Laian Crisp Sugar

Laian Crisp Sugar

　　Crisp sugar, originally known as Dong Sugar, is said to have been introduced from - County over a hundred years ago. It is mainly made from four ingredients: flour, white sugar, sesame seeds, and maltose, and has a fragrant taste.

　　Recipe: Take 40 jin of all-purpose flour (i.e., fine flour), 40 jin of cotton candy, 20 jin of sesame seeds, and 15 jin of maltose.

　　Preparation: First, lightly stir-fry the flour and sesame seeds separately over a low flame until the flour turns a pale egg-yolk color and emits fragrance. Soak the sesame seeds in clean water for three to four hours, then dry them and put them in the pot. After the flour and sesame seeds are roasted, mix them with the white sugar and crush them two or three times in a grinder to form the mixture.

　　Boil the maltose to 70 degrees, then take it out and press it on a cutting board into large square pieces about two centimeters thick. Sprinkle a thin layer of the prepared powder mixture over half the surface of the maltose, then fold the unsprinkled part back over and roll it out. Repeat this six or seven times until it becomes a narrow strip, then cut it into small rectangular pieces and wrap them in paper.