A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot Chapter 446

  Chapter 446 Rock Sugar

  The prototype of fried rice cakes is a dry food made by folks who collect rice crackers and wet rice, dry them in the sun, or fry them until they are browned, and then grind them into powder and mix them with sugar.

  It will not use rare ingredients, the simplest method will only use fried rice flour and sugar.

   But even so, it is still one of the most representative traditional dim sum in the minds of countless Cantonese.

  The most important raw material for fried rice cakes is fried rice noodles.

  It has two methods, one is to stir-fry with washed raw rice, and the other is to stir-fry with boiled cooked rice.

  The taste of these two kinds of rice noodles is different, and the taste of fried rice cakes is also different.

  The fried rice cakes made from raw rice fried and ground into powder will be harder, and if you eat too much heat, it will easily get angry.

  While the cooked rice is fried and ground into powder, it should be softer, and it won't be too uncomfortable if you eat too much.

  But cooked rice has to go through a process, and it has to be dried and fried, which is too time-consuming and labor-intensive, so even the folks don't steam the rice before frying it, they always use soaked raw rice for frying.

  The earliest fried rice cakes were made only with rice flour and sugar water.

   Later, some people will add some dried fruits to it to increase the aroma and taste, mainly sesame and peanuts.

   Li Yi's fried rice cakes will naturally not only use sesame and peanuts.

  Liu Yifei's baked dried fruits are ready-made. Li Yi called Wu Lei who had finished grinding the powder, and asked him to put all the dried fruits into a stone mortar and pound them into crumbs with a stone pestle.

   While he was pounding dried fruit, Li Yi took out a bag of sorbet sugar from the storage room, put it in the pot, and boiled the sugar water.

"what is this?"

  Wu Lei was holding dried fruit, and seeing Li Yi putting something into the pot again, he couldn't help being curious.

   "Bingan sugar."

  Li Yi explained casually, while pushing the water in the pot with a spoon, he cut rock sugar with the edge of the spoon, and mashed it up little by little.

   "What kind of sugar is rock sugar? I haven't seen it before."

  Wu Lei looked curiously.

   "It's eaten a lot in Guangdong Province. Your family should eat refined sugar like granulated sugar and rock sugar."

  Li Yi explained while boiling sugar water: "To make fried rice cakes, you need to use sugar water to mix fried rice noodles, and this sugar water must be boiled with borneol sugar.

   Rock sugar is when making rock sugar, the remaining rock sugar crystallization mother liquor, to put it bluntly, is not very pure sugar residue.

   Although it is impure, this rock sugar is more delicious and nutritious than pure rock sugar, and it is a good thing. "

  Wu Lei looked curiously at the rock sugar in the pot, and said thoughtfully: "That is to say, this kind of sugar is the kind that precipitates at the bottom when making rock sugar, right?"

"right."

  Li Yi nodded: "It mainly contains sucrose, and there are also some fine fibrous tissues of sugarcane. It contains much more trace elements than pure rock sugar, so this kind of sugar can also be used as medicine."

"sharp."

  Wu Lei couldn't help admiring: "Following you, I really saw a lot of food that I haven't seen before. It's a lot of experience."

   As he spoke, he asked again: "My hometown in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai also eats a lot of sugar. Why haven't I seen this kind of sugar?"

   "Because in the past, this kind of sugar came from low-end products."

  Li Yi explained: "In the past, this kind of sugar residue was cheaper than pure rock sugar, so ordinary people in ancient Guangdong Province bought this kind of sugar to eat.

   This kind of sugar can't be sold at a high price, so what's the profit in transporting it all the way to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai? So it's all digested locally. "

"All right."

  Wu Lei took a look at the packaging bag on the side: "It's called rock sugar, right? I'll buy some for my family to taste. This should be similar to brown sugar, right?"

"no the same."

  Li Yi reminded: "This kind of sugar still belongs to the category of rock sugar. Rock sugar is cold in nature. Eating it can clear away heat and detoxify, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, but brown sugar is warm in nature. It is mainly used to warm the spleen and stomach, warm the meridians and relieve pain. This is clear."

"ok, I get it."

  Wu Lei nodded: "Then I'll buy some water for my dad and help him quit smoking."

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   While the audience in the live broadcast room was busy, the rock sugar in the pot had already melted.

   Seeing that the sorbet sugar had completely melted and the sugar water was slightly boiling, Li Yi turned off the fire.

   The sugar water used for fried rice cakes does not need to be converted, it just needs to be cooled and can be used directly.

  Take the sugar water and put it in the freezer to freeze. Li Yi heard Yang Shaoyue's excited shouts from the oven.

  He looked back, only to find that they had sent the first batch of wrapped five-nut mooncakes into the oven for five minutes, and they were pulling out the mooncake tray and brushing the top of the mooncakes with egg wash.

  Cantonese-style mooncakes will be brushed with egg wash on the surface to create an attractive color of burnt yellow.

  Although it was far away, Li Yi could smell the unique aroma of Cantonese five-nut mooncakes.

   But this is only the first time to brush with egg wash. Before the five-nut mooncake is completely baked, it needs to be brushed with egg wash twice.

   Brush the egg wash once every five minutes, wait until the egg wash is finished three times, and after baking for another ten minutes, the mooncake is completely baked.

  This time, the cheers of Yang Shaoyue and the others almost knocked the roof off.

"Wow! So beautiful!"

   "It's so beautiful! This is the most perfect mooncake!"

   "We're awesome!"

   "Let me take a picture! I want to send it to Moments!"

  The girls were very excited. They wrapped it with their own hands, pressed it with mooncake molds, and then baked it in the oven.

   Except that Li Yi did the mixing of skin and stuffing, they did all other work by themselves.

  So, these mooncakes are rounded up, which means they made them, and they feel a sense of accomplishment.

  First, they took hundreds of photos with the moon cakes, and then, they coincidentally edited the pictures with their mobile phones.

  Huang Xiaoming silently took out the mooncakes from the tray, found a knife, cut them into small pieces, and said, "Come and taste it! Be careful it's hot!"

  When the girls heard this, they immediately came over and picked up a small piece of mooncake, and then they all turned on the selfie mode, taking pictures of various poses with the mooncake.

  Seeing this, Huang Xiaoming shook his head, and reached out to pick up a piece of moon cake.

  Just as he was about to put it in his mouth, he hesitated for a moment, and sneakily took out his phone.

  Holding the phone in front of his face, he brought the mooncake to his mouth with one hand, he grinned, and snapped a picture with the camera.

   Clicking on the scarf, he uploaded a photo with a paragraph of text: "Looking back, the five-nut moon cake is still the classic."

  Click to send, he looked at the words uploaded successfully, and put the mooncake into his mouth.

   As soon as he took a bite, his attention was pulled back instantly.

  The five-nut stuffing mixed with the unique aroma of terminal nuts is like an aroma bomb. Every time you chew it, it will cause a wave of intense aroma explosion.

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