From the 41st chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions", Sister Feng, on the order of Jia Mu, brought some eggplants to Grandma Liu to eat. Grandma Liu ate them and said: "Don't coax me, the eggplants have this taste." Come on, we don’t need to grow food anymore, we only grow eggplants.”
The recipe of this dish is introduced in detail in the book. Sister Feng explained to Grandma Liu: “Pick the vegetables. Remove the skin from the eggplant, just clean the flesh, cut it into dices, fry it with chicken, then use the chicken breast meat and mix it with mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced dried bean curd, and various dried fruits, all cut into dices. Simmer it with chicken soup, add sesame oil, and mix it with vinegar. Put it in a porcelain jar and seal it tightly. Take it out when you want to eat it, and mix it with fried chicken and melon."
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Eggplant is also known as Luosu, Kunlun melon, purple melon, etc. It belongs to the Solanaceae family and is an annual shrub-type herbaceous vegetable. Eggplant is sweet and cold in nature, non-toxic, and has the functions of dispersing blood, analgesic, astringent, hemostasis, diuresis, and detoxification. It contains a lot of vitamins. Eating more can increase the resistance of capillaries and prevent blood vessel rupture and bleeding. Eggplant can be cooked in a variety of dishes. "Geggie" uses eggplant as the main ingredient and is paired with various dried fruits, which is extremely nutritious. The finished dish tastes salty and fresh, with a rich aroma, slightly sweet, and bright color.
"Eggplant" is the most detailed dish in "A Dream of Red Mansions". After eating it, Grandma Liu said: "Don't coax me, the eggplant smells like this!" This illustrates this This is an unusual dish that everyone has seen and tasted before. "鲞" refers to dried fish cut open and dried, such as "beef fish", "bamboo shoot fish", etc., which are all dried into flakes pickled in vinegar. "Eggplant" is a dried eggplant cut into slices and marinated in vinegar.
Wind-pickled civet
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From the 75th chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions", Jia Mu first ordered herself to eat half of the food at the dinner table. A bowl of red rice porridge, "Give it to Brother Feng to eat"; he also pointed to a bowl of bamboo shoots and a plate of pickled civet cats, "Give it to Bie'er Baoyu and two", and a bowl of meat, "Give it to Lan Xiaozi" .
Made with melon kernels and pine pulp mooncakes
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From the 76th chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions": "Speaking, I will I ate a mooncake made with melon kernels and pine flesh, and ordered me to pour a large cup of hot wine. I gave it to the flute player, who ate it slowly and then played a fine tune."
Rock sugar bird's nest porridge
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From the 45th chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions"?
Steamed Crabs
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From Chapter 38 of "A Dream of Red Mansions"? Lin Xiaoxiang's Chrysanthemum Poem? Xue Hengwu's Satire and Crab Ode .
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Chicken marrow and bamboo shoots
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From Chapter 75 of "A Dream of Red Mansions"? A night banquet is a sign of sadness. Sound? A good prophecy for appreciating the new words of the Mid-Autumn Festival... Yuanyang pointed to those dishes and said: "I can't tell what these two are, but they are sent by the great master. This bowl is chicken marrow and bamboo shoots. It was brought here by the master from outside."
Cream puff pastry
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From Chapter 62 of "A Dream of Red Mansions"? Han Xiangyun Zui Mian. Shao Yaoyin? Sleepy Xiangling Qingjie Pomegranate Skirt... As he said that, I saw the Liu family's fruit sent someone to deliver a box. Xiaoyan then uncovered it. Inside was a bowl of shrimp ball and chicken skin soup, another bowl of steamed duck with fermented wine, a plate of pickled rouge goose breast, and a plate of four buttery pine pulp rolls, as well as a large bowl of hot Biyingying. Steamed green rice fragrant rice...
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Rouge goose breast
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From " "Dream of Red Mansions" Chapter 62? Han Xiangyun Zui Mian Spoon Medicine Yin? Sleepy Xiangling Qingjie Pomegranate Skirt said, I saw the fruit of the Liu family sent someone to deliver a box. Xiaoyan then uncovered it. Inside was a bowl of shrimp ball and chicken skin soup, another bowl of steamed duck with fermented wine, a plate of pickled rouge goose breast, and a plate of four buttery pine pulp rolls, as well as a large bowl of hot Biyingying. Steamed green rice and Japonica rice...
Chicken skin and shrimp ball soup
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Chapter 62? Han Xiangyun Drunken sleep with peony fungus, dull fragrant water chestnut and clear pomegranate skirt... Said, I saw the fruit from the Liu family sent someone to deliver a box. Xiaoyan then uncovered it. Inside was a bowl of shrimp ball and chicken skin soup, another bowl of steamed duck with fermented wine, a plate of pickled rouge goose breast, and a plate of four buttery pine pulp rolls, as well as a large bowl of hot Biyingying. Steamed green rice with fragrant rice...
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Chapter 49? Glazed world with white snow and red plums? Fat and fragrant baby cutting fishy and chewing mutton< /p>
Textual analysis
Venison is sweet and warm, has weak tonic properties, replenishes qi, strengthens muscles and bones, and regulates blood vessels. Roasted venison is paired with lettuce. It is both meat and vegetable and rich in nutrients. It is the best supplement for autumn and winter. Roasted venison is tender and delicious, full of aroma, not greasy, and arouses appetite.
