There was a saying before that once you enter the palace, the door is as deep as the sea. After entering the palace, if the objects win the favor of the young masters again, the sound price is extraordinary. Fuling cake is one of Empress Dowager Cixi's favorite foods for nourishing skin and moistening skin, and the food that she has appreciated is also famous for generations.
According to the Records of Huanyuan in the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi often ordered the imperial kitchens to make tuckahoe cakes for health care and beauty, and often used them to reward ministers during festivals.
In the sixtieth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, it was because of a pack of "Poria cocos cream" that the whole Grand View Garden was boiling. Also, Guangdong officials wanted to see Jia Zheng when they went to Rongguo Mansion in Beijing, but the gift they brought was actually three baskets of poria cocos cream.
However, from A Dream of Red Mansions, we can see the origin and eating method of Poria cocos cream: "This place has the most pines and cypresses for thousands of years, so I only took the semen and medicine of Poria cocos, and I don't know how to make this strange white cream." It is said that the first person is to use breast milk, eat a cup every morning, the most tonic, and the second one is to use milk, never, or boil white water. "
Poria cocos is a strange plant, a fungus parasitic between the roots of pine trees. The ancients thought Poria cocos was a magical thing transformed from the essence of pine trees. Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "There are many poria cocos under the green pine".
At this point in the story, it's time to talk about how Poria came to beauty beauty. Poria cocos can maintain beauty, and its magical effect is recorded in ancient books.
In ancient books, there is a processing method of poria cocos dew, which is to peel fresh poria cocos, grind it into pulp, and sun it into white powder, and it is as white as frost. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen recorded a secret recipe of keeping young in Compendium of Materia Medica: use wine to stain Poria cocos, and eclipse one piece for a hundred days, so that the body will be moist, prolong the life, and look like a child.
It is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica: "Poria cocos is the end, and it is mixed with honey. It is applied to treat facial sores and black blisters of lying-in women, such as bird eggs." It can be seen that Poria cocos has been a sacred product to remove dark spots and dullness from skin since ancient times.
Poria cocos has many beauty beauty's recipes: mix poria cocos powder with yogurt and apply it to the face, or boil poria cocos with a little water to make a thick juice, soak it in compressed facial mask paper and apply it to the face for a week, which will have obvious effects.
White vinegar and poria powder are mixed with vinegar to make a paste. After cleaning the face, apply it evenly on the face. The spots can be applied thicker, and a layer of wet paper film can be applied outside, about 20 minutes or so, three times a week. The effect of whitening spots and removing acne marks is obvious.
In addition, it is best to use fine poria powder, add milk, cucumber juice, egg white, etc. to make a mask, and you can also use poria cocos to decoct your face with water to achieve freckle removal. It is simple and convenient, and the effect is excellent.
Poria cocos powder is very easy to buy. You can buy it in supermarkets where there is ground grain powder. You can cook porridge, make cakes, steam cakes, or apply it externally as a mask. It is called "strange white cream" in A Dream of Red Mansions, and the whitening strength is good.
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Ingredients: 300g of flour, 30g of Poria cocos powder, 3g of dried osmanthus fragrans and 300g of milk.
Seasoning: 3 grams of yeast powder and 30 grams of sugar.
Practice: 1.
2. Mix Poria powder, flour, yeast powder and sugar.
3. Add osmanthus and milk.
4. Mix into a thick batter.
5. Grease the middle and bottom of the mold and around it, and pour in the batter.
6. Put the batter in a warm place and ferment it to twice its size.
7. Put it in a steamer and steam for 25 minutes after the water is boiled.
Kitchen whisper: You can also sprinkle some dried fruit in the cake.