This year's osmanthus blossoms late, in previous years the osmanthus flowers are in the Mid-Autumn Festival around the bloom, some time ago the southerners look forward to autumn anxiety, some people in the circle of friends said: the weather is hot to the osmanthus flowers do not want to bloom.
These days finally smell the familiar smell of osmanthus flowers again, the smell of osmanthus flowers floating in the air really makes people love autumn, the flowering period of osmanthus is too short, look forward to waiting for a long time until it blossoms to emit aroma to osmanthus withering and harvesting the aroma, but a few days, to appreciate the flowers, eat flowers really early.
Osmanthus also has a nice name - MuXi, and there is an object mentioned in "Dream of the Red Chamber" called "Muxi Qinglu", which Bao Yu described as "very fragrant" after smelling it. This "wooden tree dew" is actually made of osmanthus flowers, and people laugh that this thing is noble, and the small glass bottle does not contain much, so it is easy to put it away.
In Hangzhou to see the best osmanthus flowers last year on the full Juelong, in the autumn it is really fragrant lively, "West Lake August is a clear tour, where is the fragrance of the nose indecent and quiet? The golden millet next to Manjuelong is everywhere, and the heavenly wind blows all over the ten thousand mountains and forests." Every year to the osmanthus flowering period, Manjuelong has become a village with a fragrance label under the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, stepping into it, consciously has been hit hard by the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, the oldest osmanthus tree in Manjuelong has been old for more than 200 years, since the Ming Dynasty, this is the most prosperous place for Hangzhou osmanthus flowers, from the Ming Dynasty to the present, Manlong Village has experienced hundreds of years of wind and rain, things are not human, but osmanthus remains unchanged, the tradition of appreciating osmanthus has continued, and osmanthus has also become a part of the life of Manlong villagers. Manjuelong villagers are also the best at making osmanthus nectar and sugar osmanthus flowers, and now when you go to Manjuelong, you can see that there are large bamboo sieves hanging osmanthus flowers at the door of every household, and everyone is making sugar osmanthus flowers.
Sealed in the glass jar of sugar osmanthus has the protection of white sugar, can be preserved for a long time is not bad, with fresh sugar osmanthus made of sugar osmanthus can not only retain the aroma of osmanthus flowers, but also retain the color of osmanthus flowers, sugar osmanthus is also very versatile, what food has it in it can be fragrant, Hangzhou people do braised pork also like to throw a handful of sugar osmanthus flowers to add sweet taste.
When the osmanthus blossoms, if it is convenient, you can also pick a little osmanthus to make a little sugar osmanthus flower, in the process of making sugar osmanthus flowers, picking osmanthus flowers, sieving osmanthus flowers is the most troublesome, do these two steps well, other steps are zero difficulty.
One way to pick osmanthus is to lay a clean cloth under the osmanthus tree, and then use a bamboo pole to beat the osmanthus tree to make the osmanthus fall down, another way is that you use your hands to slowly pluck the osmanthus from the osmanthus tree, use this technique to be gentle, it is best to take only the osmanthus flower, the time to pick the osmanthus flower is 5 o'clock to 9 o'clock in the morning, and the dew is best before it is dispersed.
In addition, do you want to clean the osmanthus flowers that you pick back? Osmanthus after rinsing the flower fragrance will be a lot lighter, if the osmanthus tree growth environment is not polluted, the harvested osmanthus as long as the removal of residual flowers and impurities can be, the rest of the time is to find a clean and waterless glass jar, a layer of osmanthus a layer of white sugar yard full, compacted, the later can also continue to add osmanthus and white sugar, put a few days later to do a good job, this sugar osmanthus can be preserved for a year will not be bad.
I started to make a jar of sugar osmanthus flowers today, got up early to go downstairs to pick a little osmanthus flowers, this time the osmanthus blossoms a little too much, picking half a day only got such a little;
After returning home, slowly select, it took a morning to finish, osmanthus flowers will be oxidized and blackened after picking, this is normal;
Choose the good osmanthus flowers to dry for a while, find a clean glass jar that absolutely can not have water; put in the filtered osmanthus flowers, a layer of osmanthus flowers and a layer of sugar code;
After the yard is good, close the lid on it, find a wrapping paper to make a simple package,
Wait now, and next week the sugar osmanthus will be ready.