Caloric content and chemical composition of lemon aspen fruits. Useful properties, harm and contraindications to the use of the fruit. How it is eaten. Recipes for food and drinks, interesting facts about sour acronychies.
Lemon Aspen Drink Recipes
They will be especially relevant in summer, when it is simply impossible to do without soft drinks. From additional ingredients, you can use alcohol if you want to make something alcoholic, as well as ginger, raisins, sugar. It is advisable to drink them cool, otherwise the taste impressions will be less vivid.
We list the following recipes below:
- Limoncello … Squeeze out the juice from 6-8 fruits and combine it with alcohol (250 ml). Then dissolve sugar (150 g) in this composition and add 170 ml of water here. Shake the mixture well and let it stand in the refrigerator for exactly 24 hours.
- Ginger drink … Peel the ginger root (1 pc.), Cut into rings and pour boiling water over. After 3 hours, twist it in a meat grinder. Next, squeeze the juice out of the lemon aspen fruit (10 pcs.) And combine the two ingredients together. Then add to them unsweetened honey (1 tablespoon) and warm water (20 ml). After that, beat the mass with a blender, pour into a bottle and chill in the freezer. You need to drink the drink cold.
- Kurd … Remove the zest from the fruits (2 pcs.), Beat the pulp with a blender and add one non-frothy egg white, sugar (50 g) and melted butter (20 g) to the resulting amount of smoothie. Next, heat this mass over low heat and let it stand in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
- Kvass … Wash and peel 4 lemon aspen fruits. Cut them all into 3 parts, remove the seeds, put in a saucepan and pour boiling water (3 L). Pour in white raisins (100 g) and sugar (400 g). Next, dissolve dry yeast (1 tsp) in warm water (1 tbsp) and pour it into the prepared mixture. Cook it over low heat for 5 minutes, then put it in a warm place overnight.
Interesting facts about lemon aspen
For successful fruiting, the tree needs dry loamy soil. It does not tolerate heavy rains and is demanding to care for, primarily requiring regular pruning of branches. It grows very quickly and begins to bear fruit in 2-3 years after planting. But the crop is harvested only once every 4 years, which is why growing lemon aspen for commercial purposes is not very profitable.
The fruits of the tree are practically not exported from Australia to other countries, but if this happens, then the export is carried out mainly privately by the tourists themselves, which is why it is hardly possible to buy them in Europe. In the homeland of the tree, the price for 400 g of fruit in online stores can exceed 20 local dollars. The fruits yield much less juice than regular lemons. In folk medicine, they are used as an anthelmintic; for this, the fruit is washed, together with the zest and seeds, they are ground in a meat grinder and consumed in 1 tbsp. l. everyday.
They also serve as a source of the extract, widely used in cosmetics, especially in scrubs. It is prepared by processing the fruit pulp with alcohol and diluting the resulting substance with water. After that, the preparation is purified by dividing it into fractions and using it to prepare scrubs.
Since lemon aspen is eaten mainly in Australia, there are not very many recipes with it. But everything that is proposed here must certainly please you with the originality of taste and usefulness.
