Foods and diseases mentioned in famous novels As many as possible

According to researchers, the 120-volume novel Dream of the Red Chamber depicts as many as 186 types of food. All these include nine categories of staple foods, snacks, dishes, condiments, beverages, fruits, tonic supplements, foreign foods, and toiletries. Among them, there are 11 kinds of staple food ingredients, 10 kinds of food, 17 kinds of snacks, 31 kinds of dish ingredients, 38 kinds of food, 8 kinds of condiments, 23 kinds of beverages, 30 kinds of fruits, 10 kinds of tonic and complementary food, 7 kinds of foreign food, and 4 kinds of toiletries. Some of these 186 kinds of food are written in detail, some are written slightly, some come out with the text, and some are carefully arranged, with a wide variety of names, exquisite.

Therapeutic "Dream of Red Mansions" mentioned congee and rice are Bi Japonica porridge, date boiled Japonica porridge, red rice porridge, bird's nest congee, Lapa congee, duck congee, river rice porridge, green beds of fragrant rice Japonica rice, white Japonica rice. Many of these congee ingredients are very common, the practice is not cumbersome, can be completely as a modern people's health food therapy.

River rice porridge - warm stomach gas

River rice porridge is glutinous rice porridge, which is common food. But Jiang rice porridge also has therapeutic functions. "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "glutinous rice, broomcorn millet, millet porridge, beneficial gas, treatment of cold, dysentery and vomiting." However, glutinous rice porridge sticky, weak spleen and stomach, poor digestion should not eat more.

Bird's nest porridge - porridge of the best

Bird's nest is the island of the swallow's saliva, or downy feathers mixed saliva, or slender seaweed, soft plant fibers mixed saliva congealed in the cliff holes and other places into the nest, mainly distributed in Indonesia, Malay Archipelago, is a valuable tonic. It is used in Chinese medicine to nourish the lungs and nourish the yin. It is flat in nature, sweet in taste, and is used as a main treatment for coughing and coughing up blood. Bird's Nest Porridge is a kind of medicinal porridge, the main function lies in the medical treatment, not in the fruit of the stomach. "Nutrition Essay" listed it as the top of the porridge, and cloud: "medical description: nourish the lung phlegm cough, complementary but not stagnant, porridge light food effective."

Duck porridge date porridge - nourishing good

Duck meat porridge and jujube porridge are very nourishing function of the porridge. "Nutritional Essay" classified these two porridge as the middle product. The "bird scripture" said: "white good, black poison; old good, tender poison. Mallard duck is especially beneficial to the sick." And jujube porridge nourishes the spleen qi, calm stomach qi, moisten the lungs to stop coughing, tonifying the five viscera, and a hundred medicines.

LaBa congee - colorful

LaBa congee in the Song Dynasty has been popular among the people. With yellow rice, white rice, rice, millet, rice, chestnuts, red beans, peeled jujube puree, etc., boiled in water, outside the use of dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnut, pine nuts and white sugar, brown sugar, grapes, in order to dye. Laha congee nutrition is very good, just time-consuming and laborious, so nowadays only eat Laha congee on Laha Festival.

Amber cup pouring lotus dew slippery

Lotus leaf congee practice is the most simple and interesting: a handful of rice, scrubbed clean, add four bowls of water, placed in a pot of slow simmering, not pot cover, instead of a fresh lotus leaf instead of it, ten minutes, the lotus leaf will be soft down into the porridge, and re-covered with a lotus leaf on it, so that three or four after a pot of crystalline green lotus leaf congee on the front of you, and the lotus leaf congee, the harmonious blend of the fragrance and the aroma of rice. The fragrance of lotus and rice harmoniously blended together, so that people can drink two or three bowls in one breath.

Jujube paste stuffed yam cake

(Keqing) Yesterday the old lady rewarded the date paste stuffed yam cake, I ate two pieces. [Eleventh]

As a tonic, therapeutic snacks are a major feature of the Dream of Red Mansions diet. Where the noble family to eat snacks are not only delicious, sweet and savory, but also to have the characteristics of nutritional benefits to the body to do. Date paste filling yam cake is this kind of nutritional benefits of the northern snacks. The Qing barnyard class copy - diet "talk about its method of preparation for the yam powder, round-grained polished rice, sugar and research, sandwiched between the date mud filling steamed, that is, date mud filling yam cake.

