The origin of fried chestnuts?

Sugar fried chestnuts is a famous food with local flavor in Beijing and Tianjin, which is also a delicacy with a long tradition. The origin of fried chestnuts: During the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu You recounted such a moving story in his "Laughing Memoirs of the Old Learning Temple". He said, "The old capital (refers to the Northern Song Dynasty's Bianjing, that is, modern Kaifeng) Li and fried dishes, famous in all directions, others try to emulate, but ultimately not and." Then wrote: "Shaoxing, Chen Fugong and money on the court, out of the captive court, to Yanshan, suddenly there are two people holding fried chestnuts each ten packages to change ...... self praise said: 'Li and children also.' Wave snot and go." According to this can be inferred, Bianjing frying expert Li and in the foreign invasion when the family broke the industry, his son with the frying chestnut skills exile Yanshan. He used the chestnuts offered to the emissaries of his homeland to express his fervent hope for the unification of the motherland.

Sugar fried chestnuts practice: round sand in the pot, the regular sugar fried chestnuts should be "special particles of round fried sand", maltose and refined vegetable oil to fry hot, but some vendors fried chestnuts added industrial paraffin and sodium saccharin sweeteners to fry hot.

The black stuff is round sand poured maltose and refined vegetable oil and chestnuts on the adherents of the caramelized sticking produced.

The reason for frying the chestnuts that way is to heat them evenly.

It is not easy to grasp the fire alone, the chestnuts are very easy to burn. And easy to explode. Even if it is fried, there is no sweetness with sugar.