The porridge mentioned in the dietotherapy of A Dream of Red Mansions includes Bijing porridge, glutinous rice porridge boiled with red dates, red rice porridge, bird's nest porridge, Laba porridge, duck porridge, Jiangmi porridge, green fragrant rice and white glutinous rice. Many ingredients of porridge are common, and the method is not complicated, so it can be used as a health food therapy for modern people.
Jiangmi porridge-warming stomach and nourishing qi
Jiangmi porridge is glutinous rice porridge, which is a common food. But Jiangmi porridge also has dietotherapy effect. Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Glutinous rice, glutinous rice and millet porridge can benefit qi, treat deficiency cold, diarrhea and stop vomiting." But people with sticky glutinous rice porridge, weak spleen and stomach and poor digestive function should not eat more.
Bird's nest porridge-the best in porridge.
Bird's nest is a nest formed by the saliva of swallows on the island, or the saliva of feathers, feathers, or the saliva of slender algae and soft plant fibers condensed in cliff holes. It is mainly distributed in Indonesia and Malay archipelago, and it is a precious tonic. Traditional Chinese medicine, as a medicine for nourishing lung and yin, is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and is mainly used to treat cough and hemoptysis caused by fatigue. Bird's nest porridge is a kind of medicated porridge, and its main function is medical treatment, not eating. "Essays on Health" lists it as the top product of porridge, and says: "Medical theory: nourishing the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, nourishing without stagnation, and cooking porridge lightly is effective."
Duck porridge and jujube porridge-a good tonic
Duck porridge and jujube porridge are very nourishing porridge. These two kinds of porridge are listed as domestic products in health essays. "Bird Classic" said: "White people are good, and black people are poisonous; Old people are good, young people are poisonous. Wild ducks are particularly beneficial to patients. " Jujube porridge, on the other hand, nourishes the temper, flattens the stomach, moistens the lungs and relieves cough, and nourishes the five internal organs. It is a hundred herbs.
Laba porridge-multiple colors
Laba porridge was very popular in Song Dynasty. Cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red Jiang Dou, peeled jujube paste, etc. , dyed with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and grapes. Laba porridge is very nutritious, but it takes time and effort, so it is only eaten on Laba Festival now.
The amber cup is tilted and slippery.
The method of lotus leaf porridge is the simplest and most interesting: wash a handful of rice, add four bowls of water and simmer in a clay pot. Don't cover it, put on a fresh lotus leaf. After ten minutes, the lotus leaf will soften and fall into the porridge, and then cover it with a lotus leaf. After three or four sheets, a basin of crystal clear lotus leaf porridge will appear in front of you, and lotus fragrance and rice fragrance will blend together harmoniously, making people relaxed and happy.
Jujube paste yam cake
(Ke Qing) Yesterday, the old lady gave me two pieces of jujube paste yam cakes. [the first time 1 1]
As a snack for nourishing and dietotherapy, it is a major feature of the diet of A Dream of Red Mansions. Snacks eaten by ordinary aristocratic families are not only delicious, sweet and delicious, but also beneficial to body nutrition. The yam cake stuffed with jujube paste belongs to this kind of nutritious and nourishing northern snack. "Ren Qinglei Copying Diet" is about its production method, which is to grind and mix yam powder, japonica rice powder and white sugar, and steam them with jujube paste stuffing, that is, yam cake with jujube paste stuffing.
Little feet
I brought two small boxes ... these boxes are as big as an inch of jiaozi. [Forty-first]
Jiaozi described in A Dream of Red Mansions is one of the refined snacks. At that time, the grandmother asked what kind of stuffing it was. It was crab's. It is conceivable that it tastes delicious. This jiaozi is exquisite and unique, with strong local characteristics. Today, this exquisite beauty can only be tasted in the shrimp dumplings of Guangdong dim sum.
Xiao noodles Guo
Brought two small boxes. When they are opened, there are two kinds in each box ... they are all kinds of small noodles fried with cream. [Forty-first]
Noodle fruit, also called Zhengguo, is one of the traditional snacks that northerners like to eat. The manufacturing method is also relatively simple. It is made of dough into various shapes of flowers, fruits and animals, and then fried. "A Dream of Red Mansions" describes the delicacy of flour fruit: "Granny Liu picked a peony flower, because she saw the flour fruit was exquisitely carved, so she smiled and said,' The cleverest sisters there can't make such paper. I love eating, but I can't bear to eat. I will wrap some homes into flowers. From Cao Xueqin's description, we really can't help but marvel at this exquisite and wonderful snack.
I saw a box of fruit sent by the Liu family, and Xiaoyan opened it later ... and a plate of four cream puffs. [Sixty-second]
Cream Crispy Roll is a kind of crisp cake, which is made of cream dough and pine nuts and baked for filling fruit. This is a typical Manchu traditional snack. In A Dream of Red Mansions, it is also called "the pith of pine nuts" (Chapter 19: "[Xiren] picked some pith of pine nuts, blew off the fine skin and gave it to Baoyu with a handkerchief." ); It is also called "goose fat roll" (the forty-first time: "Bring two small boxes. When they are opened, ... they are all loose goose fat rolls." ); Also called "chicken oil roll" (the 39th time: "This box was just sent by my uncle and wife ... chicken oil roll." )。 These last two kinds are probably shortcake snacks made of goose oil or chicken oil and flour. The crispy snacks eaten in the Grand View Garden are decorated with patterns of happiness, auspiciousness and longevity to show the meaning of auspiciousness and wealth.
