Chapter 21 When eating flowers, flowers are not flowers

Qu Yuan's so-called "falling flowers of autumn chrysanthemums in the evening meal" is fragrant and beautiful, but it may not be true.Just like his previous statement that he drank Mulan dew every day, he was also suspected of artistic processing.It is also "rice stalks and wheat" and "fat ox tendons" that lure people here.The poet dances again to clarify the shadow, as long as he does not soar, he still has to eat rice, wheat and fat cattle. But some people really like to eat a chrysanthemum.Tang Lusun said that there used to be white chrysanthemum pots in Beijing until the Double Ninth Festival.It is said that there are quite a few wives and ladies who have a delicate physique and blow their breath when they see the wind, and then fly as a kite. They can't eat hot pot, so they have to improve.The white chrysanthemum is soft, crisp and cool, and it is cooked in one rinse.What comes with the pot are fish fillets, pheasant slices and other light, soft and crispy things, which can be eaten at once.It must be fresh and fresh, but without the complex and rich flavor of hot pot, it is probably only suitable for girls.

Taking the white chrysanthemum pot and Qu Yuan, we can see that eating flowers is considered an elegant thing, suitable for poets and weak girls who can't help but hurt spring and autumn.That being the case, you can't be cruel.Bulgaria has rose ice cream, bright in color and sweet in taste, fresh and pretty, very suitable for girls.But if Lin Daiyu, a flower burial girl, saw the fried roses, she would think it was worse than being trapped in a ditch, and she would cry.Yang Guo and the others ate love flowers and drank water in the Valley of Unrequited Love. The flowers were sweet and sour, and as a result, the big men suffered unspeakably.It can be seen that eating flowers is really troublesome: it is not delicious if it is artistic, but it is not artistic if it is cooked well.Between Daxingyi and Fairy Lingfeng, I really can only choose one.

The world says that Schopenhauer is nihilistic and pessimistic, so he speaks bluntly and insists that flowers are the genitals of plants.Poets must find it unpleasant to hear these words, and feel that eating flowers is almost the same as eating bullwhip, but rationally speaking, these words provide a perspective: exclude the aesthetic factors and poetic traditions of flowers, and only use them What about being a food part?A friend from Henan said that her family has peony dishes.But she also admits that peony is no better than lily, it just looks good.After all, this is inseparable from the spirit of "peony is a famous flower".Wei Xiaobao has no aesthetics, so he once wanted peony to be fodder for horses.If so, when eating flowers, you have to hold the concept of "flowers are not flowers" and eat it as a serious dish.

Many upright and bright flowers can be eaten, and the petals are crisp and thick.I have seen several kinds of stir-fried dishes and soups, all with unknown fried petals.The petals are slightly thick and textured, dipped in flour and deep-fried, chewy and crispy but not greasy, it looks like magnolia instead of magnolia, not sure.Thinner petals, except for rose ice cream, are rarely seen.Except for the decoration of colors in Japanese cuisine, there is not much to see.Some friends said that they have seen roses or other unknown flower petals as stuffing with red bean paste in foreign restaurants in Guangdong, but unfortunately they have never seen it with their own eyes.

In the summer of that year, I had a lotus feast at a lotus villa on the way from downtown Chongqing to the outskirts of Dazu County.Not to mention lotus root hoof, lotus leaf pork ribs, etc. This is the first time I have seen lotus bones boiled in soup. Just biting into it feels like hard bamboo shoots, and I dare not eat it with a guilty conscience. In my concept, the most magical flower is the day lily, the so-called "day lily is cold", an authentic folk food, it is also called day lily in our place, and I have always been used to it.Dried yellow strips, fried with black fungus, wild rice stems, bamboo shoots, and eggs, quite tough and crispy, it is also good for soup.In my impression, although it is yellow and inconspicuous, it is resistant to storage and is delicious in any way.When I grew up, I knew that day lilies are made from sun-dried flowers, and I would not believe it even if I killed them.Later, I learned that lily lily = day lily, also called Wangyoucao, and that it is "there is Xuanxi in Beitang", and I just felt dizzy and dark before my eyes.It feels like suddenly discovering that the yellow-faced woman who washes and cooks at home turned out to be Yu Xuanji with both talent and beauty.

My grandma said that in the past, a skilled daughter-in-law could use gardenias to make food, but it was trivial to handle. It had to be boiled, fried, or brewed with vinegar and sugar, which is rare now—her old man said that this was ten years ago thing.Today, our parents' generation occasionally plays with sweet-scented osmanthus.The fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus is rare among flowers, full of fragrance and sweetness, so sweet that it makes people feel obsessed. Huang Tingjian's so-called "flower fragrance scents people's desire to break Zen" means this.It is a custom in the countryside in the south of the Yangtze River to eat sweet-scented osmanthus taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival, borrowing the sweetness of osmanthus.Suzhou's sweet-scented osmanthus jujube cloud cake is well-known all over the world, not to mention.Sweet-scented osmanthus with rock sugar is a wonderful recipe for Bailing's sweet wine. Put rice wine and white wine, and it is always suitable for heavy makeup and light application.My family practice is to add rice wine.It's just that the rice wine is already sweet, and the addition of rock sugar and osmanthus makes it even sweeter, which inevitably loses the original taste of the wine. From the beginning of the first generation of "Legend of Sword and Fairy", Li Xiaoyao's osmanthus wine was reprimanded, "Go, go, we don't drink wine from women's houses."The glutinous rice candied lotus root is sprinkled with sugar osmanthus at the end, which is so sweet and sticky that it is similar to the fragrance of osmanthus.So when I was young, when I heard Luo Wen sing the opening song of the old Taiwanese drama "August Osmanthus Fragrance", "A city is full of wind, full of lovesickness and silence, only the fragrance of osmanthus drifts by", I was still thinking, there are sweet osmanthus and lotus roots to eat, Acacia what?