Plum Soup (Sour Plum Soup) Beginner Guide

Plum Soup (Sour Plum Soup) Beginner Guide

Mume soup is also called sour plum soup. I don't know when it started. Every summer, my family will prepare materials for making ebony soup. Boil a pot to cool off the heat in hot summer, and unconsciously cook the dark plum soup.

0 1, a review of wumei decoction.

First of all, let's review Grandpa Peng Ziyi's explanation of ebony soup and see when we should cook a pot of ebony soup in the kitchen.

Come on, let's dig out Grandpa Peng's circular motion in ancient Chinese medicine. Turn to page 9 1, and grandpa Peng's content about "summer fainting" reads:

When the summer months are extremely hot, people feel flustered, uneasy, red in the face, hot in the skin, weak, unable to eat or drink, and their tongue is pure and childless, or full of red color. If the fire doesn't fall this summer, you will lose your roots. The recipe uses 5 chunks of ebony, 2 Liang of rock sugar, boiling soup and ironing clothes, which is sweet and sour, and swigs a bowl of Li Yu. Summer fever, ebony rock sugar soup special effects.

It's summer at this time, and friends who feel so hot that they will faint will see if they have been recruited. Mume soup is especially suitable for relieving summer heat. Learning to make dark plum soup can have many benefits.

For example, what if children want to drink iced coke in summer? Tell him the dark plum soup tastes better! What if the child wants to eat ice cream? Tell him the dark plum soup tastes better! What if I want to eat iced watermelon? Tell him the dark plum soup tastes better! Over time, the hot summer days and the sweet, sour and delicious ebony soup gradually became online, and ebony soup became the memory of summer, replacing iced watermelon, iced cola and ice cream.

However, Peng Ziyi also stressed that it is not suitable to drink dark plum soup when the autumn is cool, the tongue coating is yellow and greasy, and you are sick and afraid of the cold.

02. How to mix the ebony soup?

Next, let's talk about the ingredient ratio of ebony soup. You can buy your own materials for ebony soup, such as ebony, dried tangerine peel, licorice, hawthorn and crystal sugar, and cook them according to your own taste. Of course, you can also buy prepared ones, which have a more balanced taste. The disadvantage is that the number has been fixed, and it will not be more than your family. The advantage is that small packages are more convenient to store.

There are only two kinds of medicinal ebony and white sugar soup, so you can prepare a can of ebony at home in case of emergency. Ebony should be soaked or smoked in vinegar, and never made into charcoal ebony.

I prefer the combination of single purchase. Simply put, ebony is the protagonist. When cooking, I decided to put a few pieces according to the amount and shade I wanted to drink, which laid the main tone of the soup. Take the ebony I bought in Tongrentang as an example. Nine dollars can cook two people 1L, so two dollars is enough for children.

Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Fructus Crataegi, Osmanthus fragrans and Luoshen Huadu are supporting roles, which are icing on the cake. If you have some, you will have a richer flavor. However, if you feel indigestion, you can use luxurious Xinhui Chenpi instead of Chenpi, or slightly increase the amount of Chenpi and hawthorn. Finally, put the amount of rock sugar or white sugar to see how sweet you want. A small amount can be adjusted to your desired sweetness many times.

03. Where can I buy reliable materials for ebony soup?

Finally, where can I buy reliable ebony?

Individual ebony, hawthorn, dried tangerine peel, etc. Usually bought in Tongrentang's flagship store, packaged sour plum soup is also sold in the store. Whether used alone or well matched, the cost performance is good. In addition, Hu Qingyutang, Lei and other old pharmacies must also sell them. Hu Qingyutang didn't buy it. Lei bought yam suspected to be smoked with sulfur, so the merchant was hacked.

Friends who want a higher level can go to some well-known Chinese medicine practitioners to buy them. For example, a pack of 40g in Xu Wenbing Houpu Chinese Medicine School Store is near 20 yuan, which is about three times that of Tongrentang. With Dr. Xu's personality, this quality is definitely excellent. After all, the price is there, and the output of Magnolia officinalis has never been disappointing. In addition, lazy rabbit's lazy shop used to sell ebony soup, 65g a pack 16 RMB, but lazy rabbit has broken up with the shop. I wonder what the quality of lazy shops is like now.

04. Cook it.

All in all, in a word, the ebony soup can be cooked when it is bought. Wash the materials with cold water to remove floating ash, add appropriate amount of water, cook for two or three minutes, and then turn to low heat for about 30 minutes.

Why didn't I say how much water to add?

Because it has something to do with the amount of ebony, your temperature and your pot. If you add more water, you can use a slightly larger "small fire" when turning to a small fire. If you add less water, you can use a smaller "small fire". Your pot is prone to steam, so you must add more water, or you will have experience if you cook more.

Housekeepers or people who are too thick to cook can first pour the first bite of soup into a container such as a cold water pot, add about half of the water in the pot, boil it again for about 20 minutes, and stir it twice before drinking. If you can't finish eating at that time, remember to put it in the refrigerator for the night.

Finally, there is a big point. The container for boiling ebony soup must be made of glass, casserole and ceramics, not metal or coated. This is the general principle of cooking Chinese medicine.

There is a lot to say. I wish you all a perfect ebony soup!