Quantity

Ume - 2kg
White distilled liquor - 200cc
Salt - 360g

Preparations

It is indoors kept until a Ume ripens.
***Don't use a refrigerator for preservation.
It can use, if it changes yellow.

It washes in cold water lightly.
In order to remove bitter taste, it soaks in water for 5 hours.Then, it drains.

Start to make

Little salt is put into a container.
Salt will be put in if a Ume is put in two steps.
And this work is repeated.

There are many container tops about salt.
There is little bottom of a container about salt.
Finally white distilled liquor is put in.

About 2 days after
If juice comes out, it is in a half about a weight.

And it is made to ripe for one month.

Summer airing

One month after, in order to dry, it arranges on a basket.
Please dry for three days.

This is the work traditional "summer airing (Doyo-Boshi)" of Japan.