Hawthorn has always been a specialty of the mountainous areas in northern my country, and hawthorn cake is a traditional folk snack in northern my country. During the Qing Dynasty, the folk artist Qian Wenwen summarized the experience of his predecessors, processed and finalized it, and presented it to the court. The Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty praised the cake after eating it and gave it the name "Golden" cake. Later, Song Qingling wrote a letter to praise it highly after eating it, which made this cake highly praised. This traditional food is famous all over the country. Take hawthorn juice, mix it with sugar and agar, and freeze it into a plate. The taste is smooth and delicate, sweet and cold. It is a very good medicinal food. It tastes sweet and slightly sour, and has the therapeutic value of eliminating accumulation, resolving stagnation and removing blood stasis.

Homemade hawthorn cake

Method 1:

Ingredients: 1 catty of hawthorn, 1 and a half of sugar, lotus root powder, sugar-osmanthus paste. Method: ① Remove the core of the hawthorn and beat it into hawthorn sauce in a blender; ② Put the hawthorn sauce into the pot, add water (the ratio of hawthorn to water is 1:1.5), heat and stir continuously;

③When the hawthorn sauce is heated to bubbling, add sugar. For 1 pound of hawthorn, add 1/2 portions of white sugar; ④When the sugar dissolves, add lotus root starch in order to increase coagulation; ⑤Before serving, add sugar Osmanthus sauce (no salty osmanthus sauce), stir; ⑥Put into a container and freeze in cold water to form.

Method 2:

Ingredients: 1 catty of hawthorn, 1 and half white sugar or rock sugar, 25 grams of agar. Method: ① Remove the core of the hawthorn and beat it into hawthorn paste in a blender;

② Add 25 grams of agar in warm water and soak it for 10 minutes, then put it into a blender and smash it. Then, add the agar to the pot of water and heat to dissolve;

③Put the stirred hawthorn paste into the agar in the pot to heat, and add rock sugar or white sugar, stir to dissolve; ④Put the mixed and heated hawthorn paste into the pot. Pour the agar and agar into a container and let cool.

Cut the prepared hawthorn cake into shreds, then add cucumber shreds, pear shreds, and white sugar as seasonings to make a sweet and delicious snack called "cantaloupe."