Roses contain more than 300 chemical components, such as aromatic alcohols, aldehydes, fatty acids, phenols and oils containing flavors. Newly-opened flowers and roots of roses can be used as medicine, which has the effects of softening the liver, waking the stomach, soothing and regulating qi, beauty beauty and astringing.
The pulp of rose hips can be made into jam with special flavor, and the fruit is rich in vitamin C and vitamin P. Extracting rose essential oil (called rose dew) from rose petals can improve skin quality and promote blood circulation and metabolism.
nutrition
Roses contain many trace elements and high vitamin C. Roses can be used to make various refreshments, such as rose sugar, rose cake, rose tea, rose wine, rose pickles, rose cream and so on. Roses can be eaten directly, rose roots can be cooked and eaten, and rose roots can be used to make wine.
The ripe fresh fruit of rose contains a lot of vitamins A, B and C, as well as more than ten kinds of amino acids, soluble sugars and alkaloids. Among them, the content of vitamin C is the richest, reaching more than 2000mg per 100g, and it is known as the "king of vitamin C". It also contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, magnesium and so on. The protein content is 8.5%, the fat content is 4.7%, the soluble sugar content is 65,438 0.2%, and the carbohydrate content is 68%. Rose pomace does not contain any harmful elements, including glucose 18% to 23%, starch 2 1.75% to 22.63%, and is rich in amino acids, the total amount of which is as high as 10%. Rose red pigment is extracted from the flower residue after distillation of rose oil and used for food coloring. When red rose is used as the red pigment of acidic food, its nutrients are not destroyed. In addition, rose dregs can also produce soy sauce.
Rose is a perfume plant, and the perfume extracted from rose-rose oil is expensive in the international market.
Rose oil is pure in composition and fragrant in smell, and has always been an irreplaceable raw material in the world perfume industry. In Europe, it is mostly used to make cosmetics such as high-grade perfume. Rose water developed and extracted from waste rose oil is a pure natural skin care product without any additives and chemical raw materials, which has excellent anti-aging and antipruritic effects. In addition, the root bark of roses can be used as a yellow dye for spun silk and other things.
Rose menu
Hawthorn rose thick soup cake
Ingredients: 200 grams of wheat flour.
Accessories: 5 grams of hawthorn and 5 grams of roses.
Seasoning: baking soda 15g, yeast 15g, sugar 20g, cream 10g.
step
1. Put hawthorn, rose and water into a pot and bring to a boil over medium heat. After turning off the fire, let the material soak for 10 minute, and drain out 120 g juice to cool for later use.
2. Mix and sieve the flour and baking powder into a conditioning basin, add dry yeast, white sugar, salt and prepared fruit juice, mix and knead into dough, cover with plastic wrap and let stand for 10 minute.
3. Sprinkle a little medium gluten flour on the workbench, put the loose dough on the workbench, weigh it into round pieces with a rolling pin about 20 cm in diameter, put it directly into the buttered pot, cover it, and put it in a warm place for fermentation for a few minutes.
4. Fry the fermented dough slowly for 8 minutes with low fire, turn over and fry for another 2 minutes until the surface of the cake appears beautiful yellow.
Tips for making hawthorn and rose thick pot cakes;
After the finished product, 1 round piece with a diameter of 20* and a thickness of 2 cm is formed. Frying time/time: low fire/10 minute. Tasting period: refrigerated for 5 days. The purpose of using baking powder and fast-growing dry yeast at the same time is because baking powder can make dough loose in a short time, and baking powder not only has the function of loosening hair, but also provides special yeast flavor.
rose hip soup
Ingredients: rose petals, Huang Ju petals, 50g watermelon, 50g cantaloupe, 50g apple and 5g grape.
Seasoning: rock sugar and water starch.
Seasoning:
Watermelon, cantaloupe, apple and grape are peeled and cut into pieces.
Add water, crystal sugar and raw materials to the pot and boil the thicken.
Rose sea cucumber crisp
Material: 300g of wheat flour.
Accessories: rose 100g, egg 100g.
Seasoning: sugar150g, lard 50g (refined).
step
1. Sieve the flour and put it on the chopping board, and dig a hole in the middle;
2. Put eggs, sugar, lard, baking powder and a little water in into the pit and knead into dough;
3. Tie the dough into knots, wrap the rose stuffing one by one, make it into the shape of sea cucumber, and then brush it with egg paste;
4. Put it on a plate and bake it until it is mature.
Tips for making rose sea cucumber crisp;
1. After the finished product is made, there are many cracks on the surface of the pastry, so pay attention to the dryness and humidity of the dough;
2. The finished product is crisp on the outside and sweet and soft on the inside, and the rose fragrance is rich;
3. Preparation method of rose stuffing: put sesame, sugar and lard into a container, stir evenly, add proper amount of dry starch while stirring, and finally add roses, and stir evenly to make rose stuffing.