Want to spend a summer with coolness, what do you use to cool off?
Now the drink shops on the street are led by milk tea, although it is still a bitter summer every year, which is much more unified than the long summer that people need to use a variety of homemade summer products to spend time, but milk tea is much lower than these natural summer products hidden in various parts of China.
From the south to the north, China has obvious regional representatives of the summer products, from the sour plum soup in Beijing, the sugar water that the two Cantonese people have in the summer, the ice powder of the Sichuan people, the roasted immortal grass of the Minnan people, and the apricot skin water of Dunhuang in Gansu... This is not all, these cool drinks from the folk, full of earthy taste, but it is a cool "artifact" unique to Chinese folk to survive one after another in the summer.
<h1>Sour plum soup made of four herbs</h1>
Sour plum soup is the most unique summer drink in old Beijing, it has a long history in Beijing, as early as the "Yanjing Chronicle" has been recorded: sour plum soup with rock sugar and sour plum boiled, mixed with roses, wood, ice water, its cool vibrating teeth. The former Gate Kowloon Jai and Xidan Arch Qiu Jia are the first in Kyoto.
The seemingly simple sour plum soup is actually very exquisite, to boil until the plum juice is thick, the entrance is cold and the sour and sweet and sour soup is moderate, from the ingredients to the boiling time are not bad at all. The earliest sour plum soup only uses Ume and rock sugar, Ume selects three or four two, warm water to open and wash the floating soil, and then wash it with water and then put it into the pot with rock sugar to cook it well, and later develop to a richer taste, add osmanthus and hawthorn and licorice, etc., and some people will add roselle flowers to the sour plum soup.
<h1>The cooling drink in the southern Fujian area, the cooling brought by the fairy grass</h1>
The fairy grass used in the cinnamon grass is an annual herb with a shape similar to the emerald green of mint leaves, and is more common in the foothills of low altitudes.
In summer, a bowl of cold and cold roasted immortal grass has been circulated in the folk for a long time, and a bowl of roasted immortal grass can remove all the smouldering hot blood of all the internal organs. In the southern Fujian region, the fairy grass jelly is their summer artifact. There are special herb shops in the eight cities of Xiamen that sell a variety of herbal teas made with herbs, and xiancao is the best-selling herbal tea herb.
How did the fairy grass come about? Legend has it that a long time ago, due to the inconvenience of transportation, people came and went on their legs, and it was easy to get heat stroke when it was hot. A divine doctor applied a grass plant with a special fragrance to passers-by, and people felt refreshed after eating it, and their bodies recovered quickly. People believe that this kind of grass with miraculous effects was given by immortals, so they named it "fairy grass".
The most original flavor of the roasted fairy grass is made by boiling the sun-dried roasted fairy grass, and when it is frozen, cut into pieces and poured with honey water. Immortal grass can also be used to boil tea, take the immortal herb to dry it and then boil it, it will become a fairy herb tea, if you add too white powder to make it condense into immortal grass jelly, it is more of a sacred product to cool off in the summer.
<h1>A bowl of ice powder, the cool taste of Sichuan people's summer</h1>
The seeds of the fake acid pulp used in ice powder, native to Peru, can now be found in many places, and rubbing its seeds will produce edible gum, which is a polysaccharide.
Delicious cold powder is hand-rubbed with ice powder seeds, although there are now simple versions, directly with the bag of ice powder brewed with boiling water after cooling is cool powder, but this is not as good as hand rubbing.
The production method of hand-rubbed cold powder is a bit like Guanyin tofu, and also uses a process such as point brine, but the ice powder is made of lime, and the role of lime promotes the solidification of the pectin molecules in the ice powder seeds if frozen, and the ice powder is made of different places, the hand rubbing ice powder will have small bubbles, which is also the simplest and most direct way to identify manual and non-manual, only by the naked eye can be identified.
After the ice powder is ready, it can be used freely, and the standard is usually brown sugar plus some peanut crushed sesame seeds.
<h1>Northwest Dunhuang summer drink apricot peel water</h1>
Apricot peel water is also available in Lanzhou. Some people say that lanzhou apricot skin water is passed down from Guo Huang, apricot skin is not apricot skin, Dunhuang people call "apricot skin" is actually sun-dried apricot. After the dried apricots are dried, they are manually pitted one by one, and the apricot meat is pulled down and then boiled, which is laborious and time-consuming.
The best apricot recognized as making apricot peel water is Li Guangxing, its fruit is regular in shape, almost round, the fruit is a big plum, the peel is golden yellow, the oil is bright, the skin is thin and the flesh is small, the taste is juicy, and the aroma is overflowing. Boiling apricot peel water and sour plum soup have the same magic, as long as the apricot peel is boiled with rock sugar and water.
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