In A Dream of Red Mansions, there are many references to nourishing medicated diets, such as longan soup, bird's nest soup, and yam cake stuffed with jujube paste. Speaking of the latter, jujube can enrich the blood and strengthen the spleen and stomach, and yam can replenish qi and strengthen the spleen. Peeling jujube and yam, mashing them into mud and making them into cakes, which not only tastes soft and sweet, but also stimulates appetite and can effectively relieve gastrointestinal weakness. Laba porridge, the nineteenth time Baoyu told a story about Xiang Yu: It was the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, and the mouse came to the table to discuss it, because it was said that "tomorrow is Laba porridge, and everyone in the world cooks Laba porridge". The eighth time Baoyu praised Ning Fuzhen's sister-in-law goose's feet and ducks for believing in them, and Aunt Xue also took some bad things of her own to share with him. The fiftieth time I wrote that Tanchun personally poured warm wine for the old lady. The old lady took a sip and asked, "What's on that plate?" They quickly picked it up and said it was a bad quail.

Bad food is a specialty of the south, with a wide variety, delicious taste and lasting quality, which is even more precious when transported to the north. When Li was weaving in Suzhou, he also paid tribute to bad rice and bad sauce. See the throne of Kangxi in forty-four or forty-five years. It can be seen that although the feudal rulers at that time were tired of eating delicacies, they also liked to eat bad things with unique southern flavor to adjust their tastes. Face tea, clear square yuan-"iron boat poetry money." There is a small note under the sentence "tea-fried noodles" in Yongdumen Food as Humorous Style: "Fried noodles are made into paste and called noodle tea." Today, people in the north still eat noodle tea. The method is to fry the flour, add water and mix well, add a little salt and make a porridge-like diet. Baoyu asked Qingwen for the eighth time, "I had breakfast in that house today, and I thought you liked it." I told grandma Zhen that I would leave it until the evening and have it delivered. Can you eat? "

Press: The steamed stuffed bun with bean curd skin seems to refer to the steamed stuffed bun wrapped with bean curd skin, which is found in the imperial cuisine file of Qing Palace. "Suiyuan menu. "Tofu Skin" says: "Monks in Wuhu cut the rolled tofu skin into sections, roasted it in oil and stewed it with mushrooms. Chicken soup is not allowed. " It can be seen that tofu skin can be used as paper or steamed stuffed bun instead of flour. It is characterized by thin skin and thin mouth, and can be used as vegetarian dishes or snacks. Steamed cheese with sugar, the nineteenth time I wrote that Jia Fei steamed cheese with sugar, and Baoyu ordered xiren to eat it. Later, when Lee saw that Gary was crispy cheese, he picked up a spoon and ate it. A maid said, "Don't move too fast, that's what I said." Angry and ashamed, Li Gou said, "I don't believe it. He was so devastated. Not to mention that I ate a bowl of milk, even if it is more valuable than this, it should be. "

Reporter: From the context, there is no doubt that steamed cheese with sugar means milk. Milk was a rare and expensive thing at that time, not an ordinary drink. In the Qing Dynasty, Shen Taidi's Donghua Rousseau said: "Some people are milked in the market, and some are made into cream, so-called cheese. Or decorated with melon seeds, called babao, red, white, purple and green, gorgeous and incomparable. If dissolved as soup, white as a cup, like boiling snow. The so-called you (that is, milk tea). Stir-fry you and roll it into pieces for crispy skin and fire skin. In fact, hawthorn and walnut are mixed with fruit, and both ends of the double roller are cut into inches, so is the milk roll. The rest are either concise or patterned, such as chess pieces and cakes; " Or the bread crumbs are flour, but the fillings are cakes. Actually, they're all called crispy cheese. "