Small dumplings

And end of the two small cupped box,...... that box is the same as an inch to the size of the small dumplings. [The small dumplings depicted in "Dream of the Red Chamber"

are one of the refined snacks. At that time, Jia mother asked what filling, back to the crab, its flavor is conceivable. This small dumplings, delicate and chic, unique, with a strong local flavor. To this day, only in the Guangdong dim sum shrimp dumplings can taste this exquisite beauty

Small Noodle Fruit

And two small box, opened to see, each box of two kinds of,...... that is the same is the cream fried small noodle fruit of various colors. [Forty-one]

Noodle fruit is also called Qiaoguo, is one of the northern people like to eat traditional snacks. The production method is also relatively simple, with the dough molded in the form of various flowers, plants, fruits, animals, and then deep-fried into. The Dream of the Red Chamber describes the delicacy of the fruit as follows: "When Liu Lou Lou saw that the small fruit was exquisite, she chose a peony pattern and laughed and said, 'The most skillful sisters there can't hinge out such a paper. I love to eat it and I can't afford to eat it, so I'll pack up some home and make them a flower pattern.'' From Cao Xueqin's description of these, we really can not help but for this exquisite and beautiful snacks and applauded.

Only to see the Liu family's fruit sent a person to send a box, Xiaoyan proceeded to unveil,...... there is also a plate of four creamy pine-fleshed rolled pastry. [The first one is a cake made of cream and flour, plus a filling of pine nuts as the flesh of the baked pastry. It is a typical Manchu (Banner) traditional snack. In Dream of the Red Chamber, it is also referred to as "Pine Nut Pieces" (19th chapter: "[Assailant] took a few pine nuts, blew off the skin, and held them in a handkerchief to give them to Bao Yu"). Also known as "Pine Flesh Goose Oil Rolls" (The 41st time: "I also brought two small boxes, and when I opened them, ...... they were the same as the Pine Flesh Goose Oil Rolls"). Also known as "chicken oil rolls" (39th time: "In this box is the ...... chicken oil rolls that were sent by the uncle's wife."). The latter two are probably made of goose and oil, and the latter two are probably made of goose and oil. These last two are probably made of goose oil or chicken oil and noodles made of shortbread snacks. The Grand View Garden in the food roll pastry snacks more with the blessing, fortune, longevity pattern modeling, in order to signify auspicious, rich and noble meaning.

Only take the sugar pickled rose brine and eat, eat half a bowl, and smacked eating flotsam, not sweet. [The rose is an erect deciduous shrub of the Rosaceae family, loved for its colorful flowers and rich fragrance. By the Qing Dynasty, the cultivation of roses was already prevalent. There is a poem: "Ten million branches were born in the gap, just like red beans to send love. Roses are as famous as the sea, just when the family wine is ripe." Roses have a wide range of uses, the flowers are the raw material for brewing, sugar, sauce, tea and flavorings. Flowers and roots can be human medicine, have the role of qi, blood, astringent. In China's folklore has long been used for rose flower processing for beverage custom. Dream of the Red Chamber" in the rose halo is a kind of top quality drinks. The Qing barnyard class copy - diet" in the "rose brine" method: the fresh rose flower to remove the stamen, the petals pounded into a paste, and then go astringent juice, add sugar pickle, porcelain storage. Drinking at any time, the punch, fragrant.

The little girl then used a small tea tray to hold a covered bowl of Jianlian red dates child soup to, Baoyu drank two mouths. [Fifty-two]

Lotus, the scientific name of the lotus, is a perennial aquatic herbaceous plant. Summer bloom, light red or white, after the flowers, the receptacle to form a rosette, inside the fruit, that is, the lotus seed. Lotus root is regarded as a dietary treasure, with the function of appetizing and strengthening the spleen, nourishing and strengthening the body, and has always been known as a tonic. Jianlian is the lotus fruit produced in Jianning County, Fujian Province, with red dates, rock sugar, stewed with the right amount of water, its flavor is fragrant and refreshing, the flavor is unique.

