Deep red sour plum drink in a clay pot is scattered with hawthorn slices and osmanthus, a plate holds smoked plums, hawthorn, licorice slices and osmanthus, and a bowl of grey-green fermented bean drink and two cups stand beside it.
Chilled sour plum
Introduction
Sour plum drink and the other non-alcoholic drinks made from plants and grain.
Sour plum and other soft drinks cover the sour plum drink and other non-alcoholic soft drinks, including drinks made from plants and grain. The usual recipe for the sour plum drink is smoked plum, hawthorn, liquorice and osmanthus with sugar, the smoked plum being the main ingredient; in the hottest weeks of summer many Beijing people drink it chilled, and it became popular in the Qing, with Beijing's the best known. The class also holds douzhir, a Beijing speciality and an everyday breakfast that reached the court in the Qianlong reign and was placed on the Beijing intangible heritage list in 2007. Soy milk belongs to Soy Milk and Yuba, tea-based drinks to the tea classes, and herbal drinks sold as liang cha to Herbal Teas.