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Honey has very good health-preserving effects. The prices of different types of honey are also very different. The best first-class honey sources come from lychees, citrus, linden trees, sophora flowers, milkvetch, vitex flowers, etc., and rapeseed and other second-class honey sources.

honey.

In the royal jelly production, rapeseed honey accounts for half; because royal jelly is a necessary food to maintain the survival of the queen bee, the output is relatively small, many beekeepers do not sell royal jelly, pure royal jelly is very "strong" and has a special taste.

It is difficult to swallow, and it is difficult for the human stomach to adapt (causing diarrhea), and it is rarely eaten directly. Most of the royal jelly on the market now is the result of mixing honey many times. The so-called "royal jelly and honey" are mixed in a ratio of 3:7.

"Royal jelly" (market product) is already very good, but the proportion is generally lower. Generally speaking, honey, especially honey purchased directly from beekeepers, may have inconsistent color and sedimentation. If the packaging is particularly exquisite, the honey

If the color and appearance are very uniform, and the price is very low (less than 10 yuan/jin), it is basically fake.

The osmanthus tree in Zhang Taiping's house had not bloomed for many years, but suddenly bloomed again. It was a strange thing in the small village. Moreover, the fragrance of the flowers was so strong that people could smell it from a distance. Bees were even more sensitive to the fragrance of flowers and swarmed in.

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Autumn is not the peak season for bees to collect flowers and make nectar. Bees are generally relatively idle and will spread out in all directions with a radius of three to four miles from the center of the beehive.

But starting from noon today, Old Man Wang discovered that Fengzi’s honey-gathering route was not scattered into a circle, but a straight line, and the busy frequency was much faster than usual. Out of curiosity, he followed the flight route of the little bee and found Zhang

The middle courtyard of the Taiping family.

I was surprised by the fragrance of the osmanthus tree in Zhang Taiping's family. Osmanthus honey is originally the best honey, and the flowers of this osmanthus tree are particularly sweet and rich. The honey produced by Fengzi's flowers is absolutely top-quality.

As for the village chief and others, they were passing by or going to work in the mountains and were attracted by the grand scene of collecting honey in Fengzi.

Zhang Taiping responded to the compliments of the villagers for a while, then looked up at the osmanthus tree that was already in full bloom.

Ever since the osmanthus trees were watered with space spring water, it was expected that the osmanthus trees would bloom, and the shortening of the flowering period was also expected. However, I did not expect that the fragrance of the flowers would be so strong and permeating, attracting a large group of "flower pickers".

When Old Man Wang who was wandering under the tree saw Zhang Taiping coming back, he came over and said, puffing on the smoke.

"Commander, this osmanthus tree was planted by your grandfather, right? It's sixty or seventy years old, so it can be regarded as an ancient osmanthus tree. I haven't seen it bloom in the past few years, but now it has bloomed, and the fragrance is very good.

Nong, this is something that has been saved for more than ten years before being released, and this is going to bring good luck."

He sniffed the dry smoke and said: "The bees have collected honey, and the quality of the honey they brew will not be low. Thanks to you, when the honey comes out, I will give you a jar."

Before Zhang Taiping could say anything, the people next to him made sounds of envy. Honey produced in the mountains is not cheap. A kilogram of honey that has been diluted can be sold for more than 25 yuan. This kind of honey that has not been diluted can be sold for more than 25 yuan.

At least one kilogram can be sold for fifty yuan. One can weighs about one kilogram, which is a lot to give as a gift worth about twenty-five yuan in a mountain village.

It wasn't until dark that the hardworking bees left one after another.

After the bees were completely gone, Zhang Taiping asked his wife to pick the lamp to grow under the tree, and then climbed up the tree to pick many sweet-scented osmanthus. He planned to pick some sweet-scented osmanthus to make sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

Osmanthus cake has a history of more than 300 years. According to legend, in the late Ming Dynasty, there was a hawker named Liu Jixiang in Xindu County. He was inspired by the fragrant osmanthus in the study of Yang Sheng'an, the number one scholar, and collected fresh osmanthus flowers and squeezed out the bitter water.

Dip it in honey, mix it with steamed rice flour, glutinous rice flour, cooked oil and extracted sugar, then pack it into boxes and sell it, named Osmanthus Cake.

For more than 300 years, the candy shop that has inherited the osmanthus cake has continuously improved its technology and now uses refined white sugar, starch syrup, flour, glutinous rice flour, vegetable oil, honeyed osmanthus, etc. as raw materials. It is prepared in appropriate proportions and steamed and fried.

, grinding, mixing, rolling, boxing, cutting and other processes are refined. The product has the characteristics of being as white as jade, sweet and refreshing, delicate slag, and rich in cinnamon.

According to the origin of osmanthus cake, it can be roughly divided into three types: Xianning osmanthus cake, Nanjing osmanthus cake and Xiayang osmanthus cake.

Xianning Osmanthus Cake is produced in Xianning, Hubei, the hometown of osmanthus that is famous throughout the country. It was created in the late Ming Dynasty. The cake is soft and moist, white in color, has a strong fragrance of osmanthus, melts in the mouth, has a refreshing taste, and is rich in nutritional value.

, suitable for consumption by women of all ages, it is a good gift for relatives and friends, and a good treat for yourself. Hubei Xianning Osmanthus Cake is characterized by unique ingredients, oily but not greasy, not astringent in the mouth, smooth when swallowed, sweet and salty, fragrant and cool, and highly enjoyable

People like it.

