Crystalline Candied Haw

Crystalline candied haw is the traditional Chinese cuisine, it is the string of Hawthorn clusters with thin bamboo sticks, then dipping the melted maltose sauce, finally cooling to shape. The crystalline candied haw taste sweet and sour and suitable for all persons no matter children or older. It's not only delicious, but also has the goo-looking that red hawthorns are wear in the thin bamboo sticks and wrapped the crystal juice. The sellers insert them in a special wooden stick, which like a knot of trees full of fruit.

Crystalline candied haw has a long history which can trace back to eight hundreds years ago, south Song dynasty.It's said that the imperial concubine of emperor Zhaoting had a sick with pale and thin and don't willing eating. Court physician used lots of valuable drugs but without effect. For curing the sick, emperor had to seek medical advice by posting. One of empiric taken the task and gave the advices that as long as boiled the hawthorn and rock sugar, eating 5-10 before each meal, the disease would be cured after a half month. The concubine followed the advice and recovered really. Later, this method spread to civil society, people string it to sell and become the crystalline candied haw.

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