A Dream of Red Mansions is no less important in the food industry than in literature and art, and almost every chapter has eating and drinking scenes. It was originally a book about life. Even the cakes and snacks of the nobles are very particular, and they are just a bunch:

1. Steamed sugar crispy? In the nineteenth chapter, I wrote that Baoyu's wet nurse ate this snack given to Baoyu by Jia Fei without authorization, which should be cheese with sugar and cream. Cheese is fermented milk, crisp is cream or cream, and the two are basically inseparable. There are many crisp cakes in the archives of the imperial dining room of the Qing Dynasty.

2.? Lotus leaf soup? Thirty-five times, Baoyu was beaten and wanted to eat. He put the prepared noodles in a silver mold and printed the pattern in China's year. "With the fragrance of new lotus leaves, it is all about good soup." The mold is beautiful, with plum blossoms, lotus leaves and water chestnuts on it, which is very wonderful. This snack can be said to have been similar in the Song Dynasty. There are plum blossom soup cakes in Shan Jia Qing Gong, so there are thirty or forty varieties.

3.? Jujube paste yam cake? As mentioned in the eleventh chapter, there were yam cakes, yam powder, rice flour and sugar mixed and steamed in the Ming Dynasty. Here, jujube paste and bean paste should be added.

4.? Sweet-scented osmanthus sugar steamed chestnut powder cake? See thirty-seven times. Chestnut cakes appeared very early. Chestnut cakes were sold in Lin 'an market in the Southern Song Dynasty. Chestnuts and glutinous rice flour were steamed with honey water. Originally made by Koreans, Jurchen is famous for its food.

5.? Lingfen cake, lotus root starch osmanthus sugar cake? Thirty-nine or forty-one times, it is made of water chestnut and lotus root starch.

6.? Crab dumplings? Forty-one times One of the common snacks in the south of the Yangtze River, there is also steamed dumplings with crab meat in autumn in Yangzhou, which is delicious.

7.? Cream-fried small noodles with various colors? Introduced in forty-one chapters, there are many colors, exquisite and varied. Fruits of various shapes are no strangers. In Lin 'an City in the Southern Song Dynasty, "all kinds of oil dishes, cakes, fruits ..." What is rare is that people are rich and all fried with cream.

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8. Ruyi cake? Fifty-three times, this name is not unfamiliar. Most ancient cakes were named after raw materials, such as honey cakes and milk cakes, and some were named after shapes, such as mirror cakes; Ruyi cake takes the meaning of Geely, and its appearance should be similar.

9.? Cream sponge roll crisp? Sixty-two times, a kind of butter roll, with cream and pine nuts in the middle as the inner pulp. The pastry outside should be similar to the egg tart skin, layer by layer.