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| Toffee Fruits |
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Toffee fruits on sticks are popular in the northern parts of China.
They are made of various kinds of small fruits - haws, crabapples,
water chestnuts, grapes or yam. First the fruits are trimmed and
cleaned, they are then stringed one after another on a slender bamboo
stick and coated in a bath of rock-sugar syrup. As soon as the toffee
hardens, the tanghulu is ready. A tanghulu is generally made of
six or seven of such fruits or, in the case of yam, one length of
5 or 6 inches. With the crisp sugar coating,it looks bright and
inviting, and it generally tastes sweet and sourish. |
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