Dietary Description in A Dream of Red Mansions

There are many food practices in A Dream of Red Mansions, and the most memorable one is eggplant:

Peel fresh eggplant, as long as the meat is clean, cut it into broken nails, fry it with chicken oil, then dry it with chicken breast, mushrooms, spices, cut all kinds of dried fruits into Queena Ding, dry it with chicken soup, mix it with sesame oil, seal it in a porcelain jar, and then take it out and mix it with fried chicken melon.