Honey has a very good health effect. The price of different types of honey also varies greatly, with the best first-class honey sources coming from lychee, citrus, linden, locust flower, milk vetch, vitex flower, etc., and rape and other second-class honey.

In the production of royal jelly, rape nectar-based accounts for half; Because royal jelly is a necessary food to maintain the survival of the queen bee, the yield is relatively small, many beekeepers do not sell royal jelly, pure royal jelly "strength" is very large and the taste is special, it is difficult to eat, it is difficult for people's stomach to adapt (will have diarrhea), and it is rarely eaten directly; At present, most of the royal jelly on the market has been the result of mixing honey many times, and the so-called "royal jelly" (a product on the market) mixed in a ratio of 3:7 between royal jelly and honey is already very good, and the ratio is generally lower. Generally speaking, honey, especially honey purchased directly from beekeepers, is likely to be inconsistent in color and precipitation, if the packaging is particularly exquisite, the color and appearance of honey are particularly uniform, and the price is very low (less than 10 yuan / catty), it is basically fake.

The laurel tree in Zhang Taiping's house has not bloomed for many years, but it suddenly blooms again, which is also a miracle in a small village. Moreover, the fragrance of flowers is particularly strong, people can smell it from a distance, and bees are even more sensitive to the fragrance of flowers and flock to it.

Autumn is not the peak season for bees to collect flowers and make honey, and bees are generally more idle, and will scatter in all directions with a distance of three or four miles as the center of the beehive.

But starting at noon today, Wang Laohan found that the route of Fengzi honey collection was not scattered into a circle, but into a straight line, and the frequency of busyness was much faster than usual. Curious, he followed the route of the little bee's flight and found the middle courtyard of Zhang Taiping's house.

I was amazed at the fragrance of Zhang Taiping's osmanthus flowers. Osmanthus nectar is originally a high-quality honey, and the flowers of this laurel tree are exceptionally sweet and rich, and the honey made by picking flowers from Fengzi is absolutely superb.

As for the village chief and others, they were passing by or going to work in the mountains and were attracted by the grand occasion of Fengzi honey collection.

Zhang Taiping responded to the compliments of the villagers for a while, and looked up at the laurel trees that were already in full bloom.

Since the osmanthus tree was watered with space spring water, the flowering of the osmanthus tree was expected, and the shortening of the flowering period was also expected, but I did not expect that the fragrance of the flowers would be so strong and diffuse, attracting a large group of "flower thieves".

Wang Laohan, who was wandering around under the tree, saw Zhang Taiping coming back, and walked over with dry smoke and said.

"Handsome, this laurel tree was planted by your grandfather, right? It's been sixty or seventy years, and it can be regarded as an ancient laurel. I haven't seen it bloom in the past few years, but now it's blooming, and the aroma is very strong, which is saved for more than ten years before it is released, which is to be lucky. ”

He knocked his nose and said: "The bees have picked honey, and the quality of the honey will not be low, and it is also borrowed from you, and when the honey is released, I will give you a jar." ”

Before Zhang Taiping could speak, the people next to him let out a sound of envy. Honey produced in the mountains like this is not cheap, and it can be sold for more than 25 yuan for a kilogram of thinning, and 50 yuan for a kilogram of this kind of unredeemed honey. A can is about a catty, and a gift worth about twenty-five yuan in a mountain village is a lot.

It wasn't until it got dark that the industrious bees left.

After the bees were completely gone, Zhang Taiping asked his wife to pick this lamp to grow under the tree, and then climbed the tree to pick many osmanthus flowers. He was going to pick some osmanthus flowers to make osmanthus cakes.

Osmanthus cake has a history of more than 300 years. According to legend, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a hawker named Liu Jixiang in Xindu County, who got inspiration from the study of the fragrant cinnamon of Yang Sheng'an, collected the fresh osmanthus flowers, squeezed out the bitter water, impregnated them with honey, and mixed them with steamed rice flour, glutinous rice flour, cooked oil, and sugar, and sold them in a box, named osmanthus cake.

For more than 300 years, the candy shop that inherited the osmanthus cake to make osmanthus cake has continuously improved the process, and now uses refined sugar, starch sugar, flour, glutinous rice flour, vegetable oil, honey osmanthus and other raw materials for production. It is prepared according to the appropriate proportion, and refined by steaming, frying, grinding, mixing, rolling, boxing, knife cutting and other processes. The product has the characteristics of white as jade, sweet and refreshing, delicate slag and rich cinnamon.

From the origin of osmanthus cake, it can be roughly divided into three types: Xianning osmanthus cake, Nanjing osmanthus cake and Xiayang osmanthus cake.

Xianning osmanthus cake is produced in the hometown of osmanthus famous all over the country - Xianning, Hubei, osmanthus cake was created at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the cake is soft and moisturizing, the color is white, it has a strong osmanthus fragrance, the entrance is slag, the taste is fragrant, it contains rich nutritional value, the old and young women are suitable to eat, it is a gift to relatives and friends, a good product for self-offering. Hubei Xianning osmanthus cake is characterized by unique ingredients, oily and not greasy, the entrance is not astringent, swallowing is smooth, sweet and salty, fragrant and cool, and it is very popular with people.

