Why do popsicles stick to your tongue?

Because the temperature of the popsicles is very low, the tongue is a hot body and contains water droplets. Eating popsicles produces a heat transfer effect, causing the water droplets on the tongue to solidify into ice crystals when cold, so the tongue will be frozen. . In winter, when you use wet hands to pick up metal utensils placed in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator, your hands are likely to be frozen, and you will be unable to take them off after a long time. The solution to frozen hands is to rinse your hands and utensils with warm water. Compared with popsicles, metal conducts heat better. In the icy and snowy winter, if you lick metal with your tongue, the saliva will be quickly cooled and frozen, and the heat generated by the tongue is not enough to melt the frozen saliva. You must not pull your tongue at this time to avoid injury. You can only wait for others to rescue you.

How to make old popsicles

Ingredients: 10g glutinous rice flour, 80ml milk, 470470ml water, 3 tablespoons sugar, and a little salt.

Steps

1. Add 20 ml of water to the glutinous rice flour to dilute it.

2. Pour the remaining 450 ml of water into the pot, bring to a boil, then pour in the milk and sugar.

3. Pour in the glutinous rice flour water and stir continuously.

4. After boiling again, add salt and turn off the heat.

5. After the boiled popsicle water cools naturally, pour it into the popsicle mold and put it in the refrigerator for more than 4 hours.

Tips

1. The water used to cook the popsicles must be completely boiled before pouring in other ingredients. This will make the popsicles taste particularly crispy.

2. It is difficult to take the popsicles out of the mold directly. You can rinse them under tap water and press the mold a few times with your hands.

3. In the past, the old popsicles contained salt. Because it is easy to sweat in summer and lose salt, so while eating popsicles to quench your thirst, you can also replenish the salt.

The origin of popsicles

There are rumors on the Internet that popsicles were invented by an American named Frank Epperson. In 1905, he was just an 11-year-old child. One day, he and his adults were making a sweet drink with a stirring stick. Unexpectedly, he left it on the corridor outside the door halfway through. Early the next morning, Epperson found that the drink had been frozen solid by the cold weather, and the stirrer was still stuck upright. He curiously took the stick and licked the ice on it and found that it tasted great. Inspired by this, he successfully produced a popsicle in 1923, applied for a patent for "ice frozen on a stick" and officially sold it as a commercial product.

In fact, the Chinese were the first to invent popsicles. "The Book of Songs: July" says: "On the second day, ice is cut to rush, and on the third day, it is collected in the cold sky." It shows that as far back as the Zhou Dynasty, people cut ice cubes in the middle of winter and stored them in ice cellars for drinking in the summer. At that time, the royal family also had officials who took and used ice, called "Lingren". "Zhou Li Tianguan" records: "The Ling people hold the ice. In the first twelve months of the first year, the ice is cut, and the ice is frozen three times." It was not until the spring of the second year that the ice was put into the mirror. The jian is an ancient ice-hidden bronze vessel. It can be found among the unearthed cultural relics of the Warring States Period. It is shaped a bit like a square tripod and contains an ingenious mechanical device. There is a pot in the center, which can be used to put wine or other food. The pot can be turned over. The ice is hidden inside.

In the Tang Dynasty, ice products began to increase in number. In hot summers, the emperor often gave ice cubes made in the palace to his courtiers. Bai Juyi's "Thank you for the gift of ice" says: "Today, I have issued a decree to give ice to the ministers. It is a ceremony of awarding ice. It is a grand ceremony of the court, and it is an extraordinary thing to express special kindness." There are also many ice sellers in the market. For example, "Tang Jiayan", which records current events in the Tang Dynasty, records: "In the past, the Kuai people sold ice in the market for merchants. Those who had guests suffering from heat would buy it. When the Kuai people thought they had gained it, they wanted to invite the guests and get several times the profit; The guests left in anger, and the ice also dispersed. ”

During the Qing Dynasty, China’s ice-making industry was quite popular. Especially in Beijing, every summer, many shops sell ice products, and there are many people selling ice products along the streets. "The Years of Yanjing" records: "After the summer in the capital, the sons of the humble will carry ice and sell it, called Bing Hu'er." "A String of Grass Beads" by De Shuoting also records: "Children shout Binghe outside the door. "Lianseed and peach kernel wine is on sale." Many scholars have verified that "Binghuer" and "Binghe" are popsicles, but they have different names. Some poets and poets also wrote beautiful lines about popsicles. For example, Yang Jingting's "Miscellaneous Odes of Dumen": "Xinbo river rice is as cut as fat, and the cold cake is delicious and cool"; Yang Miren's "Dumen Bamboo Branch Ci": "The cheese seller comes to cool the teeth" and so on.

In the early years of the Republic of China, with the promotion of ice-making equipment, popsicle production had become a major cold drink industry in China. There were many factories producing popsicles in Shanghai alone.

Popsicles are relatively cold and are not recommended for long-term consumption. Long-term consumption will irritate the gastrointestinal mucosa and cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloating, indigestion, etc. Moreover, popsicles also contain a large amount of sugar, fat, food additives, and more. What you eat affects your health. Do not eat too much cold food, especially in summer, as it is very harmful to your health.