How to make homemade candied hawthorn? How to make hawthorn cake?

Hawthorn fruit can be eaten raw or made into preserved fruit or fruit cake. It can also be used as medicine after being dried. It is a unique Chinese medicinal fruit. Hawthorn is rich in vitamin C, carbohydrates, various minerals, carotene, etc. It has the effects of strengthening the stomach and digestion, promoting qi and dispersing blood stasis, clearing turbidity and reducing fat. So, how to make homemade hawthorn candied haws? How to make hawthorn cake? Let's take a look at the introduction of Encyclopedia Knowledge Network!

Contents of this article

1. How to make homemade hawthorn candied haws

2. How to make hawthorn cake?

3. The method and efficacy of hawthorn wine

How to make homemade hawthorn candied haws

Sweet and sour candied haws are a traditional Chinese hawthorn product. They can be stuffed with various fillings and have different flavors.

Ingredients: 20 kg fresh hawthorn, 10 kg sugar (actual consumption is 6-7 kg sugar), several bamboo sticks

Preparation method:

1. Remove the hawthorn stalks, dig out the core, and wash. Rinse with cold water and dry. Divide the hawthorns into 5 to 7 grades according to their size and place them in basins.

2. Split the bamboo into sticks 18 to 20 cm long and 3 to 4 mm thick.

3. Thread the hawthorns onto bamboo sticks from small to large, with 5 to 7 hawthorns on each stick, weighing about 50 grams.

4. Put sugar into the pot, add 3 kg of water, and cook over high heat for 20 minutes, stirring while cooking; observe the syrup until it foams and bubbles, and feel a pulling force when stirring with chopsticks, then reduce the heat to 1/2, and cook for another 5-7 minutes. At this time, you can dip chopsticks in the syrup and pull out strings.

5. Seal the fire and keep it warm to prevent the syrup from solidifying. Roll the hawthorns in the syrup, let them be covered with syrup, and then place them on a wooden board or iron sheet (apply a layer of cooking oil on the wooden board or iron sheet to prevent sticking).

6. Cut the washed hawthorn into two halves (cut in the horizontal direction), put walnut kernels, orange slices, cooked yam segments in the middle, put them on a bamboo stick and dip them in sugar to make stuffed candied haws.

How to make hawthorn cake

1. Wash the hawthorn, cut it in half, put it into the pot and add water to the level of the hawthorn.

2. Squeeze in lemon juice, stir evenly, and cook over medium heat (until soft)

3. Sieve the cooked hawthorns while they are still hot. I used a rice washing basin, put a large basin underneath, and squeezed them with a wooden spoon.

4. Let the fruit puree drip into the rice washing basin through the colander. It will feel sticky and difficult to handle. Keep diluting it with the water used to boil hawthorns and then squeeze it. Finally, only the peel and core will be left in the rice washing basin. Discard them.

5. Get a bowl of hawthorn fruit paste.

6. Return the fruit paste to the pot, add sugar and rock sugar, continue heating over medium-low heat, stirring while heating.

7. Stir until a thin paste is formed with a wooden spoon. If you run a finger across the paste, the paste will not flow or close. The jam is ready. Scoop out the required jam and put it into a heat-resistant container while it is still hot. The hawthorn jam is ready.

8. Continue to heat the remaining fruit paste (about 20 minutes) until a wooden spoon can be thickly coated with the paste and the fruit paste has poor fluidity, then turn off the heat.

9. Put it into a heat-resistant container coated with a layer of salad oil while it is still hot. After it has completely cooled, pour it out and it will become hawthorn cake.

The practice and efficacy of hawthorn wine

Weight loss

Drinking hawthorn wine can also help you lose weight, because the fruit acid and phenolic ingredients it contains can accelerate the decomposition and metabolism of fat cholesterol in the human body, can prevent fat accumulation in the body, regular drinking can prevent weight gain, and can also prevent the body from obesity, and the weight loss effect is particularly good. In addition, people drink more hawthorn in their daily lives, and the soaked fruit wine can maintain cardiovascular health, prevent increased blood lipids, and reduce the incidence of atherosclerosis.

Appetite and digestion

Appetite stimulation and digestion are also the main effects of drinking hawthorn wine. Because hawthorn itself is a fruit with a particularly sour taste, it can absorb a large amount of organic acids after being soaked in wine. These organic acids can promote the regeneration of proteases in the human body and accelerate the secretion of gastric acid. After drinking it, people can have a good appetite and improve the digestive ability of the stomach and intestines.