③ Then clean the plums. There are two cleaning methods. One is to soak the plums in lightly salted water for 2-5 hours. The second is to gently scrub the surface of the plums with salt.
④ Wash the soaked plums, then find a container and spread the plums one by one to dry the water. The water on the surface of the plums must be completely dry, otherwise the plums will easily become rancid.
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How to make plum sauce
Ingredients: plums, sugar, lemon
Pour the plums and cold water into a pot, add a little salt to the water (to remove the astringency), bring to a boil over high heat, and then cook over low heat for 5 minutes.
Remove the plums after they have turned yellow and cool them in the prepared cold water. Finally, drain the cooled plums, remove the plum pits, and pound the plum flesh into plum puree.
③ When pounding the plum puree, make sure to remove the plum kernels and do not break them, otherwise the jam will become astringent and bitter. The skin of the plum does not need to be removed. It is recommended to keep it. Of course, if you don’t like the skin, you can remove it.
④ Pour the pulp into an empty pot, add a quarter of the weight of sugar and a little water, and bring to a boil over high heat. After boiling, turn down the heat, add the lemon juice, and cook the pulp in the pot until the jam is thickened, then remove from the heat.
⑤ Chill the plum jam in the refrigerator. The plum jam made in this way is tart and sweet. It’s really delicious.
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How to make plum wine with iced sugar
Ingredients: plum fruit 1: rock sugar 0.5: white wine 1 (temperature of white wine above 25℃)
① Poke holes in the cleaned and dried plums with a fork. This treatment is to make the plum juice come out more easily and speed up the oozing of plum juice.
② Put the plums into a sealed bottle with one layer of plums and one layer of rock sugar, then fill the bottle with white wine.
③ Do not overfill the bottle with sugar and plums. The white wine should be 2~3 cm long plums. Finally, close the lid tightly and write the date of production on it. Store it in a cool place. 3 months later, you can drink it. The longer you store it, the longer the flavor will last!
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How to make plum juice with rock sugar
Ingredients: plum seeds, rock sugar, apple cider vinegar
① It is similar to the preparation of plum wine, but the white wine is replaced by apple cider vinegar, which is suitable for young people who can’t drink it. Wash and dry the plums, and poke a hole in the plum with a fork. This treatment is to make the plum juice flow out more easily and speed up the seepage of plum juice.
Put the plums into a sealed jar with a layer of plums and a layer of rock sugar. Fill the bottle with apple cider vinegar.
③ Put it into the refrigerator directly after finishing and open the lid every day to let the air circulate. After two weeks, the plums started to wilt, the juice oozed out, and the iced sugar plum juice basically changed.
④ When the weather is hot, you can take it out and drink it with some sparkling water and plum dew ice. This is a summer gift for yourself in advance~
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How to make pickled plum juice
Ingredients: table salt, plum fruit
① This is a very common practice in Pnin. The washed and dried plum fruits are pickled directly with salt in the ratio of 3:1.
② Bottled and stored in a place exposed to the sun for 3-4 months. This way, the juice can be used as a drink, and the plums can be used to make carp with plums or cannabis fish with plum juice.
