Hawthorn sugar snowballs are very common and are sold on the street. Many people feel unsanitary or too expensive, so they choose to do it themselves. Many people like to eat sugar snowballs, but there are also many failures. Most of the reason is that there is something wrong with the sugar boiling process. Today, I will focus on the process of boiling sugar. Remember that hawthorn is anhydrous, and it is made by simmering with low fire and stirring with high fire. These key steps can easily make hawthorn candy snowball.
Hawthorn sugar snowball ingredients: hawthorn, water
Seasoning: rock sugar, white vinegar
1. Prepare half a catty of hawthorn, clean it, dry it in the sun, and make it into snowballs with sugar. It's best to remove the seeds in the middle, which will taste better. Choose according to your personal situation.
2. To make sugar snowballs, follow the following steps: 200 grams of hawthorn 100 grams of rock sugar 100ml of water, plus a spoonful of white vinegar. The spoon is the kind that is commonly eaten.
3. Pour the rock sugar and water into the pot, simmer over low heat, and stir while cooking.
4. With the increase of temperature, sugar will melt completely while boiling and stirring, and water will evaporate slowly. The center will start to bubble, and there will be tiny bubbles around it. Then after boiling and stirring, the tiny bubbles will become more and more delicate and uniform.
5. Add a spoonful of white vinegar, stir evenly, turn off the fire, and stir the pot for a while.
6. This is an important step. Stir from the fire, take the pot again, pour the hawthorn and start stirring. Spread the sugar solution evenly on the surface of hawthorn and stir gently to avoid breaking hawthorn.
7, hawthorn will slowly start to sand, endure the temper and continue to stir, the action is still light.
8. Continue stirring until the icing is over. Victory is in sight. Keep stirring crazily. Just wait until the sugar on the surface solidifies into a white frost. It's warm and sweet outside, sour inside and delicious.
Skill summary 1. Cooking sugar must be slow, slow, and wait patiently for the sugar to evaporate, otherwise the sugar water will turn yellow and affect the color.
2, the process of stirring hawthorn should also be careful, to stir quickly while it is hot, too hard will lead to damage to the peel of hawthorn.
3, the whole process should be kept stirring, don't be lazy, lazy will make candied haws.