What is the recipe and how to make honey offering?

Mì gòng (蜜供) is the leading offering of the Chinese New Year, and is also a traditional festive pastry in Beijing. It is light yellow in color, brightly glazed, sweet and crispy in the mouth, and does not stick to the teeth.

Palindromic description:

"Qing Barnyard Banknotes" wrote: "the so-called honey for those, dedicated to the gods, to the oil, the surface to do the folder, built as a floating figure type, hollow lingerie, two or three feet high, five for a hall, the first day of the gods before it must be used." Built by three centimeters long and one centimeter wide small snack barcode, can be made into a tower. Qing dynasty Beijing Chongwenmen outside the temple set "honey for the bureau", exclusively for the royal family. Mr. Lao She in the novel "under the red flag" mentioned "tower like honey for".

Legend:

There is also a legend about the honey supply in the Temple of Medicine King, which is quite interesting. It is said that the old Beijing's Hade Gate (Chongwenmen) outside there was a temple, the temple has a group of Taoist priests, not only the Taoist law, and for the livelihood of the operation of a small production of confectionery workshop, can do a handful of good confectionery. And the temple's homemade honey for the tip, because of good honey, good malt sugar, made of honey for the tower shape and flavor are very famous.

The honey offering tower big like a pontoon, small like a treasure box, eat sweet and fragrant and crispy, break open also pull sticky.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Honey Offering