Lotus silk sugar is one of the traditional specialties of Jinxi County. Jinxi lotus silk sugar looks like a white and tender lotus silk, which is known for its sweetness, crispness and crispness.
The origin of Jinxi lotus candy has no correct history, and there are many legends.
It is said that when Jinxi was not yet established as a county, during the Five Dynasties of the Southern Tang Dynasty, there was a general surnamed Tang in Liyimen Village, now Jinxi Langju Town, who was kind by nature, kind and generous, and was a great filial piety, taking care of the old mother meticulously, this legend touched the immortal Iron Abduction Li. One day, Tie Quan Li disguised himself as a beggar and came to his house to explore the truth, and Tang General not only did not dislike him for being dirty and smelly, but instead treated him well every day.
Soon, it coincided with the 80th "shou" of Tang's general old mother, and his mother wanted to eat sugar, but the old mother had long since lost her teeth, how could she eat sugar? Just when Tang Was at a loss, the "beggar" told him, you can ask the sugar master to make it, as long as I can eat it, make sure that your old mother can also eat... So Tang put the general general letter suspicious and invited the sugar master to start making sugar, when the thin sugar took the pot, the "beggar" wanted to eat, the sugar master scooped a spoonful of thin sugar and put it in a bowl for him, he did not pick up, but reached out to grab the boiling hot sugar, like a weaver girl shuttling between the hands to change the grasp, grasping and grasping actually pulled out a white and fine sugar shredded! Immediately threw the sugar shreds at the masters, and suddenly the person was gone. The sugar master put the sugar shredded into his mouth, and when he dropped it, the mouth disappeared, and people suddenly woke up, it turned out to be the immortal iron abduction Li Xiafan to guide them! So they followed the instructions of the Great Immortal, grabbed the caramel into a thin wire, and wrapped it with bean flour, sesame seeds, osmanthus flowers, orange cake and other fillings, and gradually developed into today's "lotus silk candy".
Its shape resembles a white and flawless lotus silk, and it is known for its sweetness, crispness and crispness. But sweet but not greasy, crisp but not broken, beautiful appearance, falling mouth melting. There is a folk song that says: "Huwan oil noodles into the bieliang, Fanghe rice noodles to Huguang, Huangtong winter shoots full of provincial running, the four seas are famous for lotus silk candy."
Production process
The traditional Jinxi Lotus Silk Sugar is made from the golden bag of silver glutinous rice from Jingu Rock and the spring water of The Horsetail Spring of Cuiyun Temple, which tastes even better. To make lotus silk sugar, it is necessary to select raw materials and make it by seiko. After the winter of each year (November to March of the following year), the excellent glutinous rice and malt produced locally are selected, soaked, steamed, fermented and filtered, boiled into caramel, and then packaged with sesame seeds, osmanthus flowers, sesame oil, sugar and orange cakes by ancestral handicrafts, and then packaged with sesame seeds, osmanthus flowers, sesame oil, sugar and orange cakes. In the production process, the seasoning, cellaring, fermentation temperature, sugar boiling time, heat, climate, etc. must be mastered very accurately, otherwise the saccharification is not good, affecting the taste and drawing fineness.
Lotus silk sugar has a long history of production, and the Jinxi County Chronicle records that it was first produced in the Ming Dynasty (1573-1620) and has a history of more than 400 years. It is in a variety of sugar cakes, sub-sugar, hollow sugar, snow sugar, etc. on the basis of the gradual development of composition, is a kind of glutinous rice boiled, pulled into cotton candy, according to the famous old Chinese medicine, lotus silk sugar to caramel as the main ingredient, with the ancient recipe "large and small Jianzhong soup" to replenish the effect of qi. Legend has it that during the Ming Dynasty, there were hawkers carrying sugar burdens to the countryside and villages to sell, and it was more prosperous every time the God Welcoming Tournament and the Spring Festival. In the old days, Xiugu, Shancheng, Huwan, Langju and other places were the main producers of lotus silk sugar. Because the product is only suitable for preservation below 15 degrees Celsius, it restricts its production and sales.