Making Steps:
1, the dried plums and hawthorns bought home from the dry goods market must be soaked in water first.2, along with a small amount of cinnamon and licorice will be soaked plums and hawthorns with gauze wrapped up.
3. Fill a large pot with water, put in the gauze bag, and bring to a boil over high heat.
4, after boiling, add an appropriate amount of rock candy or brown sugar that can play a role in coloring.
5, low-fire simmering 6 to 7 hours, in the water is boiled away about half of the time, sour plum soup is also made.
Drinking Note: 1, good sour plum soup is not finished, you can put in the refrigerator for a few days. But at room temperature, sour plum soup is very easy to deteriorate, if you see the surface of the fine foam floating, it is already spoiled can not drink.
2, add licorice sour plum soup will have astringent aftertaste, drink some ice can reduce astringency. The reason why we have to match with cinnamon, this is because cinnamon can add flavor to sour plum soup, which is also in line with the "flavor can eliminate the body of dampness, summer heat" theory of Chinese medicine.
3, novice to do out of the sour plum soup, it is likely to be too thick or too light, the proportion of fire and water can only rely on more thought more try.