Shicun honey jujube is a specialty of Shicun, Qiu Village Town, Guangde County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province. Shicun's honey dates have a long history of production, the honey dates' jujube surface is golden yellow in color, no burnt skin, crystalline and translucent; the jujube surface is full of frosting, dry and not sticking to each other; the knife pattern is even and neat, and the size of the particles is well-proportioned; the taste of the sugar is pure, the sweetness is sufficient, and the meat is thick, and the entrance is loose but not stiff, and it is y loved by the honey dates' diners.

Shicun honey jujube production is family-oriented. Once the jujube is on the market, you just need to walk into Shi Village, these ordinary farmers' families, every family is making jujube. The simple and kind heart and snow-white sugar are kneaded into one, and injected into one "agate" to provide the society with beautiful and sweet jujube fruits.

Shicun jujube trees are many, varieties are also many, there are milk jujube, red milk jujube, water milk jujube and so on. Among them, milk jujube has the characteristics of large size, small nucleus, loose flesh, thin and tough skin, and less juice, which is the best choice for making raw materials of honey jujube. Every year in the second half of August of the solar calendar, people start to pick milk jujube. After removing deformed jujube, insect jujube and overripe jujube, the jujube fruit is pressed into the date cutting machine and graded by the size of the caliber in and out. Then the carefully selected jujube fruit according to the grade into the aperture of the date cutting machine to cut the seam. Depth should be strictly controlled in half of the thickness of the fruit flesh, if cut too deep easy to break, too shallow sugar liquid is not easy to soak through. Scratch seam of fresh dates in the water to wash and drain the water, then begin to cook jujube.

Boiling jujube all use pots and stoves, usually with big iron pots and stoves specially built for making honey jujube. Cooking dates sugar and fresh dates ratio according to experience, but the general ratio of 1:2. dates dry and wet, maturity, cooking time and fire are by their own grasp, first put some water in the pot, and then heat the water and sugar, dissolved into a sugar solution, and then poured into the fresh jujubes and sugar solution stirring, with a strong fire cooking and boiling constantly, tossing and to be fished out of the sugar froth floated up. To be simmered until the dates become soft and yellow, then slow down the fire, flip. When the sugar color from white to yellow, reduce the fire, slow simmering with lines of fire, cooking time is generally required to reach about 50 minutes can be. Then the boiled dates together with the sugar solution poured into the cold pot to stand, so that the sugar solution evenly penetrate into the fruit of the date, and at certain intervals of time to stir, and then the sugar dates poured into the sugar filtering wicker to filter the sugar solution. Filter dry sugar liquid after the date fruit to be placed in the sun, such as rainy weather needs to be sent to the baking room baking in a timely manner, baking fire first slow and then fast, baking time is generally a day. But whether it is sunshine or baking, should be turned every few hours.

Turning process will be date fruit with date press or hand pressed into a round flat shape, to promote drying or improve the appearance.

After exposing the dates to the sun to reveal the frosting, they are turned inside the house to dry. Baked jujubes are then dry roasted. The fire should be the first urgent and then slow, prompting the date surface reveal frosting, and then gradually reduce the fire, timely turning to make the date fruit dry evenly. Inspection should be forced to squeeze the jujube fruit is not deformed, jujube color golden, bright, jujube surface through the jujube frost can be.

The final process is the honey date grading, into the plastic film food bag, and finally into the market.