Snacks from the old days (at least 100 years ago)

This should be very famous and through the dynasties of street snacks. In the ancient hutongs, there are some vendors selling ice candy gourds, more famous in the cold north of China, each branch of ice candy gourds are made of several fruits, such as hawthorn, apples, pears inserted in the bamboo branches, and then coated with thick sugar syrup, wrapped in fruit. The taste is sweet, and then depending on the variety of fruit to eat out of its flavor.

(2) figs

By the ancient south of China, and the European Mediterranean natural product of figs, after drying. And more than a hundred years ago snack figs, with a white bag or daylily paper, wrapped in these sweet and sour, fruit capsule with thin dried fruit threads, interesting taste.

(3) Eight Immortals Fruit Pellets

Ancient legend has it that the Eight Immortals Fruit is made from "Citron Melon" (a melon similar to an orange), and recently more grapefruit is taken to make it. The method of production is to cut open the grapefruit and stuff Chen Pi, Pinellia, Poria, Licorice, Er Chen Tang, Ice Tablet and other herbs into the pulp at the fruit. These treated grapefruits are dried in the shade and then diced to make Baxian Guo. This snack, which belongs to the cool fruit category, feels like a herbal flavor at first, but after getting used to it, you usually love it for promoting health.

(4) Maltose

is an ancient Chinese snack known as "syrup" in ancient times. It is made by heating sugar cane juice to a gelatinous consistency, then adding malt and rice flour and cooking for an hour, but the process should be stirred from time to time so that it does not stick to the bottom more easily. The simplest way to eat them is to dip wooden sticks into the maltose gum. In the mid-nineteenth century, when Western cookies were introduced to China, maltose was eaten in cracker sandwiches, which was a specialty!

(5) Gingerbread

Gingerbread in Western society is a famous holiday snack along with Western Christianity, and it is rumored that at the time of the Crusades, ginger was an expensive imported spice, and so it was only used for important festivals like Christmas and Easter. Ginger was added to cakes and cookies to add flavor and to keep the cold away. Over time, gingerbread has become a treat associated with Christmas.

(6) Jiayingzi (嘉应子)

Jiayingzi is a candied fruit made from dried plums, usually with the kernel of the plum attached, but most modern Jiayingzi have the kernel removed and are called "kernelized Jiayingzi". The appearance of "Kayaingzi" is brownish-black, and the taste is sweet and sweet, because the ingredients are not only plums, but also sugar and a few medicinal herbs, which have the effect of appetizing and relieving coughs.

(7) Simmered sweet potatoes

In ancient times, there were a lot of stalls selling simmered sweet potatoes. In the olden days, sweet potatoes were a low-priced food, as they were produced in the countryside, the most famous being the red-core and purple-core sweet potatoes, which were sweet and filling.

(8) Silver Candy / Dragon Beard Candy

Dragon Beard Candy is originally known as Silver Candy, filled with sugar gelatin, peanuts, sesame seeds and coconut, which was originally a traditional Chinese folk snack. The specialty of Dragon Beard Candy is the sugar strands that are pulled out by the sugar gelatin like spaghetti. The filling is not added until the sugar strands turn white. Legend has it that an emperor in the Song Dynasty found the silver silk candy so delicious after eating it that it became one of the favorite desserts. Later, the people knew that the emperor also ate the silver silk candy, so it was renamed as Dragon's Beard Candy. Because the dragon represents the emperor, and the beard is pulled out of the silk, the name has been used to this day.

(9) sugar New Year's snacks

Do not think that "sugar lotus root", "sugar coconut", "sugar melon", "sugar lotus seed" and so on are only the New Year's period of the New Year's greetings, in fact, this can be a year-round snacks, for example, sugar winter melon, the method of production is to remove the skin of the winter melon to remove the pith, cut into long strips. Placed in clamshell ash solution soaked for eight to ten hours, washed, soaked in water, every two hours to change the water, *** five times, until the winter melon white transparent can be fished out, boiled in water, drained and then candied with white sugar and become.

(10) cloud cake

The name is given by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty during his southern tour. The name suggests that the cake is characterized by "thin slices and white color". Entry texture moist and soft, like congealed fat, can be stored for a long time is not hard, in the production is also very careful, such as frying glutinous rice flour, generally to use on the storage of glutinous rice flour for half a year, in order to go to its dryness, and on the selection of sugar is also very strict, the cake slicing requirements are also very high, each about 22 cm cake block to be cut into 140 pieces or so.

Cinnamon cake, Jiayingzi

Jiayingzi is native to Jiaying, Fujian, and has a history of several hundred years, and was already very famous in the Qing Dynasty,

Zhong was once a tribute. The so-called Jiayingzi is made by removing the kernel of the plum embryo of the special grade or the first grade

. They are larger and thicker, and the seeds are removed manually to facilitate processing,

and for consumer consumption, and are therefore sold at a higher price.

Kayinzi

Description:

The plums are pickled in the best quality, cleaned, cored and pickled in the best possible way, to ensure the highest quality. The sweetness and juiciness of the plums make them a healthy snack for the spleen and the stomach.

They are packaged in small pieces to ensure hygiene and cleanliness.

Ingredients:

Pericarpium Citriodora, Plum, Ordinary Sugar, Licorice Spice, Saccharin

Persimmon Cake

Persimmons are native to China, and in the Book of Rites, persimmons have been used as a tribute in major ceremonies, and according to the "Fugu of the Upper Woods," there was already a cultivation of persimmon in Han Dynasty during the time of Emperor Guangwu, so it is assumed that the history of cultivation has been at least 2,000 years. "Xiyang miscellaneous chopping block" in the persimmon has seven best: one more life, two more shade, three no bird's nest, four no insect compulsion, five frost leaves can be played, six good fruit can be eaten, seven leaves can be fat Lin Shu. The characteristics of the persimmon described to the fullest, but also visible to the ancients for the importance of the persimmon tree and love.

In addition to fresh persimmon fruit can be eaten, but also can be dried into persimmon cake, or used to brew wine and vinegar, persimmon paint and persimmon cream can be used as medicine, green persimmon can be used as a substitute for paint. Persimmon tree is strong, adaptable, easy to cultivate, few pests and diseases, the fruit can be harvested in the fall, to the winter there are red leaves to enjoy, as one of the beautiful garden species.

Chocolate

More than 3,000 years ago, the Latin American Indians began to use cocoa beans to make drinks. Columbus after the discovery of the American continent, in 1502 for the first time to bring the cocoa beans back to Spain. 1765, in North America, Massachusetts, Dr. Dorchester Baker set up the first cocoa beans with the production of chocolate powder factories. 1819, Switzerland's 23-year-old Cayenne made the first chocolate candy. From then on, chocolate ceased to be used simply as a drink and became a candy and a snack. , Reference: Web,