Why is hand-rubbed ice powder too soft?

Hand-rubbed ice jelly is a refreshing snack and is very popular in summer. Most people find it troublesome or don't know how to make it themselves, so they buy it outside. The hand-rubbed ice jelly bought outside is sometimes unhygienic, but the hand-rubbed ice jelly you make at home turns out too soft. In fact, the hand-rubbed ice jelly is too soft because there is too much water or too little lime water. We generally control the proportions well so that the hand-rubbed jelly will not be too soft.

How to make hand-rubbed ice powder at home

1. Wrap the ice powder seeds with gauze and tie it tightly. Dissolve the lime with 50 grams of water.

2. Put the gauze bag in cold boiled water and rub it. Slippery juice will come out of the gauze as you rub. Stop rubbing for about 5 minutes.

3. Pour the lime water slowly, stirring with a large spoon while pouring.

4. Let it sit for two hours and it will solidify into ice jelly.

5. Scoop the solidified ice jelly into a bowl, cut it with a spoon, dissolve the brown sugar in boiling water, cool it, add appropriate amount of brown sugar water into the ice jelly, and mix it evenly.

Precautions

The water must be sterilized at high temperature to ensure healthy drinking!

You won’t do it very well the first time, but you will become familiar with it after doing it a few times. Practice makes perfect!

How to make hand-rubbed ice powder at home

Step 1: Prepare lime water

1. Mix quicklime and boiled water evenly and let it stand for 15-30 minutes.

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2. Get the clear lime water on the top and carefully pour it into another container, paying special attention to avoid mixing in the precipitate.

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Step 2: Ice seed treatment

1. Wring out the boiled gauze, spread it flat on a plate, and pour in the ice seeds.

2. Wrap the ice seeds and tie them tightly.

Notice:

A little space needs to be left in the gauze bag because the ice seeds will expand after absorbing water, so as to prevent the ice seeds from being squeezed out of the gauze when rubbing.

3. Rinse the gauze bag with boiled water or stroke it in a container filled with boiled water to wash off the dust on the surface of the ice seeds.

4. Soak the ice seeds in boiled water for 15 minutes.

Step 3: Rub the ice seeds by hand

Wash your hands and start rubbing the ice seeds!

1. At the beginning, a lot of light yellow viscous liquid will overflow from the gauze.

2. After about 5 minutes, a large number of bubbles begin to appear. You can stop at this time.

3. Pour the clarified lime water into the slurry and stir rapidly. Stir evenly so that the ice jelly can solidify better.

4. Put it in the refrigerator for half an hour, and the slurry will slowly solidify. After 1-2 hours, it will solidify better and become firm and elastic. Congratulations, you succeeded!

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Step 4: Ingredients preparation

While waiting for the slurry to take shape, we can prepare the ingredients.

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Among them, brown sugar water is indispensable, and other ingredients such as raisins, hawthorn slices, etc. can be added according to your preferences.

1. Choose this brown sugar and boil it in a ratio of 1:1 between sugar and water.

2. Chop the brown sugar into pieces with a knife, then put it into a casserole and grind it into finer pieces with a spatula.

3. Add an equal amount of water, turn on low heat and simmer.

4. This process takes about 15 minutes and the sugar water will become thick.

The solidified ice jelly is tender, smooth and chewy. If you look closely, you can find tiny bubbles. It has excellent elasticity and a soft texture. It is different from the ice jelly made from ice jelly powder.

Add brown sugar water in turn.

You can also add your favorite ingredients, various nuts or fruits, and your handmade ice jelly is ready!

It is cool, sweet, tender, smooth and refreshing, and can relieve summer heat, and reduce internal heat.

A perfect snack to cool off in summer!

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Tips:

1. Ice seeds can be purchased at grain and oil stores in the vegetable market or on Taobao.com, about 20 yuan per pound, and quicklime and gauze are usually given away.

2. If you accidentally rub ice seeds into the slurry when kneading ice powder, you can filter it with a sieve before putting it in the refrigerator to solidify, because after solidification, the ice seeds will be difficult to separate.

3. After rubbing the ice seeds, let the slurry sit for a little longer so that it will solidify better. The taste is more chewy, and it is recommended to cook for more than 2 hours.