Sugared Noodles
I translated another few recipes for the cooks mailing list. I had initially thought that "yellow cocoon candy" would be something like cotton candy, or pişmaniye , but this is actually noodles dry-fried and soaked in syrup. Still neat! I wonder how these taste. 《食次》曰：From The Sequence of Food [Lost Northern and Southern Dynasties era text on food, which survives in part here.]: 「白繭糖法：熟炊秫稻米飯，及熱于杵臼淨者舂之為𥻓 ，須令極熟，勿令有米粒。 “To make white cocoon candy [actually a kind of friend glutinous rice noodle rolled in sugar to form pellets]: take fully cooked proso millet or rice [commentary thinks it’s glutinous, but I’m not sure from the text], pound it completely in a mortar as if you are making rice cakes. You must fully pound it, and not allow any grains to remain. 幹為餅：法，厚二分許。 Form into a cake [cakes?]: in the standard way, two fen or so thick. 日曝小燥，刀𠠫為長條，廣二分；乃斜裁之，大如棗核，兩頭尖。 Dry in the sun until a little dry, and cut it using a knife in straight divisions to form l