You can imagine the popularity of hot pot in recent years, and hot pot has also brought a kind of food, that is, ice powder. Especially Chongqing hot pot and Sichuan hot pot, they taste hot and spicy. If you want to get angry and relieve the heat, you must order a bowl of ice powder, but for some people, ice powder has not been eaten yet, so let's talk about what ice powder tastes like and how to make it.
Ice powder itself has no taste and tastes as cold and smooth as jelly. Ice powder is a colorless and tasteless food without any seasoning. It is because ice powder looks colorless and tasteless, especially like ice, so it is named ice powder. Now ice powder produced in different regions has different spices. Some places will add sugar water to ice powder, and some places will make ice powder into desserts of various flavors, and some coconut milk will be added.
What is ice powder made of? Ice powder seed, ice powder. Pour quicklime powder into 200 grams of cold boiled water. Stir well, and precipitate for later use. Put the ice powder seeds into the cleaned gauze. Simply wash the ice powder seeds with clear water and wrap them. Rub with1150g of medium-intensity cold boiled water for about 6-7 minutes. In the meantime, ice powder seeds should be submerged in water, so there are fewer ice powder bubbles. Squeeze the end of rubber hard. Take the precipitated lime water, and pour that part of clear water into the kneaded ice powder slurry. Lime precipitation must not be poured into it. After pouring the lime, stir it back and forth quickly with chopsticks, so that it can solidify better. Let it stand at room temperature for about 1-2 hours, and it can be completely solidified, and it will taste better in the refrigerator. Brown sugar water is mixed with cold boiled water or warm water. Stir well until there are no brown sugar particles. The solidification state is good. Put the prepared ice powder into a bowl. Add the prepared brown sugar water and sprinkle with dried osmanthus. Watermelon juice can be squeezed by hand to make watermelon-flavored ice powder according to personal taste.
Rubbing ice powder by hand is the most traditional and oldest practice, only ice powder and brown sugar. Later, there were more patterns and varieties. Adding peanut powder, preserved fruit powder and sesame seeds to the ice powder is also delicious. You can also choose different flavors of ice powder, such as fruit, sugar, three fresh and so on. Brown sugar tastes like it has become a classic basic version.