How to make traditional rice candy in rural areas?

Rice selection: select high-quality glutinous rice and remove broken rice and fine sand with a bamboo screen.

Soak rice: wash rice with clear water, soak for about 8 hours, take it out and drain it.

Steamed rice: steam with retort pouch, and steam thoroughly.

Drying rice: pour the steamed glutinous rice on the table, spread it out and dry it in the shade. Do not expose to the sun or bake at high temperature. It is better to let it dry naturally in the shade and penetrate into the heart.

Stir-fried rice: Wash the river sand, remove the coarse and fine grains, select uniform sand grains smaller than rice grains, stir-fry with vegetable oil until the surface is smooth, put the dried rice in the shade into the pot, heat it, pour it into the sand, stir-fry it with strong fire, and immediately take it out of the pot after bursting, and sieve off the river sand for later use.

Boiling sugar and mixing: pour white sugar, maltose and lard into a pot, heat and melt, and stir evenly to form syrup. Besides, peanuts are brittle. Remove the cooked syrup from the fire, add popcorn and peanuts and stir well.

Molding: firstly, the fried white sesame seeds are spread in the mold frame, then the mixed rice flower material is poured into it, and the product is thinned and flattened by a hot roller, and then cut into strips, molded and packaged to obtain the finished product.