Dried bayberry

Dried bayberry

Overview

When grandma was here, every time during this season, she would make us a big jar of dried bayberry. The sweet and sour bayberry is especially delicious because it is blended with grandma's love. But unfortunately, until my grandma passed away the year before last, I still didn’t ask her for advice. I could only try to make it by myself, and I succeeded... but I couldn’t make it taste like grandma...

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Select fresh bayberry, wash and set aside... This year I wanted to try perilla and bayberry, so I picked some...

    Dried bayberry step 1
  2. Add appropriate water and sugar and start cooking. If the bayberry is sour, you can add a little salt first. After boiling, change the water and add rock sugar to cook. My bayberry is very sweet, so I skip this step and just add water to cook...

    Dried bayberry step 2
  3. You can make some sour plum soup and drink it by yourself. The sweet and sour taste is very good...

    Dried bayberry step 3
  4. Stir-fry slowly over low heat until the soup is almost dry, add a few drops of lemon juice...

    Dried bayberry step 4
  5. Place it in a baking pan. If the weather is good, you can dry it directly in the sun...

    Dried bayberry step 5
  6. When I made it, the weather was bad, so I used the oven at 100 degrees and baked it for an hour...

    Dried bayberry step 6
  7. The roasted dried bayberry can be roasted again if you like to eat it dry...

    Dried bayberry step 7
  8. If the taste is not sweet enough, you can dip it in some sugar. It looks very cute...

    Dried bayberry step 8
  9. Seal it in a jar or wrap it in sugar paper. You can eat it anytime you want...

    Dried bayberry step 9