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What is jaggery

Hemp sugar is a traditional snack, originated in the Ming Dynasty, with the most well-known hemp sugar in Xiaogan area of Hubei.

Hemp sugar is refined with selected glutinous rice, sesame and malt sugar as the main raw materials, without any chemical pollution and additives, which is a kind of pure natural green food. Hemp sugar is famous for its unique flavor of fragrance, sweetness, thinness and crispness, which has the typical characteristics of fragrance but not colorful, sweetness but not greasy, lingering aftertaste, shaped like a jade comb and white like a jewel, and as thin as a cicada's wing and sweet as honey. It is rich in nutrition, containing protein, glucose and many kinds of vitamins, and has the effects of warming the lungs, nourishing the stomach, nourishing the liver and tonifying the kidneys.

Chinese Name

Sesame Candy

English Name

sesame candy

Main Ingredients

Glutinous Rice, Sesame Seeds, Sugar

Classification

Dessert

Flavor

Sweet but not greasy

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Introduction

Marijuana sugar is made of refined glutinous rice, high-quality sesame seeds, maltose as the main raw materials, some new flavors with peanuts, ginger, caramelized salt, pistachio, etc., and meticulously prepared with traditional recipes and made after 12 After 12 processes, 32 links made, Xiaogan hemp sugar appearance like a comb, color white as frost, aroma, unique flavor.

The special local product of Xiaogan area in Hubei Province, Xiaogan hemp sugar, has been evaluated by gourmets as fragrant, sweet, thin, crispy, young and old savory flavor, and has long been famous in the country.

The production of hemp sugar is recorded to have begun in the Ming Dynasty, with a history of more than four hundred years. The production process is divided into three steps, with glutinous rice and malt as raw materials to produce caramel; the sesame shell processing mature hemp kernel; and then the caramel, hemp kernel convergence, mixing, slicing, packaging.

Xiaogan hemp sugar each slice was comb-shaped, caramel and shelling sesame mix very well, the slice is very thin, sweet and delicious, unique flavor. Legend has it that it was once the emperor's tribute. Nowadays, the scale of production of jaggery is gradually expanding, and the general public and tourists coming to Hubei have the good fortune to taste it.

Product Characteristics

Hemp sugar is famous for its unique flavor of aroma, sweetness, thinness, crispness and whiteness, which has won the praise of consumers. Sweet and delicious, rich in nutrition, containing protein, glucose and a variety of vitamins, with dryness, warming the lungs, stomach and other effects. Light color, crispy and sweet, delicate texture and unique flavor.

Hemp sugar

The recipe is based on refined glutinous rice, high-quality sesame and maltose as the main ingredients, with peanuts, ginger, burnt salt, pistachios, etc., after 12 processes, 32 links made of filial piety hemp sugar shape like a comb, color white as frost, fragrant, unique flavor, rich in nutrients, containing proteins, glucose and a variety of vitamins, with the effect of warming the lungs, nourishing the stomach, nourishing liver It can warm the lungs, nourish the stomach, nourish the liver and tonify the kidneys.

The main origin of the finished product is Xiaogan city south of the eight ports. It is said that only by boiling sugar in the "dragon spit water" of the god pool outside the west gate of the city, can the sugar be made into top quality hemp sugar.

Methods

Raw materials: 500 grams of sesame, 250 grams of sugar, 250 grams of caramel.

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Making materials

Process: caramel → sugar → dissolve → boiling sugar → cooling → pull white → mixing hemp → cooling and molding → slicing → shaping → cooling → weighing → packaging → finished products

1. Sesame seeds will be washed clean, soaked and peeled, in the frying pan to dry out the water, frying and ripened sesame seeds kernel.

2. Wash the glutinous rice, steamed and cooked, add malt, made of caramel.3