There was a "honey frying bureau" in the Song Dynasty, which specialized in all kinds of honey frying and sugar frying. Similar to today's preserves, flowers, fruits and other kinds of honey or sugar are used. There are many carved flowers in the palace.

2. sugar

Can also be directly made into food, can also be made into various shapes for children to play with. Or sesame, musk, bayberry, Schizonepeta, etc. Boiled thin will become paste, such as litchi paste, almond paste, mint paste and so on. Although sucrose has completely overwhelmed other sugars, chewing gum enamel made of malt or other grains can still be bought on the street. It is also useful to pinch people with sugar noodles to make them look like armor door gods, which is called "fruit-eating generals".

3. Cake

Sugar and rice flour can make many things, and cakes and jiaozi are usually made of rice flour. As the name implies, honey cakes are made of honey and jujube cakes are made of dates. But ice cream, instead of what we eat today, is described as white as snow. Speaking of Double Ninth Festival, you should eat Double Ninth Cake, which is steamed with sugar noodles. Strangely enough, pork, mutton and shredded duck were put on it as decorations and inserted into Caiqi Yang. I also want to eat a lion chestnut cake, which is made of chestnut paste mixed with musk, sugar, honey and various rice flour into a lion shape. Shilin Guangji Koryo Chestnut Cake: No matter how many chestnuts are counted, they must be dried in the shade, shelled and pounded into flour, and one third of them are mixed with glutinous rice flour and moistened with honey water for cooking food. The formula of Wu Zhong's spiced cake: 26 parts of white glutinous rice and japonica rice, 1 part of dried Euryale ferox, 1 part of ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria and Amomum villosum. Grind it very finely, sieve it, boil the white sugar and mix well, then serve.

4. Group class

If boiled, it is glutinous rice balls, which can be filled with bean paste, sesame seeds, kumquat and so on. You can also add yam and sugar and knead into jiaozi without stuffing. Ben Xin Zhai Shu Fang describes water polo in this way: glutinous rice flour wrapped in sugar, fragrant soup bath. Round, pink, sugarcane paste, heavy in the bath, sweet and fragrant. "Wu Shizhong" recipe for boiling sand balls: red beans or mung beans are boiled into balls with sugar and wrapped in raw glutinous rice flour. It is also possible to cook with steamed or boiled soup. But there are other ways to make it, such as frying. "Round Joy" may be fried hemp balls, or hemp balls, or fried piles that we ate today. Different places have different names.

5. Zongzi

At that time, you can call corn millet, zongzi and steamed rice. According to records, most of them are made of dried fruits and sugar. I wonder if there are any salty zongzi. The Record of the Old Man's Repeated Victory in the West Lake records that Lin 'an people were good at making it at that time, and it could be made into various shapes: corn. The only thing in the world was that Beijing turned zongzi into pavilions, pavilions and cars. Shops sell goods and make more efforts to persuade wine, each with its own wisdom. "Wu Shizhong" zongzi method: "Wash it with glutinous rice, put jujube, chestnut, persimmon, ginkgo and adzuki bean, and wrap it with water chestnut leaves or bamboo leaves. One way is to wrap mugwort leaves in rice, which is called Ai Xiang Zongzi. " Hu Sansheng commented on Zi Tong Zhi Jian, saying, "Today, it is steamed with glutinous rice, fragrant medicine, pine nuts, walnut kernels, etc., and steamed in a bamboo basket, which means that two fingers are big and thick, and it is effortless to break four."

6, shortbread

A snack made of ghee and some flour. There are honey cakes, snail cakes (shaped like abalone) and molasses cakes. "Wu's Feed Record" Snow Crisp: Melt in a small pot with oil, filter, put the fried noodles on your hands, stir well, not thin or thick, and leave the fire. Sprinkle with white sugar powder, put it in fried noodles, stir well, and make a place. Load eucalyptus, defend it, and cut it like an eye.

7.sweet bread

At that time, steamed bread and buns were stuffed, and the only difference was whether the skin was fermented or not. There are sugar stuffing, seven treasures stuffing and bean paste stuffing. Others are made into the shape of peaches or turtles for birthdays or festivals, or they may be sweet.

8.tableware

At that time, aspic was also called ginger soy sauce, which may be a mistake. There is a kind called "honey ginger lobster sauce", which is actually similar to the dessert and mutton soup made of gelatin today. At that time, there was no glutinous rice lotus root, but there was lotus root stuffing. It is made of honey, musk and powder, poured into lotus root, cooked and sliced.