1, raw materials: ebony is smoked from the nearly mature fruit of Prunus mume, a deciduous tree plant in Rosaceae, while preserved Prunus mume is processed from yellow-ripe plums picked after awning. The raw materials of the two are very different.
2. Production method: The method of "fireworks smoking" is adopted in the ebony. People need to "low-temperature dry" the fruits of Rosaceae plants and then "fireworks smoking" to obtain "black and astringent" ebony. However, preserved plum is made by the methods of "salting in salt water" and "salting in the sun", and the materials needed to be added in the middle are salt water and sugar, etc., and its production process is much more complicated than that of ebony.
3. Edible efficacy: Mume has the magical effects of treating chronic cough due to lung heat, thirst due to deficiency heat, chronic diarrhea, dysentery, biliary ascaris, cholecystitis and so on, while Mume has the effects of moistening throat, clearing throat, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion.
Cooking dishes of mume and huamei
Mume tastes sour, and its common dishes are sour plum soup, dark plum orange peel pear soup, dark plum tomato, dark plum ribs, dark plum hanging pear soup, dark plum bean soup, dark plum honey pills, dark plum bread and so on.
Preserved plum tastes salty and sweet, and its common cooking dishes are preserved plum fried lotus root slices, preserved plum peanuts, preserved plum chicken wings, preserved plum salmon, preserved plum radish, preserved plum duck, salted preserved plum lemonade, preserved plum braised pork, preserved plum pork elbow, plum wine and so on.