Fugu County has about 100 kilometers of river shoreline, close to the Yellow River, at this time Fugu County is proud of the reason, because the Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, she has raised thousands of yellow river children on both sides of the river from ancient times to the present.
The Moraine Agricultural Park on the Yellow River in Fugu is rich in red dates, perhaps because the soil and abundant water resources in this area are very suitable for the growth of red dates, so that the dates here can obtain a large harvest every year.
The processing of Fugu red dates goes through the following processes. The first thing to do is to pick and choose. Every year, after the dates are ripe, there will be many workers working in the factories of some local date processing enterprises. They would classify the dates they had recovered from the date farmers: the first was good dates that had not been bumped; the second was the injured inferior dates; and the third was the rotten dates. The first type of red dates mentioned above has been made into smoked dates, amethyst dates, etc., the second type has been made into preserved fruits such as date paste, and the third type is discarded.
Ribose-free jujube is a kind of jujube product that Fugu jujube processing enterprises attach great importance to. Ribose-free jujube color is fresh and tender, purple red translucent, rich aroma, soft and hard delicious, sugar content of more than 70%, vitamin A content is also high, with lungs, spleen, kidney, qi, blood and other functions. The processing method is as follows:
First, the selection of materials to remove the core: the red dates with thick flesh, thin skin, small core and high sugar content are required; the jujube body is complete, the size is uniform, there is no insect moth, no mildew, fully mature, and fully sun-dried. After selecting it, use the poking machine to take out the jujube kernel, and the nuclei should be small. When taking the core by hand, it can be removed from the screws at both ends with a knife.
The second is to soak and cook: soak the pitted dates in hot water at 65-75 ° C, stir gently, and after the dates have absorbed enough water, drain the water. Then put in 50 kg of 90-95 ° C hot water, add 30 kg of white sugar, stir while adding, after the sugar is dissolved, add 3% citric acid, boil for about 30 minutes, cook the date peel into a purple red, you can pour it into a clean container with the sugar liquid, soak for about 25 hours, until the date skin is full of syrup and becomes black and purple.
The third is to bake the finished product: first drain the syrup on the surface of the date in hot water, and then put it into a baking tray and send it into the oven to bake, so that the water content is reduced to about 15%, the oven temperature begins to be 50 ° C, after 6-7 hours to rise to 70-80 ° C and other date skin wrinkles, with your hands to feel the outer hard and soft inside out of the package.
According to the person in charge of the local jujube processing enterprise, most of the dates in Fugu are sold to Taiyuan, Xi'an, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places, and indirectly exported to Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Russia and other countries.