How to make summer drinks

In order to achieve the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, people often drink some iced drinks in summer. Therefore, in summer, the milk tea shop business will be even more popular. However, when drinking the drinks sold outside, people will inevitably worry that there are many food additives and other chemical substances added to them. Drinking too much will cause harm to the human body. So what kinds of summer drinks should we make at home?

【Summer Winter Melon Tea】

Materials

1500g winter melon, 100g dried longan, 500g brown sugar

practice

1. Wash the winter melon skin and cut into small pieces

2. Keep all the wax gourd skin and seeds. They're all good stuff.

3. Mix the winter melon with brown sugar and let it sit for 30 minutes. The winter melon will naturally release water.

4. Add dried longan and cook together. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 2 hours on low heat (I use an ordinary natural gas stove and set it to the lowest heat. Cook until the wax gourd turns a transparent brown color.) I use a cast iron pot, which has better sealing and water-locking properties. The amount of water does not decrease much after two hours of cooking. If you use an ordinary pot, you can reduce the time according to the situation and be flexible.

5. What we want is concentrated juice, so there is no need to add water.

6. Don't use too high a fire, just keep it at a 'bubbling' state. Slow cook.

7. After cooling, filter. Use gauze to squeeze out the water from the winter melon residue and bottle it. You must squeeze it out as much as possible, the essence is all in there

8. Take a few spoonfuls of winter melon tea concentrate each time you drink it, and dilute it with boiled water.

9. You can add a lot of ice cubes to dilute it.

Tips

*Basically, there is no need to reduce the amount of sugar. This water is meant to be diluted for drinking, so don't worry about it being too sweet.

*Winter melon itself doesn’t have a very strong flavor. The taste of pure natural brewing and chemically added ones is definitely different.

*After leaving it alone for half an hour, the winter melon will generally produce a lot of water. I don’t know what happened to the winter melon that doesn’t produce water. Is it not fresh enough or something else? If there is still no water after heating, you have to add some yourself.

*No water is added and the juice is basically used in cooking, so there is not much juice. Two kilograms of winter melon can only produce one bottle of concentrated juice of about 500ml.

*If you don’t like the taste of brown sugar, you can use half the rock sugar instead. Different brands of brown sugar will taste different.

*I used a regular gas stove and cast iron pot, cooking slowly on the lowest heat. It took two hours to put out the fire. Cook until the wax gourd pieces turn brown and transparent. Because many people say that they burnt the food. Everyone's operations are different. If you use an induction cooker, a high fire, or a different pot, the results may be different. Watch the cooking process several times and add some water or shorten the time according to your needs.

【Honey lemon tea】

Materials

Lemon, honey, water

practice

1. Rub the lemon with salt, rinse with running water and dry it.

2. Cut into thin slices

3. A layer of lemon and a layer of honey

4. After filling, seal and refrigerate

5. Rinse with warm water, cold water or ice water as you like, and add two mint leaves for a more refreshing feeling

Tips

Lemon and salt rub can wash away the wax on the skin

The bottle should be free of oil and water, so it is not easy to be contaminated and can be stored for a long time.