It's the harvest period of hawthorn with red trees and bright flowers in the wind. The red fruits are very fond of evil spirits in the season of cold wind. Being a Sugar-Coated Berry is indispensable, and making sweet and sour hawthorn cakes is even more attractive.
2 kg of fresh hawthorn, washed, pitted, mashed with plain utensils, marinated with a little salt and broken crystal sugar for one hour, boiled in a thick-bottomed pot with 500 ml of water until it became sticky, added with a little warm water, and continued to be boiled into a reddish-brown transparent paste, ceased fire, and when it was warm, added with honey and a few drops of white wine, and stirred evenly, which was the edible sweet and sour hawthorn sauce. It was put into a cover and eaten every day to strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite.
If you want to make hawthorn cake, you can add chopped red dates when you cook it, that is, jujube hawthorn cake. You can cook sticky sauce, put it into a square lunch box, pour it out and cut it into your favorite shape to eat.
Firstly, washing and removing seeds;
Step two, cut into small petals,
Third, put water with rock sugar in the pot and heat it (the amount of water and sugar can be added according to your own pot and your taste)
Fourth, when the water boils, put in hawthorn pieces and cover them. When a big fire boils, a small fire takes away too much water and cooks it.
Note: Stir from time to time to prevent the pan from sticking and burning.
This is how I made apricot jam and apple jam.
Hawthorn cake is sweet, sour and nutritious. The following tips can make you enjoy DIY hawthorn cake without leaving home.
First, the hawthorn is pitted. First cut the hawthorn in the middle, be sure to cut it to the core, then break the hawthorn in half, half of it has been pitted, and the other half can be gently squeezed out of the core.
Second, put the hawthorn into stirring.
Machine, into hawthorn sauce.
Third, boil hawthorn sauce. According to the ratio of water and hawthorn sauce1.5:1,put it in a pot, boil it until it bubbles, and then add white sugar. Generally, put one or two white sugar into a catty of hawthorn. Boil it for a few minutes with low fire, then mix the lotus root starch with cold boiled water and add hawthorn sauce to make the hawthorn cake easier to form, and boil it for another two or three minutes. Sugar osmanthus can also be added before cooking to fill the fragrance of osmanthus.
4. After cooling the hawthorn sauce, put it in the refrigerator and freeze it. Hawthorn cake is ready.