Rock sugar osmanthus sauce

Overview

When the sweet-scented osmanthus blooms every year, sugaring the sweet-scented osmanthus is a traditional way to preserve the sweet-scented osmanthus. The production method is also simple, just pickle the osmanthus with white sugar or brown sugar. However, sugar osmanthus made by traditional methods needs to be stored for a long time to ferment, otherwise the bitter taste of the flower itself cannot be removed. This time I changed the method. First of all, I gave up white sugar as an ingredient and chose rock sugar, which is relatively healthier. In fact, I changed the pickling to high-temperature cooking for a short time, which can quickly remove the bitterness of the flowers. After making it, you don’t have to wait for a long time. You can eat fragrant and sweet sugar osmanthus in a short time. Because of the different methods, I call this osmanthus sauce. This year I have to express my gratitude again and again to my friend. During the blooming season of osmanthus, he helped me pick a lot of fresh osmanthus. Today, he picked a lot of golden osmanthus. After sorting it out, there was still more than a kilogram. It took him a day. In his words, the cervical spondylosis was cured, haha. Use these hard-earned golden osmanthus and add rock sugar to make osmanthus jam. This time not only did rock sugar be used, but the production method was also different. This method is suitable for golden osmanthus, because the golden osmanthus has a strong aroma, and even if it is lost a little during the heating process, it will not affect the overall fragrance.

Tags

• preparing meals
• homemade ingredients
• children
• old man
• breakfast
• fresh osmanthus
• rock sugar
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Pick the fresh osmanthus flowers and pick out the thin stems inside. This time it’s golden osmanthus, golden in color and richer in fragrance

   

2. 2 After sorting, wash them with light salt water, squeeze out as much water as possible when taking them out, and then spread them out to dry the remaining water.

   

3. 3 Put the dried osmanthus into a clean pot and add salt

   

4. 4 Stir evenly and marinate for half an hour. After marinating with salt, the sweet-scented osmanthus will collapse. Marinating with salt can remove the astringency of the petals and can sterilize them.

   

5. 5 Put the rock sugar into the pot and add water. The amount of water does not need to be too much. It is appropriate to completely boil the rock sugar.

   

6. 6 Boil over low heat until the rock sugar melts completely. The added water should also be boiled out, leaving only the sugar liquid

   

7. 7 Add osmanthus

   

8. 8 Let the sugar liquid completely submerge the sweet-scented osmanthus and turn off the heat. At this point it is basically boiling again.

   

9. 9 Boil the bottle to be filled with osmanthus sauce in boiling water to sterilize and control the moisture. Put the osmanthus sauce in and seal it for storage. It can be stored for several years without going bad.