Mountain red is my favorite in winter and autumn, and the trees are covered with red lanterns. At the end of October, near the solstice of winter, the autumn wind is rustling and red hawthorn is gradually on the market. Unlike other fresh fruits, hawthorn tastes sour. It's okay to eat one or two once in a while. It's not suitable for eating a lot at once. Generally, it will be made into snacks such as candied haws, hawthorn cakes and peony bark, which is more attractive to people to take.

Hawthorn cake is sweet and sour, cut into pieces to eat as snacks, or cooked into a pot of hawthorn soup, which tastes excellent. Every autumn and winter, there are many vendors selling in the street. In order to have a stronger appearance, some hawthorn cakes that look very bright red and elastic will contain some additives and melanin, so they are still a little worried after long-term use. In fact, the production of hawthorn cake is not complicated at all. It is more convenient to buy a few pounds when the cost performance is high, so find a spare time to do it. A family can eat with peace of mind. The processing method of hawthorn cake is recommended to everyone.

Common food for homemade hawthorn cake: 3 kg of fresh hawthorn, sugar 1 kg, and more than half of green lemon.

1. The bought hawthorn must be cleaned, and it is not necessary to choose insects and different products, so as not to cause the color and taste of hawthorn cakes.

2. Find a suitable special tool and scrape off some flower cores of hawthorn with the end of an iron spoon. There's no need. It's dark and bitter here.

3. Put the prepared hawthorn cold water into the pot, boil it after popularization, and cook it for another 2 minutes, so that the hawthorn can crack in 2 minutes without cooking for too long.

4, boiled hawthorn water does not need to be poured out, worried about retention. When the hawthorn is picked, the stalk is pulled out, and the seeds inside will be taken out, leaving only a part of the fruit.

5. Put the hawthorn fruit into a juicer or a wall-breaking health machine, add a little boiled hawthorn water, and make it into fine fruit paste.

6. After all the hawthorn puree is processed, put it into the pot, add about 1 kg sugar according to personal preference, adjust the taste, and add a small amount of lemonade.

7, simmer slowly, pay attention to the sticky puree will "explode" to prevent burns, and always turn the puree into a shovel, most of it will do.

8. Pour the cooked thick soup into a suitable container. It is best to brush a layer of vegetable oil in advance, which is very easy to leave the mold. Just put it in the refrigerator at night 1 and cut it into thin slices when drinking.

The amount of sugar must be sufficient, and the ratio of hawthorn to white sugar should be about 3: 1. If there is too little sugar, it is not easy to form and solidify, and it tastes too sour. There is a lot of Arabic gum in hawthorn puree, so you can't add too much when adding hawthorn puree, otherwise it will take a long time to cook.