The benefits of rock sugar Beijing cake

1. It tastes sweet, sour and soft, and has the function of invigorating the stomach and promoting digestion; Can stimulate appetite, promote digestion, especially for eliminating meat stagnation. Hawthorn is used in many digestive drugs.

2. Hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, and has the functions of dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart vitality, exciting central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, diuresis and sedation;

3. maslinic acid also has a cardiotonic effect, which is also good for heart disease in the elderly;

4. Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which helps to relieve local congestion and has an auxiliary effect on traumatic injury;

5. Crataegus pinnatifida has contractive effect on uterus, and pregnant women can promote labor during labor, which can promote postpartum uterine recovery;

6. Flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the production of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects;

7. Hawthorn contains ingredients for relieving asthma, resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Beijing cake is a traditional dish of Han nationality in Beijing, which belongs to Beijing cuisine. It is a sour and refreshing cold salad (not related to the cake), and the main ingredients are cucumber and hawthorn. Shredding cucumber and Sydney respectively, cleaning Fructus Crataegi, removing core, taking meat, pressing in pressure cooker for 10 min, and steaming or boiling with agar to obtain concentrated juice; Pour out the squeezed hawthorn, add agar and white sugar, stir well, air-cool, pour into a crusher to make juice, put it in a box and put it in a refrigerator for solidification, then take out the shredded hawthorn and put it on a plate with shredded cucumber and shredded pear.