Original Ice Powder

Name: Original Ice Powder
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 50g Ice powder seed; 5g lime powder; 2200g Cold water; Some Red syrup

by Food·Color

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

2h

Serving

2

Ice powder is a traditional summer drink. It is made by kneading the ice powder seeds to form mucus and then coagulating with lime water. It is smooth, transparent, icy, delicious, and has the effects of calming, expectorating, clearing heat, detoxifying, and relieving cough. According to investigations, ice powder began in Wuyang (now Pengshan County) during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At first it was only sold in Pengshan County, and then gradually spread to surrounding cities and counties, and spread throughout Sichuan in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Nowadays, there are instant ice powder on the market, which can be directly mixed with water and left to solidify. It is very simple and convenient to make, but such ice powder always feels less delicious than the ancient traditional ice powder. Ice powder seeds, once easily available, are now rare. What used to be easily accessible without spending money is now also packaged and listed on the market. Anyway, miss that old taste.

Ingredients

Original Ice Powder

1. Ingredients: 50 grams of ice powder seeds, 2200 grams of cold boiled water, 5 grams of lime powder, appropriate amount of red syrup

2. Put 5 grams of lime powder in a bowl, pour 200 grams of cold water, and stir well. After standing for clarification, pour out the supernatant and set aside.

3. Pour 2000 grams of cold boiled water into a large bowl. Take 50 grams of ice powder seeds, put them into a bean bag cloth bag, tie the mouth, immerse in water and knead. Mucus soon oozes out of the cloth bag. When the mucus is spit out, the cloth bag is wrung out to obtain the ice powder slurry.

4. Pour out the ice powder seeds, rinse off the remaining ice powder seeds on the cloth bag with clean water, and wring dry. Pour the ice powder slurry into a cloth bag and filter. After filtering, slowly pour the clarified lime water into the ice powder slurry while stirring in one direction.

5. The stirred ice powder slurry can be left standing at room temperature or placed in the refrigerator. Then, it becomes solidified jelly. Take a bowl, pour red syrup, sprinkle some goji berries, match the color, and eat. . .

Tips:
Do not knead too much, try to knead in water. The kneaded ice powder slurry can also be mixed directly with lime water without filtering.
Ice powder can be solidified without refrigeration.
When eating, you can add various fruits according to your preferences.