Dan Gui has the darkest flowers, orange-yellow, orange and strong smell;
Daily fragrant cinnamon in the four seasons of cinnamon, more flowers, strong aroma. Several times a year blooming;
Golden laurel growth is the most vigorous;
By commodity price Dan Gui has the highest price, followed by golden laurel, and then silver laurel. There are also some places where gold laurel has the highest price.
But eating cinnamon is not divided into varieties.
Note: just picked from the tree fresh osmanthus is not immediately edible, fresh osmanthus contains tannins, bitter taste, and lack of flavor; and after a long period of fresh storage, astringency will be reduced or even disappear. If you need to eat, you can put fresh osmanthus in a cloth bag, squeeze the bitter water, and then mixed with sugar, pressed and sealed in bottles or jars (avoid metal containers), if not placed in a hurry for a few days, can be eaten,
Osmanthus is generally used in the following two methods of pickling:
Method 1: sugar osmanthus
Osmanthus is appropriate, rinsed with water, dry, and an equal weight or twice as much as osmanthus, white sugar mixed well, packed in the osmanthus, and then put in a bottle. The sugar of the same weight or twice as much as the cinnamon, mix well, into the jar, that is, to become color, fragrance, taste, all the best sugar cinnamon.
Method two: salted osmanthus
500 grams of osmanthus, add salt, alum 125 grams each and 500 milliliters of cold water, a little stirring. Sealed in a bottle, can be stored for a long time. This method can make osmanthus color and aroma unchanged when used to fish out, and then rinse with cold water.
With the above method of processing fresh osmanthus products, generally can be directly mixed into a variety of sweet snacks to eat. Such as glutinous rice sweet wine, eight treasures of rice, lotus heart porridge, bean paste soup dumplings and other snacks in the center with a little, that is fragrant, appetizing. In addition, you can also osmanthus as ingredients, homemade lotus root osmanthus cake, osmanthus Lantern, osmanthus cake, osmanthus glutinous rice dumplings, osmanthus sugar lotus root, osmanthus sugar taro, osmanthus chestnut cake, osmanthus yam dun and other various family sweets.