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Practice of Xylitol Black Sesame Pills

Tools, raw materials, high-quality black sesame seeds, pure earth honey, bluestone, stone mill, farmer's earth stove, bamboo cage, bamboo duster for firewood.

Methods/Steps Step by Step Reading

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Now sesame seeds are carefully selected and washed until they are clean.

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Then put it in a steamer and steam it on a firewood stove for 2 hours. (Be careful not to lower the steamer too high, otherwise the steam will not get up and can't be steamed thoroughly. )

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Steamed sesame seeds should be dried in the sun with bamboo poles, so that the Yang Can of the sun can enter the sesame seeds. When it is completely dry, steam it in a steamer for two or three hours. Repeat nine times, no more, no less. This is commonly known as "nine steaming and nine drying"

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After "nine steaming and nine drying", sesame seeds should be fried in an iron pan, dry but not burnt, crisp and not broken. This is the time to test the skill of the cooking master.

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Stir-fried sesame seeds should be ground with a stone mill, and only black sesame seeds that have undergone "nine steaming and nine drying" will be repeatedly ground into soft, oily and sticky fine powder by the stone mill. Instead of grinding into sesame paste like ordinary fried sesame seeds.

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When grinding, the people next to you can't be idle. Put it in a huge copper pot in Jin Shanshan and condense it into fire with mellow earth honey. Refine impurities, moisture, bacteria and microorganisms in honey. Make honey more viscous.

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The ground black sesame powder and refined honey are fully mixed and beaten repeatedly for hundreds of times. Let the two be fully mixed, and honey will penetrate into black sesame seeds.

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Rubbed black sesame balls are wrapped in tin foil, isolated from air and bacteria, and then packed in bottles. In this way, the black sesame honey pill steamed nine times is finished.

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Even so, because sesame balls do not contain any chemical preservatives, the shelf life is very short, only three months. It's best to keep it in the refrigerator, so it can last longer.

Looking at the glossy black sesame pill, I really want to eat one!

Matters needing attention

Black sesame has the effects of supplementing calcium, lowering blood pressure, blackening and moistening hair, caring skin and moistening skin, improving fertility, keeping skin soft, delicate and smooth, losing weight, shaping body and resisting aging.

People with chronic enteritis and diarrhea had better not eat sesame seeds, because sesame seeds have the function of moistening intestines and relaxing bowels.

Because of the huge oil content, black sesame seeds should not be eaten more, just 1 to 3 capsules a day.

Legend has it that sesame seeds can't be eaten with chickens. After searching for information and consulting nutrition experts, I verified it. Found that sesame and chicken can be eaten together. It's just because some people are allergic to them or eat too much to produce adverse reactions.