The chestnut is strangely shaped, like a small hedgehog. Chestnut has a "bucket", and the outside of the bucket has a long hard thorn, which is very hard. The chestnuts grew in a circle around the bucket, one by one, very united. One of them is flattened, called a navel chestnut. The taste of navel chestnut is no different from other chestnuts. Most of the nuts have a protective layer on the outside, pine nuts have scales, and walnuts and white fruits have bitter skins, which are probably grown to deal with squirrels.
The newly picked raw chestnuts are delicious and crisp, but the chestnut shell is very difficult to peel, and the inner skin inside is particularly difficult to remove. Put the chestnuts in a bamboo basket, hang them in a ventilated place and blow them for a few days, and become "wind chestnuts". Wind chestnut flesh has slight wrinkles, Microsoft, and it is more delicate and tough to eat. It's not like eating raw chestnuts will make your mouth full of crumbs, and it's sweeter. Jia Baoyu was angry about one thing, and the attacker gave him a fork and said, "I want to eat wind chestnuts." You take it for me. "Under the eaves of Yihong Courtyard is a basket of wind chestnuts. When the wind chestnut enters "Dream of the Red Chamber", the value is high, elegant. What is the origin of this chestnut, sent by Jia Rong? Sent by Grandma Liu? Or did Baoyu buy it himself outside? I don't know, it's not explained in the book.
Chestnuts are more cooked. In my hometown, there were no fried chestnuts, just roasted in the fire. In winter, make a copper brazier, throw a few chestnuts in the red charcoal fire, for a while, with a bang, jump out a ripe chestnut with a cracked shell, grab it, pour it back and forth in your hand, blow air to make it cold, peel the shell in the mouth, sweet, it is a pleasure on a snowy day. However, roasted chestnuts should be careful, as they will hurt your eyes if you don't get them right. Roasted chestnuts are also available in foreign countries, and in the West there is a parable of "chestnuts in the fire", and this chestnut is probably roasted.
Beijing's sugar-fried chestnuts used to be produced in Liangxiang. Liangxiang chestnuts are relatively small, the shell is thin, after frying, they are cracked, gently pinched, the shell is broken, the inner skin is rubbed off, not "skin protection". It is said that liangxiang chestnuts were originally paid tribute and were eaten by the Western Empress (many delicious things in the north are said to have paid tribute to the Western Empress).
Beijing's sugar fried chestnuts are actually not put sugar, Kunming's sugar fried chestnuts really put sugar. Kunming chestnuts are large, and the large pots of fried chestnuts are propped outside the shop door, fried with coarse sand as large as corn beans, and a bowl of sugar water is poured into the pot from time to time. The shell of the Kunming fried chestnuts is sticky, and after eating, the hands are full of sugar juice, and you must wash your hands. The chestnut meat is soaked with sugar juice and is very sweet.
Fried chestnuts were there in the Song Dynasty. The "chestnut" mentioned in the notes, I think, is fried chestnuts. There is a man named Li He'er in Beijing, and Li is famous. During the Southern Song Dynasty, there was an envoy (who occasionally forgot his name and surname), and some people covered the way and offered a bag of chestnuts, that is, Li He'erye of Fenjing. A bag of chestnuts, pinning on the thoughts of the homeland, is also very touching.
Japanese people love to eat chestnuts, but it turns out that Japan does not have Chinese fried chestnuts. One year I met a Japanese businessman at a symposium at the Canton Fair who came to buy chestnuts (every year). He once opened a shop for fried chestnuts in Tianjin, and after returning to China, he also sold fried chestnuts, and he also brought the sign of the fried chestnut shop he opened in Tianjin to Japan, and has been hanging in the fried chestnut shop in Tokyo. He is now rich and grateful to China for the fried chestnuts.
Small liquor stores in Beijing used to sell boiled chestnuts. Chestnuts are cut through small cuts with a knife, added water, and boiled thoroughly in peppercorns, making them an excellent drink. Now there are no more for sale.
