"Golden mandarin" belongs to the family Rubiaceae Perennials. Native to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang mountains of China, it was introduced to Taiwan in 1906, Yilan County is the main planting area, the harvest period is from November to March of the following year, the cause and effect skin is golden, the shape is like a jujube, beautiful and joyful, and the locals nickname it "Golden Jujube". Eating golden dates in the New Year is a good omen for "gold to find"! Therefore, it has become a suitable fruit for the New Year.
Jujube flesh is perfect, sour with sweet, in addition to fresh food, can also be processed into jujube cakes, jams, jujube juice, etc., jujube skin contains essential oil sweet edible, but also extract aromatic oil, or soaked into jujube peel wine. Jujube is rich in pectin, potassium, calcium, vitaminS A, C, P, etc., so Chinese medicine believes that jujube has the effects of rational qi, tonic, depression, digestion, cold dissipation, phlegm, sobering, etc., and can be used to treat chest tightness, drunkenness, thirst, indigestion, loss of appetite, cough and asthma and other symptoms.
Harvest of golden dates can be made into "honey jujube", increase the shelf life, eat a variety of ways, can be eaten directly as candied fruit, can also be brewed into fruit tea to drink, but also as a pre-dinner appetizer and post-meal to relieve the greasy small snack, and can also be used as other dim sum filling ingredients, and its method and ingredients are very simple! Today, the uncle goes to the kitchen to teach you to make honey dates to eat, and relieve the greasy stomach during the New Year!
600 grams of dates, 200 grams of rock sugar, 200 grams of granulated sugar (maltose is better), appropriate amount of water (enough to drown sugar), appropriate amount of salt
1, first boil the glass jar to sterilize and dry, the lid is slightly blanched, then fished out and put dry for later;
2, then carefully remove the golden jujube head, do not hurt the peel after washing, with a toothpick evenly poke the hole several times, can make the sugar into the taste and prevent the pulp from bursting;
3, boil a pot of hot water, under the golden dates, cook for about 3 minutes to remove the astringency, then fish, hot water poured out;
4, then put the water, salt, rock sugar, granulated sugar in the pot, slightly boiled and dissolved, under the golden dates, boil on high heat, turn to medium-low heat, continue to cook for about 30 minutes, during which time you must slightly stir, until the dates are transparent, the fruit collapses, and the white foam is removed;
5, while hot, put the honey jujube into a glass jar, lock the lid, invert the buckle (to reach the vacuum, increase the shelf life) Cool and complete!
After cooling, you can eat it, remember to drink it with water
Uncle tips
1, the glass jar must be sterilized and dried to use, otherwise the storage time will be shortened, and it is not hygienic;
2, do not put too much water, cooking time should not be too long!