It is the season for lychee and longan, and also the season for making plum wine. The plums are just right. Recently, people always ask, “I bought the plums online. Is this true?
In fact, it is not polite to say that most of the so-called green plums we buy online are plums, except for green apricots. It is difficult to buy real plums.
Green plum wine is a fruit wine made from green plums. It has a long cultural history. The Three Kingdoms Records state that in the fifth year of Jian’an, Liu Bei “studied in Xutian, thinking that it was a hidden plan”. Cao Cao invited Liu Bei to talk about the world’s heroes with plum wine. Thus, the allusion to plum wine and the “plum cooking hero” can be found in the history books. In addition to its unique taste, plum wine also has the effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, promoting the production of body fluid and strengthening the stomach, stopping dysentery and diarrhea, relieving pain and vomiting, etc. It is a good treatment for summer gastroenteritis.
Do not use ripe plums for plum wine, but green and firm plums. The degree of white wine should not be too low. For white wine of 38-50 degrees, it is best to use yellow crystallized sugar as crystallized sugar and the container should be a wide-mouth bottle.
Most of the real plums are sold abroad. The plums we usually eat are apricots and prunes. There are several small bags of honey-dyed green plums, which are most likely plums. How can you tell if the plum you buy is a plum? The picture above is a “green plum” that a friend bought. You can see that it is big and the stone is also big, and the surface of the stone is very smooth. In fact, it is a green apricot.
This is a real green plum. The fruit is small and round, with a small core and many pits on the core. Did you distinguish the plum?
