Nowadays, children's snacks are varied, but every old Minnan people's memory has an exclusive traditional taste, but also a long-lost taste, and behind this taste is the memory of the past.
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Raw kernel sugar
Traditionally, during the Spring Festival, a gift box containing Chinese New Year snacks is a must-have at home. When guests come to their homes to pay respects to the New Year, the host brings a tray full of gift boxes with allegories and temperament, and eats the sweets and snacks inside, and has good luck throughout the year. Among them, there is a small snack that Minnan people often eat during the Spring Festival, there are pink and white, which looks like candy, but it is wrapped in fried peanut kernels, which minnan people call "spring sugar" or "flower sugar". This is a must-have good New Year's goods for many people years ago, as the Minnan slang said: "Sip spring sugar, the more sip the more spring", peanuts are crispy, sugar frosting is sweet, white pink looks good and festive, like a sweet and sweet day, is a snack that children love to eat.
Inch dates
"Oh inch jujube, good year", guests come to visit the New Year, jujube is an indispensable hospitality. The small jujubes are exquisitely crafted, fried with glutinous rice flour and flour, mixed with a syrup made of maltose, and finally coated with powdered sugar. Because the appearance is wrapped in a layer of sugar coating, and fried golden, like a "small gold bar", it looks very pleasing and auspicious, and it is crispy and sweet when eaten, which is the taste of the New Year in the memory of the Minnan people. It is said that a long time ago, every Spring Festival, the host's family invited to eat refreshments, often indispensable red dates, guiyuan, winter melon candy and other snacks. In the era of war and material shortage, red dates are rare and expensive, in order to figure out an auspicious, folk will be made of glutinous rice to make a long shape similar to dates, so because of the name of the dates, there is an ancient taste of small gold jujube.
Fried dates
Every 278th of the waxing month, every household begins to set up a large cauldron to make fried dates, and the fried dates are partly dedicated to the gods and partly used as snacks for the Spring Festival. Minnan used to eat fried dates on the first day of the New Year, because fried dates mean reunion and happiness. The shape of the fried dates is very similar to the hemp balls, which are glutinous rice fried foods, but the difference is whether they are stuffed or not. Fried dates are only available in southern Fujian, divided into sweet and salty two kinds of fillings, sweet is sesame filling or peanut filling, salty by three layers of meat, carrots, cabbage, dried tofu, celery stir-fried, and the skin is fried by sweet potatoes and glutinous rice, yellow orange orange, very pleasant. The outer crust is crisp and chewy, the inside is just the right softness, and the sweetness of the sweet potato is in the heart. The fried dates are round and rolling, symbolizing reunion, and the scene is delicious. For many Minnan people who go out, the taste of fried dates is the taste of the hometown during the Spring Festival, and the hometown flavor in the depths of memory.
Peanut crisp
Although there are peanut crisps all over the country. But it seems that the minnan people have a special preference for peanut crisp. Many childhood snacks are rare to see when they grow up, but peanut crisp is one of the few traditional snacks that can be seen every year after growing up. Every time I see it, there is an illusion of going back in time. Peanuts are crispy and delicious, and I loved them when I was a child, and the adults in the family always managed not to let them eat more, afraid that they would not be able to eat on fire. Peanut crisp can be said to be a profound childhood memory of the people of southern Fujian.
Tribute sugar
Tribute sugar, as the name suggests, is the ancestors of the pilgrimage of the fine products, this "tribute" allusion although it is now impossible to verify, but the traditional production of tribute sugar and superior quality, but has been along the long. It is understood that because the tribute sugar is in line with the ancient flavor and has no lack of modern taste, it is as noble as the tributes of the past, enough to enter the emperor, so it is called "tribute". Moreover, because the production of tribute sugar is pounded by hand, it must be continuously "beaten", which is called tribute. The taste of tribute sugar is extremely sweet, and it was really loved when I was a child, but when I grew up, I felt ordinary.
Deep-fried puff pastry
Crispy fried is also a snack unique to southern Fujian, which is called fried in Minnan dialect. The shape is not large, small and delicate, like a crescent moon, just can be used as a snack with tea, and the edge is pinched out of the lace, which is very beautiful. Delicious fried in crispy oil, after frying, the skin is golden, like a bright golden treasure, meaning auspicious, so it is the favorite food of the People of Southern Fujian every New Year's Festival. The inside is mixed with sugar, garlic paste, shallots and peanut powder, the taste is sweet, the outer skin is layered, crisp and delicious, and the aftertaste is endless, as if eating the fried in oil, the next year can make a lot of money.
Mochi
I don't know if it is a unique custom in my hometown, every year during the Spring Festival, I will definitely eat mochi, which has never changed since I was a child. In the era when many Southern Fujian snacks have gradually withdrawn from the table, mochi is still so strong. The white sticky mochi with crushed peanuts or crushed sesame seeds can taste from childhood nostalgia to the present. The town of An Yingdu in the south of Minnan Mochi is the most famous.
Mochi
Ma japonica is a famous snack in southern Fujian, with a long history and a long history, it is said that ancient local officials once sent it to the court as a tribute, which was deeply appreciated by the imperial court and was known as a tribute in southern Fujian. The baby is sweet and delicious, crisp and fluffy in the mouth, although sweet but not greasy, chewy, and non-stick teeth, after tasting it is mouthy and fragrant, the aftertaste is endless. Hemp japonica is rich in nutrients and has the effect of increasing appetite, suitable for all ages, and eating without getting tired. It is a delicacy at the feast and a good gift. When I was a child, my family always did not let me eat too much, because eating too much was easy to get on fire and could not eat. Full of childhood memories.
Orange red cake
Orange red cake is a kind of traditional rice noodle-made specialty cake with a cool taste and a sweet taste without greasy. Orange red cakes are used all over the southeast coast. Although the shape and color of orange and red cakes vary from place to place, the taste and process are similar. The main ingredients are: fresh orange peel, white sugar, glutinous rice flour. It has a certain effect on symptoms such as loss of appetite, indigestion, cough and phlegm. Minnan people generally eat orange red cake around the Spring Festival.
Winter melon sugar
Eating winter melon sugar and drinking winter melon sugar water is also a major feature of southern Fujian. I don't know if there are such eating habits in other places. Minnan winter melon sugar is very sweet, sweet enough to completely replace rock sugar. If you put the winter melon candy into boiling water, it becomes winter melon sugar water, the taste is sweet and delicious, and it also has the effect of reducing fire, which I liked very much when I was a child.
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2021.3.12
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