Chinese white fungus sweet soup for dry weather

It was so hot last week, the temperature drops very fast, it's cool this week, I feel drier too!

There is good Chinese sweet soup which can hydrate your body & skin effectively. The main ingredient of this soup is Chinese white fungus/ snow fungus - it is great to hydrate your skin!

It's mild too, so you can try to make it if you never make any Chinese sweet soup.

There are several versions that you can choose the one you want.

Ingredients
Recipe 1
1 big* Chinese white fungus (or several small)
10 dried red dates
2tsp apricot seeds (mix of bitter apricot seeds and Prunus armeniaca L. seeds)
1 apple, peeled and diced into small pieces
2 pears, peeled and diced into small pieces
6 cups water
1 rock sugar (you can add more if you want sweeter)

*After soaking into the water, it is big as your palm

You can see in the photo, left = dried white fungus, right = soaked white fungus (Thanks tastehongkong.com for the photo!)

Apricot seed/kernel 
Left: bitter apricot seeds
Right: Prunus armeniaca L. seeds (sweet)















Recipe 2
1 big Chinese white fungus (or several small)
10 dried red dates
2tsp dried goji
6 cups water
1 rock sugar (you can add more if you want sweeter)
Optional: 2 dried fig

Recipe 3
1 big Chinese white fungus (or several small)
50g dried longan meat
10 dried lotus seeds
10 dried red dates
6 cups water
1 rock sugar (you can add more if you want sweeter)

Instructions
1. Soak the fungus for 15mins or until it is soft, cut it into small pieces, remove the hard part in the middle by a scissor

2. Put all ingredients EXCEPT sugar in a pot, heat it until it boils, reduce the heat to small and cook for 1.5 - 2 hours

3. Turn off the heat and add sugar

Serve hot :)

Enjoy!