Can hawthorn cake be without sugar?
No, hawthorn cake will be difficult to set without sugar.
Making hawthorn cake at home is quite simple. To put it bluntly, hawthorn can be boiled with sugar and water to the desired state, but many friends find that hawthorn cake at home will not solidify, mainly because the sugar is less.
Hawthorn cake with rock sugar or white sugar?
Rock sugar is better.
Adding rock sugar has pure sweetness and no fire. Rock sugar is a kind of sugar, which is a crystalline reproduction of sugar. It is made from white sugar by dissolving it in water, removing impurities, clearing juice, evaporating, concentrating, and cooling and crystallizing.
The method of hawthorn cake
The ingredients for making hawthorn cake are: hawthorn, rock sugar and white sugar, and half a lemon.
1 Wash the hawthorn with water first, and this water must be salt water. Then cut the hawthorn in half, remove the seeds inside, add a small amount of water to the pot, and then put the chopped hawthorn into the pot. At this time, add a few drops of lemon juice. Stir together and cook over medium heat for about 15 minutes.
2 when cooking, there is a shovel to stir, so be sure to keep stirring! Just stir it into a paste, draw a line in the middle with your fingers, as long as it doesn't flow. At that time, we can see that the color of hawthorn sauce becomes a little dark. At this time, we can turn off the fire, and then brush the glass plate we prepared with a layer of oil and pour the hawthorn sauce into the plate.
Just look in the cold room of the refrigerator, and then we can see the hawthorn cake, and then add it and cut it into the shape we like.
Advantages of hawthorn cake
1, flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects;
2. Hawthorn contains ingredients for relieving asthma and resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.
3. Hawthorn has the function of promoting digestion, which can be used for indigestion, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, especially for meat stagnation;
4. Hawthorn can dissipate blood stasis and disperse blood stasis, and can be used for postpartum abdominal pain due to blood stasis, stagnation and swelling of blood stasis, and blood stasis blocking meridians.