On the one hand and look at the box but there is a bowl of ham and fresh bamboo shoots soup, busy end placed in front of the treasure jade. [

This is a fresh bamboo shoots as the main ingredient of the beautiful soup. Fresh bamboo shoots is the Jiangnan spring bamboo shoots. Legend has it that Emperor Kangxi loved spring bamboo shoots, every spring must eat Jiangnan bamboo shoots. Cao Xueqin grandfather Cao Yin and his wife and brother Li Xu understand this situation, they are in the late Jiangning, Suzhou weaving and salt government of the two Huai, there have been a number of times to Beijing tribute "Yan to bamboo shoots". Swallow to bamboo shoots that swallows come out of the ground when the shoots, called Yan bamboo shoots, also known as spring bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots are sweet and light in flavor, rich in nutrients, and an essential vegetable for cooking delicious dishes. Ham is rich in nutrients and has the effect of benefiting the kidneys, nourishing the stomach, generating fluids, increasing the appetite, fixing the bone marrow and strengthening the feet. This dish is a small piece of ham with fresh bamboo shoots, rock sugar and other stewed.

The little girl then used a small tea tray to hold a covered bowl of Jianlian red dates child soup to, Baoyu drank two mouthfuls. [52]

Lotus, scientific name lotus, is a perennial aquatic herbaceous plant. Summer bloom, light red or white, after the flowers, the receptacle to form a rosette, inside the fruit, that is, the lotus seed. Lotus root is regarded as a dietary delicacy, has the function of appetizer and spleen, nourishing and strengthening the body, has always been known as a tonic. Jianlian is a side of the blessing and look at the box but there is a bowl of ham and fresh bamboo shoots soup, busy end placed in front of the treasure jade. [58th]

This is a fresh bamboo shoots as the main ingredient of the beautiful soup. Fresh bamboo shoots is the Jiangnan spring bamboo shoots. Legend has it that Emperor Kangxi loved spring bamboo shoots, every spring must eat Jiangnan bamboo shoots. Cao Xueqin grandfather Cao Yin and his wife and brother Li Xu understand this situation, they are in the late Jiangning, Suzhou weaving and salt government of the two Huai, there have been a number of times to Beijing tribute "Yan to bamboo shoots". Swallow to bamboo shoots that swallows come out of the ground when the shoots, called Yan bamboo shoots, also known as spring bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots are sweet and light in flavor, rich in nutrients, and an essential vegetable for cooking delicious dishes. Ham is rich in nutrients and has the effect of benefiting the kidneys, nourishing the stomach, generating fluids, increasing the appetite, fixing the bone marrow and strengthening the feet. This dish is stewed with small pieces of ham with fresh bamboo shoots and rock sugar.

Jianning County, the production of lotus, plus red dates, rock sugar, with the right amount of water stewed, the flavor of its taste fragrant and refreshing, the flavor is unique.

(Zijuan) "Just now I told Xueyan to tell the kitchen to make a bowl of fire meat and cabbage soup for the girl." [87]

Fire meat is ham meat. Cabbage, commonly known as bok choy, is one of the main vegetables in China. Cabbage contains a lot of vitamins, sugar and minerals, rich in nutrients, and tender texture, easy to digest, known as "the world's first dish". The fire meat cabbage soup in "Dream of Red Mansions" is made with tender cabbage plus ham slices, fresh mushrooms, mushrooms, etc., simmered in chicken broth, and its flavor is incomparably fresh and delicious.

Only to see the Liu family's fruit sent a person sent a box to, ...... which is a bowl of shrimp balls chicken skin soup. [Sixty-two]

Chicken skin soup is short for chicken juice shark skin soup. "Yangzhou painting boat record" volume four, the first division of the first seat on the shark skin chicken juice soup. With chicken soup simmered with slices of sour bamboo shoots, shark skin diced, mushrooms, fresh mushrooms, fungus, etc. that is sour bamboo shoots chicken skin soup. Shrimp balls chicken skin soup, shrimp balls, also known as shrimp balls, "Qing Barnyard class copy" has a production method: "with a number of fresh shrimp, add egg white two or three, and then add a little salt and wine, into the stone mortar into a sauce, with a spoon, slightly into a ball, placed in a large pot, and then again, and then pinch, and the ball for the end, that is, steaming. Put into the chicken juice shark skin soup, with condiments, that is, shrimp balls chicken skin soup."

