Do you know what cakes are there in a dream of red mansions?

In China's classic literary work A Dream of Red Mansions, food and beauty always complement each other.

The beauties in A Dream of Red Mansions are all stunners, and most cakes are rare treasures.

However, these delicious foods that could only be seen at home can now be made and enjoyed at home!

Let's have a look at the cake in the red building.

The eighth episode of a dream of red mansions: Baoyu asked Qingwen again, "I had breakfast in that house today, and I thought you liked it." I told grandma Jane that I would only stay until evening and have it delivered. Can you eat? "

In the Qing dynasty, there were several ways to make steamed buns with tofu skin:

First, wrap the stuffing with rotten paper bags, such as paper bags, fold it 60%, put it into square bags, seal it with egg white paste, and steam it in cages;

2. Cut the rotten skin into small pieces, wrap it in a bag, seal it with hemp thread, steam and shape it, and then remove the hemp thread. There are also chopped tofu, stuffing with spices, and steamed noodles.

Looking at the name "tofu skin steamed stuffed bun", it seems to be the former rather than the latter. Tofu skin steamed stuffed bun was also a tribute in Qing dynasty, which was found in the archives of imperial meals in Qing palace.

A Dream of Red Mansions Episode 11: (Qin Keqing) Yesterday, she ate two pieces of jujube paste yam cakes that the old lady rewarded. Like a movement. "

It takes time to make jujube paste yam cake.

1. Wash red dates, soak them in warm water and steam for one hour. After peeling, stir-fry jujube paste with oil (peanut oil or lard) and white sugar for later use.

2. Wash and steam yam for one hour, then peel it, grind it into mud, add flour (glutinous rice flour+stem rice flour), lard, sugar and water, and steam for another 30 minutes.

3. Then oil the mold, add yam paste, jujube paste and yam paste in turn, pour out and steam for a few minutes, and it will become a nourishing dessert.

A Dream of Red Mansions: Aroma listened and brought two small boxes of silk. She opened one first, which contained two kinds of fresh fruits, Hong Ling and a chicken head, and the other was a dish of steamed chestnut powder cake with sweet-scented osmanthus sugar.

South China has always had the habit of frying chestnuts to make cakes. "Nan Ren Chao" said: "Chestnut cakes are shelled with chestnuts, sliced and dried, and ground into fine powder. One third of them are mixed with glutinous rice flour, mixed with honey and water, steamed and added with sugar. " "Suiyuan Food List" also said: "Boiled chestnuts are extremely bad, and pure glutinous rice flour is added with sugar to make cakes and steamed. Add melon seeds and pine nuts. This kind of snack is also called "Double Ninth Festival snack" in Suiyuan menu, which is the food eaten on the Double Ninth Festival in the lunar calendar.

Compared with the above two situations, adding osmanthus when making cakes is "sweet osmanthus sugar steamed chestnut powder cake".

Story 39 of A Dream of Red Mansions: The old lady came back with a box and said, "The second grandma said that she told grandma and the girls not to smile and ask for food. This box is filled with water chestnut cakes and chicken oil rolls that my uncle and wife just sent to my grandmother and girls. "

Lingfen cake is a famous food in the south of Qing Dynasty.

In Qing Dynasty, Tiaodingji recorded the method of Yangzhou: "Dry the old water chestnut meat and grind it into powder, and divide it into three parts with glutinous rice flour, foreign sugar and steamed cake, which is extremely white."

If you don't add glutinous rice, a faint purple will appear.

Lingfen has the function of replenishing middle energizer, and the Addendum to Outline states that it can "replenish spleen and stomach, strengthen knees, strengthen tendons and qi, promote blood circulation and water, dispel summer heat and detoxify".

Chicken oil roll is a rolled-up dish that tastes like steamed spaghetti in a cage. It tastes better with chicken oil rolls.

Chicken oil is not only a good condiment, but also has a certain medical and health care function. Eating chicken oil often can make your hair shiny and oily, and this light grows from the inside, which is much better than the scalp oil medicine rubbed outside.

According to the folklore analysis of southerners, my uncle and wife should kill the black-bone chicken first and then send it out as a "gift".

Black-bone chicken entering the kidney meridian is a great supplement to women, which is advocated by southerners. Neijing said: "The kidney governs the bone, and its prosperity lies in the hair." Kidney qi can replenish and moisturize hair.

At the same time, black-bone chicken can also treat gynecological diseases, which is completely opposite to Xifeng's disease.

The forty-first time in a dream of red mansions: in this box, it is also a sweet-scented osmanthus cake with lotus root starch.

Lotus root starch and sweet-scented osmanthus sugar are both famous specialties in Hangzhou, so this is an exquisite cake with Jiangnan flavor.

Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Dig the old lotus root in winter, mash it into powder, dry it in the sun, slice it with a knife, and eat it as white as a crane feather. Mix well with cold water first, then rush in with boiling water, that is, it condenses like glue and is as lovely as ruby. Eating with icing can greatly nourish the stomach and produce fluid. "

It is inconvenient to steam the lotus root starch cake alone, but it is usually mixed with flour or rice flour and seasoned with white sugar and osmanthus or candied fruit.

Specific practices can refer to water chestnut cake, yam cake and chestnut cake.

A Dream of Red Mansions: When I said this, I saw someone send a box of fruit from the Liu family. Xiaoyan then unveiled ... a plate of four cream puffs.

To make crispy cream rolls: first, boil the milk, pour it into a basin, cover it with cloth and cool it; Second, a layer of skin is formed at this time. Carefully pick up the milk skin and put it on oiled paper to absorb water. 3. Pine nut powder, sweet-scented osmanthus juice (sweet-scented osmanthus with milk) and white sugar are mixed into stuffing, and hawthorn cakes are pressed into stuffing (hawthorn is washed with clear water, poured into a pot and cooked; 4. Take the hawthorn out of the pot, mash it and put it in the basket. Pour hawthorn sauce into a basin, add alum water and syrup and stir. 5. Finally, after stirring evenly, pour it into another container and cool it to form hawthorn cake. 6. Spread the two fillings on the milk skin from top to bottom, then roll them from left to right to the middle, and slice them for consumption.

Most of the drinks, sweets, refreshments, dishes, soups and banquet dishes written in A Dream of Red Mansions are fine, representing the highest level of diet at that time, giving people a feeling of being beyond gold and jade.

More importantly, Cao Xueqin always combines the origin of raw materials, cooking skills, living habits, folk customs, etiquette system and historical anecdotes when writing these diets? Therefore, it endows the form and connotation of food culture and shows an elegant and poetic lifestyle.