Venison is a great tonic, so everyone in the Jia family of the Zhongmingding Food Family likes to eat venison, from their ancestor Jia Mu down to the servant wives. "Red Mansion Cuisine" includes "Stewed Venison" and "Braised Venison", both of which are better methods.
Pheasant Soup
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Mrs. Wang asked again: "Will you feel more peaceful now?" Jia Mu said: "It's a good day today. Yes. I tasted the pheasant rooster soup that you brought just now. It was quite tasty. I ate two more pieces of meat and I felt very satisfied.
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Pigeon eggs
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Li Wan brought a bowl and placed it on Jia Mu's table. Sister Feng chose one. A bowl of pigeon eggs was placed on Grandma Liu's table. When Jia Mu said "please", Grandma Liu stood up and said loudly: "Old Liu, Old Liu, eats as much as a cow. He can eat an old sow without raising his head. "(Chapter 40)
Steamed duck with fermented wine
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As he said that, Liu's fruit sent someone to deliver a box. Xiaoyan then uncovered it. Inside was a bowl of shrimp ball and chicken skin soup, another bowl of steamed duck with fermented wine, a plate of pickled rouge goose breast, and a plate of four creamy pine pulp rolls, as well as a large bowl of hot biying. Steamed green rice and Japonica rice (Chapter 62)
Bird's nest
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Bird's nest became a common delicacy of the royal family, and was often served with bird's nest. Chickens and ducks, the most popular ones are duck: bird's nest, autumn pear and duck hot pot, bird's nest and apple stewed duck hot pot, bird's nest and winter bamboo shoots braised duck hot pot, bird's nest duck with onion and pepper noodles, bird's nest duck with Huizhou meat in a ladle, bird's nest and pine nut steamed duck , red and white duck, bird's nest Bajixiang, bird's nest duck stewed with gluten, bird's nest vinegar smoked duck, bird's nest shredded duck. In addition, there are many wild duck, chicken, deer tail and bird's nest vegetables.
In "A Dream of Red Mansions". Chapter 14 writes about Qin Keqing's losses, Chapter 45 Baochai took her own bird's nests to persuade Daiyu to eat rock sugar bird's nest porridge because Daiyu had a cough, Chapter 87 Baoyu mourned Qingwen, After not having dinner and staying up all night, Xiren asked the kitchen to make bird's nest soup for Baoyu to eat. Yurui, a native of the Qing Dynasty, criticized "A Dream of Red Mansions" for "writing that food is always inseparable from bird's nests, which is too tacky." "In fact, some people think it is an unrealistic exaggeration. In fact, they do not understand the truth. The information was unknown to those who were not relatives of the emperor and favored by the palace at the time. No wonder some contemporary old men of Hongxue who came from gentry families in other provinces I don’t understand why so many delicacies in “A Dream of Red Mansions” include bird’s nests
Fried wolfberry sprouts with oil and salt
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The Liu family said hurriedly: “... The third girl and the girl Bao accidentally discussed about eating fried wolfberry sprouts with oil and salt, and now they sent a girl to me with 500 yuan, which made me laugh... (Chapter 61) < /p>
Milk Poria Cream
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Then he smiled and said: "... Only yesterday, an official from eastern Guangdong came to pay homage and gave me two small baskets. Poria cocos frost... This place has the most millennium pines and cypresses, so I took the semen of Poria cocos and mixed it with medicine. I don't know how to get this strange white frost. I said that I should mix it with human milk and take it for an hour every day. , the most nourishing thing; secondly, use milk; if not, boil it in plain water. We thought it would be just right for my nephew to eat..." (Chapter 60)
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Tofu skin buns
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Baoyu smiled and said: "Okay, it's too early." Because he asked Qingwen again: "Where am I today? There was a plate of tofu skin buns for breakfast. I thought you liked it, so I told Grandma Zhen that I would save it for dinner and asked someone to bring it over. Can you eat it? "(Chapter 8)
Quail
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Chapter 46 of "A Dream of Red Mansions" writes about Wang Xifeng persuading Mrs. I went to see the old lady (Jia Mu) and said, "When I came here, my aunt sent two cages of quails. I ordered them to fry them." This is the origin of the red dish "fried quails" origin. Because quail has nutritional value, it also plays an important role in the development of red vegetables.
Pheasant Melon Seeds
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The Snow Queen is written in the 49th chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions" "White snow and red plums in the glazed world, and the fragrant baby cuts the fishy smell and eats the mutton" Li Wan, Baoyu and others invited the newly arrived Xing Xiuyan, Xue Baoqin, Li Wen, Li Qi and others to gather at Lu Xueting to compose poems the next day. The next morning, Baoshan was impatient, so he only made a bowl of rice with tea, and hurriedly finished it with pheasant and melon seeds. Jia Mu said: "I know you are in love again today, and you don't even want to eat."
Pheasant melon seeds are a side dish similar to stir-fried diced chicken. "Tiao Ding Collection" of the Qing Dynasty says: "Pheasant melon: Peel the bones and cut into cubes, stir-fry with pickled melon, winter bamboo shoots, melon kernels, diced ginger, vegetable oil, sweet sauce or add pepper." This shows that the dish "Pheasant and Melon Seeds" was already very common in the Qing Dynasty and became a home-cooked dish in Hou Mengong's mansion.