When I was a child, my aunt who sold snacks at the school gate not only sold sauerkraut, but also sold stone flower paste.
Aunt's cargo carrier, with pickled cabbage heads, popcorn and sugar clips at one end and stone flower paste at the other end, was put in the washbasin and shredded, waiting for us quietly.
After school, I rode around like crazy, covered in sweat, and my bike flew out of the school gate. When I saw my aunt, I suddenly stopped and shouted, Aunt, a bowl of stone paste. Aunt quickly scraped two spoonfuls of stone flower paste in the bowl with a spoon, and poured a spoonful of honey into ice water to bring it to me. Hum, grunt, pour into your mouth, swallow a bowl, feel refreshed, hum a song by bike, and leave Linlin to go home.
Later, the patterns of stone flower paste became more and more. It's not just chopped up and eaten with honey. Four foods can also be added, such as fruits, olives, red beans, candied fruit, taro and grass. You can choose. Together with Shihua cream, it is a bowl of four fruit soup which is especially good for relieving summer heat.
But in four fruit soup's time, I had a little girl.
On a summer night, when I came home to pick up my little girl who was practicing dancing, I had to have a bowl of four fruit soup, so I got into the habit of eating Siguo soup and mashed stone flowers in summer, so that during my little girl's college entrance examination, I couldn't eat anything but four fruit soup.
Out of Quanzhou, if my daughter is allowed to bring hometown dishes to college alumni, there will definitely be stone flower paste in summer. No matter what northerners are used to eating, their love will show sincerity.
Quanzhou Shihua ointment is different from ice powder in southwest China. Ice powder comes from ice powder tree. Ice powder is colorless and tasteless, and has a soft taste. For people in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and Sichuan-Chongqing area, this is delicious in summer.
Stone flower paste comes from the ocean and is an edible seaweed in the ocean. Quanzhou people call it Shihua.
Stone flower paste is made of stone flower plants by grinding, washing and boiling. It is yellowish in color, transparent if frozen, and has a faint fishy smell. For Quanzhou people in coastal areas, this is the sea breeze in their hometown.
Wherever Quanzhou people go, only the sea breeze in their hometown can cool off in summer.
I'm going to make Quanzhou Shihua Ointment and four fruit soup today, so that all Quanzhou people can eat authentic Quanzhou Shihua Ointment and four fruit soup wherever they are.
Stone flower paste:
25g of Lysimachia christinae, 0/200ml of clear water, 0/50g of rock sugar/kloc, 5g of white vinegar.
Stone flowers, you can buy them on Universal Treasure. If you can't find them, you can buy them. Stone flowers in Chaoshan are the same as stone flowers.
Four kinds of fruit soup:
Stone flower paste, honey, ice water, and various fruits, beans, taro, sweet potato, glutinous rice, black pearl, coconut, taro, candied fruit, etc. You have everything you like.
Today's cooking tool is an electric pressure cooker, and it is the most convenient cooking method to cook the home version of Shihua cream with an electric pressure cooker. The traditional coal stove is the same as the electric pressure cooker, but more water should be added, because the water consumption of the electric pressure cooker is very small, while the water consumption of the coal stove will be a little more, about 200ml more;
If it is cooked in an ordinary pot, the amount of water should be as much as 1800ml, and the cooking time should be extended by 20 minutes accordingly. When cooking, pay more attention to it and don't dry it.
Let's start today's electric pressure cooker operation:
1, the grass flowers are soaked in water;
Remove impurities, some small shells are normal and do not need to be removed. For example, this black seaweed in my hand, if you like it, keep it, if you hate it, throw it away.
After cleaning, drain the water.
2, packed in a bag;
You can do it without a bag, and it's the same after boiling and filtering.
3. Add1200ml of water, crystal sugar and white vinegar into the discharge pressure cooker;
White vinegar is used to remove fishy smell, and you like the taste of stones and flowers, so you can not add it; And rock sugar will make the stone flower paste coagulate better and taste better. If you don't like sweets, you can skip them.
4, electric pressure cooker, press the boiled bean button, which is the highest pressure button of the electric pressure cooker. The general cooking time is 50 minutes, which should be adjusted according to the actual situation of the pot at home;
After cooking, stew for half an hour before cooking.
5, pour into a clean bowl, pale yellow, floating with sea fragrance, very delicious;
After standing for 3 hours, the stone flower water turned into stone flower paste.
Put it in the refrigerator, it will taste better, crisp and smooth.
Scoop a spoonful, crystal clear.
Cut into silk with a tool;
Add any ingredients you like;
Add one or two spoonfuls of honey;
Rushing into the ice water, a bowl can relieve homesickness. Quanzhou people's summer cold drink, four fruit soup, is over.