The writing process of sugar-coated haws

The production process of sugar-coated haws is as follows:

1. Prepare ingredients: Choose fresh gourds, which can be blue or mature yellow gourds. At the same time, prepare the right amount of rock sugar and cooking oil.

2. Clean the selected gourd, peel it, cut it into small pieces with uniform size, and remove the pedicle.

3. Add an appropriate amount of cooking oil to the wok, add the rock sugar after heating, and cook slowly on low heat until the rock sugar is completely melted and amber.

4. Put the processed gourd into the pot and stir fry quickly, so that the gourd is evenly covered with a layer of sugar.

5. Put the fried candied haws on a plate covered with oil paper, and let them cool before eating.

6. When frying rock sugar, you can add a proper amount of lemon juice or vinegar, which will make the candied haws more crisp and taste better.

7. When icing, you can pat the gourd gently, which will make the icing more uniform and the appearance more beautiful.

8. When frying the gourd, you can first blanch it with hot water, which can remove the water and some bitterness in the gourd and make the gourd more crisp and delicious.

Origin of sugar-coated berries:

Sugar-coated haws originated in the Southern Song Dynasty in China. At that time, Huang Guifei of Song Guangzong was ill, sallow and emaciated, and didn't think about eating. The doctor used many expensive drugs, but it didn't work. So the emperor posted a list of doctors, and a quack revealed the list and entered the palace. After feeling the pulse, Huang Guifei said: As long as you use rock sugar and red fruit (that is, hawthorn), eat five to ten tablets per meal, and it will be fine within half a month.

At first, everyone was dubious, but Huang Guifei recovered as scheduled after taking this method, and the emperor was naturally overjoyed and began to frown. Later, this practice spread to the people, and people strung it together and sold it, which became a sugar-coated gourd.

In the Song Dynasty, sugar-coated haws adopted the ancient method of sugar-coated haws. "Yanjing Year" records that sugar-coated haws are still made of bamboo sticks dipped in rock sugar, such as hawthorn, begonia fruit, grapes, yam, walnut kernel and bean paste, which is sweet, crisp and cold. Hawthorn has many medicinal effects. It can help digestion, dispel blood stasis, expel worms, stop dysentery, and especially help digestion. It has been an important digestion medicine since ancient times. Perhaps the delicacies Huang Guifei ate accumulated food, which made her sick, and the small hawthorn was solved.