The Spring Festival is approaching, Wuhe is full of strong New Year's flavor, sweet and sweet to welcome the New Year, today let's take a "tip of the tongue trip", let's go to Dongliuji to see, how to make sweet potato candy that is sweet to the heart?
Early in the morning, Liu Hongyang, a villager in Luwei Village, was already busy making sweet potato candy. Sweet potato sugar is a traditional local snack with a long history. Liu Hongyang said that when he was a child, when the Chinese New Year was approaching, adults would arrange a day to make sweet potato candy, and the sweetness of sweet potato candy accompanied by the heat in the kitchen could float far away. Yang Xiaoqun, a reporter from the county financial ** center, said: "Uncle, you can help us introduce what are the raw materials of this sweet potato candy and how it is made." Liu Hongyang, a villager, said: "Our sweet potato sugar is made of watermelon and red taro, at the beginning the taro is chopped and steamed in the pot, and after steaming, it is put in the jar and stirred, and after ten or twenty minutes or so, it starts to press the sugar water, and the sugar water is finished, and it is mixed into the pot, so that the sugar is boiled out." "Due to the cumbersome process of making sugar, today's sweet potato sugar has become the taste of memory, and it will only be made during the New Year. Liu Hongyang, a villager, said: "We boiled taro candy (sweet potato sugar), passed down from our grandfathers, from the memory, there are more than 60 years of history, in the past was relatively poor, a boil taro sugar (sweet potato sugar) to feel the taste of the New Year." "People take food as the sky", traditional food, eat taste, but also eat culture. The food we often eat during the Spring Festival all reflect the creation of people's wisdom. In Wuhe, a small piece of sweet potato candy condenses the profound skills of craftsmen, carries joy and sweetness, and evokes memories from generation to generation in the years of time.
Celebrate the New Year in peace and auspiciousness