When I was a child, the most worthless thing in my family was fruit, and I couldn't even sell it. With the development of economy and people's pursuit of quality of life, fruits become more and more expensive, even more expensive than meat, such as cherries, durians and blueberries, which cost tens of dollars a catty. Even ordinary apples are two or three times as expensive as rice. When you eat fruit, what you eat is its freshness, but not all fresh fruits are delicious. Some fruits are made as expected and taste better than fresh ones. For example, the five kinds of fruits I will talk about next.

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The first kind: hawthorn, which must be ranked first. Hawthorn is a kind of fresh fruit that is not easy to buy. More in winter, because you can do Sugar-Coated Berry in winter. Some people will definitely say, "Gee, the hawthorn in Sugar-Coated Berry is fresh, so I think it's delicious", but it's really hard to swallow without the icing on the outside. Of course, some friends who like acid are exceptions. I'm talking about most people here. Hawthorn is generally used to make dried hawthorn, and it is very delicious to make tea or make some biscuits and steamed bread. Dried hawthorn is deeply loved by people because of its functions of strengthening spleen, appetizing and helping digestion. The method of dried hawthorn is also very simple. After slicing, remove the seeds in the middle and dry them in the sun. If you have a dryer at home, you can also use it directly.

The second kind: green plums, this kind of fruit can hardly be bought fresh, because fresh green plums will make you doubt your life, and the taste is very bad, so the plum we usually see the most is made of green plums. Dried plums have antibacterial, bactericidal, detoxicating and stomach regulating functions, and are deeply loved by people because of their sweet and sour taste. The production of dried plums is a little more complicated than hawthorn, like making pickles, because dried plums are salted. Choose green plums without insect eyes, scars, spots and broken skin, and put them in a clean container and soak them in water for one night. Then drain the water. Then, according to the standard of "one catty of green plum with two or two salts", add an appropriate amount of crude salt. A layer of green plums and a layer of salt. Then press the plum with a heavy object. Collect the squeezed juice in a clean container underneath. When it's dog days, take out the green plums and dry them for three days and three nights. After a day in the sun, soak the green plums in the juice again, and then take them out to dry. Sun-dried plums will taste better after half a year if they are put into a honey jar.

The third kind: Yangmei, Yangmei is actually a kind of fruit that is easy to buy, and it is sweet and sour. Because bayberry is not resistant to transportation and preservation, all the bayberry we can buy in the market are not ripe bayberry, so the taste will be discounted. The really delicious bayberry is ripe in the tree, and then immediately picked and eaten. If you can't eat the delicious fresh bayberry, it is better to eat dried bayberry. Dried bayberry is much more delicious than fresh bayberry sold in the market. The previous ancient method of making dried Yangmei was complicated. Let's share a simple and easy-to-operate one. Soak bayberry in salt for a few minutes, sterilize and remove eggs, and then wash it several times. Add some water to the pot, so that the bayberry will not pass, then add some rock sugar, boil the bayberry, boil it again, collect the juice with medium heat, finally fish the bayberry out and dry it, and finally dip it in fine sugar.

The fourth kind: Apricot, which I ate the most when I was a child. Apricot, like Yangmei, is not resistant to transportation and storage. When I was a child, the sour taste of apricots eaten at home was not as heavy as what I bought now, but more sweet, so now many people think apricot is sour and prefer to eat dried apricots rather than fresh apricots. The method of dried apricots is actually very simple. Choose fresh and ripe apricots, divide them into two halves, remove the core in the middle, and then dry them in the sun, or directly dry them with a dryer. Another way is to use sugar stains before drying, which is more complicated and difficult to operate at home.

The fifth kind: ebony, it was difficult to see fresh ebony before. I don't know when all major supermarkets can buy ebony, but it is expensive, more than ten yuan a catty. Personally, I think fresh ebony is just a relatively high value, and it's really not delicious in terms of taste. So let's eat dried plums. Mume is a fruit that can be used as medicine and food. The production of dried mume is complicated and needs to be processed, so I won't say much, because home production is really very difficult.