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Now is the mid-winter season, the weather has turned cold significantly, and the villagers of Zhangjia Village have fully devoted themselves to the season of brewing Cengwo Candy. Every villager at home produced a lot of malt, which was used to brew retting sugar. In the current market situation, the price of Cengwo sugar has risen to 8-10 yuan/jin. This kind of sugar is the most economical for villagers to cook, and each pot of sugar can earn a net profit of more than 100 yuan. Villagers of the Zhang family have been cooking retting sugar candies for more than 300 years. During the Qianlong period, the Zhang family's retting sugar became a tribute to the imperial court. This kind of sugar can usually be brewed during winter frosts. The process is extremely complex. The raw materials for boiling sugar are glutinous rice and malt. The glutinous rice is steamed first, then the malt is ground into powder, mixed with the cooked glutinous rice, and then placed in a large vat covered with straw, just like steaming sweet wine. Three days later, the rice in the tank has turned into "sweet wine", which is then filtered with gauze, and then the filtered water juice is boiled in a large pot until some blisters form in the pot (the amount of blisters depends on the complete Based on the experience of the sugar cook), you have to pour it into a small pot. After the sugar in the pot has cooled slightly, use a stick to pull it. The art of pulling candy is also unique and requires a master craftsman. Due to the complicated process, fewer and fewer people are brewing this kind of sugar. At present, if farmers were not living a prosperous life, no one would be willing to cook this kind of candy. Zhang's retting sugar has an excellent taste. Take a little and put it in your mouth. It melts in your mouth and has a crispy and soft texture. No rice candy in the world can match it. Nowadays, although Zhangjia Cengwo Tang is no longer a tribute, its reputation has spread throughout Hunan and four rivers. For all Zhang family members who are working as officials or working abroad and their relatives, the fellow villagers will brew retting sugar for them during New Years and holidays.