If you can make delicious sour plum soup yourself, that would be a happy thing indeed! So how to make sour plum soup? What are the common ways to make sour plum soup? Let’s follow along to find out more today!

Method 1

Ingredients: 8g licorice, 2 ebony plums, 10g roselle, 50g dried hawthorn, 1000ml water, appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Preparation: Put water in a pot and bring to a boil; add licorice, ebony plum, roselle, and dried hawthorn into the water and continue to boil; turn off the heat and simmer; filter out the residue and add rock sugar to taste. Put it in a container and store it in the refrigerator for better drinking.

Method 2

Ingredients: 30g ebony plum, 30g licorice, 30g mint, 30g cardamom; 20g rock sugar, 10g osmanthus sugar.

Preparation: Put ebony plum, licorice, mint and cardamom into a bowl and soak in water for 20 minutes. After the ingredients are soaked, put them into the prepared casserole, add 7 parts of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and fry for 30 minutes. Open the lid of the pot, add 3 parts of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and fry for 25 minutes. Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and allow the rock sugar to fully dissolve. Filter out the residue, pour the sour plum juice into a glass container, and when it cools to about 40°C, add an appropriate amount of osmanthus sugar.

Method 3

Ingredients: 250 grams of ebony plums, 150 grams of rock sugar, 2 spoons of honey, 1 spoon of osmanthus, 2 large bowls of water.

How to make sour plum soup: Soak the ebony plums bought in the drugstore in warm water for 2 hours; put the ebony plums into a pot, add rock sugar, honey, osmanthus, then pour in water, boil over medium heat; etc. After the water boils, open the lid and let it cool; if you like to drink iced sour plum soup, you can put it directly in the refrigerator to chill for 3 hours before drinking.

Method 4

Ingredients: Black plum, dried hawthorn, licorice, dried osmanthus, cinnamon powder, appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Method: Rinse dried hawthorn, licorice, black plum and dried osmanthus with water, put them into a casserole together with rock sugar, add water and soak for about 30 minutes; after soaking, add cinnamon powder and boil over high heat. After boiling, change Cook over low heat for 50 minutes, turn off the heat and let cool! It can also be placed in the refrigerator to make the chilled sour plum soup even more delicious.

The historical story of sour plum soup

What is the historical story of sour plum soup? In the Qing Dynasty, it was improved by the imperial dining room and became the royal drink of the palace, the so-called Shigong plum pancake. Because of its functions of removing heat and providing coolness, relieving pain, dispelling phlegm and relieving coughs, warding off epidemics, and producing body fluids and quenching thirst, it was praised as a rare treasure of the Qing Dynasty. It was later introduced to the people, so in the streets and alleys, at the entrance of dried and fresh fruit shops, There are vendors selling sour plum soup everywhere.

Put a crescent halberd on the stall (to indicate staying up late at night), and hang a sign saying iced hot water sour plum soup. The stall owner holds a pair of small bronze bowls and knocks them from time to time to make a clanging sound. Passers-by can expect the plum blossoms to quench their thirst and feel refreshed by the sound. After one bowl, the heat will disappear. At that time, operators of sour plum soup not only hawked it along the streets and set up stalls to sell it, but there were also many shops selling sour plum soup. For example, Tianqiao Qiujia, Xidan Pailou Road Yuzhai, Dong'an Mending Street Yuyuanzhai, and Qianmenwai Jiulongzhai are all famous. The only ones that survived were Xinyuanzhai in the south of Liulichang Road at that time.

Our country has had sour plum soup a long time ago. Tugong plum soup recorded in ancient books is one of the oldest sour plum soups. The braised plum water mentioned in "Old Wulin Stories" of the Southern Song Dynasty is also a refreshing drink similar to sour plum soup. The sour plum soup we drank was a drink made by the Imperial Kitchen of the Qing Palace for the emperor to relieve summer heat and quench thirst, and later spread to the people. It is 150 years earlier than the soda introduced to our country from Western Europe. (Reference website: Heart Recipe)

Excellent recommendation: Will drinking sour plum soup make you fat? It is not high in calories and it is difficult to gain weight