Freshly baked dried arbutus, it took about 2 hours to complete ↓
finished product
It was more than 4 a.m., I couldn't sleep, I lay in bed for almost 1 hour, I still couldn't sleep, so I simply got up. Took 3 baskets up the mountain, I haven't gotten up so early for a long time, the air on the mountain is very nice and fresh ↓
Road in the mountains
It was already 6 o'clock on the mountain, and the neighbors had already picked dozens of baskets, one basket after another, lined up under the tree, waiting to be picked down the mountain. ↓
Neighbor's bayberry
My family does not have so many bayberry, only three or four small bayberry trees, I can pick as long as I stand, standing under other people's bayberry trees, I photographed the big and red bayberry ↓
Arbutus on the side of the road
It took more than an hour to pick up 3 baskets ↓
I picked the bayberry
Take home a basket to make dried bayberry, soak in salt water for 15 minutes and drain the water ↓
Salted washed bayberry
Put in the pot and cook slowly, stirring constantly to prevent burning ↓
Put the bayberry in a pot and cook
After a noticeably smaller lap, pour out the bayberry juice! ↓
Cook for about 30 minutes
Add the rock sugar. Stir slowly! ↓
Wait until the rock sugar is all melted
Wait for the rock sugar to melt, scoop out the bayberry, control the moisture ↓
Drain
Continue to cook the soup in the pot and simmer the juice on a slow heat until it is viscous ↓
The soup was viscous
Add the bayberry and stir over low heat until the water has dried up↓
Pour the bayberry into the pot again
Arbutus is already edible! ↓
Dried bayberry just out of the pot
If you want to dry a little, dry it in the sun or fan dry. ↓
Bask in the sun
Compare Fei Yangmei, time-consuming. If you think it's too sour, put a little sugar and stir ↓
It was dried for 1 hour and wrapped in sugar
Note: About 4 pounds of bayberry, 170 grams of rock sugar