Xiaogan Hemp Candy, one of the recommended letters in Wuhan, originated from Xiaogan, Hubei Province, and is said to have been a tribute to the emperor. Xiaogan hemp sugar is flake-shaped, the silhouette looks like a comb, full of flavor, crispy taste, high nutritional value, has a long history.
There is a saying: "Every New Year's Festival to see Daddy, don't forget to bring a few boxes of good hemp candy." Hemp sugar rice wine is not brought, and no one comes to love when they are guests. The hemp candy mentioned in the words refers to the xiaogan hemp candy.
Hemp sugar raw materials are said to have originated from Dong Yong's son
The story of Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies must be familiar to everyone. Dong Yong sold himself to bury his father, filial piety touched the heavens, and the seven fairies married him. Later, the Jade Emperor discovered that the Seven Fairies had secretly descended from the mortal world, and ordered the Seven Fairies to return to the Heavenly Court, and Dong Yong and his wife bid farewell to this.
When Dong Bao grew up, he met the prophet Mr. Onigu by chance. This Mr. Onigu was very good and guided Dong Bao to meet the seven fairy girls. Xian Gu gave Dong Bao a bowl of grain from the Heavenly Palace and told Dong Bao that he could eat enough to cook one grain a day. But after Dong Bao arrived home, he put a whole bowl of grain into the pot and boiled it. Soon, the grain in the pot turned into a huge rice mountain, crushing Dong Bao underneath. After a while, a kind of rice that had not been grown on this rice mountain before.
This kind of rice may be derived from the Tiangong and is particularly sweet to eat, and the locals have made various delicacies with it, and Xiaogan hemp sugar is one of them.
The legend of Xiaogan Hemp Sugar is more lifelike, inspired by a "foodie" lady. Legend has it that the owner of a Tangfang is a "foodie", who secretly eats the sugar in the store every day, and is often laughed at by the boss. Once, the lady boss was eating hard with candy when she suddenly heard the door slamming, and in a hurry, she threw a bowl of sugar into a jar of sesame seeds, trying to pretend that nothing had happened. As a result, the sugar grains at the corner of the mouth betrayed her, and the boss saw the sugar in the sesame jar crying and laughing, and it was a pity to throw it away, and it was impossible to separate the sesame seeds and sugar without losing it.
The hostess made up for the work and thought of a good idea, put the sesame seeds and sugar together in the pot, and burned them into sugar cakes. The owner took a bite and it tasted sweet and crispy. Later, the teacher of the shop next door who boiled sugar heard about this and improved the sugar cake to create Xiaogan hemp candy.
A thousand years of history has been passed down to this day
Xiaogan hemp sugar has a thousand years of history, as early as 924 AD, during the Tang Zhuangzong period, Xiaogan hemp candy was designated as a tribute in the palace, and was transported from Xiaogan to the palace every year.
The "Records of Xiaogan County" compiled by Qing Kangxi in the 34th year also mentions Xiaogan hemp candy: "Fat hemp can be oil, and glutinous dumplings are thought to be sugar, known as hemp candy." There is everywhere, and filial piety is alone. "Since the Qing Dynasty, hemp sugar has been brought to various places by Tangfang from Xiaogan, and it is popular to use wooden barrels or bamboo baskets brushed with tung oil and loaded with hemp candy to be sold in Hankou.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Hankou became a treaty port, and as various snacks began to be sold in the concession, Xiaogan hemp candy gradually went abroad and went to the world. In 1922, the Xiaogan County TengyiTai Cake Shop used the exquisite pastry method at that time to make hemp sugar, which made the taste of hemp sugar have a qualitative leap.
Before 1949, in the area of Babukou in Wolong Township, the former Xiaogan County, almost every household was making hemp candy. In 1954, the state-owned hemp sugar factory in Xiaogan County was officially established, and the masters in the factory were invited from Wolong Babukou, representing the highest level of production of Xiaogan hemp sugar at that time.
Xiaogan Hemp Sugar, known as "China's Best", won the National Silver Award in 1981 and won back hubei's only "true cup" in 1994. In 1958, when Chairman Mao inspected Xiaogan, he commented on Xiaogan's candy as "good, good, and good taste."
To this day, Xiao Touching people still buy a few boxes of hemp candy as souvenirs during the New Year's Festival.
Additive-free, pollution-free 24 processes create a delicious taste
With sesame seeds (black sesame seeds and white sesame seeds), pure Xiaogan glutinous rice, maltose as the main raw materials, after 24 processes, can present the unique flavor, crispness, crispness and sweetness of Xiaogan hemp sugar.
The production process of Xiaogan sesame sugar is cumbersome, requiring 24 processes including soaking sesame seeds, sautéing sesame seeds, boiling sugar, mixing sugar, rubbing strips, slicing and so on.
Sesame seeds should be artificially peeled, and hemp sugar should be quickly pulled with a special cutting knife to cut sugar, in order to present the perfect filial piety hemp sugar. Among the 24 processes, the most important and most technical ones are the two processes of mixing sugar and slicing. Mixing sugar requires the master to accurately grasp the heat and time, and the slicing requires the master's long-term experience and skills to quickly cut into thin slices of about 0.25cm. The hemp sugar produced in this way can ensure the traditional crispy taste.
Coming to Wuhan, bringing a box of filial piety hemp candy as a souvenir is a good choice. In addition to the good taste, the maltose in Xiaogan hemp sugar has a certain alleviating effect on patients with bronchitis and asthma. Xiaogan hemp candy is a snack of inheritance and a healthy gift.
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