Ingredients (refer to one kilogram of winter melon)

500 grams of winter melon

100 grams of brown sugar or brown sugar

500 grams of white sugar

A bowl of water (eating bowl)

How to prepare winter melon tea bricks

Wash the winter melon, peel and cut into pieces.

Use

blender to puree. If you don’t have a blender at home, skip to step three.

Use a non-stick pan, add a bowl of water, bring to a boil over medium heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for about 15 minutes.

If you don’t have a blender at home, the same steps are followed, but the stew time will be longer. Stew until the winter melon is so soft that it can be cut open with chopsticks, and then crush the winter melon with a spoon. Press into puree.

Add all white, brown or brown sugar. It's easy to burn the bottom, so keep stirring.

Fry until it turns sandy. Dip a chopstick into the winter melon sugar liquid and put it into ice water to see if it solidifies. If it solidifies, it is ready.

Pour in the winter melon sugar for 1 minute, spread a piece of oil paper on top, and use a spoon to level the sugar surface.

After 5 minutes, when the surface is slightly dry, use a knife to cut out chunks. Let sit in a cool place for 12 hours.

Use a knife to cut along the lines. Store in a sealed, cool place.

Winter melon morphological characteristics

An annual creeping or trellising herb; the stem is covered with yellowish-brown bristles and villous hairs, and has ridges and grooves. The petiole is stout, 5-20 cm long, covered with yellowish-brown bristles and villous hairs; the leaves are kidney-shaped and nearly round, 15-30 cm wide, with 5-7 lobes or sometimes middle lobes, and the lobes are broadly triangular or ovate. The apex is sharply pointed, with small teeth on the edge. The base is deeply heart-shaped, with an open curve, and is nearly round. The depth and width are both 2.5-3.5 cm. The surface is dark green, slightly rough, with sparse pubescence, which gradually falls off as it ages. Becomes nearly hairless; the back is rough, gray-white, with coarse hairs, the veins are slightly raised on the back of the leaf, and are densely hairy. Tendrils 2-3 divergent, covered with coarse hirsute and villous hairs.

Large-fruited winter melon:

The first female flower usually appears at the 15th node on the main vine, and one or two female flowers will appear every 5-6 nodes thereafter. . Short cylindrical or long cylindrical, the peel is green or covered with white wax powder. Most of them leave one fruit per plant and harvest the mature fruits. Varieties include Guangdong green-skinned winter melon, gray-skinned winter melon, beef spleen winter melon, Hunan pink-skinned winter melon, Longquan winter melon, Jiangxi Yangzizhou winter melon, Taiwan's green-shelled winter melon, white-shelled winter melon, Sichuan large winter melon, Shanghai white-skinned winter melon, Beijing ground winter melon, etc. .