I don't know 80 90 of us, do you remember the winter melon candy? In the past, every Spring Festival, my grandmother would use endless winter melon to make winter melon candy to entertain guests, and its taste was sweet and refreshing, and it was very popular. Today I will use the traditional method to make a winter melon candy, the taste is still the same as before
By Xiangye Red Sister
<h2>Royalties</h2>
Winter melon 2800 g
Powdered sugar 2000 g
Quicklime (edible grade) 50 g
Water 2500 g
Icing sugar 300 g
<h2>Practice steps</h2>
1, peel, wash and cut the winter melon into strips, pour in edible quicklime water (lime: water = 1:50, supermarkets and online are sold), soak for 48 hours
2, 48 hours to, with running water to wash away the residual quicklime residue
3: Bring the water to a boil, add the winter melon strips, blanch for 5-6 minutes and remove
4: Add powdered sugar to the cooked winter melon strips
5: Cover with plastic wrap, seal and refrigerate for 24 hours
6, the time is up, start boiling sugar. After the sugar water boils, turn to medium heat, stir until the sugar liquid becomes viscous, immediately turn the heat down, and so on to see the white fixation on the edge of the pot, the bubbles become dense, immediately turn off the heat, pour out
7, continue to stir until like the picture, each winter melon strip is hung with frosting, you can eat
8, when snacks to eat or make desserts are super charming
<h2>Tips</h2>
1, the purpose of soaking winter melon strips with lime water is to maintain the original state, so that the melon meat is not soft and rotten, but also can be tightly organized, so that the texture of the melon meat is crisp 2, no powdered sugar can be put into the blender to crush it 3, when stir-frying winter melon in the pot, it should be stir-fried from the bottom up, so as not to destroy the melon meat 4, as for the storage method, after doing it, put it in a sealed container and cover it, if it is stored for a long time, it will be wrapped again with powdered sugar frosting, and then placed in a cool place
<h2>Nutritional benefits of winter melon</h2>
Quenching thirst, puffiness and wheezing, hemorrhoids swelling and pain, heat poisoning, prickly heat, kidney disease, edema, cirrhosis of the liver ascites, cancer, beriberi, hypertension, diabetes, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, obesity, lack of vitamin C
<h2>Dietary contraindications to winter melon</h2>
White melon cold, spleen and stomach deficiency, diarrhea and loose stool, stomach cold pain should not eat raw cold white melon;
Women with menstrual cramps and cold dysmenorrhea should avoid eating raw white melon;
People with long-term illness and yang deficiency and cold limbs should not eat.
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