4 kinds of natural materials for making ice jelly, you can make a pot by picking a handful on the roadside. How many have you eaten?

Since the summer solstice, the temperature has been getting higher and higher. Moreover, although the south has not yet entered the dog days, it is basically a high temperature of more than 30 degrees during the day.

In such a hot weather, the most craving is the cool and delicious ice jelly. In the past, it was the most anticipated snack for rural children in summer, but now that living standards have improved, ice jelly has become a delicacy that many fashionable men and women cannot miss.

If you are a southerner, you can see many shops selling ice jelly at this time.

So do you know what these jelly beans are made of? In fact, we can make the ice jelly sold on the street at home, because there are many natural materials for making jelly in the mountains in the countryside. Today, I will introduce 4 kinds to you. Just pick a handful on the roadside, and you can go home and make a big pot. How many have you eaten?

The first jelly grass.

In Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi and other regions, a few decades ago, many people in the countryside would grow a plant that looks like mint in their homes, and it is commonly known as jelly grass, and it is also called fairy grass, fairy grass, fairy jelly in the folk Wait.

This is also the most commonly used material for jelly sold on the streets in some southern cities in the past. The 5-cent bowl of jelly that the author ate when I was a child, I heard from adults, was made from this jelly grass.

It is also very simple to use it to make jelly. After cutting its stems and leaves home, put them in a pot for boiling, and then filter out the residue, as long as its juice. Then add rice soup or starch and continue to cook for a while. After cooling, it will condense into a black jelly-like gelatinous substance.

Soak it in cool well water, add honey or white sugar and mix it together, it is very delicious and relieves the heat.

The second is false physalis.

Looking at the picture, does it look like the wild fruit that can be seen everywhere in the countryside - the girl fruit? Indeed, it is very similar, and many people will regard it as a girl fruit.

But from its scientific name, it can be known that since it is called false physalis, it is definitely not a girl fruit. Pseudo Physalis is an annual upright herb of Solanaceae and Pseudo Physalis, while Pseudo Physalis is an annual herb of Solanaceae and Physalis. It is obvious that they are plants of the same family but different genera, which can be regarded as cousins, and it is not difficult to understand why they are so similar.

But the girl fruit is generally eaten by picking its fruit, while the false physalis is different. It mainly uses its seeds to make jelly, so it is also called "ice powder seed" in some places.

After its seeds are soaked in water, lime water is added, or toothpaste water is used instead. After a while, it will solidify into a crystal clear, cool-tasting jelly.

Although the production method is simple, it tastes delicious, and it also has the effects of anti-inflammatory and diuretic, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, so it is used to make jelly in summer, even if you eat more, it is harmless to the body, and there are 100% no other additives.

The third type is Xueli fruit.

In the folk, it is also called ghost steamed bun, weighing fruit, wild steamed bun, mango, jelly fruit, ice powder and so on. It is actually a "relative" of the fig, the fruit looks like a fig, and the inside is similar to a fig after being cut.

However, figs are very sweet to eat, and Xueli fruit is not suitable for eating as a fruit, and the seeds inside are mainly used to make jelly.

It is used to make ice-cold powder, and no other ingredients are needed. Just take out its seeds, and then dry them to remove the moisture. Then prepare a pot of clean spring water, wrap the seeds of Xue Liguo with gauze, and keep in the pot. Knead with your hands until no more sticky juice can be squeezed out.

Put it at room temperature for two or three hours. Now that there is a refrigerator, it is better to put it in the refrigerator. After that, add honey, brown sugar or other ingredients according to your own taste and you can eat it directly.

The fourth is the leaves of the fairy tree.

Although it is generally called fairy tofu in some places, it is actually a kind of ice-cold powder. And the jelly made from it is as crystal clear as jasper, and it tastes even more delicious and refreshing.

The leaves of the fairy tree, whose scientific name is stinky yellow buds, has a special smell, but after being processed into jelly, not only does it have no such smell, but it tastes so delicious that it can't be stopped.

The reason why the leaves of this tree can also be used as jelly is because the leaves of the fairy tree are rich in pectin. In ancient times, it was a special food in many places in the south, and in recent years, it has been developed and utilized. .

The method of making jelly from the leaves of the fairy tree is also similar to the previous ones. The main method is to take the fresh and tender leaves, wash them, dry them in the sun, then put them in a pot and boil them with boiling water, then take them out and rub them repeatedly. , mash, and then filter it with gauze, as long as its juice.

After adding the plant ash water, it will become tofu-like after cooling, cut it into small pieces with a knife, then add oil and spicy seeds, garlic paste and vinegar, etc., stir and eat, it is very delicious and cools down the heat.

The practice of "fairy tofu" is simple. Wash and dry the collected strange leaves, put them in a pot and scald them with boiling water to soften, and then repeatedly rub and smash them with both hands until the leaves become paste, and then filter them into the pot with a cloth bag. Serve "tofu" after cooling.

It is then cut into small pieces with a blade, poured with oil and spicy pepper, vinegar and garlic, and it becomes a delicacy. It tastes cool and refreshing, and is a food to cool down in summer.

In fact, in addition to these four kinds of plants, in some places, mulberry leaves are also used to make jelly, or they are made from bitter oak fruit, both of which are very delicious. These are the raw materials more commonly used to make ice-cold powder in rural areas in the past. Just pick a bunch of them and go back, and you can easily make a big plate and eat them together as a family, which is very enjoyable.