Preparation method

Ingredients: Dried plums (half a catty), hawthorn (half a catty), osmanthus (one tael), licorice (one tael), born sugar or brown sugar.

Production steps

1. The dried plums and hawthorns bought from the dry goods market must be soaked in water first.

2. Wrap the soaked plums and hawthorns in gauze together with a small amount of osmanthus and licorice.

3. Fill the 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 born sugar or brown sugar that can be used for dyeing. 5. Simmer over low heat for 6 to 7 hours. When about half of the water is boiled away, the sour plum soup is ready.

Drinking Instructions

1. The prepared sour plum soup cannot be finished in one sitting. It can be stored in the refrigerator for a few days. However, at room temperature, sour plum soup is easy to deteriorate. If you see fine foam floating on the surface, it means that it has deteriorated and cannot be drunk.

2. Sour plum soup with licorice added will have an astringent aftertaste. Putting some ice cubes when drinking can reduce the astringency.

3. The sour plum soup made by a novice may be too thick or too light. The only way to make the ratio of heat and water is to think more and try more!

Raw materials

Yangmei, honey, candied dates, roses, sugar.

Of course, the bayberry must be washed carefully, because it is easy to hide some small bugs. After washing, Choose a big, plump, dark red color, not too many, about 25, put it in a large bowl and sprinkle with four spoons of sugar to marinate. Cover the bowl with a lid and shake it up and down a few times to distribute the sugar evenly.

Choose 8 candied dates, put them in a pot, pour a bowl of water, first heat them over high heat, then simmer them over low heat to extract the sugar from the candied dates. When cooking the dates, Mix honey in another large bowl, about 4 spoons. Stir evenly. Sprinkle 7 or 8 rose buds and set aside. Because the sweetness of honey is natural, it is relatively sweet and has room for aftertaste, unlike white sugar. It is extremely sweet, so it is better to use honey water. In addition, honey, candied dates, and roses can reconcile endocrine, which is better for girls.

After the candied dates are burned, the water will be completely opened and absorbed. The essence and sweetness of candied dates. Discard the candied dates and pour boiling water into the prepared honey bowl. Stir evenly. The fragrance of honey and roses lingers on the tip of your nose.

Then pour the honey water After marinating the bayberries, immediately cover the bowl with a lid to prevent the steam from dissipating. Then shake the bowl up and down for 2-3 minutes to allow the sour juice of the bayberries to completely blend into the honey water. Then put it in the refrigerator.

There is no process of cooking the bayberries here in order to keep the bayberries fresh and tender. Because cooking will evaporate the water in the bayberries, making them taste astringent. In many cooked sour plum soups, the bayberries lose their bright color and taste like Tasteless.

The entrance to this sour plum soup is the ethereal fragrance of roses, followed by the sweetness of honey, then the sourness of bayberry permeates little by little, and then there is a hint of sweetness of candied dates. The taste progresses layer by layer, with sour and sweet flavors entangled all the way, and it is also cold and refreshing. In the hot summer, holding a bowl of sour plum soup will really eliminate all boredom.

The bayberry at this time is sour and sweet. It is mainly sweet, with a hint of sourness. Just like a pregnant girl, sometimes she is jealous of her lover who is unsure of her thoughts, and sometimes she remembers his many good things. She looks nonchalant, but her heart has already changed a thousand times.

It turns out that jealousy also needs to be divided. It is best if the sour ones are on the outside and the sweet ones are on the inside.

"The copper bowl calls out in the street. Ou ice water and plum soup." Hao Yixing's "Dumen Bamboo Branch Ci" in the Qing Dynasty painted a picture of how to spend summer in the market, and revealed the main types of summer soups that people drank at that time.

Sour plum soup has been a good summer drink since ancient times. In the Qing Dynasty, it was improved by the imperial dining room and became the royal drink of the palace. The so-called "Shigong Mei Jian" is this. Because of its functions of removing heat and providing coolness, relieving pain, eliminating phlegm and relieving coughs, warding off epidemics, producing body fluids and quenching thirst, it was known as the "Emperor's Black Plum Soup, a rare treasure of the Qing Dynasty". It was later introduced to the people, and dried and fresh fruit shops were opened in the streets and alleys. At the entrance, vendors selling sour plum soup can be seen everywhere.

A crescent halberd is placed on the stall (to indicate staying up late at night), and a sign that reads "Ice Hot and Sour Plum Soup" is hung. The stall owner holds a pair of small bronze bowls and knocks them from time to time to make a clanging sound. Passers-by can expect that the plum blossoms will quench their thirst and feel cool after hearing the sound. After one bowl, the heat will disappear. At that time, operators of sour plum soup not only hawked it along the streets and set up stalls to sell it, but there were also many shops selling sour plum soup. For example, "Qiu Family" on the overpass, "Lu Yu Zhai" on Xidan Archway, "Yu Yuan Zhai" on Mending Street in Dong'an, and "Jiulong Zhai" outside Qianmen are all famous. At present, only the "Xinyuan Zhai" in the south of Liulichang Road at that time is still in existence. fast".

As an aside, apart from the social and political reasons for the decline of "Sour Plum Soup", the most important reason may be the operator's business philosophy: it is self-contained and unchangeable, and it is difficult to adapt to the tastes of modern people. In fact, one of the important reasons why "national drink" cannot defeat "foreign drink" is due to outdated marketing and conservative technology. Otherwise, such a good product would not be washed away by cheap "foreign carbonated water".

This soup can eliminate food and harmonize the body, promote qi and dissipate stasis, produce body fluids and quench thirst, converge lung qi, relieve troubles and calm the mind. Regular drinking can indeed cure diseases and strengthen the body. It is a rare health care in hot summer. Drinks.