I'm a bowl in the small kitchen of Daguanyuan, and I chat with other pots and pans when I'm bored. The content of the chat is just a short time for parents, who is here today and who will leave tomorrow, who is sad and who is proud.
Or maybe these things are longer than human beings, and there is no friendship. After watching it for a long time, I feel that although people's affairs are changeable and complicated, the rise and fall of success and failure cannot escape the joys, sorrows and sorrows after all.
So everyone began to think about what to do to pass the time. One day, the teapot started talking: "Baoyu today."It receives the fresh snow, melts into water and uses it to make teaSay it's what it's calledHeavenly Spring。I felt as if it was a little more refreshing than the tea I had made with well water before. "Oh, you know how to taste tea with a little teapot?"The porcelain plate next to him was a little suspicious.
Tea is just a drink, and it can't be satisfying, speaking of which, I made it that dayStewed elbows with bad goose pawsIt's fragrant. The provocation in the tone of the pot completely aroused everyone's enthusiasm, and they talked about what good dishes they had served and what thick soup they had filled, and the kitchen was very lively for a while.
Since then, everyone will write down the meals and tea soup they have served that day every day, and in the dead of night, when our kitchen tea party begins.
Today I am making Naja's mother's favoriteLao Junmei。The crepe teapot lifted the lid on the top of her head and walked in front of the tea party one by one. "Mrs. Jia didn't eat it for some reasonLu'an teaAlthough I like the green tea leaves like sunflower seeds, I'm afraid I won't have a mouthful. ”
But this Lao Junmei is also a good fried green tea,Dongting Mountain, which is produced in Dongting Lake in Hunan, is also called Jun MountainSurrounded by water, the environment is beautiful, and it is a good place to produce tea. Because the tea leaves are slender and shaped like eyebrows, they are called Laojun eyebrows.
Saying that, the teapot motioned to Gaiwan to stand up and prepare for tea,The gaiwan is dedicated to drinking tea, and there are three parts: the base, the tea bowl and the bowl lid。On weekdays, he rarely comes to the kitchen, and he is always entertained in the hall or held in the hands of the ladies and ladies. Today, in order to prove that tea is the top priority of Jiafu's food, he is willing to be called by the teapot, which is really a novelty for the kitchenware.
I saw that the body of the teapot tilted and poured out a tea soup and fell into the tea bowl, the color of the tea soup was emerald green and clear and clear, and the aroma was overflowing for a moment, and the smell couldn't help but make people feel refreshed. Everyone in the kitchen stepped forward to taste, and there was a hint of sweetness in the rich tea, and the mellow taste could not be dissipated on the tip of the tongue for a long timeTribute tea that was paid to the emperor very early, did not disgrace the reputation of Dongting Mountain.
That day, Grandma Liu came to Daguan Garden, and the pot made a lot of good dishes, and everyone wanted to hear the dish that made Grandma Liu eat and call "My Buddha!"."ofEggplant, so the pot picked up the conversation.
Peel the eggplant and leave only the meat, cut it into small cubes, fry it in chicken fat and set it aside. Then the chicken breast, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced bean curd and some dried fruits are also diced. Add the previous diced eggplant and simmer slowly in the chicken broth, wait until the chicken broth is dry and reduce the juice with sesame oil, and then mix with the oil. Usually sealed in a jar, when you want to eat, take it out and mix it with chicken feet and stir-fry until fragrant. ”
Due to its large size, the sound of the pot is very thick and the tone is slow. The kitchen utensils are easily brought into it, admiring the "Jia Mansion on the tip of the tongue", begging the pot to talk about another dish. The pot is very good-tempered, and then saidRouge goose breast.
The people of Jiafu seem to love to eat geese, saying that geese are not the only ones'House Goose'and eating more can strengthen the body. In the past, Jia Zhen and a group of gentlemen had to eat goose every day when they were eating, drinking, and having fun, and Aunt Xue and Zhen's sister-in-law also often ate goose paws. "The pot did some foreshadowing first, and then said the rouge goose breast.
That day, Fangguan couldn't go to Cheng Baoyu's birthday banquet because of the ban, so she had to ask the kitchen to cook some food for her alone, and Chef Liu secretly made her a famous Suzhou dish rouge goose breast. ”
The reason why it is called rouge is because the goose meat is originally red, and the meat becomes more red after salting. Take the two slices of meat from the goose breast, marinate them for an hour or two, and then put them in the steamer along with the bowl. Stir once in the middle, and do not turn on the rest of the time to prevent the taste of the goose breast from deteriorating. In this way, the goose breast can be salty, fragrant, and flavorful, strong and not firewood. After speaking, he seemed to be immersed in the scene of the aftertaste of the goose breast just out of the pot, and the pot did not speak again.
With the garden food list" recorded:
"A whole goose, after washing, rub its belly with salt three coins, stuff a green onion and a broom to fill it, and coat it with honey and wine. A large bowl of wine and a large bowl of water in a pot, steam. Use bamboo chopsticks to erect them, so that the goose body is not close to the water. ......Chai Qi committed suicide and should not be provoked. The lid of the pot is sealed with cotton paper, forced to dry the cracks, and moistened with water. When the pot is cooked, not only is the goose rotten like puree, but the soup is also delicious. ”As a representative of the dishes, I have chosen two dishes to be presented today, with the ideas of my family and friendsLaba porridge and fried crab dumplings. When Baoyu told Daiyu the story of Laba porridge, I happened to be listening to it next to me. It is said that this Laba porridge may have originated in Buddhism, and legend has it that the last meal that Shakyamuni ate before attaining enlightenment on the eighth day of the lunar month was porridge-like food made of mixed grains and wild fruits. Later, in order to commemorate the day of Shakyamuni's enlightenment, the monks called this day the day of enlightenment, and at the same time, porridge was cooked in the morning as an offering, and after the sacrifice, it became the monk's breakfast.
