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How to make sun-dried persimmon cakes

In late fall, in a farmhouse in Zhaogou Village, Duancun Township, Mianchi County, Henan Province, villager Shangguan Pingzeng, 62, is peeling persimmons in the yard. As a farmer in the traditional production area of Niuxin persimmons, Shangguan can be said to have dealt with persimmons all his life. At this time of the year, he and his family are busy picking persimmons, peeling persimmons, drying persimmons, and covering persimmons.

In the mountains of northern Mianchi County, a type of persimmon called the bull's heart persimmon is abundant. The persimmon is large, fleshy, thin-skinned, sweet, and shaped like a bull's heart, hence the name bull's heart persimmon. Persimmon cake made of cow heart persimmon, high sweetness, fiber is also less, eat sweet and delicious, it is said that in ancient times also served as tribute.

"We've got a lot of people who are looking for a way to make a difference in the lives of their children," he said. "We've got a lot of people who are looking for a way to make a difference in the lives of their children, and we've got a lot of people who are looking for a way to make a difference in the lives of their children. The first thing you need to do is peel the persimmons," he said.

According to Mr. Shangguan, his family has collected three to four thousand pounds of persimmons this year, which cannot be stored for a long time, so they have to be made into persimmon cakes. "The first thing I did was to start peeling persimmons to make persimmons, and then I was scraping them by hand, and I was afraid that they would be soft, so I was peeling them at night during the day, and I was peeling persimmons into the wee hours of the morning every day." The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

Nowadays, moncler outlet online, there is also this kind of peeling machine, the principle of the peeling machine is to put the persimmons stuck in the machine, and then the human hand holding the blade in the persimmons surface gently touch, the persimmons skin will be like a cloth belt like peeling off. The last official moncler outlet online said that manual peeling a morning can peel more than three hundred, with this machine can peel seven or eight hundred, more than double the efficiency.

On the old houses in the mountains of western Henan, you can always see a wooden stick sticking out of the wall, and if you see it in other seasons, many people don't know what it's for. If you happen to walk into a mountain village in this season and see a string of persimmons hanging under the eaves, you will understand the role of those sticks.

The persimmons do not need to be exposed to the sun, but mainly to be dry and ventilated, so the eaves used to be the preferred place. Nowadays, the persimmon cakes do more, under the eaves of the place is obviously too small, so the townspeople will find ways to build a sun roof, or rack some wooden frame, in short, can be utilized to make use of the place will be utilized.

Persimmons that are in good shape are peeled with a peeler, while others are peeled by hand. If you look closely at the persimmons in the basket, you will notice that there is a crutch at the tip, which is very important to have in order to hang the persimmons, so people start to pay attention to the reserve at the time of picking.

One of the sunbeds was built on the roof of another mansion, and Shangguan moncler outlet online drove a tricycle to pull the baskets of persimmons over, then took a flat stretcher and picked them up one by one. The mountain air is very good, the temperature is not too low in this season, can be said to be warm sunshine pleasant, Shangguan moncler pick persimmons walking in the sunshine, this labor picture is really beautiful.

In the past, the persimmons were strung on a line, but now with this plastic tool, like a drying rack, you can put four on top of one, so the space utilization is also high. Some of these persimmon cakes are earlier sun, the body type has become obviously "thin".

The persimmon cake is not a sunshine on everything, Shangguan moncler outlet online said that this is still in the middle to spend a lot of effort, which just pinch to two or three times, the first time is to promote its softening, deodorization, followed by pinching hard pieces of stereotypes, and then also take down the heap of muffled frost, muffled, and then drying, and then muffled, and so on, to carry on the four or five times to be able to.

This time into the mountains, everywhere is the scene of the folks sun persimmon cake, this is in and ZhaoGou village next to the four dragon temple village, the townspeople's home is a wooden frame, he is a persimmon hanging up, in this season of the green gradually receding, in the sun's sunshine, these golden red persimmons, good-looking and let a person feel greedy.

In order to take advantage of the sunny weather to dry persimmons, the townspeople also give full play to their imagination, such as the hole of this stone arch bridge, which was also set up with a wooden frame, in which strings of persimmons are hung. When you see this scene, you will feel that this is really into a world of persimmon cakes.