2. Soak in lime water for one night: the lime is mixed with clear water, and the ratio of lime to water is 20: 1000. Leave it for a few minutes, take the supernatant and soak the wax gourd pieces, and refrigerate for 6-8 hours.

3, washed with boiling water: wash the wax gourd pieces, pour water for half a day to a day (long time needs to be refrigerated), and change the water twice during the period to ensure that there is no lime residue. Boil the washed wax gourd blocks in boiling water for 5 minutes.

4. Weigh the wax gourd, and the weight of white sugar is half that of wax gourd meat. I take 300 grams of white sugar here, and the sweetness is similar to that of dry honey syrup.

5, sugar stains: a layer of melon blocks and a layer of sugar are paved. Refrigerate for 2~3 days.

6. Boil the melon syrup: The candied melon is hard and transparent, and all the melon syrup is boiled in the pot (there is no need to add additional water and sugar, at this time, the water of the melon has been mixed with white sugar to form syrup).

7. Turn to medium heat after boiling, and keep stirring during this period. The wax gourd pieces are milky white.

8. Sugar water turns into thick syrup to wrap melon meat and produce sugar bubbles. Pay attention to the fact that there is basically no sugar water, and immediately turn off the fire.

9. Pour it into the plate stand and open it for a few minutes. Pour the syrup together.

10, sugar precipitation by stirring: when the temperature of melon meat drops, it starts to precipitate sugar powder by itself, and it feels like sand on the surface, and then it starts to stir gently with a big spoon. The more white sugar powder is precipitated by stirring, the melon meat becomes soft and hard, and the winter melon candy can be eaten beautifully.

Extended data:

1, sugar pickling: put the wax gourd16 ~17 times into the container, cover each layer with a layer of white sugar, and pickle for 48 hours with the amount of sugar ***40 kg.

2, boiling sugar: divided into three times, the process of boiling sugar should be turned. The amount of sugar added each time is the first time13kg; Second time12kg; The third time12kg, and finally, 8kg of white sugar powder was added. The specific operation is as follows: pour the wax gourd strips together with the sugar solution into the pot for the first time, add sugar after boiling for 10 minute, then cook for 1 hour after adding sugar (sugar bubbles should be removed in the cooking process), and pour back into the container for soaking for 4-5 hours.

The method of boiling sugar for the second time and the first time

3. Same. When the sugar is boiled for the third time, simmer until the syrup drops into beads in cold water, quickly take out the wax gourd and put it in a casserole, add sugar powder and turn it from time to time to mix well. The surface of the wax gourd strips is covered with frost, and take it out and cool it to get the finished product.

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