1, first add a proper amount of cool water to the pot, then add a proper amount of rock sugar. Turn on high heat to boil the rock sugar in the water. Press gently with a spoon or other tool and the rock sugar crumbles. (You can't use iron or aluminum pans to cook the sugar because they will color the sugar as it boils, so only use stainless steel pans.)

2. When the water in the pot boils and the sugar melts, turn the heat down and cook for about 7 to 8 minutes. At this point there is already a small amount of sugar thinning out. In order for the sugar to thin out evenly, keep the heat on and use chopsticks to stir in the pot for 2 to 3 minutes.

3. Finally, the sugar should be completely simmered out. Note that you can't use chopsticks to stir during this process, or the icing sugar will scorch on the bottom of the pot.

This time the time to boil sugar to some longer, 15 minutes or so, the first chopsticks to stir to see if there is a sticky feeling, if there is a spatula to fry ponds, generally fry 2 to 3 minutes can be fried, fried to shovel sugar thin with a spatula, dripping sugar thin yellow, and almost a line, which means that the sugar thinning has been completely boiled well. You can make icing sugar gourd.

Extended information

Ice candy gourd is also called sugar gourd, also known as sugar duner in Tianjin, in Anhui Fengyang called sugar ball. Ice sugar gourd is a traditional Chinese snack, it is the wild fruit with bamboo skewers into a string after dipping in malt sugar diluted, sugar diluted in the wind quickly harden. It is a common snack in northern winter, usually made of hawthorn skewers with frozen hardened sugar thins, which makes it sour, sweet and icy to eat.

In the Song Dynasty years will begin the ancient practice, "Yanjing Years and Years" records: ice sugar gourd, is a bamboo stick, through the mountain red, begonias fruit, grapes, hemp yam, walnuts, bean paste, etc., dipped in icing sugar, sweet and crispy and cool. Tea houses, theaters, streets and alleys everywhere, has become a traditional Chinese snack. Ice sugar gourd has appetizing, nourish the face, increase wisdom, eliminate fatigue, clear heat and so on.

Ice candy gourd is rich in vitamin C, pectin and chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, hawthorn acid, chrysanthemum fruit acid, quercetin, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, canthaxanthin, epigallocatechin and other organic acids and nutrients. Adopting modern technology to remove the kernel, red color, no pigment, no food additives, good taste, is a natural nutritional food. Hawthorn has many medicinal efficacy, it can eliminate food accumulation, dissipate blood stasis, expel tapeworm, stop dysentery, especially help digestion, since ancient times for the elimination of food accumulation of the important medicine, especially long for the elimination of meat accumulation. The Ming Dynasty outstanding medical scientist Li Shizhen also once said: "Cook old chicken hard meat, into the hawthorn several that is easy to rotten, then its elimination to the accumulation of the work, the cover can be pushed forward." In addition hawthorn also has lower blood fat, lower serum cholesterol and other effects.

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