In the cold autumn, the mountains are most red, and the trees are hung with red lanterns. At the end of October, winter is approaching, the autumn breeze is sluggish, and the red hawthorn is also on the market. Unlike other fruits, hawthorn taste is relatively sour, occasionally eat one or two OK, not suitable for direct large consumption, generally will be processed into sugar gourd, hawthorn cake, fruit dan peel and other snacks, eat more popular.
Hawthorn cake is sweet and sour, cut into small pieces as a snack, or cooked into a pot of hawthorn soup taste is also excellent, every autumn and winter there will be a lot of hawthorn vendors in the streets and alleys on sale, in order to sell better, some look red, Q bomb hawthorn cake will have some additives and pigments, often eat or some worry. In fact, the production of hawthorn cake is not complicated at all, take advantage of the cheap to buy a few pounds, find a free time is very convenient to make, the family can also eat with confidence, hawthorn cake method to share with everyone.
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Ingredients used: 3 kg of fresh hawthorn, 1 kg of sugar, 1/2 lemon.
1, the bought hawthorn needs to be cleaned, the insect eye, the product difference is not selected, so as not to affect the color and taste of hawthorn cake.
2, find a suitable tool, with the tail of the iron spoon can be, the hawthorn part of the flower bud part is not shaved off, this position is relatively dark and some bitter.
3, the processed hawthorn cold water into the pot, after boiling on high heat, continue to cook for 2 minutes, hawthorn skin cracked, do not cook for too long.
4, do not throw away the water that boils hawthorn, filter it and set aside. Hawthorn is fished out and the stems are pulled off, and the core inside will also be brought out, leaving only the pulp part.
5, hawthorn pulp into the juice machine or wall breaker, add a little boiled hawthorn water, beat into a delicate fruit puree.
6, hawthorn fruit puree is all processed, pour into the pot, according to personal taste add about 1 kg of white sugar, you can adjust the taste, add a small amount of lemon juice.
7, small heat slowly boiling, pay attention to the viscous fruit puree will "burst", to avoid burns, has been boiling the fruit puree can be hung on the shovel, basically can be.
8, the boiled fruit puree into the appropriate container, you can brush a layer of clear oil in advance to remove the mold, put it in the refrigerator for 1 night, cut into slices when eating.
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1, the amount of sugar must be enough, the best hawthorn and sugar ratio of about 3:1, too little sugar is not easy to form and solidify, eat too sour.
2, hawthorn puree in the pectin more, add hawthorn water to hit the fruit puree do not add too much, otherwise the time will be very long when boiling.
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