Ingredient Spotlight: Rock Sugar
From The Food of China:
Chinese recipes that call for generous amounts of oil, sugar, and chiu are usually of eastern Chinese origin. Sugar is most typically used in the solid, clear, crystalline form that has been called “rock sugar” in China for perhaps two thousand years. This form is supposed to be more healthful than other sugars; in traditional times it was purer and less subject to adulteration.
Suggestions for use:
Red Cooked Chicken from Chow Times
Steamed Egg Custard from Kitchen Crazy Daffy
A PINK Cranberry Punch from Kitchen Unplugged
Habeas Brulee’s Green Curry Shrimp
Pork Rib and Lotus Root Soup from Tastes as Good as It Looks
Red Bean Porridge from Rose’s Kitchenette
Dear Sir,
May I know the manufacturing process of ROCK SUGAR.
Thank you!
I would like to know where I could buy these 1lb bag of yellow lump?
That one I bought at a store in Chinatown, New York. But it should be available in Asian stores around the country. Where are you located?
Is there a substitute for rock Sugar. I live far from the nearest Asian market in the Mountains of Colorado.
Thank you, H rosenbluh