Ingredients: fresh fruits such as hawthorn, strawberry, apple and grape.
Accessories: sugar, rock sugar, honey, water, bamboo sticks.
Making steps of sugar-coated haws
Sugar-coated haws fruit stringing method: Choose fresh, full and even-sized haws, wash them, remove the roots and pedicels, cut the haws from the middle, dig the core with a knife, and add your favorite fillings such as bean paste and mung bean paste. Then close two petals and string them with bamboo sticks.
The practice of boiling sugar with candied haws: pour sugar and water into the pot according to the ratio of 2: 1, and cook for about 20 minutes on high fire, during which stirring can be carried out. Notice that after 20 minutes, there is less water, boiling fiercely, and the sugar has appeared tiny and dense bubbles, just like light golden beer. You can dip chopsticks in syrup. If you can pull out the silk a little, it means you are ready. After a long time, the color will turn brown, and the silk can be obviously pulled out, indicating that the sugar has burnt and lost its original sweetness. Remember not to blow when cooking soup, so that the sugar is bright.
The way of dipping sugar in candied haws: tilt the pot so that all hawthorn can be dipped in sugar. Put the tied hawthorn on the boiled hot sugar foam and gently rotate it, and wrap it with a thin layer. The process of dipping sugar seems simple, but in fact it requires skill. If the sugar package is too thick and you eat it without biting the fruit, it is a failure. Sugar should be dipped in a thin and even layer to be successful.
Cooling method of sugar-coated haws: Put the hawthorn skewers dipped in sugar on the water tray and cool for two or three minutes. The so-called water board refers to a smooth wooden board, which is soaked in clear water for a long time and has a low temperature. At the same time, wood has water absorption, which can help sugar-coated haws cool down and shape. When you do it at home, you can use a chopping board instead. Just soak the chopping board in clean water before use. Marble board is also a good choice.
Tip: Successful candied haws, the sugar wrapped outside will cool quickly after cooking, and the bite will be crisp and completely non-sticky. To achieve this effect, boiling sugar is the most critical. Pay attention to the heat when cooking. It will be sticky if you don't have enough calories, and it will stick to your teeth when you eat it. The heat is too strong, which is not only heavy in color but also bitter to eat. The boiled syrup is thick to the naked eye, too thick to dip in, too thin to hang, and slightly yellow. When using chopsticks to stir the visible wire drawing, put the chopsticks in cold water, the syrup can solidify quickly and it is difficult to bite. Brush the syrup a little, immediately turn off the fire and pour it on the Sugar-Coated Berry. Otherwise, the syrup will dry and harden, making it impossible. Don't throw candied haws into the pot for convenience, or the fruit will be crisp.
Second, the nutritional value of sugar-coated haws
Health care effect: Sugar-coated haws are rich in vitamin C, pectin, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, maslinic acid, oleanolic acid, quercetin, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, hyperoside, epicatechin and other organic acids and nutrients. It is a natural nutritious food with bright color, no pigment, no food additives and good taste by using modern technology to remove the core. Hawthorn has many medicinal effects. It can help digestion, dispel blood stasis, expel tapeworms, stop dysentery, and especially help digestion. It has been an important medicine for digestion since ancient times, especially for digestion. Li Shizhen, an outstanding medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, once said: "Boiling old chicken hard meat with a few hawthorn fruits is perishable, which can eliminate virtue and cover it." In addition, hawthorn also has the function of lowering blood lipid and serum cholesterol.
Three, sugar-coated haws food taboos
It should be pointed out that sugar-coated haws are good, but not everyone is suitable for long-term consumption. First of all, diabetics should use it with caution because it contains rock sugar. In addition, "Compendium of Materia Medica" states: "(Crataegus pinnatifida) eating too much is annoying and prone to hunger, which is harmful to the spleen and stomach." Therefore, people with weak spleen and stomach and heartburn should not eat hawthorn candied haws too much. However, yam nourishes yin and helps astringent, so it is not suitable for long-term consumption for those who are wet or full of dampness and have stagnation. The combination of yam and hawthorn can help digestion and strengthen the spleen, and the side effects can be reduced.
Mr. Liang Shiqiu recorded in the article "Ya She Tan Shi": Sugar-coated haws "take Xinyuanzhai as the best product, and there is no bamboo stick. Each hawthorn or begonia is independent, and the fruit used is huge. It is clean and put in a paper box with oily paper for guests to take away."
Take Vitex negundo as the core, brush maltose on the outside of hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida) until it turns white. The small one is three feet long, and the big one is five or six feet long, with small pennants made of red paper and green paper on it. The book "Beijing Spring Dream" records "a trip to the old dynasty and a visit to the factory". "If you are forced to travel around and buy a walk together, you must buy paper flowers and a bunch of Sugar-Coated Berry, put them by the car and drive through the city. When passers-by see them, you will know that they are back to the factory." Sugar-coated haws became the symbol of visiting factories and shops when Beijing entered the New Year.
In addition to the traditional hawthorn candied haws, candied haws include strawberry candied haws, banana candied haws, orange candied haws, candied dates candied haws, cashew candied haws, mung bean paste candied haws, walnut candied haws, chocolate candied haws and calcium milk candied haws.
Conclusion: The above contents introduce the practice of sugar-coated haws in detail.