Ingredients

Winter melon 1500g, dried cinnamon 100g, brown sugar 500g

Practice

1, winter melon rind clean, cut into small pieces

2, winter melon rind and winter melon seeds all to be retained. All good things ah

3, with brown sugar mixed with winter melon, let it sit for 30 minutes, winter melon will naturally out of water

4, add dried cinnamon, together with cooking. Boil on high heat, turn to low heat and cook for 2 hours (I use a regular natural gas stove, the smallest fire. Cook until the winter melon becomes coffee-colored transparent.) I used a cast iron pot, sealing and water locking are better, cooking two hours of basic water is not much less, if you use an ordinary pot can reduce the time according to the situation, their own flexibility.

5, we want to concentrate the juice, so do not have to add water.

6, cook the fire should not be big, as long as it stays in the 'gurgling gurgling' state is good. Slow boil.

7, after cooling, strain. Use gauze to wring out all the water from the winter melon pomace and bottle it. Be sure to squeeze as dry as possible, the essence of all in that

8, each time you drink a few spoons of winter melon tea concentrate, diluted with plain water

9, I like to add a lot of ice to dilute. Ice is addictive! Gah

Tips

*The amount of sugar basically does not need to be reduced. This water is diluted to drink, so don't worry about it being too sweet.

*The winter melon itself doesn't have anything too strong of a flavor. It definitely doesn't taste the same when it's boiled all natural as it does when it's chemically added.

*Leaving it for half an hour, winter melon usually produces quite a lot of water, I'm not sure what happened to the winter melon that didn't produce water, was it not fresh enough or what? You'll have to add some of your own if there's still no water after heating.

*No water added is basically the original juice in the cooking, so the juice is not much, two pounds of winter melon out of 1 bottle of about 500ml or so of concentrated juice.