1. Pick fresh and full red fruits with uniform size and wash them. Cut the red fruit from the middle, dig out the stone with a knife, and then close two petals. String the red fruits with bamboo sticks, each string is about a dozen.

2. Boil sugar. Pour sugar into the pot, add water according to the sugar water ratio of 2: 1, and cook for about 20 minutes. The sugar is thick and transparent when it is cooked just right. If the cooking time is not enough, sugar will stick to the teeth; If you cook it for too long, the sugar will be bitter.

3. Dip the sugar, gently rotate the red fruit string to the foam on the boiling hot sugar and wrap it with a thin layer. The master of candied haws said that dipping sugar seems simple, but it needs skill. If the sugar package is too thick and you eat it without biting the fruit, it is a failure. If the sugar is dipped thinly and evenly, it is considered successful.

4. cooling put the red fruit string soaked in sugar on the water board and cool it for two or three minutes. The so-called water board is actually a smooth board, which has been soaked in clear water for a long time and has a low temperature. At the same time, wood has water absorption, which can help sugar-coated haws cool down and shape. When cooking at home, you can use a chopping board instead and just soak it in water.

Later, this practice spread to the people, and the people strung it together and sold it, which became a sugar-coated gourd. It turns out that 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 medicine for digestion since ancient times, especially for meat accumulation. Perhaps the delicacies Huang Guifei had eaten made her sick, and the small hawthorn relieved her pain. Li Shizhen, an outstanding medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, once said: "When cooking hard chicken, put a few hawthorn fruits, which are easy to rot, and the accumulation will disappear, and the cover can be pushed."

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