How to preserve the color and fragrance of osmanthus after collection:

To maintain its color and fragrance, you can soak the osmanthus in citric acid water and then pickle it, or you can directly dry the fresh osmanthus in the shade. Collection and storage.

There is also a traditional method of brewing osmanthus: add 2.5 taels each of salt and alum to one pound of osmanthus, and mix it with 1 pound of cold boiled water. It can also preserve the color and fragrance. Use cold boiled water when using it. After rinsing, various sweet-scented osmanthus foods can be made.

Make sweet-scented osmanthus:

Use fresh sweet-scented osmanthus to make sweet-scented osmanthus:

Mix one pound of fresh sweet-scented osmanthus with one pound of white sugar and pickle it to make sweet-scented osmanthus.

Pick fresh osmanthus. Fresh osmanthus cannot be washed. First, marinate it with a little salt overnight. Salt can sterilize and remove the astringency, so that you can get better fragrance and sweetness in the later stage. Then pour away the pickled water and dry it in the sun. Add a layer of osmanthus and a layer of sugar in a ratio of 1:1. Marinate it. Find a clean bottle, put the pickled osmanthus in, seal it and put it away. It can be eaten within a week in a light place, or can be stored in the refrigerator. You can make tea with sugared osmanthus and add a slice of lemon for a sweet and sour taste.

Use dried osmanthus to make osmanthus sugar:

Rinse the dried osmanthus in clean water to remove the dust on the surface, then remove and drain the water, add sugar and steam in a pot 10 minutes, just stir it halfway through. After it cools down, put it into a clean sealed bottle or refrigerate it. Use a clean spoon when eating.

You can also use bees to make it. You don’t need to steam it with the osmanthus. After the osmanthus is steamed in a pot, you can mix it with the bees and marinate it. This can ensure that the nutrition of the bees is not destroyed. .

In addition, you can also make osmanthus tea.