A breakfast that can be beautified has a good whitening effect.

Dear friends, I heard the name poria cocos mostly because I have eaten poria cocos cake, a snack in Beijing.

There used to be a saying that once you entered the palace, the door was as deep as the sea. After entering the palace, if the objects are favored by the young masters again, the sound price is extraordinary. Fuling cake is one of Empress Dowager Cixi's favorite foods for nourishing face and moistening skin, and the food she admired is also a famous food for generations.

According to the records of Yuan Huan in Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi often ordered the royal chef to make poria cocos cakes for health care and beauty, and also often used to reward ministers during festivals.

The 60th episode of A Dream of Red Mansions is because a pack of "Poria cocos cream" makes the whole Grand View Garden boil. Besides, Guangdong officials wanted to meet Jia Zheng when they went to Guo Rong Mansion, but the gifts they brought were actually three baskets of poria cocos cream.

However, from A Dream of Red Mansions, we can see the origin and eating method of Poria cocos cream: "There have been the most pines and cypresses here for thousands of years, so we only took the semen and medicinal materials of Poria cocos. I don't know how to make this wonderful white cream." It is said that the first kind of people use breast milk and eat a cup every morning, which is the most tonic. The second kind of people use milk and never use it, or boil white water. "

Poria cocos is a strange plant, a fungus parasitic between the roots of pine trees. The ancients believed that Poria cocos was a magical thing transformed from pine essence. Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "There are many poria cocos under the pine trees".

At this point in the story, it's time to talk about how Poria cocos came to beauty beauty. Poria cocos can beautify the face, and its magical effect is recorded in ancient books.

The processing method of Poria cocos dew in ancient books is to peel fresh Poria cocos, grind it into pulp, and dry it into white powder, as white as frost. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen recorded a secret to keep young in Compendium of Materia Medica: dye Poria with wine, and after a hundred eclipses, the body will be nourished, prolong life and look like a child.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Poria is the end, and it is used with honey. It is suitable for treating maternal facial ulcers and black blisters, such as bird eggs. " It can be seen that Poria cocos has been a sacred product to remove dark spots and dullness from skin since ancient times.

There are many recipes for Poria cocos in beauty beauty: mix Poria cocos powder with yogurt and apply it to the face, or boil Poria cocos with a little water to make a thick juice, soak it in compressed facial mask paper and apply it to the face. The effect is obvious in one week.

White vinegar and Poria powder are mixed into paste with vinegar. After cleansing, apply evenly to face. The spots can be thicker and covered with a layer of wet tissue film for about 20 minutes, three times a week. Whitening, freckle and acne marks have obvious effects.

In addition, it is best to use fine powder of Poria cocos and add milk, cucumber juice and egg white. To make a mask, but also can be used to decoct the face with poria cocos water to achieve the effect of removing spots. Simple and convenient, with excellent effect.

Poria cocos powder is easy to buy. You can buy it in the supermarket, where there is ground grain powder. You can cook porridge, make cakes, steam cakes, or apply externally as a mask. A dream of red mansions is called "Qibai cream", which has a good whitening effect.

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Ingredients: 300g of flour, 30g of poria powder, 3g of dried osmanthus fragrans and 300g of milk.

Seasoning: 3 grams of yeast powder and 30 grams of sugar.

Practice: 1. Heat dried osmanthus until it boils.

2. Mix Poria powder, flour, yeast powder and sugar.

3. Add osmanthus and milk.

4. Stir into a thick batter.

5. Grease the middle, bottom and periphery of the mold and pour in the batter.

6. Put the batter in a warm place and ferment it to twice the size.

7. Put in a steamer, boil the water and steam for 25 minutes.

Kitchen whisper: you can also sprinkle some dried fruit in the cake.