Properties of osmanthus fragrans
The ancients said: osmanthus is the best medicine, so the wine brewed with osmanthus can achieve the effect of "drinking for a thousand years". Osmanthus fragrans has mild properties, and has the effects of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, warming the stomach, relieving pain, resolving phlegm and removing stasis. If you encounter pain such as loss of appetite, phlegm, cough and asthma, hemorrhoids, dysentery, amenorrhea and abdominal pain, taking Osmanthus fragrans has certain curative effect. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and weak spleen and stomach function can drink osmanthus tea to warm their stomachs. However, people with dry mouth, hunger but no appetite and yellow urine are not suitable for drinking dried osmanthus.
How to make dried osmanthus?
To make high-quality dried osmanthus fragrans, raw materials of osmanthus fragrans are very critical. There are only 4 to 5 days before and after the flowering of osmanthus fragrans, and the time is not much. If you want to ensure the quality of dried osmanthus, you must harvest it in time, if it is too late or too early, it is not suitable. Pick sweet-scented osmanthus in the morning as far as possible, if it is sweet-scented osmanthus with dew, it will be of better quality. The picked fresh osmanthus fragrans should be put away in a breathable storage basket, and should not be squeezed, otherwise it will damage the fresh osmanthus fragrans. Fresh osmanthus should be processed into dried osmanthus in time after picking, and should not be stored for too long.
Many friends think that to make dried osmanthus, just put fresh osmanthus on the balcony to dry. In fact, osmanthus fragrans must be dried to lock the fragrance, and simply dried osmanthus fragrans has no fragrance. Let's learn how to do it.
1: dry in the oven.
First, soak fresh osmanthus fragrans in pure water, then rinse it with mineral water several times after it is fished out, and then control the moisture to dry, and pick out the dead flowers and pedicels. Finally, put the fresh osmanthus into the oven to dry, take it out and let it cool to become dried osmanthus.
2. Use microwave oven to dry.
Pick out the dead flowers and pedicels, wash the fresh osmanthus with clear water, and then control the water to dry. Find a clean gauze, pour osmanthus on the gauze and prepare to bake it in the microwave oven. It needs to be baked twice, the first time is 3 minutes, and the second time is 2 minutes after cooling. The color of dried osmanthus fragrans made in this way is very beautiful, and the old and tender are just right.
3. Lime drying method
Fresh osmanthus removes impurities, but it doesn't need to be cleaned. If you have to clean it, dry it with a hair dryer after controlling the water, but you can't dry osmanthus in the sun. Then take enough quicklime blocks and put them on the bottom of the container, and spread a layer of plastic paper on them. The paper must completely cover the bottom and the periphery of the container, so as to prevent osmanthus and quicklime from contacting directly. The dosage of quicklime is preferably more than twice that of fresh osmanthus, and the more the better.
Then put them in a container and seal them tightly with a container cover for1~ 2 days. When the cover is opened, the fresh osmanthus will become very dry and crisp, and it will not lose its fragrance or change its color.
Xiao Qi's conclusion: How to make dried osmanthus? Is everyone clear? What Qi introduced in Chinese above is very scientific and convenient. Among them, the dried osmanthus in microwave oven is darker in color and lasts longer, and the color made at high temperature is better. The dried sweet-scented osmanthus is sealed in glass bottles and stored, and then taken out when necessary.