Fruit:
1. cold medicine
Ancient people also liked to eat fruit. They used fruit to make strange food. Louis's "Cold Elixir" in the Northern Song Dynasty and Qing Dynasty is an example. It is to pick 100 immature sand fruits and soak them in honey for ten days. Interestingly, in ancient times, Saudi Arabia was not called by this name, but lin ling. When the time comes, put in new honey, add cinnabar (mercury sulfide) 22, stir well and seal. A month later, take out the forest soaked in honey and dry it in the shade. It is said that it works wonders.
2. Fried green plums with honey
Fried green plums with honey is a strange food invented by Yuan people. It is said to be delicious, but the seasoning used is incredible, because a lot of verdigris is used, which is called basic copper carbonate in modern parlance. There is a saying in the Book of Songs: "Plum is actually seven-xi", which means plum. This dish is very simple: take green apricots or green plums, peel them, roll them into patina powder, and then marinate them repeatedly with raw honey to remove their sour gas. Plum is a kind of fruit that I personally like very much, but I wonder if I can still have the courage to taste this delicious food if I go back to ancient times.
Cake: jujube paste shortcake
Jujube paste shortcake is one of the most famous cakes in ancient Manchu-Han banquet. It is said that this snack was specially designed for Empress Dowager Cixi, and most people simply can't eat it. Although the practice is not complicated, it is to use crispy noodles as the skin and golden dates as the stuffing. Of course, there was no oven in ancient times, but the chef could make this kind of cake. It looks bright and attractive, tastes crisp outside and tender inside, and tastes amazing, really amazing.
Cuisine: roasted cicada
Although cicada is an insect, it does not prevent it from becoming a delicious food. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, cicadas were recorded as edible cicadas. In Zhuangzi? It is recorded in Sheng Da that Confucius saw an old man catching cicadas skillfully, and Cao Zhi, a gifted scholar in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, also wrote cicada fu. The "natural enemy" who jokingly learned cicadas was just a cook. During the Qianlong period, Chaozhou government records also recorded how to eat roasted cicadas: "chaozhou people often takes cicadas and spits them in the fire." To put it simply, local people often catch cicadas and cook them with big fire to enjoy delicious food. This is really a strange food.
I think these cuisines are quite strange. Some have been lost for a long time, and some can still be seen in modern times. Which one do you like best?
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