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Method for make sour hawthorn cake

Hawthorn cake is sour, sweet and delicious, and rich in nutrition. The following tips can make you enjoy DIY hawthorn cake without leaving home.

First, the hawthorn is pitted. First cut the hawthorn from the middle, be sure to cut it to the core, then break it in half, half of it has been pitted, and the other half can be gently squeezed out.

Second, put the hawthorn into a blender and beat it into hawthorn sauce.

Third, boil hawthorn sauce. According to the ratio of water to hawthorn juice 1.5: 1, put it in a pot, boil it until it bubbles, and then add sugar. Usually put one or two sugars in a catty of hawthorn. Cook for a few minutes with low fire, then mix lotus root starch with cold boiled water, add hawthorn sauce to make the hawthorn cake easier to shape, and cook for another two or three minutes. You can also add sweet osmanthus before cooking to fill the fragrance of sweet osmanthus.

4. The hawthorn sauce is cooled and put into the refrigerator for freezing. Hawthorn cakes are ready.

Nutrition:

1. Hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, and has the functions of dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart vitality, exciting central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, diuresis and sedation.

2. maslinic acid also has a cardiotonic effect, which is also good for heart disease in the elderly;

3. It can stimulate appetite and promote digestion, especially for eliminating meat stagnation. Hawthorn is used in many digestive drugs.

4. Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which helps to relieve local congestion and has an auxiliary effect on traumatic injury;

5. Crataegus pinnatifida has contractive effect on uterus, and pregnant women can promote labor during labor, which can promote postpartum uterine recovery;

6. Flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the production of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects;

7. Hawthorn contains ingredients for relieving asthma, resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.