Chapter 17 Grandma Liu eats eggplant
As the saying goes, "Grandma Liu enters the Grand View Garden" when rural people from the north enter the city.It is true that Grandma Liu made a lot of jokes when she entered the Grand View Garden.Let's talk about the eggplant she ate that day.From the version point of view, there are differences between "eggplant" and "eggplant".About each of the books is called "Jiangyu", and the unique original is called "Jiangyu". Not only the name is different, but the method is also completely different.First record the text of the Gengchen edition of Zhiyanzhai:
Jia Mu laughed and said, "Feed some eggplants to him." Sister Feng heard that she took some eggplants and put them into Grandma Liu's mouth, because she said with a smile, "You eat eggplants every day, and you also taste our eggplants. Is it delicious?" Grandma Liu smiled and said, "Don't coax me. The eggplant has come out of this smell, and we don't need to grow food, only eggplant." Everyone laughed: "It's really eggplant, we don't want to coax it anymore. You." Grandma Liu said in amazement: "It's really eggplant. I ate it for half a day. My aunt will feed me some more, and chew this one carefully." Sister Feng came and put some more into her mouth.Grandma Liu chewed it carefully for a long time, and said with a smile: "Although it has a little eggplant fragrance, it just doesn't look like eggplant. Tell me how to make it, and I will eat it." Sister Feng laughed and said, "It's not difficult. You peel off the skin of the eggplant that just came down, just clean the meat, cut it into small nails, fry it in chicken oil, then use the chicken breast meat, and add fragrant mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, dried five-spice tofu, and dried fruits of various colors. Cut it into nails, simmer it dry with chicken broth, collect the sesame oil, mix it with bad oil, put it in a magnetic jar and seal it tightly. Take it out when you want to eat it, and mix it with fried chicken melon." Grandma Liu shook her head and vomited Tongue said: "My Buddha, I got a dozen chickens to match him. It's a strange smell."
The books are roughly the same.Recently, the Writer’s Publishing House has accepted the mistake of Ya Dongben, and punctuated it with “fried chicken and melon seeds, just mix it together.”.How can you eat melon seeds once you mix them?This is very ridiculous, stir-fried chicken melon or fried chicken melon seeds, that is, fried diced chicken.
If there is an original version, it is called "蛋胙", and the method is different. The excerpts are as follows:
Sister Feng said with a smile: "It's not difficult. You pick off the new eggplant buns in April and May, and remove the skin and stalks. You only need to clean the meat, cut it into thin strands of hair, dry it, and take a piece of it." A fat hen comes out of the old soup, and tastes the steamed chicken soup on the eggplant shreds, and then takes it out to dry. After nine times of steaming and nine times of drying, it must be crispy, and it is placed in a magnetic jar and sealed tightly. To eat When it’s time, take out a plate and mix it with the fried chicken and melon seeds.” Grandma Liu shook her head and stuck out her tongue and said, “My Buddha, I got more than a dozen chickens to match him. It’s so delicious.”
Readers want to ask which of these two recipes is delicious or can be made. I am not a chef and I can't answer this question. According to common sense, it seems impossible to make either one, let alone delicious.However, it seems even more impossible to do "eggplant" with an original copy.An eggplant is cut into hair-thin shreds, steamed and dried nine times, and even the soul of the eggplant is gone.Can this still be "definitely crispy"?Eggplant is of course not easy to cook, but it is a little more affectionate than eggplant.
The dishes it says can’t be cooked in fact, so it will involve a seemingly serious problem: Does this hinder the reality of cooking?My answer, no problem.It's just a novel, not a recipe, so what's the problem?It's too naive to cook and eat according to the novel.
The dishes can neither be cooked nor eaten.Why did he write like that?This is very meaningful.You know, he was satirizing the unreasonable luxury of aristocratic life.According to Eggplant’s statement, chicken oil, chicken breast meat, fragrant mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, five-spice dried fruits, various dried fruits, chicken soup, sesame oil, bad oil, fried chicken and melon, so many things to match it No wonder Grandma Liu shook her head and stuck out her tongue and said:
My Buddha, who got a dozen chickens to match him, wondered at the smell.
I don't really admire it beyond words.The author's intention can be seen.
Look at "eggplant" again.As mentioned above, the soft eggplant is cut into strands as thin as hair. May I ask what kind of craftsmanship is this?Then it was steamed and dried nine times, what happened?How absurd this is, Sister Feng asked Grandma Liu to "try our eggplant". No wonder Grandma Liu said:
Stop teasing me.Eggplants have come out of this smell, and we don't need to grow food, we only grow eggplants.
Yes, "we don't grow food, we only grow eggplants", what do ordinary people eat.This has the meaning of Emperor Hui of the Eastern Jin Dynasty "why not eat minced meat".The original is very realistic, and sometimes it seems unrealistic.But it seems to violate the reality, but also shows a high degree of reality.