Autumn Pear Paste [Beijing Yanqing Specialty]

What is Autumn Pear Cream? Authentic Beijing Yanqing specialty: Autumn Pear Cream

Summary:Do you want to know what Autumn Pear Cream is? This article is a detailed introduction to the special product of Yanqing, Beijing - Autumn Pear Paste. It was compiled and edited by the editorial team of China Specialty Network after reviewing and collecting relevant information on Autumn Pear Paste. The full text takes about 8 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Autumn Pear Paste and its nutritional value? What are the product characteristics of Autumn Pear Cream? How did the history of autumn pear paste come about? The production method of autumn pear paste, etc

Basic Introduction to Autumn Pear Paste

Autumn pear paste is a traditional specialty of Beijing, which is said to have existed as early as the Tang Dynasty and is a medicine used in the imperial court.

. Qiuli Paste, also known as snow pear Paste, is a kind of Tonic Diet drink elaborately made from selected Qiuli (or Yali, Xuehua Pear) as the main raw material, together with other antitussive, expectorant, fluid producing and lung moistening drugs, such as raw materials from raw ground, kudzu root, radish, ophiopogon japonicus, lotus root, ginger juice, fritillaria, honey and other food and drug sources. It is often used clinically to treat respiratory diseases caused by heat and dryness of the lungs, thirst, dry stool, fatigue, lung yin injury, cough and spit white sputum, chronic cough and hemoptysis

It has a good therapeutic effect on symptoms such as restlessness, thirst, chest heat tightness, lung dryness, and constipation caused by fever and body fluids. In clinical practice, it is commonly used to combine autumn pears with other drugs that have the functions of generating fluids, reducing fire, stopping cough, and moistening the lungs, in order to treat various symptoms caused by dryness, heat, and fluid damage. Autumn pear paste is made by boiling autumn pears together with other medicines, and has functions such as generating saliva, reducing fire, nourishing yin, moistening the lungs, and stopping cough and blood. In clinical practice, it is commonly used to treat respiratory diseases such as lung heat and thirst, dry and stuffy stools, labor injury to lung yin, coughing and vomiting of white phlegm, and long-term coughing and hemoptysis caused by heat and dampness. After being processed, Autumn Pear Cream has a bright color like milk jade, hence the name "Jade Cream". Autumn pear paste is usually rich in fructose, glucose, malic acid, protein, fat, various vitamins, and inorganic salts such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, poria enzyme, and berberine. It can adjust blood pressure, promote appetite, moisten the lungs, relieve cough, clear heat and phlegm, calm the heart and mind, and has significant therapeutic effects. Except for patients with stomach deficiency cold and diarrhea, women, children, the elderly and the weak can drink it

The taste of autumn pear paste is very good. When mixed with cold water, it tastes sweet and has a slight pear aroma. Children will definitely love it. Indeed, Autumn Pear Cream has certain medicinal effects because Autumn Pear itself has the functions of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, quenching thirst, and clearing the heart. It is sweet and delicious, and has the effects of moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, calming the mind, and strengthening the spleen and stomach

How did the history of autumn pear paste come about

Qiuli Paste is a Tonic Diet drink made from Qiuli and expectorant Chinese medicine. The "Qiuli Paste" in "Seeking the Source of Materia Medica" is recorded in historical data, and it is said that it began in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that Emperor Wu of Tang, Li Yan, was ill and had dry mouth and tongue all day long, with a hot heart. He took hundreds of medicines but found no therapeutic effect. The imperial doctors and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were helpless. At a time when people were anxious and uneasy, a Taoist used a honey paste made from a combination of pears, honey, and various Chinese herbs to cure the emperor's illness. From then on, the Taoist's miraculous formula became a secret recipe in the palace until it entered the folk during the Qing Dynasty

Method for making Autumn Pear Paste

Method 1

Ingredients: Autumn Pear Paste, 6 pears, 80g dried red dates, 150g rock sugar, 20g ginger, 80ml honey

Steps:

1. Wash the dried red dates and cut off the pits. Peel the ginger and cut it into thin strips. Peel off the outer skin of the pear and place the scraper on the pot. Rub the pear into pear paste and juice<2. Put the red dates, ginger shreds, rock sugar, and pear juice together in a pot after removing the seeds<3. Cover the pot and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes. Then use a strainer to scoop up the pear puree and press with another spoon to squeeze out more pear juice<4. Discard the squeezed pear pomace, red dates, and ginger shreds, leaving only the pear juice in the pot. Continue boiling on low heat for about 1 hour until the pear paste becomes thick, then turn off the heat and let it cool

5. Add honey to the cooled pear puree, mix well, and store in a sealed jar

Method 2

Ingredients: 6 pears of Autumn Pear Paste, peeled and cut into pieces, about one bowl of juice squeezed out, 100g of dates, 100g of ginger, 100g of rock sugar, 100g of lilies, and 200g of honey

Steps:

1. Pour pear juice and rock sugar into a stainless steel pot, wash the jujubes and cut them into small pieces to remove the seeds for better nutrition. Slice ginger and put it into the pot. Add a cup of water and bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat<2. When half of the juice is left, add the washed lilies and simmer for 15-20 minutes

3. After filtering, only half a bowl of juice is left. From a technical perspective, the final stage of homemade soup is difficult to endure until it becomes thick. Therefore, as long as all the effective ingredients are dissolved into the soup, there is no need to demand high consistency from external products. If you don't like spicy food, you can add less or no ginger

4. After the juice cools slightly, mix in honey

Method Three

Ingredients: Autumn Pear, Honey, Fritillaria, Poria cocos, Sugar, Bird's Nest

Steps: Wash the autumn pear, squeeze out the pear juice, and add sugar and honey to the pear juice. Boil over fire, then add Fritillaria, Poria cocos, or bird's nest. Boil over low heat until thick

Method 4

Raw materials: 8 snowflake pears, 30g white Poria cocos, 20g Sichuan scallop, 20g Ophiopogon japonicus, 30g red dates without seeds, 30g rock sugar, 25g ginger slices, 200g honey

Practice:

1. Peel and core snow pear and press it in the juicer

2. Slice red dates and everything except honey into a pot. Bring to a boil over high heat and simmer over low heat for 40 minutes

3. Use a mesh screen to filter out impurities<4. Place the remaining liquid over low heat and simmer slowly until it becomes viscous, then turn off the heat

5. When the temperature drops to cool, add honey and put it into a bottle that has been washed, boiled, and dried