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The son said on the river, the deceased is like a husband. In the blink of an eye, it was the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, and it was Chinese New Year's Eve in two days. When I was a child, I was a longing and joy for the New Year, but now it seems that it has become a burden. Why is the smell of the New Year getting weaker and weaker, perhaps because of the current life, if you want, every day is like the New Year.
When I was a child, I longed for the New Year, and cutting hemp candy is an indispensable thing for every family, and it is the happiest and most unforgettable in my memory.
Boom! "The sound of popcorn sounded in the alley, and the children would cover their ears with their hands, and the timid would hide far away, waiting for the loud noise. When popcorn or corn is poured into the basket from the black sack, and the smell overflows, everyone knows that they are about to cut the candy.
Before my family cuts sesame candy, my mother will use rice to crack in the pot to burst grain flowers, as well as fried frozen rice, fried corn, etc., plus popcorn, corn, popping beans, sesame seeds and other raw materials for cutting sesame candy from the popcorn master. Around the twentieth day of the lunar month, I invited the village sugar cutter to cut the hemp sugar.
The chopping board for cutting hemp candy is very simple, and two four-foot stools are used to erect a clean door panel. Put on the basket for cutting sugar, wooden frame, wooden roller, plywood, thin knife, etc., and start boiling sugar.
The technique of boiling sugar is very particular. Pour cold water into the pot, add Yiwu brown sugar, and boil slowly, stirring constantly, until the sugar oil boils into a dark brown color. When the viscosity is appropriate, the sugar cutter will pour it into a basket with the ingredients, stir well, and pour it into the hemp sugar frame. Spread evenly, roll flat with a roller, cut into four knives, and then cut into thin slices while hot.
The sound of rustling and sonorous sugar cutting is like a beautiful symphony, and the children's faces are filled with happiness and joy.
Cutting hemp candy is a major event in the family, and it is very solemn. Parents will tell their children not to talk nonsense, not to move around, and not to open the door casually, for fear that the hemp candy will not become a shape. If you really come across loose hemp sugar, you will knead it into a round sugar, and you can also eat it.
After the hemp candy was cut, he didn't open his mouth to eat it to his heart's content, but tasted it lightly. Because the amount of cut hemp candy is not much, it will take several months or even the next year's farming season.
After the hemp candy was cut, my parents would give each of our eight siblings a jar of hemp candy for each of us to keep and enjoy. Every year, the second brother is the first to eat hemp candy, and the eldest sister is the latest to finish eating, and the eldest sister is usually reluctant to eat it. The eldest sister will always share some with her younger siblings, and she is grateful to the selfless eldest sister!
Guhua candy and sesame peanut candy are reluctant to eat by their own families, and they are generally used to entertain guests during the Spring Festival.
There are many types of Yiwu sesame sugar, including brown rice candy, grain flower sugar, frozen rice sugar, corn candy, sesame peanut candy, corn flower sugar, Tiancheng bean candy and so on.
Yiwu hemp candy is a traditional specialty snack that originated in the Ming Dynasty. It is famous for its fragrant, sweet, thin and crisp unique flavor, which is like a jade comb and white, thin as cicada wings, sweet as honey, fragrant but not glamorous, sweet but not greasy, and has an endless aftertaste.
Yiwu hemp candy, eat in the mouth, sweet in the heart. And the mystery of asking someone to cut hemp candy at home is the most unforgettable memory only at that time.
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