Pumpkin Corn Horseshoe Pear Drink
by Looking for Peach Blossom Island
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Water chestnut, also known as "underground Sydney" and "Jiangnan ginseng", is also called horseshoe and water chestnut. From December to March of the following year, it is the season when the water chestnuts are ripe, and it is the most crispy and delicious to eat at this time. Its skin is purple and black, and the meat inside is white, sweet, crunchy and juicy. It can be eaten raw after peeling, or it can be steamed, made porridge, stir-fried, processed into canned food, horseshoe cake and sugar water for consumption.
The traditional festival "Ao Nine Festival" in Shiyi area of Fuzhou, Fujian is related to horseshoes. On the 29th of the first month of the lunar calendar, every household uses glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, water chestnuts, sesame, longans, ginkgo and other raw materials to cook into sweet porridge, called "Nine Congee", "filial porridge", used to pay tribute to ancestors, or Give it to relatives and friends, and the married woman should send it back to her natal family to honor her parents. Sometimes, too flat, eggs, trotters, etc. are added. If there are people whose ages are all nine (nine, nineteen, twenty-nine, etc.), or multiples of nine (eighteen, twenty-seven, thirty-six, etc., belong to the “dark nine”). "), also eat a flat bowl like a birthday, in order to be safe and healthy.
This shows that everyone recognizes the nutrition and taste of horseshoes. Next, I will introduce a simple and delicious home-cooked food with horseshoe as raw material-pumpkin, corn, horseshoe and pear drink. Let's try it together.