Alias: five convergence, Yang peach,
English name: Carambola
Scientific name: Averrhoa carambola
Maturity: Hainan poplar peach from May to December can be fruitful, before and after August for the peak production period.
Yangtao, one of the origin of China, is one of the famous Lingnan fruits. Because of the cross-section as a five-pointed star (a few for the 6-pointed star), it is also known as "star pear" (Star fruit).
Yang peach for the edelweiss family Oxalidaceae plants Yang peach Averrhoa carambola Linn. Appearance: The appearance of the poplar peach is pentagonal (a few are hexagonal).
The poplar peach is further divided into two categories: sour poplar peach and sweet poplar pick. Sour poplar fruit large and sour, commonly known as "three ribs", less eaten raw, more for cooking ingredients or processing preserves. Sweet poplar peaches can be divided into "big flower", "middle flower", "white shell" three strains, including the Guangzhou suburb of flower real estate "flower red "The best taste, it is sweet without dregs, the flavor is particularly delicious.
The poplar peach is a small evergreen tree or shrub, berries alternate throughout the year, but the quality of the blossom in July, the autumn equinox fruit ripe for the best, the yield is also the highest. Before and after the mid-autumn for the peak production period of the poplar peach.
Yang Peach eating method:
1. Directly eat
clean, and then use a knife to cut off five (or six) rhombus, pay attention to only need to cut off the thinner rhombus can be, do not need to cut off the whole rhombus all, in that case, the whole poplar peach does not have a lot of things left, and then use a knife to cut into thin slices of the pentagram, you can eat.
2. Egg and milk stewed poppyseed:
Poppyseed is rich in sugar, fiber and acid, can solve the internal organs of the accumulated heat, clear dryness and intestines. Use it to do dessert can skin care and skin care, suitable for people who stay up all night.
Ingredients include: poppy seeds 1 to remove the hard side of the core and cut into small pieces, 2 eggs, 250ml of milk, sugar at random.
The production method is simple, the first poplar peach pieces, milk, sugar in the pot with low heat and cook until the sugar dissolves off the fire, cool (poplar peach with cooking is to make the milk soup has the flavor of poplar peach). Then filter out the milk, add the milk to the beaten egg and mix well, sieve filter foam and beat the egg white, and finally add the poppy seeds, cover the plate with high heat and steam until solidified.
3. Plucked popcorn:
The outer form of the popcorn pentagonal rhombus (a few hexagonal rhombus), cross-cut like a star, also known as the star-shaped fruit. Now introduces a home dessert - plucked popcorn, delicious not to mention, the most pleasing to the eye is its lovely star-shaped, wrapped in plucked crispy pulp, in the sunshine to see extra crystal transparent, so it gave it a good image of the name, called "glass star "
Materials
Ingredients: 2 popcorns, 1 cup self-rising flour, 5 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp sugar gum (or maltose).
How to make: Wash and remove the hard edges of the peaches and wipe dry, cut into thick pieces. Add 3/4 cup of water to the flour and mix into a crunchy batter. Dip the peaches into the crunchy batter and deep-fry them in hot oil until golden brown and crispy, then drain the oil and set aside. With a little oil and slow fire sugar, sugar gelatin, half a cup of water until thick almost gelatin, remove from the heat, add the crispy peaches and mix well.
4. American peach buns:
Ingredients: 150g high gluten flour, 30g low gluten flour, 1 and 1/2 tsp dry yeast, 80ml lukewarm water, 20g butter, 2 tbsp sugar, 1/3 tsp salt, 2 tbsp milk powder. 2 poppies, 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp corn starch, 1 tbsp cream (can be omitted), 1 tsp egg white, 25g powdered sugar.
To make this recipe, preheat the oven to 175 degrees Fahrenheit, place in the middle of the oven and bake for about 15 minutes. Pit and cut the peaches into small pieces, beat them with a blender, add the sugar, cornstarch and cream, bring to a boil and let cool.
After the basic fermentation, divide the dough into 12 equal parts, flatten slightly and make a dent in the center, and let it ferment for 30 minutes. Fill the holes with the filling and bake with the egg-sugar mixture. Mix the powdered sugar with egg white, put it in a small plastic bag, and then squeeze thin threads on the baked bread for decoration.
