Yangtze Evening News, January 8 (Reporter Liu Liyuan) How hot is Harbin these days?Just look at netizens affectionately calling it "Erbin". For many office workers who can't get there and yearn for it, how to taste the taste of "Erbin" for the first time at home?The reporter in the "free shipping area" bought the frozen pears with the most winter Northeast characteristics to taste.
The appearance is black, hard to pick up, all of them are bigger than a child's fist, this is the extra-large jelly pear that the reporter bought. The frozen pears ordered by the reporter were special express mail, and ice cubes were added to the insulated bag, so they were still not thawed when they arrived. However, it doesn't matter if the pears are thawed when they receive the goods, the merchant specially wrote on the packaging bag that the frozen pears are made in the cold conditions of the Northeast outdoors, repeated freezing-thawing-freezing steps, in this process, its skin oxidizes and turns black, the flesh becomes soft, but it is still fresh, wash it with water and put it in the freezer layer.
There are two ways to eat frozen pears. The first is to cut it or bite it directly after slightly thawing under natural conditions, "Erbin" in order to entertain southern tourists, carefully put the frozen pears on the plate and make shapes, and choose this way of eating. The naturally thawed frozen pear pulp still has a little smoothie, which has the refreshing feeling of eating ice in winter, but remember to turn on the air conditioning or heating at home before eating. The second way to eat belongs to the authentic way of eating recommended by friends in the Northeast - sucking pear water. Put the frozen pears into cold water and soak them for two or three hours, in the process of "heat exchange" between frozen pears and cold water, the internal flesh gradually thaws and softens, but the cold skin has a layer of ice shell, and it is also a very decompressing process to crush the ice shell to get soft frozen pears. After thawing completely, pluck off the "tail" of the pear, and you can suck the juice directly with your mouth. It should be reminded that hot water must not be used for thawing, although it is faster to thaw in hot water, but the pear flesh soaked in hot water will become "wood residue" and difficult to swallow.
The reporter tried both ways to eat, and encountered a bottleneck in the way of sucking pear water - there is a lot of pear juice after thawing, and the sweet taste is also good, but there is no way to "suck dry" the whole pear like netizens posted, and in the end, they still have to obediently gnaw on the soft flesh inside. After consulting friends in the Northeast, I learned that first, the frozen pear variety bought by the reporter may not be right, and second, the pear is too big, and it may not be frozen enough. This Northeast friend explained that the authentic Northeast frozen pear is a flower cover pear, and after it is frozen, the flesh is almost "melted", ** mostly water, with a small number of stone cells, the taste is sweet and sour, and there is almost no need to chew.
If you have a particularly strong hands-on ability and want to try making frozen pears by yourself, you can also buy fresh flower cover pears online and repeat the freezing-thawing-freezing process with your own refrigerator until the pear skin oxidizes and turns black.
In addition, the frozen persimmon is also as famous as the frozen pear in the north, which is made by freezing persimmons from the northern grinding plate, and is said to taste more like ice cream. Nowadays, Nanjing's Hema Fresh has been sold, and those who are curious can buy it and try it at home!
Proofread by Faye Wong.