Preparation materials: hawthorn, bamboo stick, rock sugar, black and white sesame.
1. Clean all the candied haws prepared in advance, and it is best to remove the hawthorn core as much as possible.
2. Stick hawthorn with a bamboo stick from bottom to top, so that the hawthorn core can be squeezed out while sticking the bamboo stick.
3. String all the prepared hawthorns one by one with bamboo sticks.
4. Add a small amount of water and rock sugar to the pot and boil it together. You can use a big fire at first, and then turn to a small fire when the big bubbles in the pot slowly rise. You need to pay attention to observation When bubbles appear, they gradually become delicate and the sugar turns yellowish.
5. Turn the candied haws in the pot and take them out, then sprinkle with black and white sesame seeds.
6. The hawthorn stained with sugar should be patted on the chopping board immediately, let the sugar cool down slowly, and then take it down to eat.
How can the sugar in the candied haws be crisp?
1. If you want to make 12 Jin of sugar, you need to add 6 Jin of water. When cooking sugar, pay attention to the pot must be clean, and there must be no oil, so as to ensure that the boiled sugar is very refreshing.
2. Pay attention when cooking sugar, and be sure to keep stirring to prevent some of it from being too sticky and paste the pot when cooking soup.
3. When pouring sugar, you can slowly pour it from one side of the pot and keep stirring while pouring.
4. While stirring, constantly observe the size of bubbles in the pot. In the pot, the big bubbles slowly turned into small bubbles and began to appear evenly. At the same time, when the color of the whole sugar starts to turn yellow and you can smell the thick fragrance, take a chopstick and dip it in some hot sugar with cold water. When you can hear the sound of the sugar bursting, it means that the sugar is ripe.
What are the benefits of eating sugar-coated haws?
The main raw material of sugar-coated haws is hawthorn, which is a sour fruit. The content of vitamin c is very high. In addition, there are some fruit acids and caffeic acids. Eating hawthorn in moderation is helpful to improve your immunity and supplement various nutrients. If the body gets angry, or the acid-base balance in the body is out of balance, vitamin C can be supplemented appropriately. Eating hawthorn in moderation can also reduce blood lipid and cholesterol.
What is the paper made of sugar-coated haws?
A thin layer of white wrapping paper on the outside of sugar-coated haws is what we commonly call glutinous rice paper. The main method is to mix the starch of sweet potato, corn and wheat into a bowl of pulp, then filter out impurities, then make rice paste with hot water, and then spread the starch paste evenly on the prepared dryer. After baking at high temperature, the rice paste will become a thin piece of sticky rice paper. Glutinous rice paper is used to wrap sugar-coated haws, which can also make the icing on the outside more beautiful.