Answer:Steps

1. First, add a proper amount of cool water to the pot, then add a proper amount of rock sugar. Turn on high heat to boil the rock sugar in the water. Press gently with a spoon or other tools and the rock sugar crumbles. (You can't use iron or aluminum pans to cook the sugar because they will color the sugar as it boils, so only use stainless steel pans.)

2. When the water in the pot boils and the sugar melts, turn the heat down and cook for about 7 to 8 minutes. At this point there is already a small amount of sugar thinning out. In order for the sugar to thin out evenly, keep the heat on and use chopsticks to stir in the pot for 2 to 3 minutes.

3. Finally, the sugar should be completely simmered out. Note that you can't use chopsticks to stir during this process, or the icing sugar will scorch on the bottom of the pot.

This time the time to boil sugar to some longer, 15 minutes or so, the first chopsticks to stir to see if there is a sticky feeling, if there is a spatula to fry ponds, generally fry 2 to 3 minutes can be fried, fried to shovel sugar thin with a spatula, dripping sugar thin yellow, and almost a line, which means that the sugar thinning has been completely boiled well. You can make icing sugar gourd.

1, the origin

South Song Emperor Guangzong name Zhao Dun, the year "Shaoxi". During the Shaoxi period, Huang Guifei, the favorite concubine of Emperor Guangzong, fell ill. Her face was yellow and thin, and she did not want to eat. The imperial doctors used many expensive medicines, but did not see any effect. The emperor saw his favorite concubine emaciated, but also all day long worried. The last thing he had to do was to open a list of doctors.

A jianghu Langzhong unveiled the list into the palace, for Huang Guifei pulse diagnosis, said: "as long as the use of rock sugar and red fruit (i.e., hawthorn) decoction, eat five to ten before each meal, not half a month of the disease quasi see good."

The beginning of everyone will be skeptical, good in this way of eating is also in line with the taste of the Princess, the Princess according to this way to serve, and indeed, as expected, the disease is cured. The emperor was naturally delighted, and unfolded the sadness. Later, this practice spread to the people, the people and string it up to sell, it became the ice candy gourd.

2, health effects

Ice candy gourd is rich in vitamin C, pectin and chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, hawthorn acid, qiju fruit acid, quercetin, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, gingivalenoside, epigallocatechin, and many other organic acids and nutrients.

Adopting modern technology to remove the kernel, red color, no pigment, no food additives, good taste, is a natural nutritional food. Hawthorn has a lot of medicinal efficacy, it can eliminate food accumulation, dissipate blood stasis, expel tapeworms, stop dysentery, especially help digestion, since ancient times for the elimination of food accumulation of the important medicine, especially long for the elimination of meat accumulation.

Li Shizhen, the outstanding medicine scientist in Ming Dynasty, once said, "Cooking old chicken hard meat, into the hawthorn a few that is easy to rot, then its elimination to the accumulation of the work, the cover can be pushed forward." In addition hawthorn also has lower blood fat, lower serum cholesterol and other effects.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Ice Cream