Speaking of bird's nest, everyone should be familiar with it, and it often appears in costume TV series, especially the tonics eaten by dignitaries and nobles of the palace. Now that bird's nest has entered the homes of ordinary people, many people know that bird's nest stew pays attention to "clear with clear, soft with soft", absolutely can not imagine how ancient people made bird's nest.
The two major dietary works in ancient China, Yuan Mu's "Suiyuan Food List" and Li Huanan's "Awakening Garden Record", have a profound impact on China's food culture. There are detailed records of bird's nest in both books, and we will take a look at how the ancients made bird's nest today.
Why is it said that the "Suiyuan Food Menu" has a profound impact on China's food culture? Because this book not only talks about what dishes should be made (isn't this a recipe!), but combines China's ancient cooking technology with the practice of chefs at that time, and systematically sorts out and summarizes it, so that it rises to a theory, directly laying the academic status, and Yuan Mucheng also laid the status of his first foodie.
When Yuan Mu wrote about bird's nest, he first complained about some popular vices and wrote about the mistakes of the popular bird's nest practice at that time: in order to increase the aroma of food, the previous chef liked to boil a pot of lard first, no matter what dish, and poured it on the dish before serving, "Even the bird's nest to the clearest thing, also suffered from this defilement." Yuan Da's foodie not only complained that "the previous life was the reincarnation of a hungry ghost."
Let's see how Yuan Da Foodie makes bird's nest! Bird's nest stew before the hair to soak, now people use pure water to soak their hair, Yuan Mu uses Tianquan water, what is Tianquan water? It is rain, thanks to the ancient environmental pollution is not serious, if you put it now, the good guys are all acid rain. After the bird's nest is soaked, use a silver needle to pick out the black wire, and then "roll it with tender chicken soup, good ham soup, and new mushrooms to see the bird's nest become jade." This thing is clear and should not be greasy and mixed. ”
What Mr. Yuan despised the most was that at that time, many people stewed shredded chicken and shredded chicken with bird's nest, and even more excessively covered the bird's nest on the meat, and then swallowed it in one bite, evaluating them as "begging to sell rich, revealing the poor", it seems that Mr. Yuan's black skills are also OK.
Fortunately, the other book "Awakening Garden" was published later, otherwise the two would be really easy to scold each other, why? Yuan Mu is a native of Qiantangjiang, located in the Suzhou-Hangzhou area, with a light diet, but Li Huanan is indeed an authentic Sichuanese, and Li's bird's nest practice is really "Sichuan".
Bird's nest foam is different, Mr. Yuan's no matter how "temperamental", in essence or water, Li's can not be the same, people in the boiling water to add charcoal ash, water quality becomes clear, pour out the water, put bird's nest bubbles, even if the moldy yellow bird's nest will become clean, after all, it is equivalent to soaking in alkaline water.
As for the practice of bird's nest, it is the kind that Mr. Yuan does not look up to, chicken shredded, shredded meat filled with a bowl, poured a few spoonfuls of rolling broth, bird's nest also has a rolling broth poured over, and then put the bird's nest on the shredded meat, add sweet wine \ soybean oil to the oiled broth and then drizzle it, and finally mix it with small pepper. There is a second kind, which combines bird's nest and meatballs, such a way of eating is really something that people dare not think of now!
So the question is, after watching the bird's nest practices of two outstanding gourmets in ancient times, do you have the desire to eat?
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