sugar-coated haws

Sugar-Coated Berry is a traditional food in China. It is made by stringing wild fruits with bamboo sticks and dipping them in maltose syrup, which quickly hardens in the wind. The common snacks in winter in the north are generally made of hawthorn, the syrup is frozen hard, and it tastes sour and sweet, and it is still very cold.

Second, Camellia oleifera

Camellia oleifera is a nourishing snack in Beijing. It is made by frying flour in a pot until the color is yellow and hemp seeds are browned, adding osmanthus fragrans and bovine bone marrow oil, mixing and rubbing evenly, then putting the evenly rubbed tea in a bowl, adding sugar, and making it paste with boiling water. Camellia oleifera tastes sweet and can be used as breakfast or lunch, which is very popular among the people.

Third, enema

sausage

The enema should have been filled with minced meat and starch in the pig's large intestine, steamed, sliced and fried in large oil on a pan. For example, Houmenqiao Huaanju and Fuxing Residence are sold with excellent quality. However, the enema sold at the temple fair is made into a sausage shape (that is, a powder lump), and it is only cut with red starch [into small pieces, half-fried and half-branded with extremely poor soup oil on the pan to make it tender outside, then poured with garlic juice and salt water, and eaten with bamboo sticks.

Fourth, pea yellow

Pea yellow

Pea yellow is divided into coarse and fine. Beihai Park (Raiders) imitation meals and Yilantang sell fine pea yellow children. What is sold at the temple fair is coarse pea yellow. This is to boil peas into mud in a casserole, add dates, deposit them into powder lumps, buckle them out, cut them into diamond-shaped pieces like cut cakes, and transport them to the temple fair by handcart for sale. Because most of them appear in temple fairs in spring. Therefore, people listened to their shouts: "Hey, this jujube has a big pea in Huang Er!" I feel the meaning of Chinese New Year. Because this kind of food is not hygienic, it is a forbidden variety. Now extinct.

Five, Doo sauce

Doo sauce

In the past, every household in old Beijing had to prepare Doo sauce for the Spring Festival. The name of Doo sauce is quite interesting. You can't tell what it is just from the name, but it is actually an upgraded version of the jelly. Just put more materials in it: dried beans, carrots, water bumps, soybeans, potatoes and so on, which have always been the necessary cold dishes for northerners in the New Year.