Osmanthus Sweet Sauce Lotus 桂花蜜汁蓮藕

Ingredients

• lotus
• sweet rice

Sauce

• water
• osmanthus 
• honey
• sugar
• dried plums

Directions

1. pell the skin off of lotus
2. soak sweet rice in water for 3 hours
3. cut one end of lotus and stuffed it with sweet rice (put the end back and hold it with toothpicks)
4. boil lotus for 2 hours
5. slice lotus and soak it in the sauce and put in the refrigerator