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Hometown snack stone bean jelly composition

One side of the soil and water raises one side of the people, and different regions have different foods. Stone jelly, a special snack in Xinyang, is a special food in Xinyang and is deeply loved by Xinyang people. On a hot summer day, what a pleasure it is to sit on a bench by the river, blowing the breeze from the willow trees and drinking a bowl of refreshing iced stone jelly.

By the Mianhe River and under the Rainbow Bridge, there is a stone jelly noodle stand that has been sold for nearly 50 years. The stall owner, Tak-Chi Lee, is over 70 years old and hale and hearty, filling powder and sugar, collecting money and changing money. The old lady acted quickly and skillfully in a series of operations. This is decades of accumulated experience, which proves that practice makes perfect.

The taste of persistence for decades has never changed.

"I have been selling stone jelly here since I embarked on this road." Li Nainai, who is over 70 years old, has been selling bean jelly by Shihe River since he was young. A tricycle filled with several barrels of gypsum powder and all tools formed a simple booth with several small tables and Mazar beside it, and the gypsum powder business began.

Now that decades have passed, this booth is still there, the road is wider and the bridge is more beautiful. What remains unchanged is Li Nainai's busy figure.

"For decades, this taste has never changed. I have bought stone jelly in this house since I was a child, and I still remember that taste. " Ms. Wang is an old customer of this bean jelly stand. Now, every summer, she takes her children and her husband to the river to buy a bowl of stone mill jelly and taste the taste of childhood.

The weather was cool on the day of the reporter's interview, and people who bought stone jelly were still in an endless stream. Li Nainai said that when the weather is hot, there are many people waiting in line to buy, which can stand for tens of meters. Many customers who come to buy it are regular customers, and some customers who live in Nanwan and Pingqiao even drive to buy it. Old customers have brought many new customers. Many people heard that the stone jelly here tastes pure, so they brought a few friends to try it, and many people naturally became repeat customers. Therefore, business in Li Nainai is getting better and better.

Adhere to the secret recipe of our ancestors and never change.

The raw material of stone jelly is stone flower seeds, and the method is simple. A basin of clear water, wrapped in gauze and covered with a bag of stone flowers, is gently rubbed in the clear water until the clear water in the basin gradually has a white precipitate, and then left for a period of time. When the mixture of water and powder in the basin is almost melted, use a few drops of tomato juice and let it stand for a while to solidify into crystal clear stone jelly. But it looks simple, but it is not easy to make delicious taste.

Not far from the stalls in Li Nainai, there are several stalls selling jelly, but the business is very deserted. In the same way, why is Li Nainai's jelly so delicious and pure? When the reporter asked her what the secret was, Li Nainai said with a smile: "Our family is an ancestral secret recipe, and the taste is of course different."

Li Nainai's jelly-like jelly tastes delicate, melts in the mouth, and is cool and refreshing, unlike the jelly ordered by some merchants with toothpaste, which is bitter. "This stone jelly is the best I have ever eaten. It was introduced by people before, and later I often brought friends. " Xiao Li, who just bought stone jelly, told reporters while drinking.