Ejiao is a gelatin block made by boiling donkey skin after depilation, which contains many amino acids needed by human body, and has the effects of nourishing blood, nourishing yin, moistening dryness and stopping bleeding. Generally speaking, you should soak it before cooking, and you can cook it without soaking it completely, but cooking it in a pot is easy to burn and affect the efficacy of Ejiao, so it is generally recommended to cook it after soaking it completely.

2 Why should Ejiao be soaked in yellow wine for 24 hours? If Ejiao is boiled directly, it will easily lead to the loss of nutrients in Ejiao and reduce its efficacy. Soaking donkey-hide gelatin in yellow wine for 24 hours can make yellow wine as a drug guide to fully dilute the nutrients in donkey-hide gelatin, so that the nutrients in donkey-hide gelatin can be easily absorbed and transformed by human body, and better curative effect can be achieved.

Secondly, yellow rice wine is rich in aroma, sweet and delicious, mellow in flavor, containing amino acids, sugar, vinegar, organic acids and various vitamins. It is a common seasoning, which can remove the fishy smell of Ejiao after soaking for 24 hours. In addition, Ejiao soaked in yellow wine has antiseptic function, which can prolong the storage time after boiling.

The longer the gelatin soaking time, the better. It depends.

Although there are many advantages to soaking Ejiao in advance, it is not that the longer you soak it, the better. It needs to be judged according to the state of Ejiao. Generally, it is enough to soak Ejiao until there are no lumps. If you continue to soak, you will fall into too many bacteria and microorganisms, which will adversely affect the efficacy of Ejiao.

Depending on the state of Ejiao, the soaking time will be different. For example, powdered Ejiao has a broken structure, which takes less time and can be soaked in a few hours. Small pieces can be soaked for about 1-2 days, and large pieces can be soaked for 3 days.

Can Ejiao be soaked in rice wine? Not recommended.

Although yellow rice wine and yellow rice wine are both wines, the raw materials and alcohol content used are different. Rice wine is a sweet wine brewed from glutinous rice, and its alcohol content is low, which is not conducive to the dissolution of effective components of Ejiao and cannot play the role of drug introduction. Therefore, rice wine is more directly eaten and cannot be soaked in Ejiao.

Yellow rice wine is a traditional Chinese medicine with high alcohol content and good solubility in donkey-hide gelatin, but it will not stimulate the stomach because of high alcohol content, so yellow rice wine is an ideal drug introduction.