Pumpkin, corn, horseshoe and pear drink

Overview

Water chestnuts, known as underground snow pear and Jiangnan ginseng, are also called water chestnuts and water chestnuts. From December to March every year, it is the season when water chestnuts are ripe. At this time, they are the most fresh, crisp and delicious. Its outer skin is purple-black, and its inner meat is white, sweet, crisp and juicy. It can be eaten raw after peeling, or it can be steamed, made into porridge, stir-fried, processed into cans, water chestnut cakes and sugar water. Aojiu Festival, a traditional festival in Shiyi area of Fuzhou, Fujian, is related to horseshoes. On the 29th day of the first lunar month, every household uses raw materials such as glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanuts, red dates, water chestnuts, sesame seeds, longan, and ginkgo to cook sweet porridge, called Aojiu porridge, or filial porridge. It is used to worship ancestors or as a gift to relatives and friends. Married women should send it back to their natal families to honor their parents. Sometimes Taipei, eggs, pig's trotters, etc. are also added. If there are people whose imaginary years are nine (nine, nineteen, twenty-nine, etc. belong to the bright nine), or are multiples of nine (eighteen, twenty-seven, thirty-six, etc. belong to the dark nine), they should also eat a flat bowl as if it were a birthday, in order to be safe and healthy. It can be seen that everyone recognizes the nutrition and taste of water chestnuts. Next, I will introduce a simple and delicious home-cooked delicacy made of water chestnuts - pumpkin, corn, water chestnuts and pear drink. Let's try it together.

Tags

• drinks
• afternoon tea
• corn
• horseshoe
• old rock candy
• pumpkin
• sydney
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare various ingredients.

   

2. 2 Peel and slice the pears, peel the sweet corn kernels from the cobs, wash the water chestnuts, scrape off the outer skin with a kitchen spatula and cut into small pieces.

   

3. 3 Pour the water chestnuts, corn kernels and rock sugar into a small pot, add an appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil.

   

4. 4 Add the pear slices and pumpkin slices and cook until cooked.