Solve The Greasy Old Beijing Snacks-candied Haws

"It is said that the candied haws are sour, the sourness is wrapped in sweetness, and the candied haws are sweet, but the sourness is in the sweetness. The candied haws are so beautiful that they are worn on bamboo sticks, symbolizing happiness and reunion, and linking happiness and reunion together. No worries, no trouble!"---Do you remember this song? I remember that when I was a child, I heard Feng Xiaoquan’s candied haws all over the street. Today I was listening to this song while writing a blog. The picture was superb. It seemed to remind me of the old alley, that big locust tree, those childhood friends, those who only A snack that can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year...The candied haws in memory are only sold at the Spring Festival temple fair. They are luxury items on weekdays. It is said that the original candied haws only had two large and small fruits per bunch, the larger one. The smaller ones are on the bottom, and the smaller ones are on the top. They are worn with a bamboo stick in the middle, like a gourd, hence the name candied gourd. This statement is also found in "Late Qing Dynasty Court Seen and Hearing", and it is probably reliable.
There are three kinds of old Beijing candied haws. One is maltose (called syrup in Beijing dialect), which can be used to make large bunches of candied haws that are red in the mountains. Unlike ordinary candied haws that are 1 foot long, they can be connected with bamboo sticks, but can be as long as 5 feet. Connected with wattle, with colorful flags on the head, this kind of big candied haws is the most sold in the New Year factory. The other is made with sugar and sticks on it. When it is cold, it is a white layer of frost and has a different flavor. The authentic is candied haws, a thin layer of sugar, transparent and bright, crispy and not sticky to the teeth. There are many kinds of materials that can be used to make candied haws, such as crabapple, yam, yam beans, dried apricots, grapes, oranges, water chestnuts, and walnuts. In the past, the fine candied haws made by Xinyuanzhai did not use bamboo skewers. Each mountain red or begonia was individually independent and placed in a paper box padded with greased paper. "Yenjing Years of the Year" remembers the sugar haws: "sweet, crisp and cold, eaten on winter nights, quite good for coal." Today, I will introduce this old Beijing snack---the greasy old Beijing snack for the Spring Festival! "