Hunan hometown called it cold powder fruit, do hand rubbing cold powder is a masterpiece, July has ripened, see is blessed!

It will soon be three days, which is the hottest time of the year, not only high temperatures, but also a lot of rain, the air is very humid. So this time is like a steamer, is stuffy and hot.

Nowadays, it's better to have fans and air conditioners. But a decade or two ago, the summer was not as comfortable as it is now, and the cooling methods were more traditional. But fortunately, the countryside was so beautiful, and there were so many trees, and most of the people lived in tiled houses with earth bricks, so it was very cool in summer.

At that time in the summer, there will be people to sell popsicles, cold powder, this is the children's favorite snacks, especially cold powder is a summer dessert. In fact, in the mountains there is a special production of cold powder wild fruit, in my hometown of Hunan this side is called it "cold powder fruit", with it to do hand-rolled cold powder is a great. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it.

The cold powder fruit in the southern mountains is not rare, in the city some people's yard wall can also see it. It is a vine that often climbs on other plants, rocks, or walls to grow. It has small leaves and bun-like fruits that are green and the size of a baby's fist. If you have seen such a plant, then you are right, it is the cool powder fruit.

When I was a child, I always called it cool powder fruit, but I don't know its scientific name, and then after I grew up, I realized that it is called Ficus Lili, and some places also call it green steamed buns, ghost steamed buns, or scales of fruit, five do not stay in the line, scales of plucking, big braided throws, etc., because this plant is too widely distributed, so it is called differently in various places according to its characteristics.

At that time the lack of food and clothing in the era, cool powder fruit is a very gluttonous kind of wild fruit, not only the children to it mouth-watering, a lot of adults also love it. Just because it is in the hot summer time, is very rare to relieve the heat of the good, made of hand-rolled cold powder is a masterpiece, at that time is more delicious than ice cream dessert.

More than ten years ago, in our town in the summer there are people picking the cool powder to sell, a bowl of the price is not high, usually 50 cents a big bowl, and a performance to eat several bowls. But most of the parents can not afford to spend money to buy, but the children and love to eat how to do? So it is self-reliance, go to the mountains to pick cool powder fruit to do.

The reason why it is called hand-rolled cool powder, that is because this wild fruit to make cool powder is very simple, to put it like rubbing clothes, rubbing hard to do. And neither boiled with water, nor add any other substances, is the pure natural cold powder.

Since I was a child, I clearly remember that there are "male and female" fruit, picking through the most clear. Generally male Liangfeng fruit to eat, and female are often thrown away, or will not pick. To distinguish between male and female cool whip fruit, is also very simple. That is to look at the bottom of its "navel", which is a kind of saying in our hometown, is the bottom of the small protrusion.

If it is sunk inward, such is the female, there is generally no seed, and even worms. And if the navel is protruding, then it is male, and such a coolie fruit has more seeds and is good for making coolies. The reason is that the production of cold flour fruit, not to its pulp, nor the leaves, but its tiny as sesame seeds.

Many people see the first time the cold flour fruit, will think it is a fig. In fact, the two are indeed related, or close relatives Oh. Cut it open, you will see the inside of the red, or white like small rice seeds, this is also very much like figs.

Take out the seeds, and then take it to the sun to dry, can be used to make cold noodles. If you can't finish it all at once, you can still save it and then take it out later when you want to eat it.

The ice cold powder sold on the market, are vendors picking cold powder fruit production, so then the price is not expensive, are to earn a little labor costs. And its production method is also very simple, basically a learning curve.

After drying it in the sun, wrap it in a piece of gauze. Go inside the well and make a basin of cool water, in those days many families would use a hot water bottle to go to the old well to drink water, very cold. Pour it into the basin, soak it for a while, and when it is thoroughly wet, rub it constantly, holding the gauze in both hands, as if you were washing clothes. Just mechanically rub it over and over again until you can't squeeze out a bit of pectin, then you can throw it away. Let the bowl rest for 2-3 hours, and it will congeal into a delicious jelly-like cooler.

In those days, many people were so greedy that they would take a spoon and eat it directly from the pot before it was formed, but I preferred to wait until it turned into jelly, and then I would dig it with a spoon and eat it with a little bit of brown sugar water, and some people would put a few spoons of vinegar on it, which made the hand rubbed cold noodles sour and sweet.

Although the hand-rolled cold noodles practice is simple, the raw material is also very single, but eat up really very delicious. At that time, many people went out to work back, will first eat a bowl of ice cold noodles with vinegar. Some people don't even put brown sugar water, but just put vinegar, saying that it clears the heat. Indeed, this cold powder ice cold crystal, tender and smooth, full of mouth, eat in the mouth can be from the mouth to the heart of the cool. Even if the heat is unbearable, but eat a bowl, immediately on the summer heat elimination, the mood is also much better.

At that time, the conditions, the market only sells a bowl of 50 cents, but it is not addictive. If you make your own, you can make a big pot at a time, and your family can eat a lot, which is very enjoyable.

Now it's time for the season to ripen, but now a lot of people don't recognize the cold powder fruit, and many people know but don't know how to make the cold powder fruit, it's a pity.

In fact, the cold powder fruit is not only can do cold powder, it also has high medicinal value, the whole plant can be used as medicine, especially the leaves are picked all year round, and people use it to make tea to drink. And in recent years, some people have discovered the ornamental value of the fruit of the cool powder, it is planted as a green plant in the courtyard wall, around the house, it is very beautiful.

If you are lucky enough to come across this climbing in the tree, like figs, but also like the green bun fruit, then we must pay attention to, it is the production of the best raw materials for hand-rolled cold powder, which is also your blessing. Remember to pick a few more, and do not need too much, a time to use about ten, according to my method above, you can make several bowls of delicious and refreshing hand rubbing ice cold powder, ice cold, lubricating slippery, can definitely evoke memories of your childhood.

Friends, when you were a child, you had eaten cold powder fruit? Because I am a rural person, basically every year to eat several times!