There are many osmanthus flowers in Nanjing, not only there are osmanthus flowers in the Zhongshan Mausoleum, but also the osmanthus trees hidden in the streets and alleys are countless. October osmanthus cake osmanthus fragrant. Nanjing's osmanthus cake is not only beautiful in style, soft in taste, but also has a special fragrance, even after eating, the aroma still lasts for a long time.

The production of Xiayang osmanthus cake has a history of more than 100 years and is well-known at home and abroad. It is made of natural osmanthus juice to remove the slag, after 3 years of cellar storage, take out, prepare cinnamon, wood fragrance, musk, mother cloves, agarwood, incense, peilan and other traditional Chinese medicine spices that strengthen the spleen and dissolve gas, refine it into "osmanthus sauce", and then mix it into the glutinous rice flour that is fried, grinded, steamed, and sifted, add high-quality white sugar, five-spice powder, sesame, and salt water, and mix it into a cake, and then moisten it with water vapor, so that it will not be loose for a long time, and it will become a sweet and delicious, refreshing and spleen-strengthening delicious pastry. Xiayang osmanthus cake is characterized by unique ingredients, oily and not greasy, not astringent in the mouth, crispy and smooth to swallow, sweet and salty, fragrant and cool, much loved by people, become a good product for home travel, gifts to friends, and have a good reputation for a hundred years.

From the variety of eating methods, it can be divided into sesame osmanthus cold cake, soft fried osmanthus cake, osmanthus fried rice cake and so on.

There are not a few kinds of osmanthus cakes that Zhang Taiping has eaten in his previous life, but he does not know how to make them. In Zhang Dashuai's memory, he has his grandmother's method of making osmanthus cakes.

The method of making osmanthus cake in memory is the most common crystal osmanthus cake.

Without the osmanthus sauce prepared in advance, the flower petals can only be mashed into a puree, and then mixed with glutinous rice flour.

Steam the thoroughly kneaded cake flour for about a quarter of an hour. Then wrap the cake flour in wet gauze, and keep turning and kneading until the surface is smooth and the cake flour is delicate. Then flatten the cake flour, stretch it into long strips, smear it with vegetable oil, sprinkle it with dried osmanthus, cut it into long cubes, or cut it into about 8cm long round strips and put it in the cage drawer, boil the water in the steamer and open the basket drawer and steam it over high heat for about 5 minutes.

After coming out of the cage, first cut a piece of the girl who squatted next to her like a greedy cat.

Although it was the first time to make it, it was a success. Although there is still a distance from the special sale, it is delicious and refreshing, crystal clear, and filled with the fragrance of osmanthus flowers.

It is the right time to eat osmanthus cake in October, chewing the soft osmanthus cake, with the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, how enjoyable.

Looking at his wife and daughter smiling, he couldn't hide the smile on his face. Zhang Taiping suddenly realized that maybe they were not happy because they had osmanthus cakes, but they were more satisfied with the process of things themselves, because they made them themselves.

In fact, they don't ask for much, and Zhang Dashuai still can't give it in the past, but now they only need Zhang Taiping to pay a little more care and they are so easy to satisfy.

Before resting, Zhang Taiping took out the saffron in the box and handed it to his wife.

"Today, I went into the mountains to pick such medicines, called saffron, which should grow in large quantities in Tibetan areas, and only a small part of them are hidden in the Qinling Mountains. Very rare, only occasionally lucky can you come across, so I picked such a big box. ”

Cai Yazhi gestured suspiciously after seeing it, this is the same as the herbs sent by her grandfather some time ago?

"That's right, grandpa also gave you saffron, making tea and drinking it is good for your body, and it can gradually get rid of the root of the disease that fell during confinement in your body."

"I'll go into town tomorrow and sell these saffrons."

Doesn't the town accept it?

"It's also collected in the town, but the price in the town is much lower than in the city. These safflowers are a lot, and the difference is hundreds or even thousands of dollars. ”

Cai Yazhi still understood, and looked at Zhang Taiping suspiciously. In her mind, the most expensive medicinal materials are only a few hundred yuan a catty, and the total number of catties of these safflowers in the box is only a few catties? If there is a difference of dozens of dollars a pound between the city and the town, it is not so much.

Zhang Taiping then said: "I'm not talking about blowing, don't underestimate this safflower, it's not sold by catties, but by grams, more than 20 yuan per gram." ”

Seeing his wife Ren Ran's puzzled expression, he reacted that in the mountain village, he has always talked about things by catty, and the people in the village have no concept of gram at all.

"Let's put it this way, a catty is 500 grams, and these are about two catties, and they can be sold for more than 25,000 yuan."

This time, Cai Yazhi understood, her eyes were wide and round, and her mouth couldn't be closed for a long time because of surprise. One moment pointing at Zhang Taiping, the next pointing at himself, his arms were waving subconsciously, but he couldn't express any information.

Zhang Taiping understands his wife's current mood, just like a person in the city who has won the lottery, and he can't help himself for a while.

It's no wonder that she behaved like this, for a person in a rural and mountainous area, 20,000 yuan is already a huge amount, and if it is calculated purely by planting crops, it is equivalent to a total income of more than three years. What's more, Cai Yazhi has never had more than 1,000 money in hand, and 20,000 is definitely a number that can definitely surprise her. Although it was only a herb and had not been exchanged for safflower bills, it had already made his mood agitated, and he was nervous and careful to hold the box. Guy was really poor and scared before.