There are too many delicious things in summer, which are often dazzling and dazzling. In fact, many things are just slightly different in name, eating method and making method, but they have become another kind of food, which is really amazing.

Take ice powder, bean jelly, cold cake and rice tofu as examples. Their names are very similar. Can you tell who is who? In fact, they are all deeply connected with each other, so let Gourmet Jun introduce them to you one by one!

Ice powder is a transparent drink that we usually eat and play like jelly, which is basically sweet. In Sichuan, ice powder is particularly popular, and friends who eat hot pot like to have a bowl of ice powder after dinner to relieve the spicy taste. Sichuan ice powder, which is rich in ingredients, has extremely high value, and is also called rose ice powder.

There are two kinds of ice powder, one is made of ice powder, which is very convenient and suitable for our family to keep, and the other is called hand-made ice powder, which is made from ice powder seeds by kneading and solidifying. Hand-rubbed ice powder has many bubbles and tastes softer. Now many people like to rub ice powder with their hands.

Outside Sichuan, some people call it ice powder bean jelly, but in Sichuan, bean jelly refers to another thing-pea bean jelly, which generally tastes salty. Pea starch is boiled in water to form slurry, cooled and solidified, cut into small pieces, and mixed with seasoning such as aged vinegar, soy sauce, oil chili pepper and coriander.

In this way, you can eat. Sichuanese taste spicy, so some people laugh at this kind of bean jelly, which makes people cry. People who don't know think you will cry because you are very sad, so it is called sad bean jelly.

Speaking of ice powder and bean jelly, what is a cold cake? Gaoliang is also a favorite snack of Sichuanese, but it is not as famous as ice powder, and it was recognized by more and more people this year. Although cake is called cake, it is not a cake that can be eaten when picked up, but like ice powder, it needs to be seasoned with brown sugar water.

The raw materials used for highlighting are rice flour and clear hydrated lime water, and the alkalinity of lime is used to make it achieve the effect of Q-bomb. Mix rice flour and slaked lime water into slurry, put it in a pot and cook it until it becomes thick, then put it in a container. After the cake is solidified, add brown sugar water and fruit particles to serve.

Rice tofu seems to have nothing to do with the previous three delicacies, but in fact, the principle of making rice tofu is the same as that of cold cake, which is also made of rice flour and clarified hydrated lime water. In this case, slaked lime water plays the role of curing tofu, turning rice slurry into rice tofu.

The difference between rice tofu and cold cake is reflected in the way of eating. Rice bean curd is salty, and cake is sweet. Rice tofu can be made into cold salad, soup and fried, and each method has its own characteristics. Rice bean curd tastes very q-bomb, and gourmets like it very much.

Now you should know something about ice powder, bean jelly, cold cake and rice tofu, right? I can tell you which of these four ways you like best.