『中饋錄』 譯註

Abstract

‘Zhongkui’ means all the things do to provide food at home. Therefore, it can be interpreted that『中饋錄』 is an article that records the recipes for food made at home. This book is largely composed of three parts. These are how to dry and pickle meat, fish, and vegetables, how to handle vegetables so that they can be stored for a long time, and how to make sweets. Since the main contents are methods of processing and storing materials for a long time, it can be evaluated as practical writing containing useful information in daily life. The author of this book is unclear. Considering the editions and the contents of the book that the author was found to be ‘Pujiang Wu-shi’, it is highly likely that the author of this article is a person in the southeast of China, including Zhejiang. Regarding the time when this book was created, there are opinions that it was Song dynasty, or Song-Yuan dynasty. I translated and annotated the original text of this book.