Zongzi sugar is a specialty of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and a local traditional famous spot. One of the earliest candies in China. It is mainly made of sucrose with roses, caramel and pine nuts.
Founded in the ninth year of Qing Tongzhi (1870) by Suzhou Caizhi Zhai, it is famous for producing Traditional Suzhou-style food. He has a long history, a wide variety of food, high quality, exquisite packaging, respect for the characteristics of tradition, fully shows the unique style of Jiangnan water town and the characteristics of quaint culture, and occupies a certain position in the history of Chinese food and the history of Chinese and foreign food.
Zongzi candy is a Gusu specialty, which can be regarded as the most beautiful sugar in the world. Amber-colored malt sugar juice condensed into a small "four-corner dumpling", crystal clear,
There seems to be a faint hint of rice dumplings entering the nose. If a few milky pine nuts are inserted loosely, who can say that it is not a beautiful work of art? Its shape is like the shape of the triangular zongzi, so it is named zongzi sugar. Zongzi sugar is hard and transparent, shiny, you can clearly see the roses, pine nuts evenly spread in the sugar body, like a beautiful crystal stone, the food is sweet, fragrant, delicious, there is a clear fragrance of pine nuts and roses. Due to the influence of the climate, it is not suitable for production in summer.
How to distribute raw materials
Sucrose, pine nuts, dried roses, liquid glucose, acetin.
It is mainly made of sucrose with roses, caramel and pine nuts. Its shape is like the shape of the triangular zongzi, so it is named zongzi sugar.
Preparation method
1 Boiling sugar method is the same as peanut candy.
2 pine nuts, roses must be baked, otherwise can not be used, so as not to pine nuts, roses are still wet, poured into the sugar paste is easy to make the sugar anti-sand.
3 After cooling the boiling sugar to 160 ° C, pour it on the cooling table equipped with flowing water to cool down, sprinkle the pine nuts and dried roses on the sugar paste while it is hot, and fold it back and forth with a spatula, the sugar paste is folded, the side is cooled, the water continues to evaporate, and the sugar paste gradually condenses into fudge.
4 Integer type: organize manpower, speed up, put the fudge on the table, divide into small pieces, knead the sugar, knead into a round strip (pay attention to maintain room temperature)
5 Sugar cutting: use scissors to cut sugar, when cutting sugar, you should pay attention to turning every time you cut it, and the sugar cut out is a triangle no matter which side it looks from, and it is produced by machine instead. It is also possible to cut out triangles.
6 Packing: Pack after the sugar has cooled sufficiently to avoid easy sticking of sugar.
Practice two
Recipe Ingredients: Maltose 80 g Water 80 g White Sugar 100 g Salt 0.5 g Butter 8 g Pine Nut Kernels 25 g
1: Put the maltose water white sugar scale into the pot, turn on low heat and slowly stir and melt
2: Add butter
3. Stir continuously
4, boiling, but also to stir Oh, otherwise it will stick to the bottom
5, stir to 130 degrees, this is how viscous and blistering
6, pour in the cooked pine nuts and mix well (cooked pine nuts are best microwave oven turn, let it warm up, otherwise the temperature of the poured sugar liquid will drop too quickly) (if you buy raw pine nuts, you have to bake or fry)
7: Pour on baking paper
8, slowly put it into a strip (at first some hot, wait a little, it is best to wear gloves)
9, put it into a thin strip (when not too hot, the shape is still very convenient. The first time I did it was afraid of the cold but too fast, anxious to take pictures, all paste)
10, use scissors to cut it into a triangular shape (I do it alone, I can't take pictures when I cut it, see you for it) (After I did it once, I knew that it was not very difficult. After cutting, you can still be beautiful when it is not yet cold)
11, all cut, transparent, and the brown candy I ate as a child, haha [1]
Quality standards
Color: light yellow-brown, transparent and shiny.
Shape; triangular shape, no broken edges, short corners, 240 ~ 250 pieces per kilogram.
history
Caizhizhai famous food "Zongzi Candy", came out in the Qing Dynasty, the founder is Caizhizhai candy store Jin Yinzhi. Sugar is the main source of energy for the human body, so when the patient can not appetite, use sugar to supplement nutrition. In the Qing Dynasty, "Zongzi Sugar" was once listed as "Tribute Sugar" for curing Empress Dowager Cixi's illness, Su
The state of Shibasai is also known in Kyoto. Suzhou famous doctor Cao Cangzhou was inspired by Cixi's love to eat zongzi candy, and promoted the collection of zhizhai in the process of sugar making, put in some edible herbs and fruits, such as mint, roses, pine nuts, nuts, etc., so that even if people eat delicious candy, but also make the human body get a certain curative effect, beneficial to good health, prolong life. Soon, Cai Zhizhai produced mint zongzi candy (mint cool, lung-moisturizing, and liver-suppressing qi), rose zongzi candy (rose blood), and pine nut zongzi sugar (pine nuts contain high plant protein fats). When people learned that these natural colors, beautiful shapes, sweet and delicious Zongzi can also cure diseases, they flocked to buy, and called Caizhi Zhai a semi-medicinal materials store, since then Zongzi sugar has become a household name Suzhou specialty, gifts to relatives and friends. On the basis of zongzi sugar, CaiZhizhai has widely put in plants, flowers and fruits and other raw materials, but has also created more than 100 varieties of rose sauce sugar, pear paste sugar, easy sugar, crisp pine candy, fudge candy, cinnamon candy and so on. It has formed a unique food style that is sweet but not greasy, fresh and refreshing, yin and yang, and rich in nutrition. In the 1950s, at an international conference in Geneva, the Prime Minister used it to entertain international friends, and it was praised and praised and praised as the "national sugar". Since then, the product has been exported to home and abroad and is favored in the international market.