Shen Mingzhu purchased apples to prepare to make apple gummies.

In this era, candy is not only a rarity, but also an indispensable need for people's livelihood.

You have to buy candy for personal contacts, you have to buy candy for wedding and birthday celebrations, and you have to buy candy for New Year's holidays.

A small piece of candy carries the childhood of thousands of children.

At present, the candies on the market are mainly toffee, halva and fruit-flavored hard candies, and there are also soft candies, such as beef candy, lard candy, orange candy, corn candy, in addition, there are almost no other fruit gummies on the market.

At least, not on the Fengcheng side.

She is confident that with what she has learned from 40 years later, she will be able to make a name for herself in the confectionery market.

This is just the first step in her plan.

After the successful opening of the apple gummies in the market, she will continue to develop more apple-based snacks, and then gradually open up the sales of these snacks and promote them to the whole country, which can drive the income of local fruit farmers.

Although she is just an ordinary woman, she also wants to do her best to do something extraordinary.

The process of making fruit gummies is not complicated, and the ingredients are simple, only sugar, lemon, and edible pectin are needed.

There are many sugars used to make candy, such as sucrose, glucose, rock sugar, maltose, white sugar, and so on.

But instead of using these sugars, starch syrup is used to make candy.

Compared with sucrose and maltose, starch syrup has a milder sweetness, a certain viscosity and moisturizing properties, and more importantly, its price is very cheap, which can reduce the production cost to a large extent.

Lemons, in the current season it is impossible to buy fresh, but can be replaced with citric acid.

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For Shen Mingzhu's concept and ideas, everyone has different opinions.

Pei Yang naturally supported her unconditionally.

Du Juan and Shen Chaobei are not against her making apple gummies, but they just think that a new product has been released this month, and they should first make profits from potato chips before considering developing new products.

Shen Hongmei remained neutral and did not oppose or support.

Shen Mingzhu also said the reason why she was anxious to make new products, "There is still a month before the Spring Festival, if we act quickly, we may be able to go on the market before the Spring Festival. ”

"Think about it, when you return to the village during the Chinese New Year, the people in the village eat apple candy produced by our food factory, what a thing to be proud of."

I have to say that Shen Mingzhu accurately grasped the pain point of the two of them "returning home".

Du Juan and his wife were persuaded in this way and agreed with Shen Mingzhu's idea.

Opinions are unanimous, and the next step is action.

In addition to the raw materials needed to make fruit gummies, commercial wall breakers, called pulverizers in this era, stainless steel pots for boiling sugar, molds for sugar cubes, etc., are also needed.

When you buy materials and equipment, you have to talk about money.

The money on the books has all been invested in the production of potato chips, and the goods that have been distributed have not been returned, and the money on the books is less than 100 yuan.

There are still more than 3,000 savings in the family, and some of them can be used for use.

After asking Pei Yang what he meant, Shen Mingzhu borrowed 1,000 yuan from himself in the name of a legal person for the production of the food factory.

With money, everyone acted separately under Shen Mingzhu's arrangement.

Pei Yang went to the sugar factory to buy starch syrup and caster sugar, and Du Juan went to the food market to buy edible pectin, citric acid and preservatives.

Unlike hard candies, gummies have a large moisture content and are easy to spoil if the right amount of preservatives is not added.

Shen Mingzhu himself went to the equipment factory to buy a juicer, and then went to the steel factory to customize stainless steel pots and molds.

Stainless steel pots and molds require a certain amount of production time, and before the equipment arrives, Shen Mingzhu tries to do it several times according to different ratios, and after determining the final formula, he begins to train the sugar workers.

Because he also had to take care of the production of potato chips, Shen Mingzhu only transferred two workers to the sugar production group.

With her, there are three people in total, Shen Chaobei can come over to help when he is fine, and produce the first batch of apple gummies first.

The response is good, and it's not too late to recruit again.

Apples need to be peeled and seeded before juicing.

Peeled apples are susceptible to oxidation, so you can soak them in lightly salted water for 5 to 10 minutes before peeling, so that the peeled apples can be stored for a long time without oxidation.

Peeled apples are pureed with a crusher, poured into the pot for boiling, and then starch syrup is added in turn, with water and saccharified citric acid and pectin, and continue to boil.

This step is very crucial, and Shen Mingzhu has tried many times before he has mastered the melting point cut-off.

After the apple sugar puree in the pot is boiled, pour it into a rectangular stainless steel plate, flatten it, wait until it solidifies to a certain extent, and then use a mold made of material to press out the shape of an apple.

Finally, stir with caster sugar powder, cool, and the apple fudge is finished.

Shen Mingzhu was not in a hurry to sell or continue production, but picked up a few bags of samples and sent them to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau for filing and third-party testing by a third-party organization.

This is a necessary procedure for adding new products.

It takes a certain amount of time for filing and testing, and during the waiting period, Shen Mingzhu was not idle.

I gave a copy of the apple gummies to relatives and friends, and invited them to taste them, but also helped to promote them.

She made an appointment with Zhong Jing first, but Zhong Jing seemed to be busy for the past two days, and she didn't have time to see her until next week.

Shen Mingzhu decided to send it to Li Bing first.

Li Bing is also a bright person, and after learning of her intentions, he directly asked her to send the candy to the nurse's duty room.

"Sister Bing, thank you so much, every time I have something, you are the first to help."

Li Bing waved his hand, "Thank you, I didn't take advantage of you, every time you come out with a new product, I eat white food, and I should do you a little favor." ”

"Okay, give me something, there will be a lot of people in the duty room, I'll bring things in and share them with them, won't they all know your new product?"

Shen Mingzhu nodded gratefully and handed over the two paper bags in his hand.

"Sister Bing, the two bags are three catties, one bag you take home, and the other bag you take to the duty room to share."

"Gee, why did you mention so much? I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it until the New Year. ”

"If you can't finish eating, eat slowly, just to save money to buy sugar during the Chinese New Year."

"Okay, thank you."

Shen Mingzhu was just about to go back without thanks, when a somewhat familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears-

"Long time no see."

Shen Mingzhu tilted his head and saw Yan Yi a few steps away, with a surprised face.

Li Bing hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "Professor Yan, are you coming to give a lecture today?" ”

Hearing Li Bing's name, Shen Mingzhu's face flashed with surprise.

After thinking about it again, Yan Yi can become the chief expert of the psychology department, how can his education be low.

It can be seen that Yan Yi's original formation of the study group was actually for another purpose.

After Yan Yi responded to Li Bing's greetings, his eyes swept over the two paper bags that Li Bing was carrying with a smile, and said to Shen Mingzhu: "From a distance, I see that you are happy, is there anything good?" Those who don't mind have a share, right? ”

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