Introduction to rice candy
Legend has it that it existed in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, and rice candy is a famous Han snack, sweet and delicious, with a fragrant aroma of rice flowers. Among them, Chongqing Jiangjin rice flower candy and Sichuan Leshan Suji rice flower candy are the most famous.
The origin of rice candy
Pujiang rice candy is a kind of food loved by the masses in the western Sichuan Plain, is a famous special product of Pujiang County, folk commonly known as "valley flower", passed down in the Qing Dynasty Xianfeng years that was made, more than 200 years ago. Pujiang is also known as the "hometown of Chinese rice candy". Pujiang rice flower candy is made with a mixture of lard and vegetable oil to fry the rice bubbles. In this way, the rice candy not only has the fragrance of lard, but also the fragrance of vegetable oil, and the rice candy is also shiny and tender white, which is unique in the production process and the flavor of the product. Pujiang rice candy, with its white color, sweet and crispy, refreshing slag, after eating has the characteristics of rice fragrant aftertaste, is deeply loved by the people, is the ideal food for tourism, leisure, gifts to relatives and friends. Due to its excellent color, aroma and taste, Pujiang rice candy was rated as a 75-degree high-quality product in 1979 by the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Commerce.
The earliest rice candy
Pujiang rice flower candy is a local traditional food, also known as lard rice flower, commonly known as valley flower in the old times. Legend has it that it originated in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and gradually matured during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 300 years. At that time, the large households in Pujiang, or the farmers with better harvests in that year, after each autumn harvest, contacted folk craftsmen or "Jingguo Shop" (a handicraft workshop specializing in making pastries and candies in the old days), and then began to select and prepare materials to make Yin rice (glutinous rice is called Yin rice after fermentation, steaming, and cooling to water). During the winter waxing moon before the Spring Festival, it is used for sacrifices and New Year gifts. After the founding of new China, the craftsmen who wandered among the people were organized by the government and began to produce grain flowers in factories, which were named Pujiang rice candy.
The material of rice candy
Rice candy, sweet and delicious, with a fragrant aroma of rice blossoms. Among them, Chongqing Jiangjin rice flower candy and Sichuan Leshan Suji rice flower candy are the most famous. Rice candy is mainly made from glutinous rice and white sugar. First go through the rice process, that is, the glutinous rice is steamed, dried so that it is still the original rice grain, and then every 5 kilograms of glutinous rice with 200 grams of caramel mixed into water, baked in the pot, after the water is dried, and then fried with sand, then 1 grain of rice can rise to 4 grains of rice (fried with lard or vegetable oil has the same effect, in order to save grease, generally use more sand frying), and then use saccharin, white sugar and caramel to make syrup, pour the prepared rice into the syrup, add a little peanut kernel, mix well in the pot, pour it into the box, knead into a square, Then cut into small pieces with a knife to form a product.
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