Chapter 55 three ladies and an egg

As a man, Chiang Kai-shek was happy. At one stage, he had three wives: the original wife Mao Fumei, Zhengyin Song Meiling, and the second wife Yao Yecheng. Three women play a scene, and the three Madam Chiang each show their special abilities, and they give Chiang Kai-shek delicious food in different ways, in order to "tie the man's stomach" to "tie the man's heart". The original wife, Mao Fumei, was Jiang Jingguo's mother. According to traditional ethics, she made great contributions to the Jiang family.In addition to being able to bear sons, this Mrs. Mao was also very accomplished in cooking, which was very suitable for Chiang Kai-shek's appetite.

Mao Fumei is good at making moldy tofu (fermented bean curd), stinky wax gourd, tofu with chicken sauce, etc.Whenever Chiang Kai-shek tasted these authentic hometown flavors, he knew it was from Mrs. Mao.Regarding Jiang's preference, someone once wrote a poem to ridicule: "Even if there are delicacies for your eyes, the taste of every meal is sour and salty." According to his adjutant Ju Yiqiao, every new year, in addition to Mao Fumei sending Fenghua delicacies, the second wife Yao Yecheng would also send some Gusu delicacies.The special lard jujube mud sesame cake made in Xiangcheng, a small town in Wuxia, Jiangsu Province, is very famous and is a favorite of Chiang Kai-shek.

As a lard lover, I was very excited when I heard the name.Lard is better than vegetable oil in shortening pastries. This kind of cake is characterized by soft, sweet and crisp, soft and fragrant.Mrs. Yao has to order about a hundred sesame cakes and send them to Nanjing every time. She also makes green cabbage heads and cauliflower heads. .Every autumn, when the chrysanthemum and yellow crabs are fat, Mrs. Yao will also choose good Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs and send them to them. According to the memories of Chiang Kai-shek's health care doctor Xiong Wan, Chiang especially liked to eat scrambled eggs for breakfast.This kind of scrambled eggs is not ordinary scrambled eggs, but specially made by Seiko. Chiang Kai-shek named it "Whampoa eggs".

This special scrambled egg originated when Chiang Kai-shek accepted the appointment of Sun Yat-sen and served as the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy.He controlled his diet, did not pay attention to eating and drinking, and advocated eating "revolutionary big pot rice".But simple meals must ensure nutrition. As the principal, Chiang Kai-shek can enjoy the exclusive treatment of one scrambled egg, one per day. The method of this kind of egg is to break the egg and beat it evenly to make egg sweat, mix it with sugar, refined salt, pepper and other ingredients, and fry it when the peanut oil is about 50% hot. It has a special taste. .Chiang Kai-shek's love for this kind of eggs may have a strong complex. After all, only Chiang could eat it in the entire Whampoa Military Academy at that time.

This kind of egg looks simple, but it is actually a test of craftsmanship.To keep the eggs tender, add a little cold water (preferably pure water) and a little cooking wine.What's more important is the manual whipping. The standard is that when the amount of eggs is sufficient, the whipping is completed, and the chopsticks are placed in the egg sweat, so it will not fall.The trick is that the whipping must be done in one direction and give the egg sweat a lot of tension to achieve that standard.This has stumped many chefs in the Shilin official residence.Then the egg sweat should be added one by one. When the oil is hot, pour a spoonful of egg sweat, and when the egg is half cooked, pour peanut oil, and then pour the egg.

The usual way to cook eggs is to scramble or fry, steam, boil, and egg rolls, such as tomato scrambled eggs and spring sprouts scrambled eggs.There are also Spanish egg rolls. To make these dishes well, the basis is to handle the eggs well. One of the tricks is to add a little cooking wine (add four or five drops to one egg) to make them tender and fragrant. Yuan Mei recorded a method of making eggs: "Eggs are shelled and put in a bowl, and bamboo chopsticks are beaten a thousand times to steam them, and they are absolutely tender." The forty-fourth chapter records that when Li Ping'er was eating, there was a plate of "spread eggs" on the table. The method was to beat leeks and eggs evenly, which was actually equivalent to the current scrambled eggs with leeks.

It is best to use bamboo chopsticks or wooden sticks to beat eggs, not iron, so as not to affect the taste. Eggs are considered one of the most perfect foods for human beings, with delicious taste and rich nutrition.In fact, although eggs are considered a vegetarian dish, they are actually meat dishes. Whampoa eggs are fried and fried, and the taste is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, which is special.Because Chiang Kai-shek is very fond of it, it was also listed on the menu for receiving foreign guests. In the 1950s, the Grand Hotel in Taiwan was built and became a fixed place to entertain distinguished guests.When Nixon was entertained, a Whampoa egg was served to show respect.

In addition to emotional factors, Chiang Kai-shek's love for Whampoa eggs is also due to the fact that Chiang Kai-shek eats very little meat, and eating eggs can be regarded as satisfying his gluttony. In his later years, Chiang Kai-shek was already in poor health, and sometimes he could only eat liquid food for several days.When his body got better, the guards began to make breakfast for him. Chiang Kai-shek's request was: "Just a Huangpu egg." Also because of physical reasons, in her later years, Song Meiling accepted the advice of American doctors and ordered the cancellation of Chiang Kai-shek's "one egg a day".This sparked a debate in the Internal Affairs Division, and Chiang Kai-shek also opposed it.Song Meiling's reason is that eggs with high cholesterol can cause high blood pressure.She said: "Chinese people value meat and eggs because of poverty. In fact, in Western countries, vegetables are actually nutritious."

Under Mrs. Song's strong request, Chiang Kai-shek's "Whampoa eggs" that had lasted for decades also stopped for a while, and he could only take the opportunity to satisfy his greed when entertaining guests.