Classification of shaved ice

Scraping ice can be basically divided into three categories: sand ice, broken ice and shaved ice. Choosing ingredients consistent with ice is the perfect ice product, because it will not make the ice disappear faster than the ingredients, and make the taste and taste unable to "blend" with each other and lose the function of the ice itself. This is called "consistency".

Sand ice is the most fragile ice. Generally speaking, it should be mixed with fruits and delicious raw materials, broken and eaten through a straw, which feels like drinking drinks.

A little thicker is shaved ice shaved with a whole piece of shaved ice. Ice tastes like frozen cotton, but it is chewy. Generally, some thick sauces, such as caramel, red bean paste, peanut butter and sesame paste, will be sprinkled, which can really experience the soft taste of shaved ice and have a relative taste.

The coarsest is crushed ice, which can be used for chewing, because the particles are thicker, and it is not bad to chew with peas or bean jelly. Relatively speaking, the flavor source of crushed ice mainly depends on the seemingly monotonous syrup or cola syrup and condensed milk, because eating crushed ice mainly eats all its energy and leads to "biting addiction".

Shaved ice has a long history in China.

China people have a long tradition of eating iced food.

Because of the long history of ice storage industry, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, especially in the Song Dynasty, both the royal and folk ice storage activities were extremely huge. In summer, a large amount of ice and snow can be taken out from the ice bank for use, and the folk ice and snow trade is more active, which of course promotes the development and popularization of ice food.

There are two main ways for people to import ice and snow directly in Tang and Song Dynasties. One is cold water, that is, cold drinks, and the other is broken into small pieces of ice or unmelted snow, that is, iced food, which is equivalent to shaved ice today.

In the Song Dynasty, cold drinks made of ice and snow were quite common, not a rarity at all, at least in Beijing.

In the history of the Song Dynasty, it was stipulated that "servants, ancient advisers, honest officials, frugal officials, staying behind, observing and rescuing envoys at home have the right to know the politics". At this level, the emperor should get some special rewards on April 8, among which "honey sand ice" should be given on the day of Furi.

Sand refers to "red bean paste", and notes such as Dream of Tokyo in Song Dynasty refer to "Chengsha jiaozi" sold in the market, "Liang Menglu" refers to "jiaozi of Sand" and "jiaozi of Musk Bean Paste", and "Old Stories of Wulin" refers to "red bean paste", which shows that red bean paste is very common in Song Dynasty.

Presumably, "honey sand ice" is ice poured with honey and bean paste, which is shaved ice.

There is also a kind of "lactose snow", which sprinkles condensed milk on crushed ice, which is simply a modern version of "ice cream".