Stir-fried rice candy memory

Sauté rice sugar

I just ate fried rice candy, and I felt sorry for eating it. It is said that we post-50s and 60s are lucky, just out of the last train of agricultural civilization to catch the first train of industrial civilization, so we have the unique life experience of the two civilization eras. As agrarian societies drifted apart, many of the ways of life of the past became out of print. But there are exceptions, like fried rice candy.

In the 50s and 60s, fried rice candy is an indispensable snack for children during the Spring Festival, fragrant and sweet, sweet and fragrant, and the feeling of eating is great. However, its production process is more complicated, from the raw materials, the most important thing is fried rice and syrup. Syrup can be either sweet potato candy or rice candy. I don't know how the rice candy is made, but I remember the process of making the sweet potato candy.

Let's start with fried rice. Rice comes from rice, which has different varieties of early, middle, and late, and later hybrid rice. Do not make fried rice candy do not stick to good rice, but to choose a large brown medium cooked rice, first make rice, and then put it out, put it in the sun for a few days, dry into granular "winter seeds" to collect, and wait until the production of fried rice candy and then put it in an iron pot to fry into fried rice.

With fried rice but also sugar. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the potato matures, and the sweet potato after the harvest needs to be exposed to the sun to "collect the pulp". In the waxing moon, malt is first made to boil sweet potato syrup. The material used to make malt must be barley, soaked in water, put into a straw bag, and then put the straw bag on the stove wall, with the help of the temperature of cooking firewood to sprout. Only malt grows to a certain length and can be used to make yam candy.

The malt comes out, then choose the sweet potato to wash, chop, put it in a large iron pot, cook it and then put the malt in, leave it for a while, and wait for some kind of chemical reaction. At the same time, prepare a filter made of gauze, hang it on the beam of the room, put a large basin below, and after the cooked potato is poured into the filter, the sugar water and the sweet potato begin to separate, and the sugar water flows into the basin.

After the sugar water is drained, return to the large iron pot and add water to boil, and when the water evaporates, the rest is the sweet potato syrup. At this time, leave the appropriate amount according to the needs, and then put the fried rice into the pot, pay attention to the fact that you can also put some fried peanuts and rice together to stir evenly, after the pot is put on the board, it can be made into a fried rice sugar ball one by one, or it can be cut into a piece of fried rice sugar slices, anyway, it is called fried rice sugar.

(January 12, 2022)