What are the ancient snacks

Poria cake, which is produced in Beijing, a kind of nourishing traditional Han cakes. Because the skin is as thin as paper, a thin piece of the color is also snow white, very similar to the traditional Chinese medicine of the cloud Poria slice, so it is called "Poria cake". This traditional pastry, as early as the Southern Song Dynasty books have recorded practice, that is to say, the Southern Song Dynasty people have long been eating Poria cake, to the late Qing Dynasty, this pastry is also loved and praised by Empress Dowager Cixi, as the palace snacks have been passed down.

Sugar painting, a traditional folk handicraft, sugar painting, as the name suggests, is a painting made of sugar, is a combination of food and painting a unique way of eating. It originated in the Ming Dynasty, yes, the ancients at that time, there has been sugar painting to eat. In modern times, sugar painting is still a food that many of us remember. Only nowadays, we are surrounded by too much food, the taste is greatly satisfied, this traditional snack, but in our life is difficult to find a trace.

Sour plum soup, now is considered a feature of the old Beijing, in fact, the ancients also have and sour plum soup habit, the Southern Song Dynasty, the ancient books, recorded similar to the practice of sour plum soup, the Qing Dynasty, but also after the Imperial Household Improvement, became the imperial court of the imperial beverage. For modern people, sweet and sour plum soup, chilled in the refrigerator, no longer suitable for summer but. So this thing, in terms of food and drink, is really the same in ancient and modern times.

Long-bearded pastry, this snack, in ancient times, was originally popular in the folk, and later was discovered by an emperor of the Ming Dynasty, brought back to the court, became the imperial snacks. And until today, the dragon beard pastry is still a lot of people's childhood memories, this little prick taste fluffy and sweet, crispy, delicious, melt in the mouth, live the main ingredients for maltose, no wonder even the ancient emperors love it, as modern people we can eat this kind of handed down snacks, really happy.

Ice candy gourd now.

The ice candy gourd is a snack that has been handed down from ancient times to the present day, as can be seen from the episodes of buying ice candy gourds that often appear in costume dramas. Crunchy and sweet hawthorn, wrapped in glistening sugar, bite a sweet and sour crisp, let people eat still want to eat. Legend has it that this kind of food, or an emperor's consort in the Song Dynasty was sick, the emperor ordered the imperial physician to develop, and later spread to the people, it became the ice candy gourd. But this kind of food that people can't get enough of, it's only right that it's been passed down for so long.