Chestnuts can be used as a dish. Chestnut chicken is a famous dish, but also very easy to make, chicken cut into pieces, chestnuts peeled shell, add onion, ginger, soy sauce, add water to submerge the chicken nuggets, chicken nuggets cooked, under the cotton sugar, simmer for 20 minutes. The chicken whiskers are the little roosters of the year, and the chestnut whiskers are intact and unbroken. Chestnuts can also be added to the Arhat Jai.
My father used to simmer chestnuts with white sugar and add osmanthus flowers, which was very beautiful.
There used to be a shop selling Western-style cakes and iced dim sum in Beijing's Dong'an Market, selling creamy chestnut powder. Chestnut flour is topped with cream and enjoyable to eat. Of course, the price is very expensive. The shop is no longer there.
The main ingredient of yokan is chestnut noodles. "Yokan" is Japanese, but it's actually just a wet chestnut noodle pressed into a rectangular cake, which has nothing to do with sheep.
The mountainous areas of Hebei are short of grain, and there are many chestnut trees in the mountains, and the villagers replace grain with chestnuts. Chestnuts are delicious when eaten as a snack, but when eaten with grain, I am afraid that the stomach is not very good.
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1. The second natural paragraph of this article writes that in "Dream of the Red Chamber", people want to eat wind chestnuts, and this example is cited here for ( ).
A. Embodying the wind chestnut taste better and sweeter
B. It shows that the wind chestnuts are as delicious as the newly picked chestnuts
C. Indicates that the value of the wind chestnut is high
D. Wind chestnuts have a long history
2. Regarding the content introduced in this article, the following incorrect expression is ( ).
A. Introduces the historical story related to chestnuts
B. Introduces the various methods of chestnuts
C. Introduces the appearance and taste of chestnuts
D. Introduced the efficacy and health care of chestnuts
3. The following passages are adapted from "Baidu Encyclopedia", which one do you prefer compared to this article? Tell us your reasons.
Chestnuts, shell bucket large, spherical, exophytic thorns, nuts 2 to 3, born in the shell bucket, commonly known as chestnuts, is a Chinese specialty, known as the "king of dried fruits" reputation, in foreign countries it is also known as "ginseng fruit". Sweet and delicious chestnuts, since ancient times as a precious fruit, is the best among dried fruits. Chinese medicine believes that chestnut has the effect of tonifying the kidneys and spleen, strengthening the body and strengthening the bones, benefiting the stomach and flat liver. Therefore, chestnuts have the reputation of "the fruit of the kidney". Chestnuts are distributed in Liaoning, Beijing, Hebei, Shandong and other places in China. Chestnuts have strong adaptability, convenient cultivation and management, stable yield, and are deeply loved by the masses.
4. In this article, the introduction of chestnuts is combined with literature and history, such as the plot related to chestnuts in "Dream of the Red Chamber", the story of chestnuts in the Song Dynasty, etc., which is written for ( ).
5, the author ostensibly write chestnuts, in fact, the main thing is to think ( ).
A. Writing about the delicious taste of chestnuts is endlessly evocative
B. Write chestnuts can be made into various delicacies
C. Write historical stories about chestnuts
D. Expressing a fondness for chestnuts
6. The ninth natural paragraph of this article introduces us to the method of chestnut chicken, please learn to write about your favorite dish, share its method and taste.
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1、A
2、D
3. Example 1: I prefer the expression of this article. Because the description of this article is more humorous and funny, people immediately like chestnuts.
Example 2: Prefer the expression adapted from "Baidu Encyclopedia". Because these contents concisely and clearly tell us the characteristics of chestnuts, the origin and other relevant information, let people see at a glance.
4, the chestnut with literature, history closely combined, so that it has more cultural connotations, so that the little chestnut is more tall.
5、D
6. Slightly. (Fluent language, can write about the cooking process)
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