Looking back on our childhood, we longed to live the New Year. In the New Year, you can eat good things that are usually difficult to eat, such as frozen rice candy, dried sweet potatoes, rice cakes with big fish, big meat, etc., and there are new clothes and shoes to wear in the New Year. Always thinking about the people and things of the long childhood, maybe nostalgia is at work!
According to the custom of the sea, frozen rice candy should be made before the New Year and stored in a sealed jar to protect it from moisture. Mom and Dad were also very stingy to add a small jar to give us a little taste, afraid that the frozen rice candy had long been wiped out by us before the New Year, and they could not entertain the guests of the New Year.
Frozen rice candy along the sea is a snack with local characteristics of the coast. Frozen rice sugar is made of frozen rice, peanuts and sesame seeds as the main materials, and the method is mainly hanging cream, and the taste belongs to sweetness. Frozen rice sugar yellow with bright, uniform particles, shaped like bee pupae, soft and hard moderate, sweet and crispy. Let me tell you about the specific methods of frozen rice sugar.
First of all, we must prepare the raw materials for making frozen rice candy, including frozen rice, maltose, white sugar (or brown sugar), peanuts, sesame seeds, ginger shreds, orange peel strips, lard and so on. The more troublesome thing is to make frozen rice, the selection of full, colorful and moist high-quality glutinous rice, soaked in water for one night, then cleaned, cooked in a steamer basket, and spread out evenly in the sun; sesame white, black can be; beforehand, the thin orange peel is dried, when the water is blistered, cut into silk; fresh ginger is also cut into silk; maltose, white sugar to the market to purchase on the line; brown sugar, lard basically every house has.
Then stir-fry frozen rice, the rice is fried well, directly affecting the taste of frozen rice sugar. First, pour the prepared sand into an iron pot and stir-fry the red. Then pour a small cup of frozen rice into the center of the pot, cover it with a little sand, and then stir-fry vigorously with a spatula to heat the frozen rice evenly, and the frozen rice will quickly become white, fat, and crispy popcorn, scoop it up with a small iron bucket, sift it through a sieve, and so on, until it is finished.
The next step is to boil sugar oil. First put the maltose into the pot to preheat, and then add the right amount of lard, brown sugar, sugar to simmer together, to what extent can it be counted as sugar oil that can make frozen rice candy? You can use the spatula to dip the sugar oil, pick it up and hang it in the air, and after a while the sugar oil cools down and looks like a big flag, you can move on to the next step, otherwise continue to boil.
First, pile the rice in another large pot and sprinkle some peanuts, sesame seeds, orange peel shreds, and ginger shreds evenly. Then quickly pour the cooked sugar oil into the pile, then mix the rice with the sugar oil as quickly as possible, then pour it into a square wooden frame, flatten it with a large wooden roller stick, wait for the temperature to solidify, cut into small pieces with a kitchen cutter, and remove it into a tile bowl (or iron box) and seal it for safekeeping. The time to cut frozen rice candy is very exquisite, the time is too early, frozen rice candy is very soft, not easy to cut into pieces. It's too late, the frozen rice sugar hardens, and the diced pieces are easily broken.
When I was a child, I liked to watch my master make Linhai frozen rice candy, and I thought that it was not a difficult thing to make frozen rice candy. It happened to be a year away, my family could not invite a master to make frozen rice candy, so I volunteered to make it myself, and my parents agreed. With my previous meticulous observations, I was not afraid to successfully make fried frozen sugar, which was highly praised by my parents and praised me for my intelligence and ability, and my heart felt like honey. Looking back on the past, often parents inadvertently say words of praise, which may inspire you to continue to move forward throughout your life.