Childhood Memories——Candied Haw Lu

Overview

Candied haws on a stick is a traditional snack of the Chinese Han people. It is made by skewering hawthorns with bamboo skewers and dipping them in maltose. Hawthorn can eliminate indigestion, disperse blood congestion, drive away tapeworms, and stop dysentery. It especially helps digestion. It has been an important medicine for eliminating indigestion since ancient times, especially in eliminating meat accumulation.

Tags

• snacks
• hawthorn
• old rock candy
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Ingredients: Hawthorn, rock sugar.

   

2. 2 Wash the hawthorn and soak in salt water for 30 minutes.

   

3. 3 Drain the water from the hawthorns, take toothpicks, and string two hawthorns on each toothpick.

   

4. 4 Put rock sugar in the pot, add a little water and bring to a boil, then turn to low heat and simmer.

   

5. 5 When the sugar juice is thickened, add the hawthorns so that each hawthorn is evenly coated with the syrup (one person does this, so the person wrapping the hawthorns forgot to take pictures).

   

6. 6 Place the hawthorns coated in syrup on a plate to cool before serving.

   

7. 7 Finished product.

   

8. 8 Don't worry about the pot in which the syrup is boiled being difficult to clean. Add some water, add a few red dates and cook for 10 minutes (I added red date cores, which are used for making bread, and I didn't throw away the remaining red date cores, so I used them wisely).

   

9. 9 I also have a thick cup of red date syrup.