Winter frost, the old Beijing this season to a market to see fresh fruit, the flavor can satisfy their craving but some sugar-coated haws, frozen persimmon, unlike now lychee, watermelon, peach, north and south assortment of fresh goods, people always It can be a real treat. Dry fruit early Pekingese child is doing in the winter a snack, dried apricots by children, persimmon, lotus root and other fruits and raisins children made. Since most of the raw material produced in the fall and winter seasons, combined with good fruit dry cool town children to eat the most delicious, so people only have to do this snack after the winter frost.

Beijing is dry fruit snacks to eat in the summer varieties. "Du small food Zayong" chant dry fruit poem says: ".. Dried apricots, persimmons town ice, lotus root cut to add yet another layer to persuade Faldo three bowls, toilet keeps you diarrhea frequency landing" and Notes said:. "summer of dried fruit, dried apricots, persimmons and other department to flooding, the upper layer covered with lotus root, diarrhea eater feel in danger," from which we can know the practice of dry fruit. "Beijing dialect dictionary" very accurately explained its approach: "Dry fruit: with persimmon-based, adding dried apricots children, soaked with warm water, and finally add lotus root pieces, tune into the gravy, sweet and sour taste, as the old Beijing summer food. "

- Dry fruits -

Dried fruit, persimmon amber, sweet apricots large reddish color, with white lotus root, osmanthus poured sugar juice, in the fruit tray with iced, ingest cool, crisp green, sweet and sour taste, so very popular. Beijing to sell more than a fruit shop, east of the mouth of Pearl City's "Golden Dragon vegetarian," the most famous, there are street hawkers, the ice holding two copper lamps, up and down Britain, knocked rhythmic sound, is introduced. These hawkers are used to call "playing ice lamp children", who in addition to selling dry fruit, also bought sour plum, rose dates, Begonia cook, dry red bubble children are old Beijing summer consumption of snacks.

production methods of dry fruit

As a traditional Beijing style snacks, which bear a profound folk flavor, eat a bowl so cool and thirst-quenching desserts in the afternoon sun, the sweet taste of direct access to the heart, thorough heart.

Starting material: dried apricots sugar 50g 50g 100g raisins lotus Section 2 tablespoons sugar Osmanthus (30ml)

Method:

1. Lotus slashing the skin section and two pedicle, rinse with water, and then cut into thin disk knife.

2. dried apricots, raisins into the hot water for 10 minutes, then remove the rinse (Note To frost the surface of dried apricots all flushed).

3. Pot into 1000ml water, fire and after boiling apricots into raisins, a small fire slowly boiled for 30 minutes, dried apricots and raisins absorb enough moisture, swell becomes large.

4. The rock sugar into the pot and lotus root, continued braking simmer for 10 minutes.

5. At this point can not be impatient, but also the fruit cooked dry in the refrigerator cool town, about 50 minutes.

6. Finally Linru osmanthus sugar in the fruit to dry.

The essential:

1. To add a little water once, avoid cooking during the second addition of water. 　　

2. due to the long cooking time, you can choose to do a multi-fruit dry, then placed in the refrigerator to save, with food as taken more convenient.

Features: color coordination, fine quality thick, sweet and dry beauty, fragrance date cake, daylight saving both children Disc food, sweets and is currently one of the informal dinner in Binzhou, if accompanied by Pear Apple after autoclaving, may made of soft canned food, for the share of tourism cold.