"Comrade Hu hasn't seen me for a long time. After Dong Shanhe got out of the car, he saw Hu Yunbo waiting for him at the gate.

"Xiao Dong, you haven't seen you for a long time, I just happened to have a new idea for a while, so I called you to come and try it. Hu Yunbo is still as energetic as ever, and his granddaughter Hu Dezheng is also standing by his side.

Dong Shanhe nodded with her and didn't speak, "Let's go, let's go in, I'm almost done, and there are two soups left." Hu Yunbo beckoned Dong Shanhe and Liu Miaomiao to come in.

After all, it's winter, and it only snowed two days ago, as the so-called snow doesn't turn cold into snow, and in the evening, the cold wind is swishing, don't freeze the child.

In the private restaurant, there was only Dong Shanhe and no one else, "Why didn't it open today, did you encounter any difficulties?" Dong Shanhe asked curiously.

"No, no, it's just today's meal that I want to quietly invite you and the two of you to have a good taste. I have to say that Lao Hu spoke again and again, which made it easy to say that he was confused, but he was also curious.

What is it that makes Lao Hu take it so seriously, "I have to taste it well." ”

In the main hall, there were several plates, all of which were covered with lids, and the temperature in the room was also very high, and when Hu Yunbo opened the lid, it was still steaming.

"What is this?" Dong Shanhe looked at the stacks of dishes, and was really confused, "Come on, come on, sit down and talk about it." Hu Yunbo beckoned the two to sit down, and Hu Dezheng also sat beside him.

Four people, plus a little guy, happened to sit at a small square table, saying that it was a small square table, but in fact it was not small, and the side of the table was at least one meter and two long.

"I've been working hard for half my life on this table. Lao Hu first opened a bottle of rice wine and poured himself a full glass.

"I won't greet you two, Xiaozheng won't drink, my old man has a drink alone. Dong Shanhe didn't stop him, his granddaughter didn't say anything, and he couldn't overstep his authority.

"Old man, just tell me directly, I'm confused. "Looking at Lao Hu's approach, Dong Shanhe is almost confused, which one are you doing?

"Xiao Dong, have you ever heard of Dream of Red Mansions?" asked Lao Hu after pouring a full glass of wine, putting down the wine bottle in his hand.

"I've heard of it, but I've never read a book, and I watched the old version of the TV series when I was a child. Dong Shanhe told the truth, he just hadn't read the Dream of Red Mansions books, but only watched the old version of the TV series, and there was nothing to be ashamed of.

"It's a pity that you haven't read the book Dream of Red Mansions, after all, this is a literary masterpiece, compared to the other three of the four famous books, the literary value of this book is the highest, of course, you young people probably don't have a few people who can sit down quietly and take a good look at the book, just like Xiao Zheng, he hasn't read it either. Lao Hu seemed to remember something, and said babblingly.

"But this old version of Dream of Red Mansions is really good, especially the experts of those advisory groups, they are all top experts, like Zhou Ruchang, Qi Gong and others have passed away now, and even Zhou Ling has become a generation of scholars of Dream of Red Mansions. Lao Hu said with great emotion.

In fact, he also contributed to the TV series of Dream of Red Mansions back then, and Comrade Lao Hu still has a deep knowledge of the folk customs in Dream of Red Mansions, especially the study of food.

But no one knows all this, Dong Shanhe doesn't know, even Lao Hu's granddaughter Hu Dezheng doesn't know, because he didn't appear in the list of advisors of the TV series after all, but this does not prevent Dong Shanhe and Hu Dezheng from believing him.

The old man is almost eighty years old this year, and there is no need to tell this lie, and there is nothing to plot, he wants money and money, and he wants to be famous, Lao Hu is still the vice president of the Chinese Food Culture Research Association, but he takes out this name and does a consultant in various ancient film and television dramas, which can only be invited by burning high incense.

"I didn't expect the old man to have such a wonderful past, amazing, when he floats a lot!" Dong Shanhe said impassionedly.

"Yes, when the big white floats!" Lao Hu took the wine glass and drank it all, causing Liu Miaomiao and Hu Dezheng to send Dong Shanhe a pair of white eyes.

If you don't drink, how can anyone persuade you to drink like this, this is simply a hooligan, and it is even more shameless than those who drink water.

Speaking of which, this Cao Xueqin is really a strange generation, his book doesn't look at the environment is very small, but the pattern is not small, especially the ups and downs of the times are really vividly described. After drinking, Lao Hu began to praise Cao Xueqin.

