Candied haws on a stick

Candied haws on a stick

Candied haws on a stick is a traditional Chinese delicacy. It is made by skewering wild fruits with bamboo skewers and then dipping them into maltose syrup. harden. A common winter snack in the north, it is usually made of hawthorn skewers, and the sugar is frozen hard. It tastes sour, sweet, and very cold.

2. Camellia oleifera

Camellia oleifera is a good nourishing snack in Beijing. It is made by putting flour into a pot and frying it until it turns yellow. The hemp seeds are also fried until they are brown, and osmanthus and beef are added. Bone marrow oil, mix well, then put the evenly kneaded noodle tea in a bowl, add sugar, and use boiling water to make a paste. Camellia oleifera has a sweet taste and can be used as breakfast or lunch. It is very popular among people.

3. Enema

Enema

Enema is supposed to be stuffed with minced meat and starch from pig intestines, steamed and then sliced ??and put on a griddle with a large amount of oil. Fry. For example, Houmenqiao Hua'anju and Fuxingju are selling high-quality properties. However, the enema sold at temple fairs is made into an intestine shape (i.e., flour dumplings), cut into small pieces and dotted with red starch [and half-fried and half-baked in low-grade soup oil on the pan to make it charred on the outside and tender on the inside]. Pour in garlic salt water and eat with a bamboo skewer.

4. Pea yellows

Pea yellows

Pea yellows are divided into thick and thin types. Beihai Park (Guide) Fangshan and Yilantang sell fine pea yellow. What is sold at the temple fair is thick pea yellow. This involves boiling the peas in a casserole into a puree, adding jujubes, and starching into a lump of flour, which is then cut into diamond-shaped pieces like cut cakes and transported to the temple fair on a pushcart for sale. Because they mostly appear at spring temple fairs. Therefore, when people heard their shouts: "Hey, these jujubes are big and yellow!" they felt the meaning of the New Year. Because this kind of eating is not hygienic, it is a prohibited species. Now extinct.

5. Douerjiang

Douerjiang

In the past, every household in old Beijing had to prepare Douerjiang during the Chinese New Year. The name Douerjiang is quite interesting. Funnily enough, you can’t tell what it is just from the name, but it’s actually an upgraded version of meat-skin jelly. It just needs to be put in a few more ingredients: dried tofu, carrots, water pimples, soybeans, potatoes, etc., which have always been a must-have cold dish for northerners during the Chinese New Year.