coal stoves. Is there any unbearable suffering with such resilience and endurance? Sure enough, after the vicissitudes of life, this golden branch and jade leaf is still gentle and demure, like bathing in the spring breeze, and has never complained. There are two kinds of tenacity in the world. The first kind of fortitude is physical and physical fortitude, like Jiang Jie and Xu Yunfeng in the scum hole. The second strength is not in the body, but in the living habits, in good times and bad times, calmly adhere to a way of life, just like these two rich girls.
Jiang Taigong, Chief Gourmet of Yangcheng: After decades of ups and downs, he still insists on the word "eat". In the 1920s and 1930s, he led the Yangcheng food court, led the chefs and developed a series of Taishi dishes. The most luxurious thing here is Taishi snake soup.
Every autumn, three snakes are fat, which is a good season to eat Taishi snake soup. A Taishi snake soup is a big drama: besides snakes, there are civets and chickens, snakes represent dragons, civets represent tigers, and chickens are phoenixes, which just form the "Dragon, Tiger and Phoenix Conference". The protagonist is snake soup, and the focus of snake soup is soup. First, remove all the soup residues from the cooked soup, including the old hen, lean meat and ham. Then, take "Dragon Tiger Phoenix" as the main material, add dried abalone, sole, auricularia, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, ginger and dried tangerine peel, and shred everything. To avoid fishy smell, lemon leaves should be added. The old leaves of lemon leaves are too hard and tender to take. You should pick the immature ones, tear off the veins and cut your hair like that. To this end, the Chiang family specially planted several lemon trees. Chrysanthemum is also an indispensable role in seasoning. Jiang used chrysanthemums, and hired two gardeners to plant chrysanthemums and cook potted plants all the year round. Chrysanthemums should be cut short, poured into a basin full of water, washed, dipped in light salt water to prevent aphids, then cut off one by one with scissors and spread on snake soup noodles.
By the time we arrived in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Chiang family had declined. No one knows how Tai Shigong quit smoking, converted to Tantric Buddhism, gave up his life and forgot to die, and lived a prosperous life. But his grandchildren never saw his grandfather complain, and Tai Shigong quietly began to be a vegetarian. He likes vegetable soup best. Even if you drink soup, Mr. Jiang Taishi will not be casual. In the season of amaranth, he asked his family to pick the tender leaves, wash them, blanch them, cut them into pieces after cold water, put them in vegetarian soup, and add a layer of thin sauce to make them green and smooth. Winter melon is in season, cut into pieces and cook until cooked. Scrape it out slowly with a spoon, put it on a plate like a plate of white jade, and put it in vegetarian soup to become a plate of winter melon soup. If you don't make soup, cover fresh mushrooms, winter mushrooms, lotus seeds, dried straw mushrooms, cloud ears, elm ears, bamboo shoots and so on. Stewed with a whole piece of wax gourd and vegetarian soup for a long time, then served on the table and sprinkled with cordate telosma, it became a delicious dish with all colors and flavors, which Tai Shigong called "white jade hidden treasure".
As the saying goes, a clever woman can't cook without rice. However, there are exceptions in the Jiang family. Here, even simple ingredients can make delicious dishes. No matter how creative things change people and the rich and the poor, Tai Shigong is not chaotic and insists on food as always.
Sanmao has a saying: You can take my life, but you can't take my happiness. For some people, you can take my life, but you can't take my tongue!