Pigmented umeboshi, smoked umeboshi, roasted umeboshi, how to distinguish?

Baking method: one of the Chinese medicine concocting method. The herbs and liquid auxiliaries with fried, so that the auxiliaries penetrate into the herbs, so also known as combined fried. According to the different auxiliary materials, can be divided into the following kinds:

1: wine hot: there are two methods: a: First, the first will be the herbs and wine stirred, and then heated to stir fry to yellow; b: Second is the first will be the herbs stir fry to yellow, wine sprinkled into the slightly fried piece of time. Such as wine baked angelica, Chuanlian, etc..

2: vinegar sizzling: with rice vinegar sizzling as above. Such as the roasted fragrant herbs, three prongs, and so on.

3: salt roast: the first salt with the right amount of water to melt, and then fry with the herbs. Such as roasted orange kernel, cypress, etc..

4: ginger: first ginger mashed juice, and then with the herbs with fried. If the ginger roasted bamboo, and so on.

5: honey-roasted: the herbs and honey mixed, and then heated with fried. Such as roasted licorice, loquat leaves, etc..

6: rice slop water: rice slop water and then fried. Such as roasted atractylodes macrocephala.

7: sheep fat roast: also known as crispy roast. Take sheep fat and herbs with fried. Such as roasted horny goat weed.

8: children's urine: take herbs and children's urine with fried. Such as the roasted fragrant herbs, etc..

9: turtle blood hot: first turtle blood with a small amount of water and medicinal herbs with the mixing, placed for a while, in the pan fried until the color can be. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

10: alum hot: first alum with water melting, sprinkle into the hot herbs, fried until dry to the degree. Such as roasted tulip, etc..

11: medicinal juice hot: take the medicinal juice and medicinal herbs with fried. Such as licorice juice roasted Cornus officinalis, etc..

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Concoctions of umeboshi:

Umeboshi: remove impurities, wash and dry.

Wu Mei meat: take net Ma Mei, water moistening to make soft or steaming soft, remove the core.

Ume charcoal: take net umeboshi, according to the method of stir-fry charcoal (Appendix II D) stir-fry until the skin and flesh bulging.

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1, some people say that smoked umeboshi kernel is red, pigmented umeboshi kernel is black.

2. Some people say the kernel is black to be a smoked umeboshi, smoked long enough.

3, some people say that smoked umeboshi cleaning, indeed, will lead to the water is black, but because of the increase in the number of cleaning and fade. Is it dyed? It depends on whether the line of color left by the water at the edge of the container after cleaning the ume is easy to clean off. If it is not dyed, rinsing it will not leave a mark.

4, some people say that umeboshi washed water is black, must be dyed, authentic umeboshi should not lose color, the real umeboshi is blackened with carbon.

It's confusing, please distinguish.