There are many osmanthus in Nanjing, not only the osmanthus in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, but also countless osmanthus trees hidden in the streets and alleys. Osmanthus cake in October is fragrant with osmanthus. Nanjing's osmanthus cake is not only beautiful in style, soft in taste, but also has a special fragrance, even if

After eating, the aroma still lingers.

The production of Xiayang Osmanthus Cake has a history of more than 100 years and is famous at home and abroad. It is made from natural Osmanthus minced juice to remove the residue, stored in the cellar for 3 years, taken out, and prepared with cinnamon, woody, musk, and cloves that strengthen the spleen and transform Qi.

, agarwood, Cyperus cyperus, Perrin and other Chinese medicinal spices are refined into "osmanthus sauce", and then mixed into stir-fried, ground, steamed and finely sifted glutinous rice flour, plus high-quality white sugar, five-spice powder, sesame seeds, and salt water,

Mix it into a cake and moisten it with water vapor so that it does not loosen after being left for a long time, and it becomes a delicious cake that is sweet, delicious, refreshing and invigorating. Xiayang Osmanthus Cake is characterized by unique ingredients, oily but not greasy, and not astringent in the mouth.

, smooth and smooth when swallowed, sweet and salty, fragrant and cool, it is very popular among people. It has become a good product for home travel and gifts to friends, and has been well-known for hundreds of years.

In terms of eating methods, it can be divided into sesame osmanthus cold cake, soft fried osmanthus cake, osmanthus fried rice cake and so on.

Zhang Taiping had eaten many kinds of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes in his previous life, but he didn’t know how to make them. In Zhang Dashuai’s memory, he had his grandmother’s method of making sweet-scented osmanthus cakes.

The most common way to make osmanthus cake in my memory is the crystal osmanthus cake.

If you don't have osmanthus sauce prepared in advance, you can only mash the flower petals into a paste and mix it with glutinous rice flour.

Steam the thoroughly kneaded cake powder in a cage for about a quarter of an hour. Then wrap the cake powder with wet gauze, keep turning and kneading it until the surface is smooth and the cake powder is fine. Then flatten the cake powder and stretch it into a long strip.

, apply vegetable oil, sprinkle with dried osmanthus, cut into rectangular cubes, or cut into long round strips of about 8cm and place in a steamer. Boil the water in the steamer and steam in the steamer for about 5 minutes.

After coming out of the cage, first cut a piece of Yaya who was squatting next to her like a greedy cat.

Although it was the first time I made it, it was quite successful. Although it is still far from the ones that are sold exclusively, it is delicious and refreshing, with a crystal clear taste and is filled with the fragrance of osmanthus.

October is the right time to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake. Chewing the soft sweet-scented osmanthus cake with the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus in your mouth is such a pleasure.

Seeing his wife and daughter smiling happily, he couldn't hide the smile on his face. Zhang Taiping suddenly realized that maybe they were not happy because they had the sweet-scented osmanthus cake, but they were satisfied with the process itself because they made it by themselves.

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In fact, they don't ask for much, and Zhang Dashuai still couldn't give it before. Now they only need Zhang Taiping to pay a little more attention and care, and they are so easily satisfied.

Before taking a break, Zhang Taiping took out the red flowers from the box and handed them to his wife to see.

"I went into the mountains today and picked these medicines. It's called saffron. It should grow in large quantities in Tibetan areas. Only a small amount is found in the Qinling Mountains. It's very rare. You can only encounter it occasionally if you are lucky, so I picked a big box like this.

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Cai Yazhi gestured doubtfully after looking at it. Is this the same as the herbal medicine given by her grandfather some time ago?

"Yes, what grandpa gave you was also saffron. Drinking it as tea is good for your health. It can gradually remove the root causes of diseases in your body that were caused during confinement."

"I'll go to the city tomorrow and sell these red flowers."

Won’t the town collect it?

"They are also charged in the town, but the price in the town is much lower than in the city. These red flowers are quite a lot, the difference is hundreds or even thousands of dollars."

Cai Yazhi still understood and looked at Zhang Taiping in confusion. In her mind, the most expensive medicinal materials only cost a few hundred yuan a pound. How many kilograms of these safflower flowers in the box only cost in total? Just think of it as the most expensive medicine in the city and town.

The difference is only a few dozen dollars, but it's not that much of a difference.

Zhang Taiping then added: "I'm not talking about bragging. Don't underestimate this safflower. It's not sold by the pound, but by the gram. One gram costs more than 20 yuan."

Seeing his wife still looking puzzled, I realized that in mountain villages, things are always done in terms of weight, and the people in the village have no concept of weight at all.

"Let's put it this way, one pound is 500 grams, and these are probably more than two pounds. In the end, they can be sold for more than 25,000 yuan."

This time Cai Yazhi understood. Her eyes were wide and round, and her mouth could not close together for a long time due to surprise. Sometimes she pointed at Zhang Taiping, and sometimes she pointed at herself, waving her arms subconsciously, but unable to express any information.

Zhang Taiping understood that his wife was feeling like a city man who had won the lottery and couldn't help himself.

It’s not surprising that she acted like this. For a person in a rural mountainous area, 20,000 yuan is already a huge amount. If calculated purely based on growing crops, it is equivalent to more than three years of total income. Not to mention Cai Yazhi

The money on hand has never exceeded one thousand, and twenty thousand is a number that will definitely surprise him. Although it is just herbal medicine and has not been exchanged for safflower banknotes, it has already made him feel agitated and nervous.

He held the box carefully again. Because he was really afraid of poverty before.