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Suzhou Caizhizhai candy - fruit knowledge

author:Handsome Jia Lianjie

Among the many confectionery products in China, the famous Suzhou Caizhizhai candy can be called unique. Any tourist who travels to Suzhou always has to buy a little and give it a friendly gift.

Caizhizhai has a history of nearly 100 years, and when it has the largest variety of operations, it reaches more than 100 kinds. Only the category of pine nut candy, there are more than ten kinds of pine nut dumplings, pine nuts gummies, heavy sugar pine nuts, light sugar pine nuts and so on. Its main features are: exquisite selection of materials, fine preparation, rich nutrition, unique flavor. These candies are made of pine nuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, melon seeds, walnuts, roses, hawthorn as the main ingredients, unlike the general spice-only candy. Due to the emphasis on the medicinal auxiliary effect of fruits, CaiZhizhai has won the reputation of "Half-muk Herb Shop".

Although Su-style candy is made from a combination of a variety of raw materials, it is not mixed. For example, pine nut fudge made of malt, osmanthus and hawthorn, the color of the three raw materials is clear, and when eaten in the mouth, the taste of various raw materials can also be discerned. Another example is rose sauce candy, prepared with roses, nine plums, cotton white sugar, etc., resembling rice dumplings, the surface is pink, a flowering groove in the middle, wrapped in cotton white sugar, crisp and soft, sweet, sour, salty three flavors are complete.

At the 1996 Shanghai Commodity Fair, Suzhou Caizhizhai exhibited traditional products Zongzi candy, pine nut sugar, sesame seeds crisp, rose melon seeds, crisp plums are very sought-after, some Shanghai customers after tasting and praised: "It is an authentic Suzhou Caizhizhai product, the taste is good." "

In recent years, CaiZhizhai has also adopted the new type of candy assembly line automatic packaging of Su-style candies, and bagged into "Caizhizhai Pine Nuts Happy Candy", printed with "Tongzhi Founding, Century-old Shop" and Caizhi Tu, and printed a congratulatory poem in the packaging bag: "Pine nuts are passed down from generation to generation, sesame blossoms are high, peanuts fall into permanent fruits, walnuts and hebai years are good." "It not only introduces the traditional Su-style candy of Caizhizhai and greets the auspicious and harmonious, so it is deeply loved by the public."

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September 3, 2021