Song people invented by the evolution of the invention of frying corn kernels in a frying pan.

Popcorn is invented in the Song Dynasty, Fan Chengda in the "Wu County Zhi - Customs" recorded: "on the Yuan, popping glutinous grain in the kettle,

Name Marco Lou, also known as the rice flower. Each person to explode, in order to divine the year's rest and blame".

The advent of the New Year, the Song people with popcorn to know the year's good and bad luck, the girls are used to divine their own life events.

The popcorn machine was invented by the Song people, who added culture to food to give it a richer meaning, and has since been improved to include pressure indicators.

In January 2013, the popcorn machine, which is commonplace in China, aroused the curiosity of Americans and was featured on the Discovery Channel's famous program "Rumor Terminator," which has since evolved into today's popcorn.

Expanded Information:

One, the historical origin:

Originally, during the Song Dynasty in China Popcorn, the poet of the time Fan Chengda in his "Shihu Jie" has mentioned the custom of popping grain around Wuzhong on the first yuan festival, and explains: "fried glutinous grain to divination, the name of the grain Buru, the northern people numbered glutinous rice flower." Why is the popcorn called "Marco Polo"? Popcorn want to imitate the sound of popping grain, because the local dialect of the sound of thunder is called "Marco Polo".

The invention of popcorn reflects the richness and colorfulness of the Chinese diet, it has a deeper meaning, is the creation of a food processing puffed food. Explain the ancient Chinese food processing is not just a simple heating of food for cooked, but through the physical principle of high temperature and high pressure to change the state of food taste, this processing method is the modern emerging puffed food.

This processing makes the ordinary and mouth food into a tasty and distinctive food snacks, it can be said that thousands of years ago, popcorn is the ancestor of a variety of modern puffed food snacks.

Second, preservation methods

Because popcorn is susceptible to moisture, moisture will be lost after its crisp and delicious fresh taste, so popcorn is not easy to save for too long, to take advantage of the fresh food. If you want to store, it must be placed in a ventilated dry place to prevent moisture.

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