The practice of sugar melon

First of all, I want to say that making candied melons is hard work, and the process of pulling sugar is simply a fight with sugar balls. If you have no strength, you will be beaten …

"Children, children, don't be greedy, after Laba is years. Twenty-three, honeydew melons are sticky ... "Honeydew melons are essential for the New Year in the south. This sticky maltose was recorded in the Jin Dynasty's Jing Chu Sui Ji, which was called "gum" at that time. Bai Juyi also wrote in a poem: "After New Year's Eve, push green tail wine, and in spring dishes, advise rubber teeth first."

Simple and easy to get, but it is a memory for many years.

Tips:

1, don't make a big fire when cooking sugar;

2, sugar boiled into a ball means thick, that is, the maltose bought is in a relatively thin state and easy to flow, and it is not so thin. The boiling process is constantly stirred, so that the water inside is completely evaporated; When the color of maltose becomes slightly Huang Shi, it is a "lump". Pour it out and put it into a thick container (thick porcelain basin, etc.). ). If not, it is also possible to order a small blanket without bread outside the ordinary stainless steel basin, that is, peel the blanket layer by layer while cooling.

3. When it cools to a little higher than the hand temperature, it starts to pull repeatedly; Generally, the sugar balls are still a little hot at this time. You can cover them with a rolling pin, or prepare ice cubes and pull them a few times to prevent burns.

4, cut sugar, if you think the knife is not good-looking, use a clean cotton rope (the rope for wrapping zongzi) and wrap it around the candy bar (just like a bracelet, wrapped around it). When the rope is wound around the joint, the rope of the left hand is switched to the right hand, and the rope of the right hand is switched to the left hand. Just pull it and it will break.

Materials?

Maltose 500g sweet milk powder Yibu 1

Heat in a thick-bottomed pot, pour in maltose, and boil over medium heat to form sticky sugar balls.

Second step

Sprinkle a layer of sweet milk powder on the chopping board, take out the sugar balls, cool them slightly, rub them repeatedly on the chopping board and stretch them to white.

Third step

Pull the kneaded sugar balls into long strips, bake them on the fire with a knife, cut them into sections quickly, and sprinkle a layer of sweet milk powder to prevent adhesion.

Fourth step

Seal the sliced honeydew melon and put it in the refrigerator.

skill

1, the process of sugar pulling is really hard. If you do it every day, you don't have to go to the gym to ask for a private teacher.

2, sprinkle sweet milk powder is purely for non-stick hands, do not like it.

Be careful not to paste the bottom when boiling syrup.