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Why do you put dates and ginger in autumn pear cream?

General practice of autumn pear paste

6 pears, 80g dried red dates, 0/50g rock sugar/kloc-,20g ginger and 80ml honey.

Steps:

1. Wash the dried jujube, remove the core, peel the ginger, cut into filaments, peel the pear, put a wiping board on the pot, and rub the pear into pear paste and juice.

2. Put the pitted red dates, shredded ginger, rock sugar and pear juice into the pot.

When will autumn pear cream be seasoned?

3. Cover the pot and cook on low heat for about 30 minutes. Then, scoop up the pear paste with a strainer and press it with another spoon to squeeze out more pear juice.

4. Throw away the squeezed pear dregs, red dates and shredded ginger, leaving only pear juice in the pot, and continue to cook with minimum fire for about 1 hour until the pear pulp is sticky, turn off the fire and let it cool.

5. Add honey into the cooled pear pulp, mix well and put it in a sealed jar for preservation.

The origin of autumn pear cream

Autumn pear cream is a good health care product in autumn. As a secret recipe of the court, its origin is very mysterious. Today, I would like to introduce the origin of autumn pear cream to you.

Qiuli ointment is a medicated diet drink made of Qiuli and expectorant Chinese medicine. The Qiuli honey cream in "Seeking the Source of Materia Medica" is processed and evolved by the imperial doctor. It is said that it began in the Tang Dynasty and is a royal health care product. It was not until the Qing dynasty that it was spread from the palace by the imperial doctor.

When will autumn pear cream be seasoned?

According to legend, in the distant Tang Dynasty, Li Yan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who was raised in the deep palace, fell ill. All day long, he felt thirsty and hot. He ate all the herbs but it didn't work. The civil and military officials in the Qing Dynasty were particularly impatient, but there was no cure. One day, a Taoist priest came down from Qingcheng Mountain. Not only did he know that the emperor was ill, but he also claimed that he could be cured. The emperor who was in a hurry to seek medical treatment drank the "medicine" secretly prepared by Taoist priests with pears and honey, and he was cured as expected. It is said that this is the earliest autumn pear cream.

Autumn pear paste has been a royal health care product since the Tang Dynasty, nourishing the emperor and his family. It was not until the Qing dynasty that the imperial doctor in the palace brought this prescription to the people, so that when people in Beijing coughed and caught a cold, they drank a bowl of sweet autumn pear cream instead of seeing a doctor.

Qiuli ointment has certain medicinal effects, because Qiuli itself has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, quenching thirst and clearing heart. For diseases such as excessive internal heat, irritability, cough, dryness and heat, it is more effective to make Qiuli ointment together with other ingredients.