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Method for making honey lotus seed cake

Honey lotus seed cake has rich nutritional value and good taste. We should also pay attention to certain methods and skills when making.

Put the dried lotus seeds into a casserole, add edible alkali, blanch them with boiling water, immediately stir them with a bamboo brush for more than ten minutes, and pour out the water.

Then do it twice according to the above method until all the skins are removed and the lotus seeds are milky white, then clean them with tap water. Remove the lotus plumule from the lotus seeds, soak them in a cold water basin, put them in a cage, steam them for 30 minutes, take them out and grind them into lotus seeds.

Put agar into a pot, put it into a cage and steam it with a stove fire; Put lotus seed paste and sugar together in a hot pot, slowly boil the water with low fire, then pour agar into the pot and stir for 5 minutes, remove the white foam, pour it into a plate, let it cool, and put it in the refrigerator for freezing.

Add honey properly when eating, it tastes sweet and delicious.

Lotus seeds have good nutritional value and efficacy, so eating some properly is good for health.

Lotus seeds have the effects of strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, nourishing the kidney and heart, calming the heart and calming the nerves.

Lotus seeds, dried and mature seeds of lotus. Nymphaeaceae, sweet and astringent, flat in nature. Return to spleen, kidney and heart meridian, tonify spleen and stop diarrhea, tonify kidney and astringent essence, calm heart and soothe nerves. It can be used for treating chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, palpitation and insomnia, nocturnal emission, etc.

It is mainly used for treating insomnia, dreaminess, forgetfulness, polydipsia, lumbago, limp feet, deafness, nocturnal emission, stranguria, chronic dysentery, asthenic diarrhea, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia and anorexia due to stomach deficiency.

It is also effective for neurasthenia, chronic gastritis, dyspepsia and hypertension.

Lotus seed porridge.

Lotus seed porridge is also one of its common ways to eat. Can be cooked with different ingredients. Lotus seeds are washed with rice and boiled with water until porridge is formed, which is the simplest lotus seed porridge.

In addition, you can also cook porridge with glutinous rice and nourishing ingredients such as longan, red dates and medlar, which will make the nourishing effect of lotus seeds more excellent and the taste of lotus porridge more attractive.

Lotus seeds make soup to drink.

Lotus seeds can be eaten raw, cooked in porridge or made into soup.

In summer, you can put the right amount of lotus seeds and mung beans together and boil them in water, then add the right amount of rock sugar, let them cool after cooking, or put them in the refrigerator and take them out a few hours later.

Can play an important role in clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, detoxifying and dissipating heat, and can effectively prevent people from suffering from heatstroke symptoms in summer.