Qinyang City, which belongs to Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, was called Huaiqing House in ancient times. Known as "Qinhuai ancient county, a famous state of harmony and harmony, a hometown of business seclusion and a hometown of musicians". There are spectacular natural landscapes such as the Danhe Gorge, historical sites such as the Sansheng Pagoda of Tianning Temple and, of course, delicious snacks full of the flavor of northwest Henan. Among them, sweet sesame candy is a necessary snack for local people in Qinyang on holidays. Then,

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In Guhuai Qingfu area, commerce is developed, merchants gather, and there are many kinds of flavor snacks, among which sweet sesame candy is one of the most representative foods. There are three kinds of Huaiqing-style snacks recorded in "Records of Qinyang City" edited by Shi Zhiban of Qinyang City and published by Hongqi Publishing House 1993. Among them, there are sweet sesame candy, and the other two are salty donkey meat and Jin Xian tree sesame seed cake.

Sweet sesame candy, also known as hi-sesame candy and syrup sesame candy, is a traditional holiday food that has been circulated in Qingzhou for thousands of years. According to the Records of Qinyang City, according to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, led troops north to Gao Qian, passing through Xiwan Town, Wangye County, Hanoi County (now Qinyang City), and once ate sweet sesame candy, which was greatly appreciated.

/kloc-for more than 0/000 years, in the area around the Qing Palace in Guhuai, people always used sweet sesame candy as a gift for festivals, engagements and weddings. Especially before the Spring Festival every year, every household has to set up a frying pan to fry sweet sesame candy, and the sweet sesame candy flavor of Elsholtzia floats everywhere in urban and rural areas.

The main raw materials of sweet sesame candy are malt syrup and wheat flour. When making, the syrup is diluted into syrup by adding a proper amount of water and a little sugar, then wheat flour is added and fully stirred into dough with appropriate hardness, and then a rectangular strip with a length of 4-6 inches, a width of 2-3 inches and a thickness of about half an inch is rolled by hand, and then fried in a hot vegetable oil pan until the sauce is red. Because sweet sesame sugar is sweet but not greasy, soft and tender, suitable for all ages, it is known as "meat unchanged" and "thinking overnight".

With the progress of society, the types of holiday gifts are also updated, and the well-known sweet sesame candy has gradually withdrawn from the ranks of holiday gifts, but it is still a local famous snack deeply loved by Qinyang people. Now, people can buy sweet sesame candy at any time in supermarkets, streets and rural market towns.