Crystal hawthorn cake is a specialty of Suqian Han pastry. Bright and moist, the color is light yellow and transparent as crystal, hence the name. Purple color, crystal clear, strong viscosity, moderate sour and sweet, sweet but not greasy, sour but not bitter, cool and delicious, promoting fluid production and invigorating the stomach.
Crystal hawthorn cake can stimulate appetite and promote digestion, especially for eliminating meat stagnation. Hawthorn is used in many medicines to help digestion. Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which is helpful to relieve local blood stasis and has an auxiliary effect on traumatic injury; Hawthorn has contractive effect on uterus, and it can promote delivery when pregnant women are in labor, which can promote postpartum uterus recovery.
Hawthorn contains flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances, which can block and reduce the production of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects; Hawthorn contains ingredients for relieving asthma, resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.
The simple method of making hawthorn cake is as follows:
Material preparation: 500g fresh hawthorn, 245g fine sugar, a little lemon juice, salt, etc.
1, hawthorn with appropriate amount of water, add appropriate amount of salt to scrub clean.
2. Put chopsticks in the middle to remove the core, and remove the core when you are ready to cook. Premature enucleation is easy to turn black.
3, add water, and the hawthorn can be flat, open a small fire to cook until the hawthorn is soft and rotten, about 5 minutes.
4. Pour it into the cooking machine and break it. If you want something exquisite, you can sift it or use a wall breaker.
5. Pour into a non-stick pan.
6. Add sugar. If you don't like it too sweet, you can reduce it by about 10g, but don't reduce it too much to avoid solidification.
7, turn on a small fire, stir constantly in the middle, cook until it is not easy to flow, you can hang it on a scraper and it is not easy to drop.
8. Brush the mold with a little oil, pour in the cooked hawthorn, smooth it, and refrigerate it in the refrigerator.
9, back-off demoulding can be completed.