Elm money cleaning method is as follows:

Tools/materials: elm money appropriate amount, salt appropriate amount, the right amount of water, a water basin.

1, clean up rotten leaves

The freshly picked elm money home elm money small stalks are removed, there are obvious insect eyes or rotting elm money is also removed.

2, salt water soak

Salt in the water, put the picked fresh elm money into the salt water for 5 minutes before fishing out.

3, repeatedly rinse

fished up after the elm money and then repeatedly rinse, at least 3 times, wash clean elm money to dry water can be used for cooking.

Morphological characteristics of elm money

Elm is a deciduous tree, up to 25 meters high, 1 meter diameter at breast height, in the dry barren place to grow into a shrub; young trees with smooth bark, gray-brown or light gray, the bark of the large trees is dark gray, irregular longitudinal fissures, rough; twigs are glabrous or hairy, pale yellowish-gray, pale brownish-gray or gray, sparse pale tawny or yellow, with scattered lenticels. yellow, with scattered lenticels, without expanded cork layer and raised cork wings. Winter buds subglobose or ovoid, bud scales abaxially glabrous, margins of inner bud scales white villous.

Elm money is the elm tree's winged fruit, because of its shape round and thin as a coin, so it is named, and because it is the "money" of the harmonic, and thus have eaten elm money can have "money" said. When the spring breeze blew the first green, golden elm money on a string full of branches, people will take advantage of the tender pick down, made a variety of delicious dishes.