The food of the Eucharist: Every day 300 dishes, more than hundred people serve

If it comes to the famous monarchs in the feudal Chinese dynasty, of course, it is impossible not to mention Vo Tac Thien. However, in addition to the female master of martial arts, there is another woman who is equally famous in the feudal history of this country, which is Tu Hy Thai Hau (November 29, 1835 - November 15 / 1908) the Qing dynasty - the most powerful, most luxurious queen and many mysterious mysteries in the lifestyle that until today, many people are still surprised when known.

Of all these mysteries, her daily eating is also studied with quite thrilling circumstances .

The Queen Tale's paintings are painted by a foreign painter after 1900. (Photos of historical Chinese history).

Extremely careful eating and extravagance of the Empress Dowager Tu Hy

Under the Qing Dynasty, all meals in the Royal Family were made by the interior government, including rooms such as kitchens, tea rooms, bakery rooms, wine rooms, food warehouses and many other rooms. In it, the kitchen with more than 370 servants and dozens of eunuchs is the most important. These people must be carefully recruited with people from all over China.

Particularly in the time of Tu Hy Thai Hau, the private kitchen prepared dishes for her to concentrate on the best Chinese chefs, the ingredients were brought from all over the country to make the best dishes with countless ways. sophisticated processing mode.Every day she eats 2 main meals. As a rule, each meal must include 100 different dishes. In addition, there are 2 snacks with 40 to 50 dishes per day, at least 20 dishes.

The paintings of Tu Hy Thai Hau were painted by an artist in the royal family.(Photos of historical Chinese history).

According to recorded data, the most luxurious and interesting meals of the Empress Dowager must be mentioned as the times when she used trains to go and enjoy the distance. There will be 4 cars for the kitchen, 1 for the 50 stoves, each for cooking 2 dishes, the cook follows up to 100 people, regardless of service. Each meal has 100 main dishes, 100 kinds of fruits and cakes of all kinds to make sure she stays delicious during the trip and does not encounter any food related uncertainties.

Strange numbers in the one-day ration of the powerful Queen

The timetable for meals in the Qing Dynasty is also clearly defined, breakfast starts from 6 o'clock and lasts until 7 o'clock, lunch starts from 12 noon to 2 pm, 6 pm is dinner . At other times it may be up to you to serve. For the Empress Dowager, breakfast is the most important, so her meal must always be guaranteed from raw materials to processing.

The Empress Dowager on the Way of the King's Body.(Photos of historical Chinese history) .

It is known that every meal of Thai Hau in 1 day includes goat 2 children, chicken 5 children, ducklings 3 children, sliced ​​meat 11kg, fat 2kg pig, vegetables of all kinds 8.5kg, 3kg radish, kohlrabi, 5 kinds of salt vegetables, 3kg onions. Some other ingredients include Ngoc Tuyen wine, Compatible Thanh Tuong 1.5kg, 1kg vinegar, 240 kinds of cakes using 16kg of flour, 4kg aromatic oil, white sugar made of walnuts and apple 4kg way, sesame .

However, the numbers and the above foods will differ depending on the status and positions of the different people in the royal family, but Queen Hau Hy can say that the privileged person has the magnificent meals. most of the day. The royal family's meal was pre-ordered by the kitchen room, approved by the Interior Office, and then the kitchen room was started to prepare.

Portrait of the Thai Queen after her old age.(Photos of historical Chinese history).

Pray for precious rights from food to food

The Empress Dowager will eat alone , the food presented on the table or placed in pearl boxes then moved by the guard to the place where she eats, while the close female servants serve her only to stand eat or eat after she has finished eating. After the food is served, the eunuchs will use brooch to check if the food is poisonous and directly taste it, then she will start taking the meal. While eating, Tu Hy Thai sat in the north and turned to face south. In front of the table, a square table, on two floors full of high-quality food, the eunuch introduced the name of each dish and just picked up the delicious dishes of the Queen Mother.

Although many foods like that, Empress Dowager only eats food near her, others eat very little, not even chopsticks. With the favorite Thai Hau dishes, but too far away, there will be eunuchs coming to come closer, every Empress's meal will only eat from 3 to 4 dishes, the rest will be removed after meals. As for the leftovers or pouring away or rewarding the lady's bow, the eunuch, most of that food is still as intact as it was when it was rising.

From the Empress Dowager beside the wife of US envoys.The person holding the Queen's hand is Sarah Conger, the wife of the US ambassador to China.(Photos of historical Chinese history).

On holidays such as New Year's Eve (a holiday of the elderly in China), the kitchen prepares more chrysanthemum, apple, porridge and many other kinds of breakfast to the Queen. Legend has it that on this day, Thai Queen often came to Di Hoa Vien to watch clouds and came to Bai Van Dien to enjoy the meat-baked cake she loved. With this dish, the chef must use the wood of the pine tree to bake.

The snacks that are loved by the Queen Mother have "sub-oa head" (a Chinese dish made from corn flour), rotten tofu . In particular, rotten tofu must be rotten tofu Ngoc Tri Hoa brought from "Ngoc Tri Hoa Nam Tuong Vien" (a place of China) right on the day.

Photo of Tu Hy Thai Hau at a temporary tent arranged similar to Dien Tho Dien - the main room of Tu Hy Thai Hau in Di Hoa Vien.The following line is full of her sign.(Photos of historical Chinese history).

In terms of drinks, Tsui Taun likes flower teas and is particularly careful in tea. The water used to make tea must be taken from the day of Ngoc Tuyen mountain, the flowers used to marinate tea such as roses, jasmine must be freshly picked flowers and then mixed with dried tea, when mixed with aroma of flowers blended in tea. The Queen Mother used a glass of white jade to drink tea, on a gold tray placed 3 glasses of white jade, in the middle of the tea, the two sides set flowers, 2 eunuchs offered a tray of tea to say: "The old buddha, the tea is good!" . After being eunuch, Xu Hy started to enjoy tea.

The Queen Mother has the "moist" and "real" luxury, but also most knowledgeable

And although she is a Hoang with such a luxurious and sophisticated diet, but honestly, the knowledge of Tu Hy Thai Hau is not about "medium" , her understanding is good. can make many famous chefs amazed.

From Hy Thai Hau walking to see the snow.(Photos of historical Chinese history).

In "Thanh Cung Thap Tam Hoang Trieu", this story is rewritten as follows: "Tu Hy understands the cuisine, her understanding of food makes the experts wonder. Thai Hau likes to eat duck. stew, ie duck after being washed, marinated in spices, put in a sealed jar, add water and stew for 3 days until both meat and bone are soft, then the Queen Mother only eats the duck skin. like roasted duck, roasted suckling pig, black chicken, lamb leg, the Queen Mother once said, when she was young she liked to eat the most crunchy pig skin when her age was high, the dishes made from cherries became love prefer".

From Hy Thai Hau and the eunuchs.(Photos of historical Chinese history).

Demonstrating the above-mentioned facts about Tu Hy Thai Hau's understanding of the cuisine, it is clear, the dishes she thought of herself to use to treat Western envoys in a grand party The most superlative in Chinese history on December 23, 1873 has to be said to be extremely unique, but equally as frightening as that of a stomach-eating rat, fresh monkey brains, or a seaweed dish The flood was born from the species of Tianjin goat after being eaten with Cordyceps, the grass of the genus - the grass only grew in the smooth years in the Thai Hoang mountains, the spirit of the big and good nest was cooked with ginseng and Cao Ly sugar, rare precious bird eggs, or Phuc Chau suckling pig before cooking can only eat rare and precious tubers growing in the earth. i Chau President bones.