How-To

There are a variety of ways and ingredients which could be used as a substitute to make the Dragon Beard Candy but we use the following.

Ingredients:

• Light Corn Syrup
• High Fructose Corn Syrup
• Cooked Corn Flour
• Peanut or Cashew nuts
• Sesame seeds
• Coconut
• Cane Sugar

How to make Dragon Beard Candy:
In fact, it’s an ancient Chinese sweet made with corn syrup, melted, simmered and then formed into a kind of hard toffee donut.

This is then worked into a dried, toasted cornflour mixture, pulled and stretched – a bit like making handmade noodles – until the strands have turned into fine, soft threads. The threads are then wrapped around a filling of crushed mixed nuts and served as a melt-in-the-mouth sweet.