Main Ingredients:
Yellow Ginger: 5 pounds; Brown Sugar: half a pound.
Additional Ingredients:
Red Dates: as needed (pitted).
Flavor: Other; Technique: Boil; Time: Several hours; Difficulty: Moderate.
Detailed Steps for Cooking Handmade Ginger Syrup
For foods related to healing properties, be sure to use medicinal yellow ginger. Avoid the large, plump ones (those are for factories, treated with sulfur, growth hormones, lacking ginger flavor, need I say more…)
Ginger planted in the Grain Rain season and harvested in the Frost Descent season, with a growth period of over 180 days, no fertilizers, no pesticides, when cut open, you can see the fibers, rich in ginger flavor
Freshly cut earth ginger is best processed into juice immediately, otherwise some of the gingerol will be lost
Ginger juice and minced ginger
Start simmering, the ginger aroma begins to spread…
After simmering for 2 hours, add red date paste
Finally, add brown sugar and simmer for another 2 hours
At this point, it’s basically done
I just want to find a chair, sit comfortably, and truly understand what it means to not have back pain while standing and talking. Four hours, just standing like this, stirring, stirring…
