Traditional candy which looks like a wire: Dragon's beard candy

Traditional candy which looks like a wire: Dragon's beard candy
Dragon's beard candy is a traditional Chinese folk snack, because of the appearance is white and dense, named because it looks like dragon's beard. Dragon's beard candy made from wheat flour, maltose and other refined raw materials, with white color, filaments, a clear hierarchy, nutritious, soft taste, sweet aftertaste characteristics.
There are two main raw materials for making dragon's beard candy, barley sugar and glutinous rice flour, pull out the barley sugar which made well in advance. The melted barley sugar has a very large viscosity and is often scraped down with a bit of wood shovel. Put the pulled out barley sugar pulled out into the glutinous rice flour, and then repeatedly stretching and rubbing, glutinous rice flour evenly wrapped in barley sugar above, the method is similar to kneading the dough. Bring the barley sugar pulled slowly into the shape of the disc, then put back into the glutinous rice flour, start again and again to stretch, this is the key step to making dragon's beard candy.
Barley sugar in the hands of producers in the glutinous rice flour after a period of stretching, and gradually have the shape of dragon's beard, snow white, as silver, so it was originally called silver sugar, according to legend has been more than two thousand years of history, it has been only as Emperor's Queen dessert.