Cauliflower was popular in China as early as 2000 years ago, and it has continued to this day, and has developed. Cooking delicious food with chrysanthemum began with Qu Yuan's famous sentence "Drinking Mulan in the morning is dew. When you eat chrysanthemums at night, it is autumn. " Su Dongpo liked to use pine flowers as food in Song Dynasty. For example, in A Brief History of Wine, Su Dongpo got Songhua wine in Quyang when he was guarding Dingzhou. He steamed pine flowers, Sophora japonica flowers and apricot flowers in rice and sealed them for a few days to become wine. He wrote a wave of songs "Lao Fu": "A catty of birch flowers is indispensable. Don't fry eight or two catties of cattail pollen, five yuan for Sophora japonica and five yuan for apricot flowers. Two Jin of white honey are mashed together. Eating or bathing, red and white faces are old. " Described the beauty function of Songhua (as a tribute). Cixi of the Qing Dynasty cultivated herself and often ate flowers. After June every year, in the season when the lotus is in full bloom. After the red sun leaped over the horizon and the lotus bloomed, Cixi ordered the maids to pick the most complete and enchanting lotus flowers and bring them back to the chef. They soaked the plump petals in the starch paste mixed with eggs and chicken soup, and then fried them until they were golden and crisp as snacks. She also mashed roses, mixed them with brown sugar, processed them into a flower sauce with special ingredients, and applied them to pasta snacks, leaving a fragrance on the teeth and cheeks after eating. Because Empress Dowager Cixi often used flowers to extract essence for beauty, hairdressing and moisturizing, her skin became old and did not die. Eating flowers is good for bodybuilding. According to ancient medical books, people often eat chamomile, which can moisturize for a hundred days, turn white and black in one year, regenerate teeth after eating for two years, and turn an 80-year-old man into a child after eating for five years. The magical effect of edible flowers on moisturizing and blackening hair and anti-aging is fully revealed.
For bodybuilding: people can choose their diet according to local conditions. Common cauliflower includes fried magnolia petals, marinated peony, pumpkin flowers mixed noodles, steamed egg soup with flowers, fried fish fillets with chrysanthemum, boiled tofu with peony flowers, bean pod flower soup, Malanhua jiaozi and so on. These cauliflowers are brightly colored and delicious. Flowers can also be processed into cakes and porridge, such as Osmanthus Jelly, chrysanthemum cake, rose cake, lotus seed cake, plum blossom porridge, jasmine porridge, tortoise shell porridge, lily porridge and Sophora japonica porridge. And jasmine tea, rose wine and other drinks with special flavor make people feel mellow.
China has a vast territory and abundant resources, and flowers are in full bloom. There are many kinds of edible flowers, reaching more than 100. For example, wintersweet, magnolia, rose, rose, pear, locust, lily, hibiscus, plum blossom and other flowers. Just name eight famous dishes in China, including: dried scallops with sweet-scented osmanthus, jasmine chicken breast and hibiscus chicken slices; Fried chicken slices with white flowers in Shanghai, chestnut with orange blossom, chrysanthemum cake; Sweet-scented osmanthus balls and jasmine soup from Shandong cuisine: chrysanthemum bass and chrysanthemum dragon and phoenix bones from Guangdong; Among Sichuan cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine, there are sauce vinegar, jasmine bean curd, peony soup and so on. Is the most popular.
In the world, in addition to the custom of eating flowers in China, eating flowers abroad is also ancient and still popular, and eating flowers for fitness has become a new dietary trend. Japanese people who pay attention to "flower path", especially Tokyo girls, are even more so. Many restaurants in Tokyo have their own flowers and food. These flower foods mainly include hibiscus, roses, chrysanthemums, peony flowers, pansies, etc., which are dazzling and beautiful. These flowers are natural food. Japanese eat flowers to lose weight and keep fit. Mostly mixed with cold dishes, sprinkled on soup, or ground into sauce. In Japan, fried chrysanthemum is a famous dish, which uses chrysanthemum, platycodon grandiflorum, hibiscus and other flowers. The back of the flower is wrapped in a thin egg coat and fried in a pot to make a crispy and delicious meal. It is said that fried chrysanthemum is one of the dishes that Japanese athletes must eat all the year round. People in Caucasian mountainous areas, who have the reputation of "the hometown of longevity" in the world, must add calendula with a taste similar to lettuce when cooking mutton soup, grilled fish and other dishes, and the addition of calendula is one of the criteria for evaluating the quality of dishes. According to research, the Caucasus has become a world-famous longevity town, which is not unrelated to people's long-term consumption of marigold. In the United States, people like to eat lilies, roses, violets and other flowers as side dishes, and also make pies called international cuisine. British people like to use bonesetting flowers as fillers, Japanese people like to use acacia flowers, and Mediterranean countries use a gourd flower. In addition, Bulgarians and Turks like to eat rose sugar sauce. Persian chrysanthemum mixed with honey is a fashionable dessert at western banquets. The flowers commonly eaten in America are called cockscomb flowers. As a food crop, it is widely planted on major farms. In recent years, there has been a flower-eating craze in the United States. North, a California farmer, recently wrote a book "Cooking Guide for Edible Flowers", which sold very well after reprint. Many farms also open flower shops in major cities and sell their own flowers to restaurants and supermarkets. Although the price of a small bundle is as high as 15, it is still in short supply.
Why do people like flowers so much at all times and in all countries? "Delicious" has some truth, but it is not scientific. In recent years, after studying the chemical composition of flowers, scientists found that flowers contain almost all the nutrients in nature, including 16 ~ 22 kinds of amino acids, rich in protein, starch and fat, vitamins A, B, C, trace elements such as iron, magnesium, potassium and zinc, and antibacterial and antiviral substances. Disease-free food can strengthen the body. Food given to patients can cure diseases. Scientists' research on this subject provides a scientific basis for enriching flower varieties in various countries and benefiting mankind. What is particularly gratifying is that scientists have also made such a judgment that flowers may also contain highly effective bioactive substances that are beneficial and vital to human health.
Because of the discovery of this secret, many athletes in the Soviet Union began to eat a lot of flowers to improve their physical fitness. Help it maintain super endurance. In the sports circles of other countries, there has also been a "whirlwind of flowers blooming". Finnish track and field athletes have improved their performance after eating bread, cakes and drinks mixed with flowers.
People pay more and more attention to the benefits of flowers to human beings. May people vigorously develop green food-flower cake. Let the flowers bloom at the dinner table. It is pleasing to the eye and cultivates temperament, but it will also further exert great power for human health and longevity. Oriental health)