Nutrition:
Yang Peach is a lot of water fruit, fresh fruit soluble solids 9%. Each 100 grams of edible portion containing 6.2 grams of carbon hydrate, vitamin C7 mg, containing sucrose, fructose, glucose, malic acid 46.8 grams, oxalic acid 7.2 grams, citric acid and vitamin B1, B2, and calcium, potassium, magnesium, trace fats and proteins and other nutrients, is a more comprehensive nutritional composition of the fruit.
Morphological features
Yang peach for the edelweiss family Oxalidaceae plants Averrhoa carambola Linn. Appearance and color: the appearance of Yang peach five diamond-shaped, green or light green when not ripe, ripe yellow-green to bright yellow, single fruit weight of about 80 grams. Thin skin such as film, less fiber, crisp fruit juice, sweet and sour, aromatic sweet. Yang peach edible rate of 92% or more.
The poplar peach is a small evergreen tree or shrub, berries alternate throughout the year, but the quality of flowering in July, the autumn equinox fruit ripe for the best, the highest yield. Before and after the mid-autumn for the peak production period of the poplar peach.
Health effects
Yang Peach for the human body has a digestive, nourishing, health care functions, for malaria has an antibiotic effect. Juice can promote appetite, help digestion, the efficacy of treatment of skin diseases.
Yang Peach fresh fruit, sex is slightly cold, easy to eat to make the spleen and stomach wet and cold, loose stools and diarrhea, hindering appetite and digestion and absorption. If for therapeutic purposes, whether eating raw fruit or drinking juice, it is best not to cold and ice diet.
Peach planting management
First, select the land to build a garden
Four Seasons sweet poplar for the tropical evergreen fruit trees, suitable for economic cultivation in the tropics, southern subtropical areas. Because of the preferred high temperature and humidity, more tolerant of shade, avoid cold, afraid of drought, afraid of the wind, therefore, in the appropriate area, but also should choose the soil layer deep fertile, moisture, drainage, convenient, back to the south of the wind of the garden; if the mountain garden, it is appropriate to choose a water source can be irrigated, the soil quality is better, the slope of the south, southeast to the lower and middle slopes. In general, ditches should be dug for drainage and irrigation. In the Pearl River Delta paddy field area, poplar peach garden irrigation ditches up to about 1 meter deep. But the depth of the irrigation ditch should be based on the water table level. Mountain gardening to improve soil conservation and soil improvement, improve fertility, solve the irrigation water.
Second, planting
The four seasons of sweet popcorn can be planted throughout the year, except for too cold weather. The earlier the planting, the longer the growing time, the higher the yield that year. The depth of planting to the soil into the hole, slightly below the surface is appropriate, too deep seedling growth is slow; too shallow seedling is susceptible to drought damage, reduce the survival rate. When planting, pay attention to pour enough water to set the root, and then pour water every day or every other day, until the survival. Planting specifications: 3 × 4 meters, 3 × 5 meters, 40-50 plants per 667 square meters (mu), to be thinned out after the canopy handover. Before planting, you should dig a large planting hole and apply enough rotted organic matter as base fertilizer. Flat orchard planting hole depth and width of 50 cm, if the soil is sticky and hard can be properly deepened and widened; mountain orchard planting hole depth and width of 1 m, after planting still have to expand the hole year after year to change the soil, each hole of soil and miscellaneous fertilizer 25 kg, livestock manure 10 kg, mushroom hawthorn 10 kg, cake fertilizer 2 kg, and another calcium and magnesium phosphorus fertilizers, lime 1 kg and the soil mixing back to the hole and cultivated into a mound of 20 cm above the ground. When the soil sinks, can be planted. Planting seedlings should be right, the soil around the root compaction, cover grass. In addition, after planting, at least once a year need to plow, in order to promote the weathering of the soil, to achieve good aeration, good water permeability, conducive to root growth.
Third, between the seeds
Four Seasons sweet peach has early results habit, generally planted at the beginning of the year, the end of the fruit, but the initial plant rows between the empty space, and the peach is afraid of the hot sun, requires semi-shade, moist environment, so it should be reasonable to inter-planting of papaya, bananas, vegetables, soybeans and other crops for proper.