What is Jelly Rice

Jelly Rice Candy is a famous snack and local traditional specialty in Pingxiang, Yichun, Ji'an, Poyang, Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, as well as Huizhou, Chizhou, Anhui Province, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, and other central and western regions. It is a traditional local specialty. It has been rumored that there has been more than two hundred years of production history of frozen rice candy, and it is famous for "Jiangnan small cut".

Every year after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rural households will be glutinous rice cooled and dried, fried into popcorn rice, mixed with rice sugar sticky, cut into pieces, to guests to solve the tea. This pastry is called "fried rice sugar", "rice flower sugar cube".

More elaborate, with the top glutinous rice into a frozen rice "dry rice", and then use tea oil to soak "dry rice", so that the "dry rice, into the popcorn rice, and then bonded with caramel, cooled with a thin knife and cut into small pieces, before and after the After the semi-finished and finished products **** 20 processed, commonly known as "small cut".

Expanded Information

Allusion:

Fengcheng Jelly Rice Sugar was first produced in the Qing Dynasty during the Qianlong period. It is said that in 1756, Qianlong traveled to the south of the Yangtze River and tasted it as "crispy and sweet". At the beginning, it was produced by the folk with fried rice, and then changed to frozen glutinous rice deep-fried, swollen and become, supplemented by sugar, caramel, cinnamon, red pomelo silk and so on. The original production is mainly in the east of the river in the city of Du, railroad, Luo city around the countryside, and later there are a number of workshops in the county production. To the eve of liberation, has been selling well in Jiangnan, known as "Jiangnan small cut".

According to the February 4, 1949 "Republic of China Daily": "Fengcheng frozen rice sugar since the 16th day of the eighth month of the Lunar Calendar to the market until February and March, has been selling the province and Shanghai, Hong Kong, is a tea party in time fine point, and is the old days of New Year's Eve gifts of good."