Fried Dough Twists

Fried Dough Twists are a traditional Chinese deep-fried wheat snack, known in ancient times as hanju and junü. They originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods with the custom of banning fire during the Cold Food Festival, and are made by rolling flour dough into strands, coiling them into loops and deep-frying them, which makes them crisp and flaky. They come in many shapes: Essential Techniques for the Welfare of the People records them as "thin ring cakes", Su Dongpo of the Song dynasty described the craft with the line "slender hands roll out jade, many spans long", and the Ming dynasty Compendium of Materia Medica clearly records the technique of "pulling the dough into cords and twisting it into rings and bracelets".

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