At 1:50 p.m., the purchased plate oil was shipped back to the restaurant, and Li Yi began a new round of oil refining.

With fresh lard, the cake line can be started again.

The audience and guests continued to make the remaining [fresh meat mooncakes], and Li Yi took out the cauldron and prepared to make invert syrup.

Seeing Li Yi take out a large bag of white sugar, the sheep brought a large basin and put it on the desk.

Zhao Jinmai wrapped the [fresh meat moon cakes] all morning, and was a little bored, so he also came over and asked curiously: "Brother Yi, do you want to boil sugar?" ”

"It's not."

Li Yi casually explained while cutting open the white sugar bag: "I want to make invert sugar syrup." ”

"Invert syrup?"

Zhao Jinmai was a little puzzled: "What is invert sugar syrup?" ”

"It's for Cantonese mooncake crust, right?"

Sheep has some impressions: "This kind of syrup seems to be used more in Western pastries, and Chinese pastries are only used to make Cantonese-style mooncake crusts." ”

"I also use it to make sakima, but compared to pastries, it is much less useful."

Li Yi put the cauldron on the stove and poured purified water into it.

"Yes, to make pastries, this syrup is a must."

The sheep nodded and said, "Make cakes, pies, puddings, you have to use this syrup, I have it at home." ”

Zhao Jinmai was ignorant: "Why is it called invert sugar syrup?" Is it related to genetically modified organisms? ”

"How is that possible?"

Li Yi was amused by her and explained with a smile: "Invert syrup is a syrup formed by using acid or enzyme to convert and hydrolyze sucrose solution into a mixture of molecules such as glucose and fructose.

The raw material of this syrup is ordinary sucrose, but after being converted, it will not crystallize like sucrose and can remain in a liquid state forever.

Using this syrup to make a Cantonese-style mooncake crust, the mooncake crust will remain soft all the time and will not harden due to the sucrose crystals inside.

Some inferior moon cakes, the kind that tastes very hard, are made because they do not use invert sugar syrup, but are made with ordinary rock sugar boiled water, so they will crystallize and harden after they are cold, and they will be toothy when eaten. ”

"That's it!"

Zhao Jinmai seems to understand.

The sheep were also surprised: "Is this the reason why?" I've only heard of using invert sugar syrup to make Cantonese mooncakes, but this is the first time I know why. ”

Li Yi smiled, turned around and went to the storage room to bring a foam box.

The box is heavy, and when it is placed on the desk, the iron surface of the desk is directly concave.

After taking a knife to cut the tape, Li Yi opened the lid of the box, and suddenly revealed an irregular dark yellow object inside.

It is shaped like a half-cut mushroom leaf but is the size of half a car tire, and is covered with hexagonal grid-like textures.

"Huh?"

The sheep was a little surprised: "Is this honey?" ”

"Yes, pure wild honeycomb honey, bought from Yun Province."

Li Yi took out the hive and put it on the desk.

Seeing the huge beehive, the barrage in the live broadcast room was full of barrages, and the audience was also amazed.

"! Such a big hive! ”

"Is this a real wild beehive? Impossible, right? Can you still have this good thing? ”

"Nine times out of ten, it's fake, and I've bought fake honey."

"Brother Yi should be no worse than what he bought, I guess it's true."

"If it's real wild honey, it's a good thing!"

In front of the camera, Zhao Jinmai was also looking at the hive curiously, while asking, "What is this honey going to do?" ”

Zhao Jinmai asked curiously.

"Make mooncakes!"

Li Yi clapped his hands, turned around and turned on the steamer, while explaining: "The most traditional Cantonese mooncake crust is made of honey and maltose, but pure honey will crystallize, just like this."

Traditional Cantonese-style mooncakes made with honey will have a sandy taste, which modern people are no longer used to.

Therefore, we must also keep pace with the times, combine new and old technologies, honey with syrup, and neutralize the advantages, so as to better adapt to the times! ”

As he spoke, Li Yi took out a bone chopping knife, chiseled the beehive with the tail of the knife, and cut it into small pieces.

Hearing the sound of him chopping the beehive, the audience and guests looked over curiously.

Seeing Li Yi's hive, they were surprised: "Is that earth honey?" Brother Yi, what are you going to do? ”

"Brother Yi wants to make Cantonese mooncakes."

The sheep explained to them.

Hearing her words, several audience guests immediately ran over.

"I'm selling mooncakes in my shop!"

"I'll do it! I am the best at Cantonese mooncakes! ”

A girl with a ball head came to the front and volunteered: "Brother Yi, I can help, my family sells moon cakes." ”

Seeing this, Li Yi instructed her: "You bring the gauze, wrap these honeycomb honey, put them in a tray, and take them to the steamer to steam." ”

"Okay."

The ball-headed girl found gauze and, according to what Li Yi said, wrapped the hive with gauze.

While wrapping it, she couldn't help but ask curiously: "Brother Yi, what are you going to do with this honey?" Mix the stuffing? ”

"Half for the stuffing, half for the mooncake crust." Li Yi explained casually.

"If you don't use honey to make the skin, you can use syrup!"

"The syrup is the same as the honey made, and the syrup is still cheap," she reminded. ”

Hearing this, Li Yi smiled and explained: "Of course, fake honey is the same as syrup, because fake honey is syrup, but the effect of real pure honey is still different." ”

“……”

When the girl heard this, she was a little embarrassed, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

She reacted as if she had said the wrong thing, and she was a little apprehensive for a while.

Now that millions of viewers are watching, if someone goes to her store and leaves a few bad reviews, it's over.

Seeing this, Li Yi comforted her: "Pure honey is not so easy to buy, if I don't make it out and sell it on the show, I will also use syrup, which is convenient and has a good effect."

Generally, it is possible to use pure honey to make it at home, but if you open a store or factory, using pure honey is looking for death.

The effect of invert sugar syrup is very good, and the taste of the mooncakes made is much better than that of pure honey.

I use wild honey to make it, mainly because of the potpourri in the honey, which can add flavor to the mooncakes. ”

Hearing him say this, the pill-headed girl breathed a sigh of relief and nodded in agreement: "That's the case, it's hard to buy soil honey, and there is no way to use earth honey when you open a store."

Even if we use honey, we buy the same kind of blended honey, the effect is not as good as the syrup, and the taste is average. ”

The sheep listened and couldn't help but say, "It's really hard to buy real pure honey now, and most of the ones on the market are fake."

Some of the purported to be real local honey are also fake.

I bought a fake last time, and the seller said it was real wild honey, all cut directly from the beehive.

As a result, when I bought it back and used it, I found out that it was a fake, and I lost a lot of money. ”

"Real wild honey is very scarce, and it is difficult to buy real honey unless you go to the production area to harvest it."

Li Yi cut down the hive, wrapped it in gauze, and explained: "If you usually eat it as a dessert, you don't have to buy wild honey, ordinary farmed honey doesn't taste bad, as long as you don't buy fake honey." ”

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