Xueyan held a bowl of bird's nest soup and handed it to Zijuan. [83]

Bird's nests are nests run by swiftlets, tired on cliffs, arranged in an unorganized manner, distributed in India and the Malay Archipelago. Its shape is gray-white thin strip, soaked in water is soft and swollen, its composition is the saliva of the swallow, mixed with fine seaweed, soft plant fibers, etc., is a very valuable edible tonic. The practice of simmering bird's nest in "Qing Barnyard Class Copy": "First soak it in boiling water, pick off the black threads of silver needles, simmer it in tender chicken soup, good ham soup, and new mushroom soup. To the degree of jade color, and then add shredded mushrooms, shredded bamboo shoot tips, crucian carp belly, pheasant tender slices, then the flavor is fresh and pleasant."

China has long had the custom of hunting deer and eating venison. But in various dynasties, but only the Qing Dynasty is the most concerned about eating venison; can also be said to be concerned about eating venison is the Qing Dynasty in the diet of the more special social customs. This is and the eight banners of the Qing dynasty, the rise of the Manchu flag has a close relationship. Roasted venison is roast venison, is indeed a taste of food, venison roasted on the fire, charred incense, it is really interesting.

Ham stewed elbow is now Zhenjiang, Yangzhou around the famous stewed gold and silver hooves. The method is to use ham hoof (on the waist peak) and fresh pig's hoof (elbow) together with stew, put in a vat simmering rotten. When serving a pair of elbows in a bowl, is the so-called gold and silver hooves. If you add to the fungus, mushrooms, tea shoots, the flavor is excellent.

(Jia mother) "This bowl of bamboo shoots and this plate of wind-pickled fruit beaver to the knitting, Baoyu two to eat." (Seventy-fifth]

The fruit civet, also known as the ox-tailed civet or jade-faced civet, is an animal that inhabits the south. Yangzhou painting boat record" volume four, the second minute two seats have "pear slices accompanied by steamed fruit civet", can be seen at that time to eat fruit civet is more common. The wind pickled beaver is the beaver meat after frying salt pickle, hanging when the wind at the air-drying, food and then steamed, today I am afraid that the beaver as a dish is only in the "food in Guangzhou" in the South of the Cantonese cuisine can taste its delicious flavor.

Baoyu but can not wait, only to take the tea soaked bowl of rice, on the pheasant melon finely chopped, busy swallowed. [Forty-nine]

This is a game dish, China's food game heritage can be traced back thousands of years ago. In the Qing Dynasty, it became the fashion of people's diet to use game meat as food. The Qing barnyard class copy - diet" in the pheasant melon finely chopped practice: "the pheasant meat cut into long strips, with soy sauce melon, ginger, scallion white, light bamboo shoots, diamond white, dried shrimp, fried in sesame oil that will become."

Only the fruit of the Liu family sent a box to ...... another bowl of steamed duck in wine. [Sixty-two]

This dish comes from the heavenly fun of the Jiangnan water town, with strong local characteristics. The system is the first duck to remove the hair and rifling wash, will be a cup of Jiangnan good wine, ham, cabbage, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, soy sauce, green onions, loaded into the duck belly, the duck placed on the plate, outside of the chicken broth: Steam through the water. This dish is mellow and refreshing, not a flavor.

Jia mother laughed: "You put the eggplant replica bags china some feed him." [

This is a very chic "Dream of the Red Chamber" dishes. When Liu Lou Lou laughs and asks, "What kind of method is it?" Phoenix told her, "It's not difficult, you just down the eggplant, peel the skin, as long as the net meat, cut into pieces of dices, fried with chicken oil; and then chicken breasts and fragrant mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, five spices tofu dry, various colors of dried fruit, are cut into dices, with chicken soup simmering dry, take the fragrant oil a collection, plus a mix of bad oil, held in a ceramic jar sealed tightly. To eat, take out, with fried chicken melon seeds a mix is."