Minnan summer drink: what is stone flower cake powder?

Perhaps the favorite thing in summer is night. Being able to lie down and look at the sky, count the stars and drink is the correct way to open summer. However, you can't always live in the night sky. The high temperature in summer will make you grumpy and it is difficult to eat. Sales of some summer drinks have soared.

Stone flower cake powder, also known as stone flower paste, is a famous Han snack in southern Fujian (mostly in Quanzhou and Xiamen). It can relieve summer heat, and has the effects of reducing fire, relieving summer heat and removing summer heat. Although there are different opinions about the hygiene of stone flower cake, it does not affect everyone's love for it in summer.

The main raw material of Shihua Ointment is Shihua Ointment, which is an edible seaweed growing on rocks in the middle or low tide zone of Taiwan Province Strait. The algae body is recumbent, the branches are irregularly branched, and the shape looks quite like coral, which is very elegant. Stone flower paste is made by hand. Boil the gypsum in a large pot, and then filter it with gauze. After cooling, it naturally solidifies into jelly, which is transparent and clear. Honey water and sugar water can be added when eating. Hot food can reduce the temperature and reduce the fire.

If you can eat a bowl of authentic stone flower cake in hot summer, the chilling feeling is really hearty. The entrance is lubricated and cool, delicious and sweet, and it is a good food therapy. It has the effects of reducing fire, relieving summer heat and dispelling summer heat. When my mother took me to eat when I was a child, the author said that the water in the stone flower cake was usually well water. Now let's eat it, because we have to cope with the high temperature in summer, so we will find all frozen water.

Because the stone flower cake itself is tasteless, it can't be eaten raw, because honey water is usually used (honey is also good or bad), so it is sweet. In addition, honey itself is a very good summer drink, which makes a bowl of stone flower cake more attractive in hot summer. The stone flower cakes eaten in the street are not as q as before.

The strength of the stone flower cake has a great influence on the taste, so smart merchants have introduced the so-called "four fruit soup" to make everyone forget the pursuit of the taste of the stone flower cake when eating. It is also because, under the temptation of various "pearls" of bubble tea, it is estimated that few young people will enjoy a bowl of authentic stone flower cake.

To make a cool stone cake with cauliflower, it is necessary to carefully remove sand grains, shell fragments and other sundries. Then according to the weight of dried cauliflower 100 times, add water, put it in a clean oil-free pot, boil it with low heat, and pour in a little white vinegar.

Promote it to release colloid. When the juice in the pot is sticky, put it into containers such as pots and barrels, and then add a small amount of citric acid, banana oil, orange juice, etc. After cooling, it will condense into stone cakes. When you eat it, you can break it with a knife, it looks like crystal glass, pour molasses and ice water, and you can eat it.