According to statistics, there are as many as 186 kinds of food in the Dream of Red Mansions. All of them include nine categories: staple foods, snacks, dishes, condiments, beverages, fruits, supplements, foreign foods, and toiletries. Among them, there are 11 kinds of staple food raw materials, 10 kinds of food, 17 kinds of snacks, 31 kinds of dish raw materials, 38 kinds of food, 8 kinds of condiments, 23 kinds of beverages, 30 kinds of fruits, 10 kinds of supplements, 7 kinds of foreign foods, and 4 kinds of toiletries.

Hood was on the side and chimed in, "If you are worthy of being a descendant of the foodie empire, you know how to eat." Unexpectedly, Hu Dezheng's whispering was heard by Lao Hu.

"Nonsense, why don't you eat? If you don't eat, you will starve to death? So eating is definitely the biggest thing for a nation, don't think that I haven't gone to school when I'm old, haven't you learned that person, Ma Dabeard, the first responsibility of human beings is to survive and reproduce, how to survive, you must eat." Dong Shanhe didn't expect that this old man would talk about the truth.

"Actually, there are various dishes for Dream of Red Mansions in various places, and I am not the first to do so, and many of these dishes have been created by me before. Lao Hu said embarrassedly.

"I have a lot of dishes here, you can take a look, it's very good, these are my efforts for decades. Lao Hu pointed to the table full of dishes and introduced it to Dong Shanhe.

"You are looking at these dishes, they are from the eighth chapter of the book Dream of Red Mansions, this is a bad goose paw, this is a bun with tofu skin. Lao Hu first introduced two dishes to Dong Shanhe

I have to say that Comrade Hu's dishes are very good, not to mention that I don't know, Dong Shanhe really didn't associate them with the dishes in the book Dream of Red Mansions.

"Old man, you can talk about it carefully, and when I go back, I will try it too. Of course, Dong Shanhe attaches great importance to this kind of dish with a very strong pretending style, and immediately asked Comrade Hu for a recipe.

Fortunately, Comrade Lao Hu did not hide his secrets, and directly told Dong Shanhe about various practices.

"The main ingredient needed for this bad goose paw is a pound of goose feet, not too old but not too tender, the remaining cucumber to one, half a catty of fragrant lees, three green onions, half a catty of rice wine, and more than a dozen cherries. The characteristic of this goose paw is that it is cool, fresh and crisp, with a strong bad flavor, but you may not be used to eating it. Dong Shanhe also knows a thing or two about drunken food, and he knows that people in the magic capital like to eat this kind of drunken food.

"The bad goose paw method is very simple, I say you will, first scrape the goose paw clean, cut off the tip of the claw, use a knife to cut the upper side of the metacarpal bone, cut off the calluses at the bottom of the palm, cucumber choose to use the skin; then put the pot on the fire, put in half of the water, blanch the goose paw and then cool it with cold water, put the goose paw in the basin, add a little cooking wine, green onion ginger slices and a little water, steam the goose paw over medium heat for about an hour, see the goose paw steamed to soft, slightly cool, along the knife seam, remove the bone joints on the goose paw; , then cover with gauze, put the stirred fragrant grains into the gauze in the bowl, spread it and then cover, about 3 hours, remove the gauze and dregs, take out the goose paw yard on the plate, cucumber peel cut into 8 autumn leaves, cherry cut in two, dot around the goose paw on the line. The old man said very quickly, and he finished all the processes in one minute, but Dong Shanhe heard it very clearly, this is still called simple, if it is simple, then what is difficult?

Dong Shanhe really wanted to complain, but after tasting it, he never said the words of complaining, this bad goose paw is so delicious, even if Dong Shanhe has never eaten a bad goose paw, but this taste did not disgust Dong Shanhe, and after eating two bites, he liked this dish.

"Husband, this dish smells of wine, can you still drive in a while?" Just as Dong Shanhe continued to eat the second one, Liu Miaomiao suddenly said.

Dong Shanhe was stunned, "It's okay, it's okay, you know me." Dong Shanhe winked at Liu Miaomiao, he didn't drink alcohol, he just ate a dish made of a little rice wine, nothing, even if there was a smell of wine, it didn't have any effect on Dong Shanhe, he could completely evaporate it by himself.