I only ate the sugar-stained rose gravy. I ate half a bowl, but catkin was too greasy and not sweet. [Back to 34]
Rose is an erect deciduous shrub in Rosaceae, which is loved by people for its gorgeous flowers and rich aroma. In the Qing Dynasty, the cultivation of roses was very popular. There is a poem that says: "A thousand branches are born in a gap, just like red beans send acacia. Roses are named like the sea, just as every family is familiar. " Roses have many uses. Flowers are the raw materials for making wine, sugar, sauce, tea and essence. Flowers and roots can be used as medicine, which has the functions of regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and astringing. In China, processing roses into drinks has long been a folk custom. The rose brine in a dream of red mansions is a top-grade drink. The production method of "Rose halogen seeds" in "Eating and Drinking" is: remove stamens from fresh roses, mash petals into paste, remove astringent juice, add sugar to pickle, and store in porcelain. Wash at any time when drinking, and the fragrance is overflowing.
The little girl filled a bowl of Jianlian jujube soup with a small tea tray, and Baoyu took two sips. [Back to 52]
Lotus is a perennial aquatic herb. It blooms in summer and is red or white. After the flower withers, the receptacle forms a lotus, which is an endogenous fruit, that is, a lotus seed. Lotus root is regarded as the treasure of diet, which has the functions of appetizing, strengthening the spleen, nourishing and strengthening the body, and has always been regarded as a tonic. Jianlian is a lotus root produced in Jianning County, Fujian Province. It is stewed with red dates, rock sugar and a proper amount of water. Its taste is fragrant and refreshing, and its flavor is unique.
At the same time, I saw a bowl of ham and fresh bamboo shoot soup in the box and put it in front of Baoyu. [Back to 58]
This is a delicious soup with fresh bamboo shoots as the main raw material. Fresh bamboo shoots are bamboo shoots in Jiangnan. According to legend, Emperor Kangxi loved bamboo shoots and went to Jiangnan to eat tender bamboo shoots every spring. Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Yin, his wife and brother Xu Li all know this situation. They paid tribute to Beijing's "Yanlai Bamboo Shoots" many times in the later period of Ren Jiangning, Suzhou Weaving and the salt administration of the two Huai Dynasties. Yanlai bamboo shoots are tender bamboo shoots unearthed when swallows come, which are called Sun Yansun, that is, spring bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots are sweet and nutritious, and they are essential vegetables for cooking delicious food. Ham is rich in nutrition, and has the effects of tonifying kidney and stomach, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, stimulating appetite, strengthening bone marrow and strengthening foot strength. This dish is made of small pieces of ham with fresh bamboo shoots and rock sugar.
The little girl filled a bowl of Jianlian jujube soup with a small tea tray, and Baoyu took two sips. [Back to 52]
Lotus is a perennial aquatic herb. It blooms in summer and is red or white. After the flower withers, the receptacle forms a lotus, which is an endogenous fruit, that is, a lotus seed. Lotus root is regarded as the treasure of diet, which has the functions of appetizing, strengthening the spleen, nourishing and strengthening the body, and has always been regarded as a tonic. While Jian Lian was blessing, he saw a bowl of ham and fresh bamboo shoot soup in the box and hurriedly put it in front of Baoyu. [Back to 58]
This is a delicious soup with fresh bamboo shoots as the main raw material. Fresh bamboo shoots are bamboo shoots in Jiangnan. According to legend, Emperor Kangxi loved bamboo shoots and went to Jiangnan to eat tender bamboo shoots every spring. Cao Xueqin's grandfather Cao Yin, his wife and brother Xu Li all know this situation. They paid tribute to Beijing's "Yanlai Bamboo Shoots" many times in the later period of Ren Jiangning, Suzhou Weaving and the salt administration of the two Huai Dynasties. Yanlai bamboo shoots are tender bamboo shoots unearthed when swallows come, which are called Sun Yansun, that is, spring bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots are sweet and nutritious, and they are essential vegetables for cooking delicious food. Ham is rich in nutrition, and has the effects of tonifying kidney and stomach, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, stimulating appetite, strengthening bone marrow and strengthening foot strength. This dish is made of small pieces of ham with fresh bamboo shoots and rock sugar.
Lotus seed soup produced in Jianning county, with red dates and rock sugar, is stewed with appropriate amount of water, which is fragrant and refreshing with unique flavor.
