In his masterpiece A Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin gave a detailed and vivid description of the food life of the aristocratic family in Jiafu, including 36 kinds of snacks, drinks and staple foods, and 58 kinds of dishes, forming a complete and unique recipe for the Red Chamber.
1. Delicious eggplant?
From the 41th episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, at the orders of the Grandmother Jia, Xi-feng brought some eggplant to Granny Liu to eat. Granny Liu ate it and said, "Don't kid me, the eggplant smells like this. We don't need to grow food, we just grow eggplant." ? The practice of this dish is introduced in detail in the book. Xifeng explained to Grandma Liu: "Remove the skin from the eggplant that has just been picked, as long as the meat is clean, cut into pieces of Queena Ding, fried with chicken oil, and then cut into Queena Ding with chicken breast meat, fragrant bacteria, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced dried fruits and various dried fruits, simmer with chicken soup, and collect the sesame oil, plus mixed with bad oil. Granny Liu kept chanting Buddha. ?
2. Fried quail?
In the 46th story of A Dream of Red Mansions, Wang Xifeng advised Mrs. Xing not to go to the old lady (Jia Mu) because the old gentleman (Jia She) wanted to marry Yuanyang, and finally said, "Just when I arrived, my aunt sent two cages of quails, and I told them to fry them." This is the origin of the red dish "fried quail". Because quail has the value of food supplement, it also plays an important role in the development of red vegetables. ?
3. pigeon eggs?
Li Wan brought a bowl and put it on Grandmother Jia's table. Xi Feng picked out a bowl of pigeon eggs and put it on Granny Liu's desk. When Grandmother Jia said "please", Grandma Liu stood up and said loudly, "Lao Liu, Lao Liu, you eat like an ox, and you won't look up after eating an old sow." (the 41th time)?
4. Bad goose web duck letter?
Baoyu asked, "Is it snowing?" "It's been snowing for half a day," said the underground wives. ..... Aunt Xue has put some fine tea fruits here to keep them for tea. Baoyu praised the bad goose's goose's feet and duck's letter from his sister-in-law Jane in that house the day before yesterday. Aunt Xue listened, and she was busy taking some of her own bad ones to taste with him. Baoyu smiled and said, "This one needs wine." (the eighth time)?
5. Pheasant melon seeds?
In the 49th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, Li Wan, Baoyu and other new arrivals, such as Xing Xiuyan, Xue Baoqin, Li Wen and Li Qi, were invited to write poems at Luxue Pavilion the next day. The next morning, because of his impatience, Baoshan only made a bowl of rice with tea and ate it with pheasant seeds. Grandmother Jia said, "I know you are in love again today, and you don't even want to eat." This is a game dish. In the Qing dynasty, it became the fashion of people's diet to eat wild game. The practice of this dish is mentioned in "Qing barnyard grass banknote diet": "Cut the wild chicken into long strips, add pickles, ginger, scallion and dried shrimp, and fry with sesame oil."