"Xiao Dong, you take a look at this tofu skin bun, this is amazing, tofu skin, a tofu clothes, the Qing Dynasty used tofu skin as a bun, there are more than a dozen methods, the most one is tofu skin wrapping the filling, such as the four folds of the paper package, into a square bag, with egg white paste to seal it, steamed on the basket; Of course, there are also tofu chopped, mixed with condiments for filling, wrapped dough, steamed, it is called tofu skin buns, of course, it is the first kind of practice, you don't underestimate this tofu skin buns, it is in the Qing Dynasty is the royal banquet in the palace, there is this thing in the Qing palace imperial food archives. "Hu Yunbo first boasted about this dish for a long time, and it can't be done if he doesn't blow it, otherwise how can he show his character, could it be said that it is eaten when beggars are begging along the street?

This is just like the group of so-called Hanfu circles that Dong Shanhe knew, all the Hanfu worn by all the people were the clothes of the ancient dignitaries and nobles, and no one wore the clothes of the poor peasants of ancient times, so couldn't the clothes of those poor people be Hanfu? Dong Shanhe had attacked twice in his spare time before, and when he got the space, he had no time to talk nonsense with those people.

"The recipe for this tofu skin bun is also very simple. As soon as Comrade Hu finished speaking, Dong Shanhe pricked up his ears and listened carefully, as long as the old man said it was very simple, it was definitely very complicated, extremely complicated.

"First of all, use tofu clothes and add golden needles, fungus, green vegetables, shiitake mushrooms, or pork, chicken, shrimp, add oil, salt, ginger shreds, sugar, sesame oil wrapped into vegetarian buns and steam, how is this production method simple, right?" This time Comrade Hu didn't even have half a minute's time, Dong Shanhe just put up his ears and it was over!!

"Old man, you also said it was very simple last time, but you said so much, now you say it is very simple, the result is really very simple, what is the standard of your simplicity?" Dong Shanhe complained weakly.

"Don't worry, there are still a lot of difficulties ahead, don't worry, you'll know in a while. Looking at the old man and saying lightly, Dong Shanhe suddenly had a bad feeling.

Immediately afterwards, the old man introduced all the dishes to Dong Shanhe.

"This is the sixteenth round of ham stewed elbow, the absolute Qing Dynasty famous dish, now there is this dish in the south of Suzhou Province, this is a fire dish, the taste should be crispy, the method is also very simple, stew with ham elbow and fresh meat elbow, add salt sugar wine, stew until crispy. The old man seemed to be talking lightly, but Dong Shanhe knew that it was definitely not that simple.

"Do you know what this dish is called?" finally asked Old Man Hu, pointing to a dish.

"This dish is very, very famous in Dream of Red Mansions, and if it weren't for the development of science and technology, I really wouldn't be able to make it. For this dish, Mr. Hu was very emotional.

The main ingredient of eggplant is one pound of eggplant and two taels of turtledove meat. Ingredients: 1 penny of peach kernels, 1 penny of almonds, 1 coin of cashew nuts, 1 coin of hazelnuts, 1 coin of pine nuts, 1 coin of olive kernels, 1 coin of peanuts, 1 coin of lotus seeds, 1 coin of chestnuts, 1 coin of spiced dried tofu, 1 coin of fresh mushrooms, 1 coin of shiitake mushrooms, 1 tael of red and green peppers, and 2 eggs.

Seasoning: two taels of peanut oil, one tael of lees, half a tael of chicken fat, one tael of soy sauce, one tael of salt and sugar, one tael of rice wine, one tael of water starch, two taels of clear soup, green onions, ginger and garlic are all prepared.

Method

1. Peel and slice the eggplant, cut the eggplant slices into squares with a knife, and then cut them into uniform dices for later use

2. Wash the turtle dove meat with water, drain the water, gently pat it loose with a knife, cut it with a flower knife, and then cut it into small dice cubes for later use.

3. Peel all kinds of dried fruits and fry them in oil to crisp. Shuifa shiitake mushrooms, fresh mushrooms, dried tofu, red and green peppers cut into diced dice for later use.

4. Remove from the pot until the heat is high, add the chicken fat, fry the diced eggplant until golden brown and remove the oil. Leave a little base oil in the pot, add green onions, ginger slices to stir out the fragrance, that is, add diced eggplant, lees wine, soy sauce, salt, sugar, vinegar, and clear soup to simmer the eggplant into the flavor, hook in a little starch, and put it into the basin with a spoon.

5. Put peanut oil in another pot and burn until five mature, then add the diced turtledove, then add fresh mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, dried tofu, red and green peppers and various dried nuts, after the oil is cleared, leave a little bottom oil in the pot, stir out the fragrance of the green onion and ginger slices, pour in the main and ingredients that are scattered, quickly cook into the bowl juice made of salt, lees, sugar, chicken essence, clear soup, and water starch, turn it over a few times, and cover it with the spoon on the eggplant.