Recently, osmanthus flowers on the streets of Shanghai have been blooming one after another. Osmanthus is fragrant, full of fragrance, gentle breeze, as long as there are a few osmanthus trees around, the streets and alleys are all strong, sweet fragrance!
Xiaobian also can't wait to get ready to enjoy osmanthus flavored food~ The following are recommended for you!
Osmanthus sugar
Osmanthus makes sugar, sweet tongue, fragrant, is the most basic way to eat osmanthus. In 1934, "Family Weekly" introduced the process of making osmanthus sugar: "Spread a white cloth on the table, pour the flowers on it, check it with a needle one by one, remove its stems and debris, and then soak it in concentrated salt water for more than 20 hours, drain the osmanthus out and dry it, mix it with sugar, the sugar must be more than the osmanthus flower, mix well, and then put it into a pot and cook it over Chinese heat, and after the sugar is dissolved, the fire must be stopped." ”
Osmanthus glutinous rice root
Osmanthus glutinous rice root is a unique traditional dessert in the Jiangnan region, which enjoys a reputation for its sweetness, crispness, and rich osmanthus aroma. Glutinous rice is poured in lotus root and boiled with osmanthus and brown sugar. After a few hours of waiting, the originally white and crisp autumn lotus root became soft and crispy, and the softness of the glutinous rice was completely integrated into the heart of the lotus root, and the sugar root was sticky and sweet, with a refreshing osmanthus fragrance.
Osmanthus sugar taro seedlings
This is a common dessert in the Jinling region, made from lotus root, taro, brown sugar, and osmanthus flowers. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, Nanjing City is filled with a faint fragrance of osmanthus flowers, which also happens to be the season when taro is ripe, and the combination of the two creates a smooth and refreshing sweet soup. In autumn and winter, the freshly cooked osmanthus sugar taro seedlings exude a burst of sweet smell, and drinking it leaves sweetness, which makes people addicted.
Osmanthus sugar water chicken head rice
"Suzhou is good, the head of the chicken is cultivated in the water, and the lustrous pearl is ten pearls, and the soft fragrance prefers the milk and the urn, and the small garden is finely peeled." This is the description of the Qing Dynasty poet Shen Chaochu in "Remembering the Food Words of Jiangnan Gusu Four Times".
The simplest way to eat is to clear the water, pour the chicken head rice into the boiling for three minutes, and finally mix a little white sugar and dried osmanthus flowers, and a bowl of minimalist sugar water osmanthus chicken head rice will "come out". Gently scooped up with a spoon and put in your mouth, it is smooth and sticky to chew, and has a refreshing nature.
Osmanthus wine makes rounds
Sake dumplings are also a major snack in Jiangnan. The method is very simple, it is made with brewed wine, eggs and glutinous rice dumplings. A bowl of wine aroma without wine smell, egg fragrant rice fragrant rich wine brewed small rice balls is completed.
In autumn, this regular snack is covered with a layer of osmanthus "new clothes". The aroma of osmanthus flowers is not inconsistent and blended into it, and the faint floral fragrance burrows into the nasal cavity in the silky egg flowers, sticks to the round little balls and jumps between the teeth, hidden in the sweet rice brew and slides into the throat.
Osmanthus cake
The annual osmanthus blooming season is the best time to make osmanthus cake in the southern region. Osmanthus cake has a history of more than 300 years and is a delicious pastry made from glutinous rice flour, sugar and honey osmanthus flowers. Authentic osmanthus cake has a complicated production process, and it takes more than a dozen steps to make it well. The pastry is yellow and white in color, the tissue is moist and soft, delicate and slag, the taste is sweet and delicious, and it has a special fragrance, even after eating, the aroma will not dissipate for a long time.
Osmanthus strip head cake
Osmanthus head cake is one of the preferred cakes of Shanghainese. The cake balls made of glutinous rice flour are wrapped in sweet bean paste, and the crystal clear skin is faintly revealing the color of bean paste, which is full in appearance and sprinkled with golden osmanthus flowers. One bite, soft and delicious, sweet but not greasy, the mouth is full of osmanthus fragrance, can be described as color, fragrance, taste.
Osmanthus wine
The flowering period of osmanthus is very short, and some families want to leave the fragrance of this osmanthus flower, so they use osmanthus to make osmanthus wine. Osmanthus wine is a wine with a very long history, as early as Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there is a saying of "helping Ji to fight and drink cinnamon pulp" and "Dian Guixi pepper pulp".
The production method of osmanthus wine is also very simple, just pour the osmanthus into a bottle, then pour white wine, rock sugar, seal and store for about 3 months to drink, treasured for more than a year will become a good wine. Osmanthus wine is exceptionally mellow, amber in color, mellow and thick, with osmanthus aroma on the mouth, slightly sweet, quite distinctive.
Osmanthus chestnuts
There are two types of osmanthus chestnuts, one is natural, formed by the seed between osmanthus trees and chestnut trees, and the other is artificially flavored by adding osmanthus sugar when stir-frying chestnuts.
Natural cinnamon chestnut is relatively rare. In modern history, the most famous source of natural osmanthus chestnuts is Wuxi Huishan. Unlike ordinary chestnuts, Huishan gui chestnuts are cooked and sold, and all you can see on the market are hairy chestnuts. In this regard, an essay in the 1948 Yi Shi Pao illustrated this: "Only raw chestnuts are sold, but there are no cooked chestnuts to buy, because the production is too scarce to be boiled in a whole pot and sold regularly." "Unfortunately, many historical sources show that the "osmanthus chestnut" has become extinct, which is regrettable. Source: Women in Shanghai
Editor: Dai Lin
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