Osmanthus cake, osmanthus tea and osmanthus wine is not very popular in the south side of Sichuan, this side of the summer is the most popular osmanthus ice powder, not only the streets of the many cold drink stores sell, but also some people will make their own, for example, my family will make their own osmanthus ice powder in the summer every year, in the summer of the high temperature of 40 or so under the bowl, not only the aroma is full of, but also to quench the summer heat and quench the thirst, simply do not be too good.
The ice powder in the cinnamon ice powder can be bought online to brew their own, you can also make your own, just relatively more troublesome, of course, ice powder is not the focus of what I'm going to say, the focus is the cinnamon. We all know that there is no fresh cinnamon in the summer, to make your own cinnamon ice powder, either buy someone else to get good cinnamon, or buy your own fresh cinnamon in the fall to candied and then save it to use in the summer.
Fresh osmanthus flowers can not be directly dried or dried, and can not be placed for a long time, picked down the same day to deal with, otherwise it will soon lose the flavor, into a pile of useless dregs. Our first time to get inexperienced, put in the refrigerator to chill intended for the next day to deal with, the results take out a look not only discoloration, and the flavor is gone.
Fresh osmanthus must be sifted before candied, the flower stalks and impurities all picked out, and then rinsed with water, to be a little dry after the water into a sealed jar, the steps of a layer of osmanthus a layer of sugar, get it done and put it in the refrigerator, 4-5 days or so on the stains, and so on the next year in summer time can be put into the ice powder made of osmanthus ice powder.