How to Make Autumn Pear Paste
1.
Prepare materials. Wash and slice pears, peel and slice ginger, smash Luo Han Guo, cut red dates
2.
Add 2500 grams of water to the casserole and soak for 2-8 hours (2 hours in summer, 8 hours in winter)
3.
Bring to a boil, simmer for 1.5 hours
4.
Decant the concoction and set aside
5.
Add 2000 grams of water to the pot and cook for the second time, then turn to a simmer and fry for 1 hour on high heat.
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Decant the concoction and set aside
7.
Add 2000 grams of water to the pot and cook for the third time. Bring to a boil and fry for 40 minutes.
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Decant the concoction and set aside
9.
Combine the concoction obtained from 3 times of decoction, and concentrate in an open pot over high heat. It takes about 1.5-2 hours. I got a big bowl of clear cream, I weighed it 540 grams.
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Taking advantage of the time to concentrate the concoction, let's mash the Chuanbei and refine it with honey. Soak in 80 grams of honey and 160 grams of water for 2 hours, then heat it over a medium-to-low heat and cook for 30 minutes.
11.
Transfer the clear ointment to a slightly smaller casserole, add rock sugar to continue to concentrate, at this time, keep stirring to prevent the pot from sticking. Until fine bubbles appear in the pot. Weighing is 867 grams
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Add the previously refined Chuanbei honey liquid to the casserole and stir evenly.
13.
After cooling thoroughly, add 70 grams of honey and stir well. Put into a dry container. The handsome autumn pear paste is finished. The weighing is 700 grams.
Tips:
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1. Chuanbei needs to be refined with honey for a good effect;
2. The more expensive medicinal materials such as Chuanbei, ginseng, pearl, velvet, and donkey-hide gelatin cannot be boiled with other Chinese medicines. They must be decocted separately and added directly to the ointment formula after the ointment is collected. If they are mixed and boiled together, the effective ingredients in the precious medicinal materials will be absorbed by the dregs of other traditional Chinese medicines, causing waste.
3. What kind of pear is better for making autumn pear paste? Snow pears in Zhao County, Hebei are the most suitable. Snow pear pulp has granules and tastes not good when eaten raw, but boiled autumn pear paste has the best effect.
4. The selection of honey for boiled autumn pear paste is also particular. Honey is divided into two types: cold and hot. How do you know whether your honey is cold or hot? It depends on which flower the honey is collected from. For example, loquat honey and milk vetch honey are cool and suitable for boiled autumn pear paste; longan honey is hot.
5. "Ginger with skin is cold, peeled is hot." Because the medicinal materials for making autumn pear paste are basically cold, so the ginger here is peeled, and the heat properties of ginger are used to adjust the cold and heat properties of autumn pear paste to achieve But the purpose of cold.
According to legend, Tang Wuzong Li Yan had a strange disease, with dry mouth and shortness of breath all day long.
More than one hundred kinds of medicine are not good enough.
The Manchu civil and military and imperial doctors were helpless,
The three thousand beauties in the harem are also extremely anxious like ants on a hot pot.
One day, an old Taoist man with white beard and hair, with a long beard and chest, came to the palace.
He said: Your Majesty does not need to be anxious, there is a good prescription for the poor, which will surely cure the stubborn diseases of the Holy Spirit...blablabla. . . .
Long Yan joyfully said: Cough cough. . . . He Ling's miracle medicine, quickly presented. . . . . . Cough. . . .
Ever since, the old Taoist priest presented a jar of "Autumn-Pear-Ointment".
In other words, this autumn pear paste is really amazing.
After taking several courses of treatment, Li Yan gradually recovered.
The ministers rejoiced, and the harem beauties sang and danced~~
oh yeah~~ Long live my emperor! !
Later, Qiuli Gao became a special cream for the court.
It was not spread to the people until the Qing Dynasty.
Now, every autumn, old Beijingers still have the habit of boiled autumn pear paste.