"Oh! I know! It's called anti-sand, right? ”

The sheep remembered something, clapped his hands, and exclaimed: "When I used to boil sugar, I had several times when I was boiling sugar, but it was because there were sugar grains that did not melt?" ”

"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: "To make invert sugar syrup for Cantonese-style mooncakes, it is best to use sucrose and fructose to boil, which can reduce the chance of anti-sand."

Anti-sand is actually the insufficient degree of syrup conversion, and the most common reason is that the proportion of sugar is wrong.

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

Then there is the amount of citric acid is not enough, and the reaction is not thorough enough.

The amount of citric acid is added at 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%, and if you add lemon juice, you should calculate this ratio. ”

Hearing Li Yi's explanation, the sheep slapped his forehead with a smile: "Okay, it's good that you reminded me, otherwise I really thought it was 0.06% lemon juice."

I also said that you obviously added that much just now, it must be more than 0.06%. ”

"It's citric acid."

Li Yi explained: "Its practical citric acid will be better, safer and controllable, and less difficult.

Lemon juice will be more likely to mix with lemon pulp pomace or peel tissue, and these impurities are more likely to become crystal seeds, resulting in syrup backing.

Therefore, when using lemon juice, it will require a high level of experience in the heat.

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

"That's it! I see. ”

The sheep nodded and exclaimed, "You teach so carefully!" I feel that after I go back from you, I will be able to open a mooncake factory. ”

"Of course."

Wu Lei on the side said with a smile: "Brother Yi has always taught the truth, I swiped a video that day, and there are already viewers who have learned Brother Yi's method of making tofu and sold tofu at the stall." ”

The girl with the head of the ball also echoed with a smile: "I came to learn from Brother Yi this time, and Brother Yi really has no reservations about teaching things." ”

Zhao Jinmai sighed: "It's unreserved, but even if I don't keep it, I won't be able to learn!" ”

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

Li Yi said, turned down the flame on the stove, and reminded the sheep: "By the way, there is another reminder to you, stirring is just to speed up the speed of sugar melting, but don't stir too violently, when stirring, the fire can't be turned on too big, you have to boil it over low heat."

When it is stirred vigorously, air is mixed into the syrup, forming bubbles.

If the fire is too large, the air bubbles will also increase, and these bubbles will also turn into crystals, resulting in anti-sand.

So, remember the four words, turn it slowly over a small fire, and you won't be able to reverse the sand. ”

"Understood."

The sheep jokingly hugged Li Yi with a fist: "Thank you Brother Yi for teaching me!" When I open a mooncake factory, I will definitely give you a big red envelope! ”

"Only red envelopes, no shares?"

Li Yi joked with a smile.

"Yes! Of course! You become a major shareholder! ”

The sheep joked: "Why don't you come to be a spokesperson and use your avatar as a trademark, the business will definitely be booming!" ”

"You're catching a sheep!"

Li Yi said and laughed as he looked at the syrup with small bubbles in the pot.

Pointing to the syrup in the pot, Li Yi opened his mouth and advised: "If the syrup is bubbling, it means that it is not yet hot."

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

When it starts to turn slightly yellow, the bubbles start to get smaller, the number of bubbles that pop up decreases, and the speed slows down, it's almost transformed. ”

"Slightly yellow?"

The sheep asked curiously, "Is it boiled to the state of pulling silk?" ”

"It's about the same, but it's a little thicker."

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

"In between..."

The sheep thought, no concept in his head.

Seeing this, Li Yi signaled: "You'll know when it's boiled later, you watch the fire here, I'll go to adjust the stuffing, and call me when I see the fire is coming." ”

After speaking, he came to the oven, Liu Yifei was preparing the dried fruits to be used for the five-kernel filling, and the tray was already full of a table.

Seeing that she was silently mixing so many fillings, Li Yi stepped forward and pressed her shoulder: "Rest for a while!" Get up and stand up, don't get too tired. ”

"It's okay, there's a little left and it's done."

Liu Yifei didn't care: "It's just some dried fruits, and I'm not tired, by the way, I asked Mai Mai to send the first few servings to the oven to bake, it's almost ready, you go and take it out!" ”

When Li Yi heard this, he went to the oven, and sure enough, he saw several trays full of five-kernel dried fruits inside.

Bite!

Ten minutes of baking is just over time.

Li Yi put on heat-insulating gloves and took out the tray.

These dried fruits are roasted to dry the moisture and moisture on the surface of the roast, to stimulate the oily aroma of the dried fruits, and to bring out as much fragrance as possible.

The baking effect is obviously good, and when you open the oven door, a strong aroma of dried fruits wells up.

The aroma of walnut kernels, almonds, melon seeds, sesame seeds, and olive kernels is mixed together to create a peculiar fragrance.

This fragrant smell mainly comes from olive kernels, which are also the most important dried fruits in the traditional five kernels.

It has a high oil content and a special aroma, and now it has been sold according to high-end snacks and dried fruits, and the lowest price is two or three hundred and one catties.

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

But the aroma of peanuts is still incomparable with olive kernels, and the aroma is a few points worse.

Therefore, in order to restore the most traditional five-kernel mooncakes, Li Yi specially bought the best Xishan olive kernels to bake this strong fragrance.

The aroma is pervasive, and it quickly attracts the attention of everyone in the back kitchen.

Yang Shaoyue: They have already smelled the smell and come over.

"What is this? It smells so good! ”

Yang Shaoyue sniffed the aroma and looked curiously at the dried fruits that Li Yi brought out.

"This is the dried fruit to be used for the five-kernel filling."

Li Yi explained casually.

"This is a five-kernel stuffing?"

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

"Of course."

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

Olive kernel is the soul of the five-kernel mooncake, and the five-kernel mooncake without the olive kernel is like an oily dough without chili peppers, and mapo tofu without peppercorns, which has no soul at all. ”

Seeing Li Yi eating sweetly, Yang Shaoyue curiously reached out and picked up half an olive kernel, lowered his head and sniffed, and sighed in surprise: "This is the taste!" It smells so good! What is it? Olive kernels? ”

She looked at the olive kernels and was a little surprised: "I only know that there are olive vegetables, but I have never eaten olive kernels!" ”

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