I. pigeon eggs
1, "Dream of Red Mansions" 40th time "Shi Taijun Two Banquets Grand View Garden" introduces Granny Liu's second visit to Jia's home. The maid brought the rice, and Li Wan brought a bowl and put it on Jia's desk. Feng picked out a bowl of pigeon eggs and put it on Granny Liu's desk. As soon as Grandma Jia said "please", Grandma Liu stood up and said loudly, "Lao Liu, Lao Liu eats like a cow and doesn't look up after eating an old sow."
(1) Introduce Li Wan, Jia Zheng, Mrs. Wang's eldest daughter-in-law, his wife, who lost her husband in her early years and raised her only son Jia Lan, as evidenced by poems:
Who is like an orchid after the spring breeze of peaches and plums bears fruit?
Like ice water, you are jealous in an empty space, and you play jokes on others in vain.
(2) Haitang Poetry Society calls itself "the old farmer in Xiang Tao", who is the person in charge of the altar, taking her sister-in-law and brother-in-law to recite poems, write lyrics and have fun talking about loneliness.
2. One tael of silver per pigeon eggs is very expensive. Grandpa Cao Xueqin's salary is only 120 a year. Pigeon eggs caters to the Qing Palace, and there are old files of the Qing Palace to check. Dove egg is one of the dietotherapy foods for Jia family to prolong life and keep youth forever.
Second, eggplant owl
1, A Dream of Red Mansions, 4 1
At the Grand View Garden Grandmother's banquet, she said, "On orders from Grandmother, Xifeng gave Granny Liu some eggplants to eat. Granny Liu ate it and said, "Don't tease me. That's the smell of eggplant. We don't have to grow food, we only grow eggplant." "
Eggplant is dried eggplant and the stem is dried fish. Cao Xueqin was born in Ding's family, and it is not surprising that he created one or two fresh and delicious foods. But the most famous food in the book is the "eggplant owl" that makes Grandma Liu stick out her tongue. Back to 4 1, Wang Xifeng described its practice in detail: "Peel the newly planted eggplant as long as it is clean, cut it into broken nails, fry it with chicken oil, then cut it into nails with chicken breast, fragrant mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced dried bean curd and various dried fruits, simmer it with chicken soup, collect sesame oil and mix it with bad oil. You can mix chicken when you eat. " Granny Liu shook her head and spat out her tongue. "My Buddha, it's strange to get a dozen chickens to match."
People in Jiafu may eat too much cholesterol, and eating more eggplant has many benefits.
It's hard to tell whether this dish really exists, which is exactly what the author said: "When it's fake, it's hard to tell whether it's true or not, and there's nothing to do."
Third, steamed duck with wine.
1, a dream of red mansions, back to 62
Fang Guan said that he was hungry and asked Liu Sao in the kitchen to bring food. "When he said this, I saw Liu Jiaguo send someone to send a box. Xiaoyan then opened it, and there was a bowl of shrimp ball chicken skin soup, a bowl of steamed duck with wine, a plate of rouge goose breast and a plate of four cream puffs? There is also a big bowl of steaming green fragrant rice and japonica rice. "
(1) Fang Guan: In order to welcome Jia Yuanchun's relatives, she bought a girl studying drama from the south, and was later assigned to Hongyi Academy to be Jia Baoyu's maid. Later, he also became a nun.
② Bad things in the south (fermented food)
Fermented rice wine is a kind of sweet rice wine, which is made of steamed glutinous rice (glutinous rice) mixed with wine yeast. In different areas of China, it is called fermented rice wine, rice wine, sweet wine, glutinous rice wine and distiller's grains. Distiller's grains food is a special product in the south, with a wide variety, delicious taste and lasting quality? It is even more precious to transport it to the north. At that time, the rulers were tired of eating delicacies, and they also liked to eat rotten dishes from the south to adjust their tastes. Ganlong went to Jiangnan six times? I enjoyed wine, beautiful women and delicious food, and brought it back to the chefs in the south, which attracted the delicious food in the south.
(3) This meal was eaten by Baoyu's "servant girl", Fangguan and Xiaoyan, and it tasted better than usual. He only ate a crispy roll and ordered Xiaoyan to dial half a bowl of rice, which was very sweet and delicious, reflecting Baoyu's equality between men and women. As long as girls are cute, regardless of grades, "daughters are made of water and men are made of mud. It's cool to see daughters and cool to see men. Distiller's grains duck is a tonic of Jiafu.
Fourth, lotus leaf lotus seed soup
The 35th episode of A Dream of Red Mansions 1 introduces the reasons why Baoyu was beaten: ① Jia Huan went to Jia Zheng's office to report Baoyu's attempt to rape Mrs. Wang's maid Jin Chuaner, which led him to commit suicide by throwing himself into the well.
(2) loyal to Wang Fu, obedient, asked Xiao Dan to give gifts to each other. Guan Qi (closely related to Baoyu) "Jia Zheng raised his big board and gnashed his teeth for thirty or forty times. It won't do any good if Baoyu is beaten black and blue, whole or broken. " Is it written that after Baoyu was beaten, Mrs. Jia, Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue all went to visit Baoyu? Ask Baoyu what he wants to eat. Baoyu is talking about lotus leaf soup Hearing this, Feng smiled and said, "The taste is not noble, but it is too abrasive." Baoyu coaxed Yuchun to taste "Little Lotus Leaf Lotus Seed Soup", but he didn't think so. He just asked Yuchun where it hurts. Showing Baoyu's guilt about the death of Jin Chuan. Tell Jin Chuan (Yu Chuan's sister) that when Baoyu molested him, Mrs. Wang saw it, hit him, scolded him and drove him out of Jia's house. Jinchuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the well in humiliation. Exposed the darkness of the Jia family and the viciousness of Mrs. Wang.
Five, chicken pith bamboo shoots
The seventy-fifth story in A Dream of Red Mansions tells that on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the two sons of Jia Mu sent several dishes to honor the old lady, and the only thing Jia Mu stayed to taste was a dish called chicken bone marrow and bamboo shoots. Chicken bone marrow bamboo shoots are southern dishes, stewed with chicken bone marrow and chicken soup. Bamboo shoots, the main ingredient, have been regarded as "treasures in dishes" since ancient times. Li Yu, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, praised bamboo shoots as "the first vegetarian product".
Grandma Jia loves to eat this kind of chicken marrow bamboo shoots, and so do the handsome guys and beautiful women in the Grand View Garden, because they know that bamboo shoots are indispensable for good skin.