霜糖是河南省滎陽縣的特產，解放前多產于滎陽城西18公里的汜水鎮，后來滎陽西關也有少量生產。霜糖始制于何時，尚未見史料記載。據世代制作霜糖的汜水鎮周長海說，他祖上一直制作霜糖，祖父周妮曾對他說過，他家制作霜糖已有一百多年的歷史，滎陽西關幾年制作霜糖的糖鋪，其技術都由他家傳授。 　　
      
    霜糖亦稱'霜糖餅'，用柿餅外面的一層柿霜做成，一般直徑約為5厘米的小園餅，性涼，食藥兩用，味道涼甜，能治舌乾口爛，是解熱消暑的佳品。上海、西安等地的醫藥公司每年都要來滎陽縣訂購，作為制藥原料。解放前，河南固始縣一帶制眼藥的醫生，也來購買霜糖作原料。 　　
      
    霜糖做工精細，先用篩子將柿餅外面的一層白霜篩下，經過溶解，熬成稠漿，然后用小鐵片按定量勺到模子（陶瓷小碟，現改為塑料紙）上，經過烘烤，晾干即成。上等霜糖呈棕黃色，每斤60片，片中心稍凸，無任何雜質，手拍即碎。 　　
      
    魯迅先生對滎陽霜糖極為稱贊，他在《華蓋集續編》里寫道：'打開包來看時......卻是圓圓的小薄片，黃棕色，吃起來又涼又細膩，確是好東西。這是用柿糖做成的，性涼，如果嘴角上生些小瘡之類，用這一搽便會好。



    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.