Preserve spoon sugar coconut candy flavor

The job of making coconut sugar candy once flourished, now it has been lost. Although the profession does not bring income as before, but over the past few decades, Ms. Trinh Thi Sanh, in An Thach village, Pho An commune (Duc Pho town), has remained attached to and preserved the flavor of scented coconut sugar. tasty.
Spoon sugar is sugar that is cooked from sugar cane juice and precipitated in terracotta spoons. Ms. Trinh Thi Sanh said: When I was a child, every day I watched my parents make coconut candy, when I was 10 years old, I knew how to make candies, then brought them to the market to sell.

Every day, Ms. Trinh Thi Sanh still makes and sells spoon sugar coconut candy. Photo: H.THU Previously, there were 7-8 people selling spoon sugar at Pho An market. Everyone makes 3-4 candies and sells it halfway in the morning. Spoon sugar coconut candy is made from spoon sugar, coconut and a little ginger, peanut. The spoon sugar has a rich sweet taste, and when combined with coconut, it will add a fatty taste, very delicious. “Till years ago, every day I sold more than 4 candy trays, about over 20kg. In the morning, I went to the market to sell candies, in the afternoon I stayed at home to make candies, so that it was almost 40 years old,” said Ms. Sanh. To make a spoon sugar candy tray takes about 4 hours. Making spoon sugar coconut candy is very simple, washed copra, sliced ​​thin, then rim with spoon sugar. Rim until the sugar and coconut are close, add some ginger and peanuts. Not picky, but spoon sugar coconut candy is very delicious, associated with the childhood of many generations. In the old days, in the women’s shopping basket, mothers always had a few bags of coconut sugar candy as a gift for the children. For about 10 years now, in Pho An commune, only Mrs. Sanh has been making spoon sugar coconut candy. Every day, Ms. Sanh brought a 3 – 4 kg candy tray to the market to sell. Each bag of candy larger than an adult’s hand costs 10 thousand VND. The income from making spoon sugar coconut candy is very low, so to have money to cover her life, Ms. Sanh makes a little cake with little hemp leaves and banh chung to sell with. Ms. Sanh shared her heart: “Because I am attached to the traditional taste, I stick with it, but the income from candy making is not worth much. Sometimes I still accept orders from customers from far away. Even on the street. She doesn’t lack candies, but they still order bags of coconut candy to eat, to remember the taste and memories of my childhood, this makes me feel happy and have more motivation to stick to the profession “.