1.first wash the hawthorn, remove the core, tip, half of which will be hollowed out.

2. Put bean paste, sesame oil, honey and flavorings into a pot and make the filling.

3. Put the filling into the hollowed hawthorn, compact it, and then use melon seeds, sesame seeds, peanuts and walnuts to make various patterns on it, and then use sterilized bamboo sticks to skewer the inlaid hawthorn.

4. Sugar in a pot, add water to boil into juice, then put the hawthorn into, to be rolled full of sugar juice, out of the pot that is sugar gourd

1. Core The hawthorn cross-cutting twisted, and then use a knife to take out the core one by one to complete.

2. Put a piece of bean paste filling on the hawthorn after removing the core, cover the other piece with sesame seeds and insert toothpicks.

3. Simmering sugar is the most critical ratio of sugar to water is 2:1, a catty of sugar half a catty of water must be the first to put the sugar after the water, high heat to boil, open the pot before the chopsticks to keep stirring. After boiling, change to medium-low fire slowly simmering, at the same time it is best not to stir the sugar juice. When the sugar becomes light golden brown, the foam looks very uniform can be dipped into the sugar gourd.

4. Dipping Sugar Dumplings Turn the dumplings inside the sugar sauce twice.

Hawthorn, bamboo sticks, rock sugar

1. Hawthorn clean and dry, use scissors to remove hawthorn stalks to remove the tip.

2. Skewer hawthorn with bamboo sticks.

3. Pour the rock sugar and water into the pot, turn on the high heat and cook, stirring constantly until the rock sugar melts.

4. When the icing sugar are incorporated into the water, turn down the heat and simmer for a while

5. Simmer until the sugar solution is amber-colored, thick, and has the feeling of pulling silk. At this point, use chopsticks to dip some sugar liquid, quickly immersed in cold water, the sugar liquid will immediately solidify, the bite is hard and crispy and does not stick to the teeth.

6. After the sugar is boiled, gently turn the hawthorn on the skewer against the bubbles on the boiled hot sugar and wrap it in a thin layer. (If you find it difficult to operate, you can use a spoon to pick up the sugar thin evenly poured on the surface of the hawthorn skewers)

7. The hawthorn skewers wrapped in sugar will be set up in the air on the container or put on a flat surface brushed with oil to cool down for two or three minutes, and when the sugar thinning is solidified, you can enjoy it.

1. Hawthorn should be picked fresh without bug eyes.

2. Simmering sugar thinning, after all the icing sugar melting should be simmered slowly over low heat, simmering until the sugar a little amber color, there is a certain degree of consistency. You can use chopsticks to dip a little bit of sugar, put it into the cool water, can solidify and eat up not sticky teeth is good.

3. If you don't have bamboo skewers on hand, you can skewer them with toothpicks like I did in the picture below, one by one, it's cute.