Is the sugar onion in Chaoshan the stove candy for northern festivals?

The sugar onions in Chaoshan are pulled into strips when the sugar is hot, with pancake skin and sprinkled with a little onion, so it is called sugar onion pancake.

Boiled sugar in the north is an ancient traditional name, which is not only a food for the Spring Festival, but also a sacrifice. Every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is often said in China that the custom of this day is to "send grandpa". It is said that on this day, the Kitchen God will report to heaven, so in order to make the Kitchen God eat sweet, every household will offer honeydew melons (also called Kitchen God candy) to put in a good word in front of the Jade Emperor and give the family a more prosperous future.

So the way to say that two sugars are not the same is as follows.

Production technology of sugar onion

Adding white sugar into water in equal proportion, mixing, and boiling the sugar to 120℃ to make syrup. Prepare a pot full of cold water, pour in the boiled syrup, and let the syrup cool into a sugar paste. Pull the sugar paste 1 0 minutes repeatedly with a round stick about1ft long, so that the sugar paste is filled with air to form a thin tube, and then wait for it to cool. Finally, cut the finished sugar onion into strips of about 3%, and finally add peanut powder to finish.

Production technology of stove candy

1. One of the raw materials: maltose (available from Universal Taobao)

2. Stir-fry flour. Pour the flour into the wok and stir fry over low heat. The fried flour has the burnt taste of wheat and the color is yellow.

3. Put maltose into the flour while it is hot, and let the temperature of the flour heat maltose to soften it.

4. Take out a piece of maltose from the flour and press it with your fingers until the maltose has no hard core, and the maltose will become soft.

5. Compare softened maltose with unmelted maltose.