You may not find any fresh hawthorn berries in Canada, but you can find plenty crabapples in almost every community. Most of time, they are free for pick up. I made some delicious candy crabapples last week, they taste very good. 非常像冰糖葫芦的味道. So I share my recipe here with everyone.
Material list:
1. sugar: 500g
2. fresh crabapples: 500g
3. tooth picks (5-10)
4. cooking pot (medium)
5. water (enough to melt the sugar, but not too much)
Instruction:
1. Pick and wash clean your fresh crabapples.
2. Use a tooth pick to pock holes on each crabapple to make sure sugar can get into the crabapples eaily. (Tip: important not to pock too many holes, otherwise when the crabapples are boiled in the later step, they tend to break to small pieces.) Put all crabapples into a glass jar (or a container which has a lid. Plastic container is not recommended here because it needs to handle boiling hot water).
3. Add water and sugar into the cooking pot, then turn on the heat/fire. Bring the sugar water to boil. Then turn off the fire.
4. Pour the hot water into the container filled with crabapples (pour the water on crabapples to avoid breaking the container if you use a glass one).
5. Cover the container and let it sit at a dark place for 24 hours.
6. Pour the juice out from the container back into the cooking pot, bring it to boil again for a while (around 5-10 minutes, watch it and don't let your juice dry out on fire).
7. Repeat step 4-5.
8. Pour the juice and crabapples together back into a cooking pot. Boil crabapples into the sugar water until you see the crabapples are all half transparent. (Be careful not overdo this step, or the crabapples will break to small pieces)
9. Turn off the fire and let crabapples and juice to cool.
Now you have your own candy crabapples! They taste sweat and sour and are very much like the old Chinese style "Bing tang hu lu" - hawthorn berries in ice sugar.
Store your candy crabapples in fridge is still recommended. But if you can finish them in few days, you don't have to put them into fridge, room temperature is ok.
Enjoy, and let me know how you make your own. Share your experience here with your friends. I'm looking forward to taste your candy crabapples.
Material list:
1. sugar: 500g
2. fresh crabapples: 500g
3. tooth picks (5-10)
4. cooking pot (medium)
5. water (enough to melt the sugar, but not too much)
Instruction:
1. Pick and wash clean your fresh crabapples.
2. Use a tooth pick to pock holes on each crabapple to make sure sugar can get into the crabapples eaily. (Tip: important not to pock too many holes, otherwise when the crabapples are boiled in the later step, they tend to break to small pieces.) Put all crabapples into a glass jar (or a container which has a lid. Plastic container is not recommended here because it needs to handle boiling hot water).
3. Add water and sugar into the cooking pot, then turn on the heat/fire. Bring the sugar water to boil. Then turn off the fire.
4. Pour the hot water into the container filled with crabapples (pour the water on crabapples to avoid breaking the container if you use a glass one).
5. Cover the container and let it sit at a dark place for 24 hours.
6. Pour the juice out from the container back into the cooking pot, bring it to boil again for a while (around 5-10 minutes, watch it and don't let your juice dry out on fire).
7. Repeat step 4-5.
8. Pour the juice and crabapples together back into a cooking pot. Boil crabapples into the sugar water until you see the crabapples are all half transparent. (Be careful not overdo this step, or the crabapples will break to small pieces)
9. Turn off the fire and let crabapples and juice to cool.
Now you have your own candy crabapples! They taste sweat and sour and are very much like the old Chinese style "Bing tang hu lu" - hawthorn berries in ice sugar.
Store your candy crabapples in fridge is still recommended. But if you can finish them in few days, you don't have to put them into fridge, room temperature is ok.
Enjoy, and let me know how you make your own. Share your experience here with your friends. I'm looking forward to taste your candy crabapples.