What are sugar melons made of? Traditional food for the Lunar New Year

Sugar Melon is a kind of food sacrificed to the God of Zao, as the saying goes, eating people's mouth is soft, which is a custom that everyone hopes that the God of Zao can be more beautiful words, sugar melon, as its name suggests, is made of sugar, sweet and tasty

What is sugar melon made of

Sweets are maltose and sesame seeds

Sugar Melon is an ancient traditional famous food, both the Spring Festival New Year's Day food and sacrificial items （It is a traditional food and ritual for the Chinese New Year.) In the past, it was said that on the day of the 23rd, the king of the stove should be sacrificed, and buy some maltose to do the sacrifice of the stove sugar, such as sugar melon, Guandong sugar, both in his ascension to the Jade Emperor to report there, ask him to say more beautiful meaning, but also with sugar to stick on the mouth of the king of the stove to prevent him from talking too much heart. In Beijing, there is a saying: "Master Zaowang ascends to heaven and says many good things".

Sugar Melon

-- Ingredients --

Maltose 500g

Sweet milk powder appropriate amount

-- Practice --

1 thick bottomed pot heated, poured into the maltose, simmering on medium heat to become a sticky sugar dough.

2 Sprinkle a layer of sweetened milk powder on the sheet, remove the sugar dough, let it cool slightly, and roll and stretch it repeatedly on the sheet until it turns white.

3 Rolled sugar dough into a long strip, a knife on the fire hot, quickly cut into segments, and then sprinkle a layer of sweet milk powder to prevent sticky hands.

4 Just seal the cut sugar melon pieces and put them in the refrigerator to chill.

--Tips--

1 The process of pulling the sugar is really a labor of love.

2 Sprinkle sweetened milk powder purely for non-sticky hands, you can leave it out if you don't like it.

3Be careful not to paste the bottom when boiling sugar thinning.

Sugar Melon delicious

"Sugar Melon" is a kind of yellow rice and malt boiled and made of sticky sugar, it is pumped into a long sugar stick called "Kanto sugar", pulled into a flat round type is called "Sugar Melon". Put it outside the house in winter, because of the cold weather, sugar melon solidified solid and some tiny bubbles inside, eat up the crunchy, sweet and crispy, a unique flavor.

The story of the origin of sugar melons

Once upon a time, there was an emperor, gluttonous, wherever he went, where he ate. As long as not eaten have to taste. One day, he wandered into the village and met a beautiful girl. The girl was carrying a basket. "What's in it?" The emperor asked curiously. The girl opened the basket, wow, what a big date cake! The emperor had eaten a lot of good things, but he had never eaten a date cake. He said to the girl, "Give me some, I am the emperor!" The girl smiled slightly and handed over the basket. The emperor gobbled it up and ate it all in three or five bites. After eating, he burped, "Ah uh, that's delicious!"

Then, the emperor played a bad idea: "I want to take this girl back to the palace, so that she will make me date cake every day to eat!" He said to the girl: "You immediately make me another seven seventy-four ninety-nine pieces of date cake. If you can't make it, I will take you away!" Hearing this, the girl said unhurriedly, "Good!" She plucked off the golden hairpin on her head and rushed at the basket. Huh? It was steaming hot, no more, no less, exactly seven hundred and seventy-nine pieces of date cake. It was amazing! The emperor still didn't get it. Seeing that it was difficult for the girl, he tricked the girl into feeding him. The girl turned her face away and ignored him! The emperor got angry and had to take the girl away. He reached out and grabbed ......

The girl reached out and slapped the emperor onto the stove, and the emperor was plastered to the wall. This is bad: the emperor wants to come down, but how can not come down. It happened to be the twenty-third day of the lunar month.

"Who let you greedy! This time ah, others sit you stand, others eat you watch it!" After saying this, the girl drove up the colorful clouds and flew up to the sky. The gluttonous emperor has since become Master Zao. From then on, Mr. Zao stood by the stove every day, watching people eat. After a long time, people felt sorry for the king of the stove - after all, there is nothing wrong with loving good food. So, on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, everyone puts out good food for Zaosi, which is called "sacrificing to the stove". On this day, the children are the most happy, they eat with the king of the stove with date cake, persimmon cake, walnut, sugar cake, and sugar melon.

It is said that after the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, Mr. Zao will go to heaven to talk to the Jade Emperor about what has happened on earth this year. He ate the sugar melon sweet mouth, see the Jade Emperor, straight talk about people's good words.