When we were young, there were always people selling candied haws on the streets with a long and sweet voice: Hey, candied haws! Such hawking sounds could always go straight to our hearts and make us drool with greed. At this time we Will chase after elders asking for change. Candied haws on a stick is a traditional snack with a long history of our Chinese nation. It is also called candied haws on a stick and candied haws. It is usually made of hawthorns, strung together with bamboo skewers, and brushed with maltose. When you go to the street, the sugar syrup is frozen hard, and it tastes delicious, sweet and sour, and makes your mouth water.

Candied haws, also known as candied haws or sugar balls, is a popular seasonal traditional snack in autumn and winter. It has a transparent and bright red appearance, crispy and sweet outer layer, and is particularly popular with the sweet and sour hawthorn inside. . Especially in the north in winter, it tastes sour, sweet, and refreshing.

Candied haws on ice is not just hawthorn flavor, but also has strawberry, grape, yam, yam bean, crabapple, banana, orange and other flavors. Traditionally, hawthorn has the functions of digesting food, strengthening the spleen, nourishing the skin, increasing intelligence, clearing away heat, etc. A brief introduction to the production of traditional candied haws:

1. Select fresh hawthorns with perfect fruit shape and no scars, clean them, remove the fruit stems, and string them with bamboo skewers or cotton strips for later use

< p>2. To boil sugar, use white sugar, a small amount of rock sugar (many sold ones basically have no rock sugar), add a small amount of water, and drop in a little oil. Boil over high heat, stirring constantly during the process of boiling the sugar, until the sugar is simmered until dense and fine foam emerges, taking on the color of light yellow beer. Dip the chopsticks into the syrup. If you can pull out the thread slightly, turn off the heat.

3. Tilt the pot so that the skewered hawthorn skewers are gently rotated against the foam in the syrup, and evenly coated. Layer a thin layer of sugar and place the wrapped candied haws on a marble board or stainless steel material. It can be eaten after cooling

Notes:

1. The candied haws is actually not Those made from pure rock sugar are mostly made from white sugar or syrup. If you make your own, you can add a little rock sugar to increase the taste.

2. The most important thing is to boil the sugar. If you boil the sugar too lightly, it will be sticky and hard to eat. Will stick to teeth. When cooked, the color becomes darker and the taste becomes bitter. The cooked syrup is thick and light yellow visible to the naked eye. It can be drawn when you dip it with chopsticks. If you insert the chopsticks into cold water, it will solidify quickly and become hard when you bite it.

3. When dipping the candied haws, the sugar should be evenly coated, not too good, otherwise it will taste too hard, and do not throw the hawthorn directly into the pot, otherwise the hawthorn will be cooked and affect the taste