Children often cough in autumn and winter, so make some kumquat preserves for them. Kumquats are rich in vitamin C, kumquat glycosides and other ingredients, which play a certain role in maintaining cardiovascular function and preventing vascular sclerosis, hypertension and other diseases. As a dietary health product, kumquat preserves can whet your appetite. Drinking kumquat juice can produce body fluids and quench thirst. Adding radish juice and pear juice to the drink can cure coughs. Eat the peel and pulp together. After chewing, you will feel moist in your throat and full of fragrance in your mouth. There are so many benefits, and the taste is sour and sweet, you can’t stop eating it.

Use a knife to cut each kumquat in half from the middle, and scoop out the seeds (you don’t have to remove the seeds, if the child is willing to eat it and it is acceptable.) I use the tail of a spoon that is available in every household. The removed seeds were very useful. Dabao seemed interested and came to help, and told me not to compete with her. O( _ )O Haha~, it’s not bad to have a little assistant, and it can also train children’s hands-on skills.

After removing the seeds, you get a pot of processed kumquats.

Let’s prepare 125 grams of yellow rock sugar, put it into a bag and put it in several layers. The baby will also do the work below. Use a rolling pin to beat the rock sugar and try to break the rock sugar into pieces.

Next, pour the rock sugar into the kumquats and mix well with chopsticks. It can be left overnight to marinate the pectin. I then transferred it directly to the non-stick pan and started cooking.

Continue to simmer over low heat until the unmashed rock sugar gradually melts and the kumquats begin to soften and produce juice. Continue stirring and simmering. There will be more and more juice and the edges of the kumquats begin to slowly become transparent. Continue Stir and cook until the juice gradually reduces. Keep stirring until there is almost no juice and the thick sugar is wrapped in the kumquat. You can turn off the fire.

Use chopsticks to pick them out one by one and place them neatly on the Internet. I use a dry fruit machine, 70 for 4 hours. Friends who have an oven can use the oven for 100 for two hours, according to your own taste. to adjust the time.

After 4 hours, it became what it is now. The surface is sticky, and there is not much moisture when you pinch it. It is recommended that you do not retain excessive moisture whether in the oven or the dried fruit machine, because if there is too much moisture, the powdered sugar will become wet after a while after being coated with powdered sugar, and the kumquats will stick together. Don't ask me how I know.

Then use chopsticks to remove the kumquats one by one and throw them into a bowl with powdered sugar. Stir them so that each kumquat is coated with powdered sugar, and you are done. Just keep it sealed as much as possible. Tasting the sweet and sour taste is a feeling of happiness!

I used 500 grams of kumquats to make 250 grams of refined oil. For reference of friends.