Xi'an cuisine candied gourd
Sugar-coated haws is a traditional Chinese cuisine, it is the berries dipped after maltose syrup with a bamboo stick string clusters, taffy case of wind quickly harden. Common snack northern winter, generally strung with hawthorn, taffy was frozen hard, eat sweet and sour, very ice.
--Sugar-coated haws--
Production Method
Ingredients: Hawthorn, strawberries, grapes and other fresh fruits
Accessories: white sugar, sugar, honey and so on.
1, the selection Sinofranchetia full of fresh, red berries uniform size, wash. The red berries cut down the middle with a knife digging stones, and then the two closed. Been to the nuclear red berries with a bamboo stick to string together about a dozen each string.
2, boil sugar to white sugar into the pot, and by the sugar water 2: 1 ratio of water was added, over high heat boil about 20 minutes. When sugar coming just right, it is transparent sticky. If lack of time brewed, sticky teeth sugar will; if boiled too long, the sugar will pan bitterness.
3, dipped in sugar thrown on the string of good heat against red fruit sugar Aohao foam gently turn, can be wrapped in a thin layer. The master said to make sugar-coated haws, dipped in sugar this link seems simple, but it requires skill. If too thick wrapped sugar, eat a bite vain fruit, it is more a failure. Dipped in sugar to a thin and uniform layer, that is a success.
4, cooling dipped into the red fruit sugar string good water cooling plate can enjoy twenty-three minutes. The so-called water board, in fact, is smooth wood, soaked in water for a long time, the lower temperature, while the wood is absorbent and can help candied fruit cooling stereotypes. When home production, you can use instead of chopping, just prior to use cutting boards on the water to soak more than you can.
Effect
This product features in this installment are rich in vitamin C, pectin and a variety of organic phosphorus, the use of modern technology to stone, color Hongyan, no coloring, no food additives, taste is still good, is a natural nutritional food.
Later this practice spread to people, people took it to string together to sell, it becomes a sugar-coated haws. Originally, many of hawthorn medicinal effects, which can digestion product, scattered congestion, taeniafuge, stop diarrhea, especially to aid digestion, since ancient times for digestion product to the drug, especially good meat product consumption. Perhaps the yellow chaise food product delicacies live food, diseases in doing little hawthorn lifting of the illness. Ming Li Shizhen distinguished medical scientist has said: "Hard-boiled chicken meat, the number of teeth that is easy to rotten hawthorn, its power consumption to the product, the cover may carry push."
Studies have shown that people today, as well as hawthorn: appetizer, brain, beauty, kidney, blood fat, lowering serum cholesterol and so on, thus more people of all ages. Hawthorn food is also a new guise, a wide variety. But the sweet and sour crispy sugar-coated haws until today is still loved by the people to eat delicious food.