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Food Culture in the Dream of the Red Chamber (3): Steamed Duck brewed with wine

Saying that, I saw that the fruit of the Liu family had sent someone to send a box. Xiao Yan then unveiled it, and inside was a bowl of shrimp ball chicken skin soup, a bowl of steamed duck stuffed with wine, a plate of pickled rouge goose breast, and a plate of four cream pine rolls, and a large bowl of steamed green rice japonica rice.

Food Culture in the Dream of the Red Chamber (3): Steamed Duck brewed with wine

"Dream of the Red Chamber" sixty-second time

Sake-brewed steamed duck is a standard Southern dish. The custom of duck breeding in Jiangsu Province was very popular, and Cao Xueqin's father presented "one hundred and twenty Ning ducks" to the Kangxi Emperor when he was in office, and the Yongzheng Emperor gave "four boxes of Ning ducks" after succeeding to the throne. The superiority of Ning Duck is self-evident.

The people of Jia Province love to eat geese, and there are many benefits of goose meat. Suzhou's pickled goose has been a famous dish since ancient times, and the second time "Dream of the Red Chamber" mentions a person named Ni Yunlin, in fact, he accidentally ate this dish and received his own collection, so this dish spread.

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