Southern jujube

Zhejiang traditional specialty. Refined from high-quality green jujube. There are two kinds of red jujube: dripping river red jujube and original red jujube. The characteristic is that the skin color is bright and red, the pattern is meticulous, the flesh is golden, and it is a big uniform, which is the treasure of jujube. At the age of the Qing Dynasty, he paid tribute, so it was known as "tribute jujube". The products are mainly sold in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangsu, Shanghai and other provinces and cities, as well as Southeast Asian countries and Hong Kong and Macao.

How to process southern jujube? Southern jujube is also called southern black jujube. It is a specialty of Zhejiang Yiwu jujube area. The crisp-ripe jujube fruit is made by comprehensive processing of baking and sunlight. The product is dark purple with fine peel pattern, much like the black jujube in the north.

(1) technological procedure: selecting jujube, →, red, →, cooking, → baking and sun drying.

(2) selection of jujube: the raw material jujube is harvested during the brittle ripening period. Zhejiang only uses Yiwu jujube (Shandong can use long red jujube). When selecting, put the whole red fruit together, green jujube and incomplete red fruit together, separate sizes and process them separately.

(3) Hot red: the whole red fruit is cooked directly, and the red fruit must be destroyed before it is processed. Put the unred jujube into a pot where the water will boil and not boil, stop for a while and pick it up when the pericarp turns dark yellow, cover with a straw mat and keep warm for 2 hours, then put it in the sun for half a day to turn red.

(4) Cook: put the jujubes in a pot of boiling water, cover and cook for 12-15 minutes, stirring frequently. All the well-cooked dates are sunk at the bottom of the pot. When cooking jujube, master a small number of times, generally boiled jujube about 25 kg each time. Baking crystal drying: the cooked dates are first put on a special baking pan for one day. The jujube plate is a bamboo-wood structure, 2.7 meters long and 1.3 meters wide, each with about 50 kilograms of jujube billet. After drying for 1 day, the jujube billet was baked on the oven for 1.5-2 hours. After drying, baking again, if the weather is clear, after the second baking will no longer bake, the sun can dry for more than 10 days. In case of cloudy and rainy days, it should be baked repeatedly until dry. Bake the fire evenly, cover the jujube plate with straw mats, and turn the dates every 15 minutes to prevent scorching. When drying dates, do not immediately exposure, at first can be covered with grass curtain, preheating and then uncover, so as to avoid jujube fruit wrinkling too quickly, jujube skin appears hard shell or woolen flowers.