Chrysanthemum, good looking and dry
The phrase "take Ju Ju Dong Hsiu and leisurely meet Nanshan Mountain" shows that Tao Yuanming's carefree and free, but also to countless people to pay tribute to the small chrysanthemum. Every autumn is the season of chrysanthemum blooming. When you walk in the Zhejiang area, you will find that the streets and alleys are always the celebrity of "Hang Chrysanthemum." Chrysanthemum can be used for making tea or cooking and medicine. A small chrysanthemum has a value that cannot be overlooked. It is also rare.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" has a detailed record of the efficacy of chrysanthemum tea: it is sweet and cold, and it has the effect of dispersing wind and heat, and improving the appearance of liver and eyesight. "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" believes that the white chrysanthemum tea can "mainly dazzling, swelling, painful, desperation, skin dead muscle, evil wind rheumatism, Jiufu Liqi, light stamina tolerance."
Experts say that autumn is a good time for eating chrysanthemums. Eating more chrysanthemums can help the body to replenish air, fill the body, remove dryness and detoxify. Modern medicine has proved that chrysanthemum has a good conditioning effect on modern people's chronic diseases such as high blood fat, high blood pressure, and sub-health.
Editor's Pick: Chrysanthemum Laoya Tang
Suitable for the crowd: In the fall, people feel tired, listless, in a sub-health state, recover from serious illness, and have weak health.
Practice: First soak 10 grams of chrysanthemum and 12 grams of water, and then cook a peeled duck, 5 grams of Cordyceps sinensis, and 5 or 6 pieces of American ginseng in a casserole. Stew in 6-7 minutes and pour into the chrysanthemums and pods. It is recommended that you eat twice a week. Duck meat and soup are the same food. It is best to eat it at dinner. After one month, you can noticeably improve Qi refreshment.
Tips: In addition, chrysanthemum can also be made of chrysanthemum porridge, chrysanthemum cake, chrysanthemum cooking, and we can also brewed our most common chrysanthemum to detoxify eyesight. Experts point out that jujube chrysanthemum tea can help cancer patients recover their taste.
Osmanthus coconut milk cake
The osmanthus is famous for its fragrance. Even at the hot noon time, you can smell it sweet as long as it is accompanied by a breeze. If you are interested, just collect a fragrance, which is to collect a delicious meal. As early as in the Warring States period, Qu Yuan's "Li Sao" had the sentence "Aid to Gui Pu in the north", which is a record of Osmanthus fragrans producing food.
Osmanthus and rose together brewing, there are and stomach qi, warm stomach and dispelling the cold effect; osmanthus and chrysanthemum together brewing, there is aroma Qingwei role, suitable for stomach heat bad breath; liquor soaked sweet-scented osmanthus, can warm stomach, cold, qi pain For abdominal cold pain. When eating ginkgo, lotus seeds, and chestnuts, put a handful of sweet-scented osmanthus flowers on them to make them more fragrant and more appetizing.
Chinese medicine, sweet-scented osmanthus sexual warmth, with stomach, phlegm, Sheng Jin, phlegm, Pinggan role, can cure phlegm cough, intestinal wind and blood stasis, toothache, bad breath, loss of appetite, abdominal pain closed. More warm and cold, warm stomach pain, phlegm stasis effect.
Editor's Choice: Sweet Osmanthus Coconut Cake
Suitable for the crowd: In the autumn, the temperature is dry, while the coconut milk is sweet and slippery. The rich vitamin C has antioxidant components and promotes the body's metabolism. The dessert made with scented osmanthus is refreshing and enjoyable.
Method: mix 50g horseshoe powder and 50g corn starch into two containers. Separately use 50ml of coconut milk and water to open the horseshoe powder and corn starch to the non-granular slip, and add the sweet-scented osmanthus to the bowl of clear water. Add 150ml of water to sugar to boil. Then pour the boiled syrup in coconut milk and sweet-scented osmanthus slurry and stir it in half. After the water is boiled, pour a thin layer of slurry into the dish and steam for 5 minutes. Then put another kind of slurry into the dish and steam it again for 5 minutes. The two pastes are steamed. The last layer is put on osmanthus.
Tips: There are many ways to eat osmanthus. Sweet-scented osmanthus boiled with water and picked up to dry, stained with white sugar, sealed in a bottle, can be used as food spices. Take fine dates, add sugar and steam, add sweet-scented osmanthus, Serve candied osmanthus candied spleen appetizer.