How to make sugar gourd at home with the traditional snacks in your memory?

Sugar gourd

I still remember when I was a child, go to the temple fair, always see an old grandfather carrying a rack full of sugar gourds inserted, and I can not help but buy every time, eat, sweet and sour taste full of happiness and satisfaction.

Now grown up, the street sells more and more places of sugarplums, but always feel less some childhood happiness. I believe that many people, like me, have their own memories and flavors of sugarplums, so today, we will teach you to make delicious sugarplums at home and relive the taste of childhood.

Sugar gourd practice

Hawthorn

Materials: hawthorn, sugar

Practice:

1, hawthorn into lightly salted water, soak for about twenty minutes, take out the core of the cut, and then use a bamboo skewer string to be prepared for use;

2, take a clean pot, add sugar to the pot and add the right amount of water, cook over high heat and stir to melt. Side stirring to melt;

3, water open for a period of time, continue to stir for a period of time and then turn to a small fire to simmer the syrup (note that at this time no longer stir, to avoid turning over the sand), simmering to the pot of syrup blisters small dense, amber-colored can be;

4, will be skewered into a string of hawthorn wrapped in syrup while it is still hot, put it on the plate, naturally cooled, can be.

What is the nutritional value of sugar gourd

Sugar gourd

Hawthorn is a common food to help digestion, the main ingredient of sugar gourd is hawthorn, so it can eliminate the accumulation of food, and also activate the blood to remove blood stasis, activate the blood to regulate the menstruation of the role of blood and the taste is excellent, young and old, especially suitable for children and the elderly who have poor digestion.

What are the contraindications of sugar gourd

1, don't eat too much

Hawthorn overconsumption, will make the abdomen full of fullness, epigastric pain symptoms, so food should be moderate.

2, diabetics avoid eating

Sugar gourd outer layer wrapped in syrup, sugar content is very high, so it is not suitable for diabetics.

3, patients with gastrointestinal ulcers should not eat

Sugar gourd, acid by nature, acid main astringent, may cause harm to the stomach, so it is also not advisable to eat more.