Caramel was a food flavoring agent to sweeten food in ancient times in China, and during the Qin Dynasty, people learned to get sweetness from malt. Caramel has another, more common name, maltose.

Caramel is made from rice or actually grains as a raw material, after the enzyme made by people who like to eat caramel, and the taste is also good. Its appearance is yellow-brown, and viscous, with a lot of vitamins, suitable for part of the population to eat, of course, in the consumption of time, can not be consumed too much, will be fat.

Second, the practice of caramel

1. The first step in the production of caramel is to educate the buds, we will be cleaned to the barley grain, and then put into the barrel, plus the right amount of water to soak in the winter need to use warm water, and then the wheat to soak for a day or so, and then fish out, put into a container that can be leaked, and every day with warm water to the rain a couple of times, the temperature of water is not too high, after a few days, we can see the wheat has been growing, but also to the end of the day, we can see the wheat has been growing. After a few days, we can see that the wheat grain has grown out of the heart of the buns, and then we will break these buns to the heart.

2. The next step is to steam cook the glutinous rice and corn kernels. Put them into the water for half a day, until they absorb water and become swollen, and then fish up to drain the water to the steam langzhong, steamed, and then put on the mat to cool.

3. Then it's time to ferment. We'll mix the cooled corn and glutinous rice with the wheat malt and let them ferment naturally for about 5 hours, then put them into a cloth bag and tie the bag tightly.

4. Then we put the bag to the top of the juicer, the juice is caramel. Then put the caramel into the pot to boil, with chopsticks can pull out silk, it can be. If you want to boil the caramel that can be eaten directly, you need to boil it for a longer period of time. After boiling, put it into a container and wait for it to cool down, then cut it into suitable sizes.