The process is as follows:

1. Prepare rock sugar and boiled water in a ratio of 2:1. Put the broken rock sugar into the pot, pour in the same amount of boiling water, heat it on medium heat, and slowly stir it with a shovel to speed up the dissolution of rock sugar.

2. When all the rock sugar is dissolved, turn to low heat and heat slowly for about seven or eight minutes.

3. Observe the foam of the sugar solution carefully. When the color of the sugar solution becomes a little yellow and the foam is numerous and crowded, it is almost ready. Put the bunched hawthorn in and roll it quickly, take it out and put it in an oiled iron plate, and let it cool for 1 minutes.

Sugar-Coated Berry

(1) Sugar-Coated Berry is also called sugar gourd, Tianjin is also called sugar duner, and Fengyang is called sugar ball. Sugar-Coated Berry is a traditional snack in China. It is made by stringing wild fruits with bamboo sticks and dipping them in maltose syrup, which quickly hardens when exposed to wind. The common snacks in northern winter are generally made of hawthorn, which is thin and hard, sour and sweet, and very cold.

(2) In the Song Dynasty, the ancient practice began. According to "Yanjing Years", Sugar-Coated Berry used bamboo sticks, which were penetrated with hawthorn, begonia fruit, grapes, yam, walnut kernel and bean paste, and dipped in rock sugar, which was sweet, crisp and cold. Teahouses, theaters, streets and alleys can be seen everywhere, and now it has become a traditional snack in China. Sugar-Coated Berry has the functions of appetizing, caring skin, increasing intelligence, relieving fatigue and clearing away heat.

(3) Sugar-Coated Berry is rich in vitamin C, pectin, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, maslinic acid, oleanolic acid, quercetin, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, hyperoside, epicatechin and other organic acids and nutrients. Using modern technology to remove the stone, it is a natural nutritious food with bright color, no pigment, no food additives and good taste.

(4) Hawthorn has many medicinal effects. It can help digestion, disperse blood stasis, expel tapeworms, stop dysentery, and especially help digestion. It has been an important medicine for digestion since ancient times, especially for meat accumulation. Li Shizhen, an outstanding medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, once said, "When you cook hard chicken meat, it is easy to rot when you put a few hawthorn fruits in it, and the product will be eliminated, and the cover can be pushed." In addition, hawthorn also has the functions of lowering blood lipid and serum cholesterol.

(Source: Baidu Encyclopedia: Sugar-Coated Berry)