White sugar and dark plum porridge

First, raw materials

Rice 100g, 4 ebony.

Second, seasoning

1 tablespoon sugar.

Third, the steps

1, ebony is denucleated and washed; Wash the rice and remove the sediment for later use.

2. Put the ebony and rice together in aluminum pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil with high fire, then simmer for 35 minutes, then add sugar and mix well.

Mume is a dry and nearly ripe fruit of Prunus mume in Rosaceae.

Medicinal material properties:

Spherical or oblate, with a diameter of 1.5-3cm, dark black or brownish black surface, uneven shrinkage and round fruit stalk marks at the base. The stone is hard, oval and brown, with pits on the surface; Seeds oblate and yellowish. Slight breathing and extremely sour taste.

Plum belongs to the genus Prunus in Rosaceae.

Plum, small trees, sparse shrubs, 4 ~ 10 meters above sea level; Bark light gray or greenish, smooth; Branchlets are green, smooth and hairless. Leaf blade ovoid or ovoid, 4-8 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, with sharp tip and wide wedge-shaped to round base. The leaf margin is often slightly serrated, gray-green, with pubescence on both sides when young, and gradually falls off when growing, or only between the inferior veins; Petiole length 1 to 2 cm, hairy when young, shedding when old, often with glands.

Flowers solitary or sometimes two peanuts in 1 bud, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, with strong fragrance, opening first and then leaves; Pedicel short, about 1 to 3 mm long, often glabrous; Calyx is usually reddish brown, but some varieties of calyx are green or green purple; Calyx tube broadly campanulate, glabrous or sometimes pubescent; Sepals ovate or suborbicular, apex obtuse; Petals obovate, white to pink; Stamens short or slightly longer than petals; Ovary densely pilose, style short or slightly longer than stamens.

The fruit is nearly spherical, 2 to 3 cm in diameter, yellow or greenish white, pilose and sour; Mucosal nucleus; The nucleus is oval, with a round top and a small protruding tip, the base gradually narrows into a wedge shape, the two sides are slightly flat, the abdominal edge is slightly blunt, there are obvious longitudinal grooves on the ventral and dorsal sides, and there are honeycomb holes on the surface. The flowering period is winter and spring, and the fruiting period is May to June (in North China, the fruiting period is extended to July to August).

The colors of plum blossoms are purplish red, pink, light yellow, light ink and pure white. "Red plum", the flower shape is extremely beautiful, and the flowers are rich; "Green calyx", white flowers, green sepals, double white petals, fragrant; "Purple plum", double purple, faint fragrance; "Red in the bone", deep red double petals, the color is not light when it fades, and the tree is like mahogany; "Jade Butterfly" is slightly reddish in white, with single and double petals, gentle and elegant. Tens of thousands of plum blossoms are planted in pieces, and the branches are sparsely decorated with jade. Some are as bright as the morning glow, some are as white as snow, and some are as green as jasper, forming a spectacular sight of Meihaiyun condensing clouds and steaming.

The fragrance of plum blossom has a unique charm, elegant and elegant, which is called dark fragrance by scholars of all ages. "Deliberately looking for fragrance, fragrance is nowhere to be found" is hard to capture, but it is always refreshing and intoxicating. During the plum blossom season, I wandered among the flowers, and the breeze swept through Meilin, just like soaking in the sea of incense, and I was covered with incense.