Processing technology of ribbed dates

Ribose-free jujube is rich in nutrients, has the effect of moisturizing the lungs and kidneys, replenishing qi and invigorating blood, and is a good health tonic.

The main raw materials for processing ribbed dates are fully mature, uniform in size, bright red in color, and fatty in flesh and sugar. The process flow is: selection of materials  denucleated 椗菹礂 boiled to make  鏃 drying. Selection: The selection of fully mature dried red dates, fresh crisp dates, green dates are not suitable as raw materials. Select and classify the dates to remove moldy and diseased dates, and require the dates to be complete, uniform in size, and without broken heads. If the jujube body has impurities, it should also be cleaned and dried.

Denuclearization: the selected jujube is stabbed off with a denuclearizer, requiring that the caliber of the core is not greater than 0.7 cm, the caliber is complete and harmless, the poking hole is upright, there is no broken head, and the needle eye is consistent.

Soaking: Pour the pitted dates into clean hot water at 60 ° C, gently stir, soak for about 20 minutes, until the jujube meat is swollen, the jujube skin is slightly unfolded, and after eating through the water, it can be fished out. Drizzle the surface of the date peel with water. The main purpose of soaking is to wash away dirt and stretch the jujube skin, so that the sugar can be eaten evenly when cooking, and the color and luster are consistent.

Sugar boiling: Take 10 kg of white sugar, 10 kg of water, 12 g of citric acid mixed and dissolved, pour the soaked dates into the sugar water pot and add heat to cook. When the temperature reaches 90 ° C, the invert syrup is poured into a stainless steel pot and cooked for 0.5 hours.

Dipped dates: The cooked dates are poured into sugar water with roses, honey, osmanthus flowers, sugar and other ingredients for about 24 hours, until the date meat is full of syrup, and the dates are black and purple. The sugar liquid can be reused.

Drying: the soaked dates with hot water to wash the surface syrup, then fished into the baking tray, sent to the oven baking, the oven temperature is adjusted to 60 ~ 70 ° C, after 12 hours, the sugar jujube moisture content can be reduced to about 15%, touch the hand to feel the external hard and soft, you can get out of the oven.

Packaging: After the sugar dates are dried, they are sorted, the finished products of uniform size, purple and bright are selected, sealed in special non-toxic food bags, and then loaded into a standard box.