Oriental ice cream
Under the crystal thin ice, the dark brown pear skin is wrapped in soft waxy flesh, which is the "soft pear" of Gaolan County, Lanzhou City. This fruit, which was once "raised in the deep and unknown", is now selling well throughout the country and is praised by diners as "Oriental Ice Cream".
Yu Youren wrote a poem praising: "Soft pears in the ice and snow, the first strange in the city of melons and fruits." The red face of the tree is not taken, and the fragrance is waiting to be turned into mud. "Gaolan soft pear, also known as frozen pear, perfume pear, after picking in late autumn every year, after saccharification and blackening in the cold winter in the northwest, it has become a special food for the local people in the harsh winter. People who don't know also think that the fruit has deteriorated, but in fact, this is the unique way of eating Gaolan soft pear.
Gaolan soft pear, also known as huaxin, perfume, it is a favorite of people in the severe winter season. It not only has a unique flavor, but also rich in nutritional value, containing fruit acid, malic acid, citric acid, sucrose, glucose and other components, soluble solids are generally about 13%, and the nutritional value is extremely high. It is noted in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that soft pears have the effects of moisturizing the lungs, cooling the heart, eliminating phlegm, reducing fire, and detoxifying sores and alcohol.
Soft pear is said to have been planted in the Southern Song Dynasty, the fruit of soft pear is nearly round, the average fruit weight is about 125 grams, ripe after winter, its color is yellow with green, green in red, thicker skin, hard flesh, sour taste.
When the soft pear is fresh, the flesh is hard and sour, the entrance has a choking feeling, after more than 40 days of saccharification, the meat fermentation softens, and the fruit taste becomes sweeter.
If hidden until winter, it freezes into an ice ball, the skin color becomes black, commonly known as "frozen pear", when eating, it needs to be placed in a warm place to dissolve, and after the surface layer degenerates out of a thin ice shell, the pear flesh becomes soft, it becomes a bag of perfume, the slurry is very much, the taste is sweet like honey, and the wine is rich.
When eating, tear the epidermis, suck with the mouth, a package of honey-like juice suddenly dissolves in the mouth, drinking sweet and refreshing, cool silk, fragrant, refreshing, lingering taste for a long time.