Bean candy is a traditional food with a long history in Tonghai, Yunnan, known for its "fragrant, sweet, crispy, crispy, and dregs-free in the mouth". It is made of high-quality soybeans as the main raw material, plus sugar, caramel and other seiko. The layer is as thin as paper, the color is white as milk, it is sweet and not greasy, it is both crispy and crispy, and it is very refreshing. The origin of bean paste sugar is very accidental, when the ancients put barley, soybean flour and moist brown sugar in dry food bags on the march. Due to the bumpy road, the bean noodles wrap the brown sugar layer by layer, forming the prototype of the bean sugar, which has been carefully improved by several generations to have the current bean sugar.
It is said that the characteristic of bean paste sugar is that the more puff pastry layers, the more crispy bean sugar, and the taste with less puff pastry layer is not good. The traditional production method can make the sugar puff pastry layer reach more than 18 layers, which is an absolutely delicious sweet. Bean candy is made of yunnan unique soybeans, carefully selected, roasted, crushed, with locally produced caramel and other materials, after high temperature boiling, sugar paste and bean paste folded many times, elaborately made, in Yunnan has hundreds of years of production history. Bean minced candy is fragrant, crispy and delicious, and the taste is crisper than shortening, which is unique in China.
According to the locals, bean paste sugar does not need any special production tools, but the skill is very important, seemingly simple a sugar, there are more than seventy processes, maltose and bean temperature control, the power and sugar color changes when pulling white, layer by layer of sugar when wrapping sugar techniques and a few millimeters of error when cutting sugar, are deeply burned in the memory, how high the understanding of the candy people, how much to pay, are presented in the bean sugar, diners will know as soon as they eat. At first, the food could not be sold because of the inability to improve the packaging. Some people used to pack it in a white tin box and bring it to other places to give gifts to relatives and friends, but after several turnovers, they have broken into a ball of noodles and lost their taste. Later, with the use of plastic film, its packaging problem was solved. Manufacturers can seal the packaging with special plastic bags, extending its shelf life, sales have soared, and the reputation has also been greatly enhanced.
Yunnan Tonghai County famous specialty products, when counting bean paste sugar. At present, bean candy has been developed from handmade production by family workshops to mechanical production in pastry factories, and has gone inside and outside the province, going abroad and exporting to Southeast Asian countries. Bean candy, this hundred-year-old crisp candy with its own inherent composure and calmness, polished thousands of times in the hands of Tonghai people, passed down from generation to generation. Today, the improved and packaged bean candy still exists in various forms, and behind it, it records the handicraft inheritance of Tonghai and also records the story of the life of craftsmen. Friends, Yunnan Tonghai has a taste, called "bean sugar", both crispy and crispy, very refreshing, have you eaten?