How to soak alum sugar alum to cool down on summer days
April 26, 2022 14:17 GMT+7
When the first heat waves of summer come, it is also the time for the dream season – this is also the time when the housewives are skillful in making sugar-soaked and salt-soaked apricot pots to cool down the summer heat for the whole family. family.
Apricots, which are a specialty of high mountain areas such as Lao Cai and Son La, have a sharp sour taste that is hard to eat right away like many other fruits, but when soaked, they produce drinks that please all ages. .
Among them, apricots soaked in sugar are the most popular dishes used by many families. Despite being so familiar, to have a delicious pot of apricots soaked in sugar with the same taste and characteristic aroma of apricots also requires a lot of processing, from choosing raw materials to preliminary processing, soaking apricots.
First, it is necessary to choose peach apricots – a yellow-skinned apricot with a slight blush. When choosing apricots, you should choose fresh apricots that are round, not rotten and must have a downy layer of hair.
Pickled apricots are ripe apricots, neither too hard nor too soft to produce a delicious pot of soaked apricots. Sugar to soak apricots must also choose alum sugar so that the apricot juice after soaking has a sweet, sour taste, helping to cool down in the summer.
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How to make alum soaked apricots
Material
Fresh apricots: 2kg; rock sugar: 2kg. Tools: Glass jar, knife, basket…
Process materials
– Wash each apricot. During the preliminary processing, it is recommended to use a sharp toothpick to remove the stem of the apricot, which will be faster without damaging the apricot.
– Soak cleaned apricots in diluted salt water for about 10-15 minutes to clean dirt and toxins.
– Next, take out the apricots to drain. Should let the apricots dry completely, helping the apricots to soak longer.
Dreaming
– Crushed rock sugar or leave whole pellets.
– Put a layer of sugar on the bottom of the glass jar, put a layer of apricots on top. Repeat until the end of apricots and the top layer is a layer of rock sugar.
– Place the jar in a dry place. Apricots can be used when the sugar has dissolved, the fruit is shriveled and the juice is yellow-brown.
Finished product
After about 1 month of soaking apricots, apricot juice can be used.
How to use: Use apricot syrup diluted with filtered water, add ice cubes if you want to drink cold. You can also add a little salt to mix with apricot juice, to enjoy a glass of sour, sweet and salty apricot juice, to help cool down and rehydrate on hot summer days.
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