(Zi Juan) "Just now I asked Xueyan to tell the kitchen to make a bowl of turkey cabbage soup for the girl." [Back to the eighty-seventh]
Fire meat is ham meat. Chinese cabbage, commonly known as green vegetables, is one of the main vegetables in China. Chinese cabbage contains a lot of vitamins, sugars and minerals, which is rich in nutrition, tender and easy to digest, and is known as "the first dish in the world". The meat and cabbage soup in a dream of red mansions is stewed with tender cabbage, ham slices, fresh mushrooms and mushrooms. With chicken soup, it tastes delicious.
I saw Liu sent someone to send a box of fruit ... and a bowl of shrimp balls and chicken skin soup. [Sixty-second]
Chicken skin soup is short for shark skin chicken soup. There is a record of shark skin chicken soup in the first place in the fourth volume of Yangzhou Original Boat Record. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sour bamboo shoots grow in southern Guangdong." Chicken soup stewed with sour bamboo shoots, shark skin diced, mushrooms, fresh mushrooms and fungus is sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup. Shrimp ball chicken skin soup, also known as shrimp ball, is made according to the following methods: "Use some fresh shrimp, add two or three pieces of egg white, add a little salt wine, mash it into a paste in a stone mortar, scoop it into a ball with a spoon, put it into a cauldron, then knead it into a ball, and steam it after the ball is cooked." Add seasoning to shark skin soup with chicken juice, that is, shrimp ball chicken skin soup. "
Xueyan holds a bowl of bird's nest soup and hands it to Zijuan. [Back to the eighty-third]
Bird's Nest, that is, Jin Siyan's Bird's Nest, is piled up on cliffs, arranged in disorder, and distributed in Indian and Malay Islands. It is a thin gray strip, soft and swells when it meets water. Its ingredients include saliva, mixed fine seaweed, soft plant fiber and so on. It is a very valuable dietary supplement. "Ren Qinglei Copy" has the practice of stewing bird's nest: "First blanch it with boiling water, remove the silver needle and black silk, and simmer it with tender chicken soup, good ham soup and new mushroom soup. Take the jade color as the degree, add shredded mushrooms, shredded bamboo shoots, squid belly and pheasant tender slices, and the taste is delicious and pleasant. "
Deer hunting and eating venison have long been fashionable in China. But only the Qing Dynasty paid the most attention to eating venison. It can also be said that paying attention to eating venison is a special social fashion in the diet of the Qing Dynasty. This is closely related to the rise of the Eight Banners and Banners in Qing Dynasty. Roasted venison is roasted venison, which is really delicious. Venison is roasted on the fire and smells delicious. It really has a different taste.
Stewed elbow with ham is now a famous dish in Zhenjiang and Yangzhou. The method is to stew ham hoof (upper waist peak) with fresh pig's trotters (elbows) and simmer in a vat. When eating, a pair of elbows hold the bowl, which is the so-called gold and silver hoof. If you add fungus, mushrooms and bamboo shoots, it will taste great.
"This bowl of bamboo shoots, this dish of wind-cured civet cats, Yuner and Baoyu are all going to eat," said Grandmother Jia. (75)
Civet cat, also known as oxtail or jade raccoon, is an animal that lives in the south. There is "Steamed civet with Pear Slices" in Volume 2, Part 2, Volume 4 of Yangzhou Painting Boat Record, which shows that it was very common to eat civet at that time. Wind-pickled civet is to fry civet meat, add salt, hang it in the wind to dry, and cook it when eating. Today, among the southern Cantonese dishes that "eat in Guangzhou", I'm afraid only civets can taste its delicacy.
Baoyu couldn't wait, so he made a bowl of rice with tea and swallowed it with pheasant and wax gourd. [Back to 49]
This is a game dish, and China's heritage of eating game can be traced back to thousands of years ago. In the Qing Dynasty, eating game became the fashion of people's diet. The practice of pheasant melon clam is mentioned in the book Diet: "Cut pheasant into long strips, add pickled melon, ginger, onion, dried bamboo shoots, water chestnut and shrimp skin, and fry them in balsamic oil."
I saw Liu sent someone to send a box of fruit ... and a bowl of steamed duck with wine. [Sixty-second]
This dish comes from the charming Jiangnan water town and has strong local characteristics. The preparation method is as follows: firstly, the duck is unhairing, disembowelled and washed; a cup of Jiangnan good wine, ham, kohlrabi, mushrooms, diced bamboo shoots, soy sauce and chopped green onion are put into the duck's belly; the duck is placed on a plate, and chicken soup is used externally: steamed in water. This dish is mellow and refreshing, with a special flavor.
Grandmother Jia smiled and said, "Give him some tomatoes." [Forty-first]
This is a unique dish in a dream of red mansions. When grandma Liu smiled and asked, "How did you get it?" Feng told her, "It's not difficult. You peel the eggplant that has just come down, as long as it is clean, cut it into pieces in Queena Ding and fry it with chicken. " Then use preserved chicken, mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced bean curd and dried fruits of various colors, cut into dices, simmer in chicken soup, collect sesame oil, mix well with bad oil, and seal in a porcelain jar. Take it out and stir-fry the chicken when you want to eat it. "