Everyone should have heard of the word "Manchu Han full seat", which is often seen in our modern society, that is, the whole table is full of mountain treasures and seafood, and all kinds of meals are available, in fact, at the beginning this word refers to the banquet in the palace, and the two words of Manchu can also be seen, this kind of banquet began from the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the life behind the rulers of the Qing Dynasty was still very extravagant and wasteful, especially in the aspect of eating.
They will have a special royal dining room for royals, which is also very frequent when it appears on the TV series, since it is responsible for the royal, then we must be careful and cautious, starting from the selection of ingredients, to the final dish to make this series of actions, that is strictly controlled, if you are not careful, you may lose your life. At the beginning, we must first see where the ingredients are produced, just like bear paws and deer antler velvet, we will choose northeast, and abalone will choose Shandong, shark fins must be from the South China Sea, and even the water used is taken from under Yuquan Mountain.
In fact, in addition to looking at the place of origin, but also to decompose the ingredients, this step is also very important, just like pork, only take out the inner ridge, and carp to weigh 1 and a half pounds, beef and mutton are only to take the meat on the legs, maybe it looks really too luxurious and wasteful, but for the people of the Qing Dynasty Palace, it is very enjoyable.
And after the imperial chefs are done, it is also necessary to pay attention to the fact that it is necessary to give the dish a name, after all, it is the emperor who wants to eat, and it must not be the same as ordinary people, so when the ordinary cabbage tofu soup is sent to the emperor, it actually becomes an emerald white jade soup, and the stewed wild duck is also called the eight treasure wild duck. The bean paste spring roll was also changed to a ruyi roll, in short, the idea of the name of the dish is more headache for the imperial chef than cooking. But when it comes to the Manchu Han full table, it is definitely a way of eating that the Rulers of the Qing Dynasty enjoyed at the peak, the Manchu Han is to say that the Manchu chefs and the Han chefs made together, a total of 108 dishes, 45 dishes on both sides of the Jiangnan River, a total of three days to eat, and what taste is there, meat is also properly matched, only you can't think of it, there is nothing they can't do.
And these also reflect the luxury of the Qing Dynasty everywhere, and they are all scraped from the people, which has become the delicacy on their table, so as the last ruler of the Qing Dynasty with real power, Cixi definitely developed luxury to the extreme. Legend has it that she has to make 100 dishes at a meal, so the imperial chef is also hundreds of people, plus she also has a quirk, once the dish will not eat the second time, in order to let Empress Dowager Cixi eat different dishes, it is really the imperial chef to spend his brain, more to delve into the folk dishes, but occasionally encounter very delicious, will always eat, there is a dish, Cixi ate for ten years.
Moreover, this dish was found for him by Li Lianying, and in order to be able to make different dishes in the palace, he specially held a cooking competition in the folk, the purpose of which was to make Empress Dowager Cixi have better enjoyment. Once, a chef in Henan came to the stage with a broken jar, which made Cixi wonder, after all, the things she had eaten before were very beautiful and exquisite, and this one was very tattered, but when the chef opened the jar, Cixi was stunned, because it was very fragrant, and then Cixi actually ate all of it, and she did not eat it for ten years.
But Cixi has not asked what this is made of, when asked one day, asked what is so delicious, Li Lianying said that it is sheep sewing, that is, sheep offal, which is a low-level ingredient for Cixi, are the royal dining room usually do not use, she felt very humiliated, so she cut the chef who invented this dish, and never touched this dish again. However, this has slowly been handed down in the folk, after all, it is really delicious, and it is widely spread in the north, and there is another name that everyone knows, which is called sheep soup.