A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot Chapter 439

Chapter 439 Traditional Five Kernels

"Oh! I know! It's called backsanding, right?"

Sheep thought of something, clapped his hands, and exclaimed: "I used to boil sugar several times, so it's because the sugar grains haven't melted?"

"Yes, anti-sand means that the sugar is not boiled in place."

Li Yi observed the state of the syrup in the pot, and turned off the heat to the minimum: "The invert syrup used to make Cantonese-style moon cakes is best boiled with sucrose and fructose, which can reduce the chance of sand inversion.

Anti-sanding is actually insufficient conversion of syrup. The most common reason is that the proportion of sugar is wrong.

It shows that the content of small molecule fructose and glucose is low, and the content of white granulated sugar is high, so it is easy to back sand and form crystals.

Another thing is that the amount of citric acid is not enough, and the reaction is not thorough enough.

The amount of citric acid is added according to 0.06% of the amount of sugar, but note that it is citric acid, not lemon juice.

The citric acid content in lemon juice is about 5%. If you add lemon juice, you need to calculate according to this ratio. "

Hearing Li Yi's explanation, Yang Yang patted his forehead with a smile: "Okay, fortunately you reminded me, otherwise I really thought it was 0.06% lemon juice.

I also said that you added so much just now, it must have exceeded 0.06%. "

"It's citric acid."

Li Yi explained: "Actually, it would be better to use citric acid, which is safer and controllable, and the difficulty is lower.

Using lemon juice will make it easier to mix into the lemon pulp or peel tissue, and these impurities are easier to become crystal seeds, causing the syrup to sand back.

So when using lemon juice, the experience requirements for the heat are relatively high.

If you try it at home, it is best to use citric acid, the success rate will be higher. "

"I see! Got it."

Sheep nodded and praised: "You teach so carefully! I feel that after learning from you, I can open a mooncake factory."

"of course."

Wu Lei on the side smiled and said: "Brother Yi has always taught the truth. I saw a video that day. Some viewers have already learned how to make tofu from Brother Yi, and they sell tofu at a stall."

The ball-headed girl also echoed with a smile: "I came here this time to learn technology from Brother Yi, and Brother Yi really has no reservations in teaching things."

Zhao Jinmai sighed: "I have no reservations, but even if I don't reserve it, I can't learn it!"

"As long as you want to learn, how can you not learn?"

As Li Yi said, he turned down the flame of the stove, and reminded the sheep: "By the way, there is one more thing to remind you, the stirring is just to speed up the melting of the sugar, but don't stir it too vigorously.

When vigorously turning, air will be mixed into the syrup to form air bubbles.

If the fire is too large, the bubbles will increase, and these bubbles will also become seeds, resulting in anti-sand.

So, remember the four words, turn it slowly over low heat, and there will be no back sand. "

"learn."

Yang Yang clasped his fists at Li Yi jokingly: "Thank you Brother Yi for teaching me everything! When I open a mooncake factory, I will definitely give you a big red envelope!"

"Only red envelopes, no shares?"

Li Yi laughed and joked.

"Yes! Of course! You are the major shareholder!"

Sheep joked: "You can be the spokesperson and use your avatar as a trademark, the business will definitely be booming!"

"You are catching a sheep!"

Li Yi was talking and laughing, while looking at the syrup with small bubbles in the pot.

Pointing at the syrup in the pot, Li Yi said: "If the syrup is bubbling, it means it's not ready yet.

The temperature of the syrup at this stage is only 105°C, and it will last for a certain period of time.

Wait until its color starts to turn slightly yellow, the bubbles start to become smaller, the number of bubbles becomes smaller, and the speed slows down, it is considered that the transformation is almost complete. "

"Slightly yellowing?"

The sheep asked curiously: "Is it the state of drawing silk?"

“Almost the same, but a little thicker.”

Li Yi explained: "The boiled syrup will be a bit like maltose, but it will be thinner, but it will be thicker than the shredded state, because it has been transformed with citric acid, and the texture will be in between."

"Between..."

Sheep pondered, with no concept in mind.

Seeing this, Li Yi signaled: "You'll know when it's cooked. You're watching the fire here. I'm going to make the stuffing. Call me when you see the heat is up."

After finishing speaking, he came to the oven, and Liu Yifei was preparing the dried fruit for Wuren stuffing, which had already filled the table with trays.

Seeing that she prepared so many stuffings quietly, Li Yi stepped forward and pressed her shoulder: "Take a break! Stand up, don't be too tired."

"It's okay, there's only a little left and we'll finish it."

Liu Yifei didn't take it seriously: "It's just some dried fruit, and I'm not tired. By the way, I asked Mai Mai to bake the first few servings. It's almost ready. You can take them out!"

Hearing this, Li Yi went to the oven, and sure enough, he saw several trays filled with dried five-nuts inside.

Ding!

Ten minutes of baking is just about time.

Li Yi put on insulated gloves and took out the tray.

The roasting of these dried fruits is to dry the moisture and moisture on the surface, stimulate the oily aroma of the dried fruits, and try to bring out the fragrance as much as possible.

The baking effect is obviously good. After opening the oven door, a strong aroma of dried fruits gushes out.

The aromas of five dried fruits, walnut kernels, almonds, melon seeds, sesame kernels, and olive kernels, are mixed together to form a peculiar aroma.

This strong aroma mainly comes from olive kernels, which are also the most important type of dried fruit among the traditional five kernels.

It has a high oil content and has a special aroma. Nowadays, it is always sold as high-end snack dried fruit, and the price is as low as two to three hundred one catty.

Therefore, many manufacturers of mooncakes with five kernels are reluctant to use olive kernels to make mooncakes with five kernels, and they all use peanuts instead.

But the aroma of peanuts is still not comparable to that of olive kernels, and the fragrance is a little worse.

So, in order to restore the most traditional five-nut mooncake, Li Yi specially bought the best Xishan Terminalia to bake out this strong aroma.

The fragrance permeated the air and quickly attracted the attention of everyone in the back kitchen.

Yang Shaoyue and the others have already smelled it and came over.

"What is this? It smells so good!"

Yang Shaoyue sniffed the aroma, and looked curiously at the dried fruit Li Yi brought out.

"This is the dried fruit for Wuren stuffing."

Li Yi explained casually.

"Is this stuffed with five kernels?"

Yang Shaoyue was even more surprised: "The five-nut stuffing I have eaten is not so fragrant at all!"

"of course."

Li Yi smiled and picked up half a crispy roasted olive kernel from the tray, and threw it into his mouth: "There should be no olive kernel in the five-nut mooncake you eat.

Terminal nuts are the soul of Wuren mooncakes. Wuren mooncakes without terminal kernels are like oil-splashed noodles without chili peppers, and mapo tofu without peppercorns. They have no soul at all. "

Seeing that Li Yi was eating deliciously, Yang Shao reached out curiously and picked up half an olive kernel. He lowered his head and sniffed it, and exclaimed in surprise, "This is the taste! It smells so good! What is this? Olive kernels?"

She looked at the olive kernel, a little surprised: "I only know that there are olive vegetables, but I haven't eaten olive kernel yet!"

(end of this chapter)

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