The aroma of tea tells the story of the New Year, what is the must-eat tea in Chaoshan during the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival of 2017, the Year of the Rooster, is coming soon. During the Chinese New Year, people often visit relatives and friends, drink Chaoshan Kung Fu Tea, which is famous at home and abroad, and sit together to talk about the past, the past, and the shortcomings of their parents. The vision for the New Year is such a pleasant thing, and having a piece of Chaoshan refreshment amidst the long fragrance of tea is even sweeter. Then let the traditional festival introduce to you the must-eat refreshments in Chaoshan during the Spring Festival.

Shu Sha: White as silver, crispy and sweet. Shu Sha is a traditional snack of the Han nationality with local characteristics in Chaoshan. It is as white as silver, dry and crisp, and breaks when it hits the ground. It tastes like peanuts. It has the aroma of rice and the sweetness of white sugar. When you chew it gently, it will break into powder. It is very refreshing. It is a good drink for Chaoshan people to drink with tea during festivals and as a gift for guests.

When making sand, you should choose high-quality peanuts with moderate particle size and fry them; you should use high-quality white sugar, remove its impurities, and cook it in a pot. When boiling sugar, you need to pay special attention and control the heat. When the syrup is not thin but not dry, and becomes a paste, stir the peanuts and syrup with a ratio of 1:1.4. After stirring five times, all the peanuts will be coated. A set of white clothes of equal thickness will be made into sand after cooling.

Teochew-style cakes: sweet, crispy, soft, fat but not greasy. Teochew-style cakes are famous at home and abroad for their sweetness, crispy softness, fat but not greasy. Teochew style cakes have adhered to ancient laws for hundreds of years and are made by hand. They are characterized by crispy skin. The "shortening" process in the manufacturing process involves frying the skins that are turned over in various ways and folded thousands of times in warm oil, creating distinct layers. The appearance is like a peony blooming in layers. The pastry falls off when touched and melts in the mouth, making it crispy and tender.

Teochew-style pancakes are divided into mung bean pancakes, black bean pancakes, double-cooked pancakes and crystal pancakes depending on their fillings. The time-honored Chaoshan cakes include Youxi cake, Guiyu cake and Sunan cake.

Mung bean cake: sweet but not greasy, fragrant and smooth. Shantou mung bean cake is famous for its rich and soft texture, ice-sweet filling, melts in the mouth, sweet but not greasy. The crispy skin exudes an alluring aroma, and when you take a bite, the smooth texture is delicious. The mung bean paste filling is sweet but not greasy. The fragrance and smoothness make you never get tired of tasting it. Mung beans also have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, quenching thirst and relieving heat, diuresis and moisturizing. Today, mung bean cakes have become a traditional pastry snack widely loved by Chaoshan people.

Chaoshan mung bean cakes produced in Huilailongjiang are the most famous. Throughout Jieyang, there are many shops or small workshops selling and making mung bean cakes under the name Huilai mung bean cakes. On every important festival, Huilai mung bean cake plays an important role as an ancestor worship offering and as a good gift.

Chaoshan Mandarin Cake: The flesh is gelatinous and the citrus fragrance is sweet. Banana mandarin is a famous specialty of Chaoshan. Chaoshan Mandarin Cake is made by selecting ripe banana mandarin and flattening it into a cake shape, then squeezing out the juice and core. The fruit embryo is then salted and bleached, salted with sugar, honeyed, and cooked repeatedly before being coated with sugar. The meat is gelatinous and has a sweet citrus aroma. As the production of banana oranges in Chaoshan has decreased, the production of orange cakes has also decreased in recent years. At this time, orange cakes have become a popular holiday favorite among citizens.

Rice cubes, bean paste, and crispy candy: crunchy when eaten, sweet and refreshing. To talk about the most classic tea snacks in Chaoshan, we have Chaoshan rice cubes, bean paste cubes, egg crisps, duck neck candies, and Nantang. , egg puffs, etc. These traditional candies are mostly handmade and have maintained the same taste for many years. They are often seen in Chaoshan people's homes during the eighth festival and weddings.

Most of these candies are made in rural handicraft workshops, and the production process is usually complicated. For example, to make bean curd candy, you first pour a certain proportion of white sugar and maltose into a kettle and cook it to a certain temperature. , it becomes syrup, then take the cauldron off the stove and place it on the iron bucket, then pour the pre-fried peanuts into the cauldron and stir it with the sugar that has been cooked into a paste.

Immediately, pour the mixture of peanuts and syrup onto the chopping board, and the two people stand facing each other, each holding a special wooden mallet and beating them up and down together, beating them twenty or thirty times. Flip it over once, and then continue beating (turn it over and continue beating to ensure that it is beaten evenly and firmly). Flip it over five or six times. The mixture will appear very thick, and you can cut it into small pieces of dougong candy. Once cooled, it is ready for packaging. The peanuts are surrounded by condensed syrup, making them shiny, smooth, crispy, fragrant and sweet.

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