Yiwu native products: the ancient memory of brown sugar

[Network] red sugar agricultural, rural previous confinement essential thing. In recent years, with the improvement of nutritional conditions, sugar has gradually faded out of people's horizons, and the status of brown sugar seems to have declined. The role of brown sugar is quite different from that of white sugar. We sort out some information to help you understand the knowledge about brown sugar.

Daily use: sugar cake, ginger sugar water, moon cake, Banlangen granules, cold granules, etc. all have brown sugar ingredients.

Yiwu has been brewing brown sugar with sugar cane for more than 300 years, and brown sugar is extracted from sugar cane. Yiwu brown sugar and the name of Wu Qing, produced in Yiwu, Yiwu is famous traditional specialty soil. The ancient brown sugar of Yiwu is yellow and slightly blue, with soft texture, fine sand, pure slag, sweet and fresh taste, delicious and nutritious.

In Yiwu customs, every year in the twelfth lunar month, every household uses rice, millet, peanuts , beans, sesame and other roasted, roasted and mixed brown sugar to make various sugars such as frozen rice sugar, corn sugar, sesame sugar and peanut candy. ". This is the case every year, passed down from generation to generation. People say that this is a sign of celebrating the New Year and the old age. It is also the result of the hard work of the crop people in one year. It adds food patterns to the Spring Festival and enriches the holiday life. Therefore, cut sugar, kill swine, wine has always been known as Yiwu farm "Three music."

Sugar can make shochu, which is a by-product of making brown sugar. When the brown sugar is fried, a layer of dregs floats on the syrup. In order to ensure the quality of the brown sugar, it must be removed. In the past, the slag that was removed was abandoned as waste. After brewing shochu, not only waste utilization, turning waste into treasure, but also sugar shochu, high liquor yield, good quality, sweet and delicious taste, it is economical and affordable.

Brown sugar water, can not be underestimated. The advantage of brown sugar is to warm it up, warm and pass it, warm and scattered. It is also known as the warming. Brown sugar glucose to release energy contained in fast, high absorption and utilization, can quickly add strength. Children with problems such as lack of gas, loss of appetite, malnutrition, etc., can drink brown sugar water in moderation on weekdays.

Brown sugar water has a blood-supplying effect, which is why the person who has a confinement has brown sugar. In that difficult time, it is not easy to use a few pounds of brown sugar for the month. Relatively speaking, although the sugar is sweet, its color is white and the sex is flat, so the effect of blood supplement is far less than that of brown sugar. According to our analysis, because the sugar is too pure, and it contains almost no trace elements, its nutritional effect is naturally inconsistent with brown sugar. Even in Japan, where technology is developed, many foods are specially marked with the words “pure brown sugar”, which illustrates the role of brown sugar in sugar sugar, so families and canteens should always have brown sugar.

Pure brown sugar, should be the ancient brown sugar of Yiwu. There are many brown sugar in many high-end food ingredients in Japan.

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