Cross-cutting sesame candy is made of sesame, white sugar and maltose. It is thin, beautiful, fragrant, crisp and sweet, and is deeply loved by consumers. The raw materials are sesame 23 kg, sugar 10 kg, glutinous rice maltose 30 kg and edible oil 10 g. The production process is the primary processing of sesame. Soak the selected fresh sesame seeds in clear water until the sesame seeds fully absorb water and swell. Then remove the sediment, pick it up and dry it, then put it in a pot and fry it until the sesame seeds are not yellow or burnt and the seeds explode; After cooling, gently rub the skin with your hands and remove dandruff with a dustpan.
Pour maltose and sugar into a pot and boil. Boil it with medium heat and stir it constantly to prevent burning. When the syrup boils, boil it with low fire until the syrup level rises or the bubbles are about to run out. Pick out the syrup with a spatula and observe. Can be drawn into silk. After cooling, it will be broken, and there will be a crisp sound, so you can stop the fire. Stir the fried sesame seeds into the cooked syrup, and pour them into the pot while stirring to make them mix quickly and evenly. Then scoop the mixed sesame cubes together from the pot to the oiled basin. After a little cooling, the sesame candy blank is moved to a smooth operating table, and after stretching and tearing, it is made into an oval candy bar with a comb-shaped cross section by hand.
Slice the candy while it is hot, and the thickness of the slices should be uniform, each slice is about 0.4 cm, and each kilogram is about 90- 100. After cooling and molding, the slices can be sealed and packaged in plastic bags and packaged for sale. Changzhou sesame candy has a long history and unique flavor. According to legend, as early as the Tang Dynasty, local people began to make a kind of hemp candy shaped like hemp pills from maltose and sesame seeds, called hemp pills. They turned the spherical sesame candy into a cylindrical shape like a vessel and gave it to Kang Wang, encouraging him to resist the courage to restore gold. It is not known whether Zhao Gou, King Kang, has inspiration and courage. However, Changzhou sesame candy was made into a cylinder and continues to this day. Changzhou sesame sugar is carefully selected and beautifully made. Sesame seeds are required to be covered without exposing the skin, sealed at both ends without leaking stuffing, the opening of the sugar layer is not hard, the taste is sweet, crisp and non-sticky, the color is white and uniform, and the thickness is generally uniform.