Peach gum is a light yellow transparent solid natural resin secreted from the bark of peach trees. It is harvested in summer and autumn. Its composition is roughly the same as gum arabic. Peach gum is also known as peach oil, peach fat, peach tree gum, and peach blossom tears. It is not commonly seen in daily life, but it is a food and traditional Chinese medicine with good health care. Peach gum was once a beauty supplement specially ordered by the Empress Dowager Cixi. Peach gum, cooked with saponin rice and white fungus into a soup, has the effect of lowering fat and nourishing and rejuvenating skin when consumed for a long time.
Today I will share with you a super delicious soup made from peach gum from Dimo ??Village in Yunnan. It is a soup that relieves coughs, moisturizes the lungs, and nourishes the skin. The whole family enjoys it. The more women drink it, the more hydrated they become. Better than applying 10 facial masks. This soup is made from peach gum, saponin rice, white fungus and snow swallow stewed in water. Mix these four things together and eat them. It is particularly moisturizing and can make the skin smooth, delicate, white and tender! So it is good for the skin if you ladies eat it. Let’s take a look at how to make this nourishing soup. It’s so simple that it’s so delicious. You should try it too.
Tremella, peach gum, snow swallow and saponin rice soup
Ingredients: 12 grams of saponin rice, 30 grams of peach gum, 6 grams of snow swallow, a small piece of white fungus, 50 grams of rock sugar.
Preparation method:
1. Soak the snow swallow, saponin rice and peach gum in water for 15-20 hours. In summer, it is recommended to keep it in the refrigerator for soaking. Change the water 4 times midway.
2. Soaked snow swallow, saponin rice and peach gum. Just soak the white fungus for 5 hours in advance.
3. Use a colander to rinse the peach gum and snow swallow with water under the tap. Wash it several times. Clean the white fungus, remove the root part, and tear it into small pieces for later use.
4. Clean the brushed snow swallow.
5. Put the white fungus, snow swallow, and peach gum into the Jiuyang stew pot.
6. Add an appropriate amount of water to the Joyoung electric stew pot, place the steaming grid, and then put the stew pot into the Joyoung electric stew pot.
7. Close the lid, plug in the power, and select the peach gum program. There is no need to monitor it at all. Add rock sugar in the last 10 minutes.
8. When the time is up, the Tremella Peach Gum Snow Swallow Soup is ready. It’s sticky, glutinous, and super delicious. The whole family loves to drink it. The most important thing is that it’s so easy to make. Try it too. The more you drink it, the more beautiful it becomes.
Tips:
1. I was lazy and stewed all the ingredients at the same time. The taste is very good. If you want an obvious snow swallow drawing effect, you can first stew it. Stew the white fungus, peach gum and saponin rice for 40 minutes, then put the snow swallow in the stew pot and simmer for another 30 minutes.
2. Soak peach gum and snow swallow for at least 15 hours to completely remove the impurities inside.