Mango seed is the third solar term of summer, "mango" refers to barley, wheat and other mango crops, "seed" refers to the meaning of seed sowing, at this time everything grows in an orderly manner, suitable for sowing late grain, millet, millet and other mango crops, is the summer planting busy season, so mango seed is also called "busy seed" by the people. As the saying goes, "mango planting, bitter summer solstice", after the mango seeding summer slowly comes, hot and humid, with the increase of temperature people's metabolism will also accelerate, salt and so on with the loss of sweat, the body often feel sleepy and weak, no appetite, so people often say that the mango planting season "bitter summer" is difficult.
During the planting season, the daily diet should be light and cool, and eat more foods that consume appetizers and quench thirst, so as to avoid the suffering of "bitter summer". Folk, in the mango seed day there is a "boiled plum" food customs, at this time is the season of plum ripening, fresh plum taste sour, picked down can not be eaten directly, the people will add plums to water, boil until the sour taste is removed, and then add rock sugar to make drinks, raw and refreshing, cool, over time there is a mango "boiled plum" custom.
As early as the Three Kingdoms period, there are Cao Cao and Liu Bei's "qingmei boiled wine heroes", at that time "boiling plum" is not only a kind of food custom, but also a graceful thing, to the present, mango "boiling plum" one is to celebrate the arrival of the mango season, the other is to relieve the lack of heat, but the north and south in the "boiled plum", the ingredients are different, the south likes to use green plum "boiled plum", that is, green plum tea, green plum wine, and the north likes to use Umei "boiled plum", that is, sweet and sour plum soup.
Different from the southern "boiled plum", the sour plum soup in the north needs to take the taste of wumei, the acid of hawthorn, the effect of tangerine peel, the coolness of mint, the sour and sweet of mulberry, the neutralization of licorice, the medicinal effect of hibiscus flowers, the addition of osmanthus flowers after cooking, rock sugar flavor, a total of 8 kinds of ingredients after rationing, sour and sweet, appetizing and greasy, boiled in a pot in the hot summer, cool and cool, the whole family can drink.
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Ingredients required: 30 grams of plum, 10 grams of tangerine peel, 10 grams of dried hawthorn, 3 grams of licorice, 3 grams of osmanthus flowers, 1 monk fruit, 3 chrysanthemums, 5 grams of dried lotus leaves, 40 grams of rock sugar, a little salt.
1. Wash the ingredients, put the plum, tangerine peel, dried hawthorn, licorice, dried lotus leaves in water twice, wash off the surface floating ash, drain the water and set aside.
2, add water to the pot, pour in all the ingredients just washed, boil over high heat and fish out, this step is equivalent to blanching the ingredients, you can also remove part of the miscellaneous taste, the cooking time should not be too long, the water can be fished out after 1 minute after boiling.
3: Pour all the ingredients into the pot, re-add the water, the amount of water is between 1.5 liters and 2 liters, cover the lid after boiling on high heat, turn to medium-low heat and simmer for about 25 minutes. Add rock sugar and osmanthus flowers to the pot, stir well and cook for another 10 minutes, add a little salt before coming out of the pot, stir again.
Tips: Generally sweet drinks will be more "fishy" to drink, adding a little salt to drink in the mouth will not have a greasy feeling, more refreshing.
After the sour plum soup is cooked, fish out the ingredients inside, filter out the residue and pour it into a large glass, put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours to drink, a bowl of stomach through the heart, relieve the heat and quench the thirst.
Some friends say that the sour plum soup they made is somewhat bitter, a smell of Chinese medicine, this is because the amount of tangerine peel and licorice is not well controlled, these 2 things can not be more, you can soak the ingredients for a while, you can also appropriately increase hawthorn, ume and rock sugar, when drinking add a few ice cubes or lemon slices, sour and cool feeling, much stronger than the cold drink you bought.
——Lao Jing said——
Mango seed is usually in the beginning of June every year, this time is not only the busy period of "busy seed", but also the most nervous moment for the college entrance examination students in the country, the weather is dry and hot, at this time to the child to eat cold drinks to quench the summer and quench thirst, it is better to boil a pot of sweet and sour osmanthus sour plum soup at home, relieve the heat and cool, conform to the season, the child drinks comfortably, full of spirit to get good results.
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