When I was young, materials were very scarce, and every household was relatively poor, and basically there was nothing delicious. Now, the most common bananas, oranges and so on, we couldn't eat one for several years. Unlike now, you can eat all kinds of fruits all year round. I clearly remember that at that time, the children at home had a headache and fever, and they didn't want to eat. Parents would go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a canned hawthorn for their children to eat. That's the best food we've ever eaten.

Because I live in the north, hawthorn is a kind of fruit in our north. Canning hawthorn is called canned hawthorn, and we are used to calling it canned red fruit. Don't look at this small canned hawthorn. It has high nutritional value and medical value. Older people often eat hawthorn products, which can enhance appetite, improve sleep, keep the balance of calcium in the body, prevent atherosclerosis and prolong life. Therefore, hawthorn is also called longevity food.

Wash the ripe hawthorn and remove the dust and sediment on the surface of the peel. Choose the hawthorn with uniform size, straight fruit lines and high quality. Remove the hawthorn core and cook it in boiling water for 3 to 5 minutes. It is advisable to cook it thoroughly but not rotten. After taking it out, cool it in cold water for 2 to 3 minutes before taking it out.

Wash the empty can bottles, disinfect and sterilize them, then boil the sugar solution, heat and dissolve the sugar with a small amount of water into clear, thick and syrup, and then dilute it with a certain amount of water to the required concentration for canning. The general concentration is 40%. Then put the boiled hawthorn into the bottle, and then pour the prepared sugar solution into the bottle, not too full. Before the can is sealed, it should be vented. The purpose of venting is to exhaust the air in the can and food as much as possible, so that a certain degree of vacuum can be formed after the can is sealed, which can be preserved for a longer time.

There are too many kinds of canned food now, instead of the single canned hawthorn we ate in the past, there are canned peaches, canned lychees and canned peaches, and now people have a good life and can eat all kinds of canned food at any time if they want, but I still like the canned hawthorn that I ate as a child best. The canned hawthorn bears the memories of our generation after 60 s and 70 s.