With the spread of Buddhism, Laba porridge is already very delicious and accepted by more and more people, even non-believers will imitate Laba porridge, and even spread to the imperial palace. The Yuan Dynasty recorded in the book "Yanjing Travel Chronicles":
"On December 8, I gave hundreds of officials white porridge, and the fruits were mixed, and the one with more products won. This cover follows the story of the Song Dynasty. ”"Mrs. Wang in the house eats fasting and recites Buddha, so Laba porridge is indispensable on the eighth day of the lunar month. "In order to highlight the status of Laba porridge, I deliberately moved out Mrs. Wang, who has a lot of weight.
Add beans and rice to red dates, peanuts, chestnuts, taro, and water chestnutPut them together in a pot and simmer over low heat until the rice beans are soft and rotten. "Brother Tuomu spoon brings out the porridge, and all kinds of ingredients blend with each other in the dark red and brown porridge, which is soft and glutinous in the mouth, and it is the most warm for the hungry stomach in the cold season.
Deep-fried crab dumplings are a specialty of Jia Province. Suzhou and Hangzhou have fried steamed buns, crab roe soup dumplings in Zhenjiang and Yangzhou, and small and exquisite dumplings in Huai'anThe characteristics of the three are gathered in this crab dumpling. Although Jia Mu is tired of eating this fried food, my favorite dim sum is still it.
The main ingredient for making dumplings is calledCrab butter。After the crab is steamed, remove the crab meat and crab roe, add a little salt, green onion, turmeric wine and other ingredients to the heated lard and cook it thoroughly, and let it cool. Dumpling filling should be goodPeel and bone, and chop the pork leg into a meat puree, and one of themPour soupIt is a meat skin jelly made from boiled and crumbled pork skin and frozen in thick soup, then crab butter is added, and green onion and ginger juice, fine salt, sugar and other ingredients are added.
The dumplings are wrapped in warm water and fine white noodles, steamed on high heat for ten minutes and then let cool slightly but not cool, fry in the pot, the skin is slightly yellow, quickly pick it up, wait to cool, fry it again until golden, drain the oil, and then put it on the plate and take the dish.
This dumplingThe skin is crispyThe pork stuffed inside is soft and thick, and the umami of the crab roe and crab meat is fully exerted after the high temperature and oil, and the burnt aroma of the skin is perfect. "I worked hard to promote crab roe dumplings, and it obviously worked well, this oneGangnam dim sum, which didn't disappoint everyone.
The spoon is a character that does not fight and swallows slowly, so it is left to the end. Speaking of which, Baoyu was beaten half to death by Jia Zheng that day, and he was lying on the bed and couldn't moveMrs. Wang asked the attacker to send him two bottles of perfume, I heard that the fragrance dew is also a tribute. "Yes, the vessel that held the dew that day was used for the two of us. The two glass vials in the corner, which didn't often talk, suddenly spoke, and the sound was tinkling.
I pretendedWood dew"I amRose dew. Spoon was glad that someone else would open her mouth for her, so she went through the glass vial. "I heard that the healers here began to extract medicines from animals and plants very early, especially in Western countriesDistillationAfter that, the manufacturing efficiency of the fragrance is higher. "What is a mulberry?""I secretly asked the porcelain plate next to me. "It's osmanthus. He said.
The Compendium of Materia Medica" records:
"Osmanthus is steamed, the aroma is slightly bitter, and the eyes are soothing and the liver is soothing. "Steamed roses, fragrant and light in taste, can benefit blood, calm the liver, nourish the stomach, widen the chest, and disperse depression. ”"And my favoriteHam and bamboo shoot soup。The spoon finally spoke leisurely, "Choose the best Jinhua ham or cloud leg, stew it with hen, pork knuckle, and scallops, and the ratio of ingredients to soup should be just right, so that the soup can be used as a base soup." ”
She thought for a moment and added, "The bamboo shoots should be good too,."It is best to use fresh spring or winter bamboo shoots, with some seasonal vegetables with beautiful colors, and then take the ham slices that have just been boiled as raw materials, and simmer over low heat. It's a pity that there are no fresh bamboo shoots in the current season, so I can't make them for everyone to taste. Everyone deeply regretted this, so they had to wait until winter to feast on it.
As the day dawned, the tea party came to an end, and all the kitchen utensils returned to their respective positions and stopped talking. "Squeak"It was the sound of the kitchen door opening, and the cook came in and walked around and said to himself, "Hey, did I forget to put the lid on the pot after I finished cooking yesterday?"Forget it, hurry up and burn the fire and don't get scolded again for a while. ”
A day in Jia Mansion begins with a busy kitchen.
Author's note: From the food culture in "Dream of Red Mansions", we can see the extreme luxury of Jiafu, and a big family that was so rich and prominent for a time is slowly declining, which can't help but make people sigh. It can be said that the autumn moon and spring breeze remain unchanged, and success or failure is empty.