Gum tooth jelly, also known as flower jelly, is semi-solid maltose made from glutinous rice and wheat. The finished product is brown in color, fragrant in smell and strong in viscosity. It is a must-have snack for children in the Song Dynasty and a must-have dessert for people in the Song Dynasty on New Year's Eve.

Gum tooth jar, Chinese word, pinyin jiāo yá xíng, which means that the sugar made of malt tastes sticky.

Lu Xun's "Essay on Continuing to Cover Hua Ji and Sending Kitchen Days": "On the day when the Kitchen God ascended to heaven, there was still a kind of sugar on the street, which was as big as a citrus, and we also had it there, but it was flat and flat, like a thick pancake. That is the so-called' glue teeth'. "

New Year's Eve soup:

Soups for New Year's Eve include corn yam sparerib soup, mushroom pigeon soup, black-bone chicken, red dates and medlar soup, mutton soup, meatball soup and crucian carp soup.

Corn yam ribs soup: the ingredients are yam, ribs, carrots, corn, mushrooms, cinnamon, star anise, ginger slices and salt.

Mushroom pigeon soup: the ingredients are old pigeons, mushrooms, medlar, jujube, American ginseng, ginger slices, salt and cooking wine.

Wuji Jujube Lycium Soup: The ingredients are Wuji, Jujube, Lycium barbarum, chestnut meat and ginger. Eat chicken in the New Year, because the word "chicken" means "auspicious".

Maltose action

Traditional maltose is made of wheat and glutinous rice, which is sweet, delicious and nutritious, and has the functions of expelling toxin, caring skin, invigorating spleen and qi, moistening lung and relieving cough. Is it suitable for all ages? .

1. Detoxification and beauty: Maltose can detoxify and beauty, and promote the absorption of minerals such as calcium, magnesium and zinc.

2. Moistening lung and removing dryness: it can be used to treat qi deficiency, fatigue, abdominal pain, lung deficiency and chronic cough and asthma.