Osmanthus open season everywhere sprinkled with fragrance, smell really refreshing, a lot of friends want to keep this fragrance, read some of the methods introduced on the Internet, there are many kinds, but no matter which method is the first step is still to clean the osmanthus. This can be preserved when less pests and mold, the flavor will not deteriorate. The following for the overall details to do a little introduction, I hope to help you.

Collecting osmanthus flowers

For full of osmanthus flowers, one by one picking is also very troublesome, the tree will be cut down is also not realistic. How to pick osmanthus flowers has also become a not so small problem. I would like to introduce a little trick: in the flowers full of trees, in the laurel tree under a layer of mulch, and then take a bamboo pole, the planning of the tree down, or shake the laurel tree, so that the planning of the large area will fall on the top of the mulch. It will be much easier to collect them this way!

Processing

For the picked planning must go home as soon as possible to clean water, because placed for a long time will lead to the loss of flavor, you can wash a few more times. Cleaning time to remove the impurities and leaves in the osmanthus. Cleaning time to pay attention to not hairy directly on the hand. After we remove the impurities, we can soak the osmanthus flowers in lightly salted water for about ten minutes, and then shower them with a shower. After a period of time in the vegetable basket, you can directly take a hair dryer to blow dry, do not put it in the sun to dry or shade dry.

Preservation

Preservation of osmanthus flavor has a variety of types, there are to do osmanthus tea, osmanthus honey, there are to do osmanthus pastries, the following briefly described.

Osmanthus tea: just put the blow-dried osmanthus petals into the microwave oven to heat and dry, make sure they are dry enough, then save them to make tea. This scent will be quite a bit lighter, but there is also a different fragrance. You can try it, but also some friends said that spraying some liquor can restore some flavor, you can try it.

Osmanthus honey: the second step of the osmanthus flowers into the honey, and then cellar for a month, the flavor is basically completely penetrated.

Osmanthus flower pastries: the second step of the petals can be taken directly to the production of pastries, of course, do not recommend that the petals after drying the production of pastries, so that the loss of a lot of flavor.

The above is about the preservation of osmanthus flavor a few ways, of course, there may be a better way to welcome you to add, I hope this article can help you.