Speaking of snacks that everyone ate as a child, the variety should still be very rich. Although I ate a little more simply when I was a child, now I think of it as memories of the past. It's just that some of them stopped production gradually and were forgotten by everyone. Many post-90s generation should have eaten a kind of candy called winter melon candy when they were young. The biggest feature of winter melon candy is that it is sweet and greasy, and it can be sweet enough to stick to the teeth.

At present, there are many kinds of candies, with high value and good taste. I don't know if you can still remember the winter melon candy that is dusty in your memory. When I used to eat winter melon candy, I didn't think carefully about what its raw material was, but when I saw the finished production process, I found that winter melon candy was really it, that is, it was made of winter melon. This name is too simple and straightforward. But the production process is not very difficult, and you can diy at home.

Prepare a big wax gourd first, then cut it into long strips, and then soak it in food-grade lime water. It takes eight to ten hours to soak here, and it still takes time. After soaking for enough time, it is taken out for cleaning, and after washing, it is cooked in boiling water. The time in boiling water need not be too long, just about five minutes.

Further down is to find a container, lay a layer of wax gourd and sugar, and pickle the wax gourd. The process of cold storage and pickling is relatively long, which takes two to three days. When the wax gourd becomes very hard, you can move on to the next step. Put the wax gourd into the pot to cook, because a lot of sugar has been put in before, so in the process of cooking, syrup sugar will bubble out, the syrup will wrap the wax gourd, take it out to dry, and the wax gourd sugar will be made.

In fact, the production process itself is not too troublesome, but it needs patience and time to wait. It will take about three or four days to finish such a snack. I used to think that the taste of winter melon candy was too sweet to eat, but now I want to make it very complicated. This candy is also the crystallization of people's wisdom.