Ice powder, bean jelly, cold cake and rice tofu are silly and confused, and no one can think that they are all different.

There are too many delicious foods in summer, which are often dazzling and dizzying. In fact, many things are only slightly different in terms of names, eating methods and cooking methods, but they have become different kinds of food, which is really amazing.

Take four kinds of snacks, such as ice powder, bean jelly, cold cake and rice tofu. Their names are very similar. Can you tell who is who? In fact, they are all deeply connected with each other, so let Gourmet Jun introduce them to you one by one!

Ice powder is a kind of transparent drink that we usually eat and plays like jelly, which is basically sweet. In Sichuan, ice powder is particularly popular, and friends who eat hot pot like a bowl of ice powder to relieve the spicy after dinner. Sichuan ice powder with rich ingredients has a very high value, also called rose ice powder.

There are two kinds of ice powder, one is made of ice powder, which is very convenient and suitable for our family to keep, and the other is called hand-made ice powder, which is made by kneading ice powder seeds into slurry and solidifying. There are plenty of bubbles in hand-rubbed ice powder, so it tastes soft. Now many people like to rub ice powder by hand.

Outside Sichuan, some people call ice powder bean jelly, but in Sichuan, bean jelly refers to another thing-bean bean jelly, and this kind of bean jelly usually eats salty mouth. Pea starch is boiled in water to form a slurry, which can be cut into small pieces after cooling and solidification, and mixed evenly with seasonings such as aged vinegar, soy sauce, oil spicy seeds and coriander.

You can eat it in this way. Sichuanese have spicy tastes, so some people laughed and said that this kind of bean jelly is so spicy that people burst into tears. People who don't know it thought you would cry because you were very sad, so they called it sad bean jelly.

speaking of ice powder, bean jelly, what is a cool cake? Lianggao is also a snack that Sichuan people love to eat, but it is not as famous as ice powder, and it has only been recognized by more and more people this year. Although the cake is called cake, it is not a cake that can be eaten when picked up, but like ice powder, it needs to be seasoned with brown sugar water.

The raw materials used in the cold cake are rice flour and clear hydrated lime water, and it can achieve the effect of Q-bomb by using the alkalinity of lime. Rice flour and slaked lime water are mixed into a slurry, boiled in a pot to be thick, and then put into a container. After the cold cake is solidified, add brown sugar water and fruit granules to eat.

It seems that rice tofu has nothing to do with the previous three kinds of delicious food, but in fact, the principle of making rice tofu is the same as that of cold cakes, which also uses rice flour and clear hydrated lime water. In this case, slaked lime water plays the role of marinating tofu, turning rice slurry into rice tofu.

The difference between rice tofu and cold cake is reflected in the way of eating. Rice tofu is salty and cold cake is sweet. Rice tofu can be made into cold, soup and fried, and each method has its own characteristics. Rice tofu tastes very Q-bomb, and the gourmet likes it very much.

Now you should know something about ice powder, bean jelly, cold cake and rice tofu, right? I can tell you which of these four ways to eat is your favorite.