Osmanthus and Hawthorn Sauce

Overview

Hawthorn season, hawthorn season, every autumn is the harvest season of hawthorn. Ah Gu usually doesn't like to eat sweet and sour things like candied fruits, but he has a special liking for hawthorn and candied osmanthus. Speaking of hawthorn, Ah Gu loves candied haws, hawthorn slices, hawthorn strips... anything related to hawthorn. I have always wanted to make homemade hawthorn snacks, but it seems that hawthorns are not very common in Shanghai and are a rare thing. This time, thanks to Comrade Lao Zhang, the hawthorns flown in from Beijing gave Agu finally a chance to catch up with the hawthorn season. Homemade hawthorn sauce is sour, sweet and very appetizing. No coloring or additives are added. It is healthy and delicious. You can adjust the sweetness according to your own taste. It’s truly a delicious jam not to be missed in autumn. Making hawthorn jam is relatively simple. Most of today’s bread machines have the function of making jam. If you don’t have a bread machine, you need to stir-fry and heat it continuously in a pot. You can’t use an iron pot.

Tags

• dessert
• children
• afternoon tea
• jam
• autumn recipes
• winter recipes
• dried osmanthus
• fresh hawthorn
• lemon
• rock sugar
• sugar osmanthus

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the hawthorn, remove the stems and seeds

   

2. 2 Crush or puree the hawthorn, put it into a bread bucket and squeeze in a little lemon juice

   

3. 3 Select the jam function of the bread machine and start working

   

4. 4 Prepare an appropriate amount of rock sugar, weigh it, put it into a small bowl of water, slowly heat and dissolve, the amount of rock sugar depends on your personal taste

   

5. 5 Pour the sugar water into the bucket, and the bread machine continues to work while heating and stirring

   

6. 6 Heating for about 30 minutes, add three tablespoons of sugar osmanthus. At this time, you can take some paste to taste the sweetness, and increase or decrease the sugar osmanthus according to your preference

   

7. 7 The bread machine continues to work, the jam becomes more and more delicate, and continues to cook

   

8. 8 Wash the container, boil a pot of water, boil the container for 5 minutes to sterilize, take it out and drain

   

9. 9 After 45 minutes, the jam will be cooked to a thick consistency. Sprinkle a little dried osmanthus and stir, put it into a container, cover and turn it upside down to cool