Materials (referring to one kilogram of wax gourd)

500 grams of wax gourd

Brown sugar or brown sugar100g

500 grams of sugar

A bowl of water (a bowl for eating)

Practice of wax gourd tea brick

Wash wax gourd, peel and cut into pieces.

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The blender was mashed. If you don't have a blender at home, please skip to step 3.

In a non-stick pan, add a bowl of water, boil it over medium heat, and then stew it over low heat for about 15 minutes.

If there is no blender at home, it is the same step, but it will take a long time to stew until the melon is soft and rotten. You can cut it directly with chopsticks, then crush the melon with a spoon and press it into mud.

Add all white sugar, brown sugar or brown sugar. It's easy to paste the bottom. Keep stirring.

Stir fry until it turns into sand. Dip a chopstick in the sugar solution of wax gourd. Put it in ice water to see if it will solidify. If there is, it is ready.

Pour in the wax gourd sugar 1 min, spread it on a piece of oil paper, and smooth the sugar surface with a spoon.

After 5 minutes, when the surface is slightly dry, cut it into blocks with a knife. Let it stand in the shade 12 hours.

Cut into pieces along the line with a knife. Store in a sealed and cool place.

Morphological characteristics of wax gourd

Annual creeping or scaffolding herbs; The stems are yellow-brown bristles and villous, with grooves. Petiole stout, 5-20 cm long, covered with yellow-brown bristles and villous; Leaf blade is kidney-shaped, nearly round, wide 15-30 cm, 5-7 lobes or sometimes split, lobes are wide triangular or elliptic, the apex is sharp, the edge has small teeth, the base is deeply heart-shaped, curved and open, nearly round, the depth and width are both 2.5-3.5 cm, the surface is dark green, slightly rough and fluffy, and it gradually falls off when it is ripe, which is close to zero. The back is rough, gray-white, and the bristles are rough. The veins are slightly convex on the back of the leaves and are densely hairy. Tendrils 2-3, hirsute and villous.

Big fruit wax gourd:

The main vine usually produces the first female flower at 15 node, and then produces 1-2 female flowers every 5-6 nodes. Short or long cylindrical, with turquoise peel or white wax powder, most of them choose one fruit per plant, mainly harvesting mature fruits. The varieties are Guangdong Green Melon, Gray Melon, Niupi Melon, Hunan Fenpi Melon, Longquan Melon, Jiangxi Yangtze Melon, Taiwan Province Green Melon, White Melon, Sichuan Melon, Shanghai White Melon and Beijing Sweet Potato.