A ray of sunlight shone into the room, and I woke up with hazy sleepy eyes, and my mother had prepared breakfast for me. After breakfast, I left my hometown that has nourished me for more than ten years with longing.
I have never been so homesick, more than ten years have passed, and every Spring Festival, I miss it more deeply.
When I was a child, I was most looking forward to the Spring Festival, because of this festival, not only can I wear new clothes, but I can also receive money for the year. As I remember, at the end of each year, the adults began to prepare various sugar cakes and kons.
The kueh and sugar cakes are like the symbols of Chaoshan and are loved by people.
The New Year's Day of the lunar calendar, the beginning of the new year, the Spring Festival, the most lively, the most reunion, the most valued festival in China. Spring Festival customs: paste couplets, door gods, set off firecrackers, eat Chinese New Year's Eve meals, send pressure money and so on.
However, with the acceleration of the pace of modern life and the impact of various foreign cultural festivals, the atmosphere of traditional Chinese festivals has become more and more weak. However, in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, the traditional Spring Festival customs are still relatively intact, and every year during the Spring Festival, I always love to make it with my family, which is the atmosphere that the festival should have. All kinds of sugar cakes, today is a classic Chinese shortbread: white sesame peanut shortbread. This Chaoshan peanut sesame shortbread, the taste is crisp and sweet, mixed with peanut rice and sesame seeds into syrup, rolled into slices and divided into small pieces, bright color, crunchy taste, sweet and refreshing. When I was a child, I especially liked to eat sesame crisp candy, crispy and non-sticky teeth, full of childhood memories, one by one can not stop.
Many northern friends ask me, why do the specialties I bring every time are sweet or sweet? Yes, there are surprisingly many snacks in Chaoshan Province, but they are basically sweets: nan sugar, rice run, brown cakes, cakes, bunches of sand, etc.
The reason is actually very simple, in the Chaoshan area of "small pot is small and clean, tea is thin and humane", tea is already a life etiquette for people and things. In some people's lives, it is almost from early morning to night. And my family is even more powerful, the first thing Dad gets up every day is to start boiling water to cook tea, often after a cup of tea, breakfast only starts, we have to brew six or seven bubbles a day.
Think about this way of drinking, if there is nothing in the stomach to the bottom, dizzy, hands trembling drunken tea is a matter of minutes. Therefore, tea matching came into being. Why is it all sugar? That is, Shantou and Xiamen, Tainan is known as China's three major sugar markets, sugar self-heating has become the protagonist, after many years of evolution, various styles of sugar has also become an indispensable part of Chaoshan celebrations and festivals.
material:
White sesame seeds 180 g Peanuts 70 g Goji berries 15 g Maltose 130 g Caster sugar 15 g Water 45 g Butter 12 g
method:
1. Wash the peanuts and soak them in boiling water for 2 hours.
2: Drain the water, put in the oven at 200 degrees for 8 minutes, then turn 120 degrees for 10 minutes and then rub off the peanut peels by hand.
3, Peanut peel gently blow away, take 70 grams and set aside. Place the peanuts and sesame seeds together in a baking dish and bake at 150 degrees for 5 minutes. Mix goji berries, peanuts and sesame seeds and set aside.
4, Add maltose, granulated sugar and water to a boil over low heat in a pot and bring the syrup to a boil. Add the butter.
5, Cook until syrup is 128 degrees. (Please ignore the 102.6 degrees shown here, if you cook to 128 degrees and then shoot, the syrup may be raised by 10 degrees.) ）
6,All inverted material.
7. Stir well.
8: Pour into an oiled dish or mold and flatten with force. Put until not hot, pour out when there is a little temperature, cut into your favorite size.