Hawthorn cake has the reputation of "color is like rouge, sweetness is like honey, and it can relieve acid and eliminate food. It is a popular folk cake of Han nationality in the north, and it has the effect of reducing blood pressure, refreshing brain, softening blood vessels, etc. you can learn how to make Hawthorn cake if you are interested
The method of hawthorn cake -- the nutritional value of hawthorn cake
A brief introduction to hawthorn cake
Hawthorn cake is a popular folk cake of Han nationality in North China. Take hawthorn juice, add sugar and agar, and freeze it into a plate. The taste is smooth and delicate, sweet, cold and delicious, which is a very good medicinal food. It tastes sweet and slightly sour, and has the therapeutic value of eliminating accumulation, removing stagnation and removing blood stasis.
Select fresh and pest free hawthorn fruit, remove impurities and wash with water to dry in the shade. Put it into the boiling pot and boil it with water until the hawthorn is cracked and fished out (if there are more Hawthorn to be cooked, the boiling soup liquid is added with sugar and boiled for another ten minutes, which is also a delicious sweet soup). Sieve out the pulp with steel wire. According to 1kg pulp: 1kg white sugar added with a small amount of lotus root powder and stirred in a suitable container to coagulate the finished product. Cut into strips or lumps as needed for food.
The method of hawthorn cake
Raw materials: Hawthorn 1000g, rock sugar 250g (adjusted according to your own taste).
Practice:
1. After the hawthorn is washed, open the hawthorn with both hands and take out the seeds;
2. Prepare a microwave lunch box, put the washed and seeded Hawthorn into the box, cover it, heat it in the microwave for 3 minutes, then take it out;
3. Open the lid, stir the Hawthorn into a half mud shape with a spoon, then put in the ice sugar, close the lid, and then put it into the microwave oven for 3 minutes, and take it out;
4. Open the lid, stir the Hawthorn into a mud shape with a spoon again, straighten it, close the lid, heat it in the microwave again for 3 minutes, and then take it out;
5. Open the lid, put it in the shade to cool, refrigerate and shape.
Nutritional value of hawthorn cake
1. Hawthorn can prevent and cure cardiovascular diseases, and has the functions of dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart vitality, stimulating central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, diuresis and sedation;
2. Hawthorn acid also has cardiotonic effect, which is beneficial to senile heart disease;
3. It can appetizer and eliminate food, especially has a better effect on eliminating the accumulation of meat and food stagnation, and hawthorn is used in many digestive drugs;
4. Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing stasis, helping to relieve the local congestion, and has auxiliary effect on the injury of bruise;
5. Hawthorn has contractive effect on the uterus, has the effect of giving birth when pregnant women are in labor, and can promote the recovery of postpartum uterus;
6. Hawthorn contains flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances that can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects.