How to make sweet potato candy

When it comes to sweet potato candy, it reminds the rowan of the scene of boiling sweet potato candy at home when I was a child, which is still vivid in my mind. Sweet potatoes are a commonly grown crop, and in addition to feeding them to pigs, farmers also boil them for their own consumption.

People who have boiled sweet potatoes will find some brown sweet potato sugar at the bottom of the cauldron, and how many rural families have specialized in boiling sweet potato sugar?

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The main characteristics of sweet potato sugar

The Rowan has learned that the main sugar substance contained in sweet potato sugar is maltose, which exists in the form of starch. Under the enzymatic action of saccharification agent, the starch in sweet potato can be hydrolyzed to maltose in large quantities.

Since this is the case, how to boil sweet potato sugar with sweet potato? The following is the process of boiling sweet potato sugar in the hometown of Rowan, which may vary from place to place.

One of the wheat malt

Making malt needs to be four or five days in advance, first of all, the full grain of wheat soaked in warm water for half a day, and then sprinkled with gauze padded wicker basket, slightly covered. Remember to sprinkle water regularly, and the whole process is the same as making bean sprouts. Rowan found that some farmers also use rice instead of wheat to make rice sprouts.

After the wheat sprouts have grown to four or five centimeters, they can be taken out and used.

Two, ready to fresh sweet potatoes

Sweet potato sugar boiled or not, raw materials are very key, if you choose the kind of rot and storage of sweet potatoes too long, the quality of sweet potato sugar boiled will inevitably be affected, mainly in the deepening of the color of the sweet potato sugar, poor taste and other aspects.

Sweet potatoes should be selected and washed with water to remove the mud on the surface of the sweet potatoes. After washing and draining, then use a kitchen knife or vegetable scraper to remove the skin of the sweet potato, remove the skin of the sweet potato rowan used to specialize in feeding pigs.

So far, the pre-preparation has been completed, and there are actually two kinds of steps, one is the direct production of sweet potato starch, and the other is the most traditional method of production in the countryside. The rowan will take the traditional rural practice to say a few words.

Three, making wort

After preparing the sweet potatoes, we have to make wort. Cultivated malt into the pestle and mortar pounded or crushed with a pulverizer, and finally filtered through gauze to get the wort.

Fourth, the sweet potato paste to make paste mash

This step directly eliminates the need to first make starch, and thus, the rowan found that farmers generally use this method.

Put the previously peeled sweet potatoes into a large pot, the water should not be mixed too much, add firewood to a large fire steaming. When the sweet potatoes are cooked and melted, use a ladle to scoop out the sweet potatoes and water together into a wooden pot or other containers, and then pour in the right amount of wort, and then mashed with a wooden stick into sweet potato puree. This system is to paste the starch in the sweet potato.

Add warm water to the sweet potato puree and leave it to ferment for a period of time, the starch contained in the sweet potato puree will be hydrolyzed into saccharification liquid under the catalytic effect of amylase and other saccharification agents in the wort.

Fifth, filtration, solid-liquid separation to get the original sugar water

In the Rowan so in the village, farmers separate sugar water using a large bamboo basket or a large wicker basket. These bamboo agricultural tools are first brushed and cleaned, and then lined with layers of gauze.

Pour the solid-liquid mixture in, and the sweet potato residue stays on the gauze, while the raw sugar water drains into the container. To collect as much sugar as possible, keep rinsing the sweet potato pomace with warm water while filtering.

Sixth, concentrated sugar water original liquid

Over liquid obtained sweet potato residue can be boiled into pig food to feed pigs, while the sugar water original liquid by concentrating boiled to get the sweet potato sugar.

The amount of sweet potato sugar water liquid is large, and farmers generally use the method of heating volatilization to concentrate. Generally each time you can fill a big pot, and concentration of the fire can not be too big, so it is extremely time-consuming.

Concentration should be done in one go, not interrupted. I've seen people boiling sweet potato candies with interruptions, and the resulting sweet potato candies were not very good.

The sugar water in the wood pot evaporates as the water continues to evaporate and turns reddish-brown in color, the sweet potato sugar is boiled. The concentration stage usually takes six or seven hours and is really rare. Finally, the sweet potato sugar is ladled onto an altar and sealed for storage.

This is the method of boiling sweet potato sugar in Yibin, Sichuan province, the hometown of the rowan, if you think it is useful, you can like and follow the rowan, a kind of encouragement, thank you.

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