霜糖是河南省荥阳县的特产，解放前多产于荥阳城西18公里的汜水镇，后来荥阳西关也有少量生产。霜糖始制于何时，尚未见史料记载。据世代制作霜糖的汜水镇周长海说，他祖上一直制作霜糖，祖父周妮曾对他说过，他家制作霜糖已有一百多年的历史，荥阳西关几年制作霜糖的糖铺，其技术都由他家传授。 　　
      
    霜糖亦称'霜糖饼'，用柿饼外面的一层柿霜做成，一般直径约为5厘米的小园饼，性凉，食药两用，味道凉甜，能治舌乾口烂，是解热消暑的佳品。上海、西安等地的医药公司每年都要来荥阳县订购，作为制药原料。解放前，河南固始县一带制眼药的医生，也来购买霜糖作原料。 　　
      
    霜糖做工精细，先用筛子将柿饼外面的一层白霜筛下，经过溶解，熬成稠浆，然后用小铁片按定量勺到模子（陶瓷小碟，现改为塑料纸）上，经过烘烤，晾干即成。上等霜糖呈棕黄色，每斤60片，片中心稍凸，无任何杂质，手拍即碎。 　　
      
    鲁迅先生对荥阳霜糖极为称赞，他在《华盖集续编》里写道：'打开包来看时......却是圆圆的小薄片，黄棕色，吃起来又凉又细腻，确是好东西。这是用柿糖做成的，性凉，如果嘴角上生些小疮之类，用这一搽便会好。



    Xingyang Frosting Sugar is a special local product in Xingyang, it was mostly produced in the west of the city, Sishui Town before the establishment of the people’s Republic of China and was few produced in Xiguan of the city later. It’s unknown for people when frosting sugar was appeared for the first time. According to Zhou Changhai, whose family has made this food for several generations in this town, his grandfather told him that his family has made this food for at least 100 years and the making skill is also spread by his family. 
      
    Frosting sugar is also called frosting sugar cake, which is made by the frosting cover outside the dried persimmons and is always with a round shape of 5 cm diameter. Its nature is cool and can be used to eat or make medicine, which is helpful to relieve summer heat. There are many medical companies come to place an order for it every year. Besides, the doctors from Gushi Town have ever always come to buy frosting sugar for making eye drops.
      
    Frosting sugar has a very careful making-process: sift the external layer of the dried persimmons with griddle, melt them together and heat them into thickened mud, pet them on plastic papers, roast and dry them. The best Frosting sugar is yellow brown and has a salient in the center without any impurity.
      
    Mr. Luxun has a very high praise for Frosting Sugar, which he writes in his book Second Huagai Collecting: Open the cover and have a look, then we can see a round flakelet, which is yellow brown, smooth and eats fine. It’s truly a good thing. Since its nature is cool, we can use it to cure small pimples if we have.