Sour plum soup as a traditional drink, with materials to pay attention to all-natural, sugar to use rock sugar, because only rock sugar can play the role of medicine to lead, so that the efficacy of the umeboshi greasy give full play to the role of rock sugar, and rock sugar, sugar, sugar is not so sweet, to avoid the children due to the intake of too much sugar and obesity. And modulation of sour plum soup water can never use tap water, must be rich in minerals of mineral water.
The ingredients to make sour plum soup are umeboshi, hawthorn, rock sugar, and tangerine peel and cinnamon, licorice.
Raw materials for their respective roles:
Ume: alkaline food, can produce fluid to quench thirst, refreshing and sobering, anti-fatigue, liver fire is particularly suitable for people.
Hawthorn: aids digestion, and has the effect of lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure and activating blood circulation.
Chenpi: the volatile oil it contains has a mild stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract, which can promote the secretion of digestive juices, remove the stagnant gas in the intestinal tract and increase appetite.
Glycyrrhiza glabra: the most important feature is that it has the effect of "moderating the medicinal properties and harmonizing the medicines", which can moderate the medicinal properties of the medicines that are too strong and make them mild and long-lasting, and it can also harmonize the effects of certain medicines that have the opposite medicinal properties in the human body.
Osmanthus: the reason why the sour plum soup with osmanthus, because osmanthus can add sour plum soup flavor, which is also in line with the "flavor can eliminate the body of dampness, summer heat," the theory of Chinese medicine.
Making:
Selection of raw materials: the ripe fruit of the best green plums as the raw material of the plums.
Screening criteria: large, thick flesh, no pests and diseases of the fruit is preferred;
Ume processing: the screened plum fruit smoking, during which often turn the plums, do not make the plums are scorched, and to ensure that the degree of uniformity of the plums smoked;
Appropriations: hawthorn, licorice, tangerine peel, cinnamon and ume together;
Boiling: the allocation of good The ingredients are boiled in pure water for a few hours;
Processing: the sour plum soup is processed by cooling, precipitation, centrifugation, filtration and other processes to remove the dregs in it.
Drinking ume plum soup should not be eaten with pork