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

At 1:50 in the afternoon, the purchased suet was shipped back to the restaurant, and Li Yi started a new round of oil refining.

With fresh lard, the assembly line of pastries can be started again.

The audience and guests continued to make the remaining [Fresh Meat Mooncakes], while Li Yi took out a large pot and prepared to make invert syrup.

Seeing that Li Yi brought out a large bag of white sugar, Yang Yang took a large basin with a wink and placed it on the desk.

Zhao Jinmai made [Fresh Meat Mooncakes] all morning. He was a little bored, so he came over and asked curiously, "Brother Yi, do you want to boil sugar?"

"no."

While cutting open the bag of white sugar, Li Yi explained casually, "I'm going to make invert syrup."

"Invert syrup?"

Zhao Jinmai was a little confused: "What is invert syrup?"

"It's for making Cantonese-style mooncake skins, right?"

Sheep has some impressions: "This kind of syrup seems to be used more in western pastry, and it is only used in Chinese pastries to make Cantonese mooncake skin."

"It can also be used to make Saqima, but compared with West Point, it is much less useful."

Li Yi put the cauldron on the stove, poured pure water into it.

"Yes, this syrup is a must for making pastry."

The sheep nodded and said, "Cakes, pies, and puddings all use this syrup. I have it at home."

Zhao Jinmai was confused: "Why is it called invert syrup? Is it related to genetic modification?"

"How can it be?"

Li Yi was amused by her, and explained with a smile: "Invert syrup is a syrup formed by using acid or enzymes to convert and hydrolyze sucrose solution into a molecular mixture 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 liquid.

Use this syrup to make Cantonese-style mooncake skins, and the mooncake skins will always remain soft without hardening due to the crystallization of sucrose inside.

Some low-quality mooncakes, the ones that taste hard, are made with ordinary rock sugar boiled water instead of invert syrup, so they will crystallize and harden after cooling, and it will hurt your teeth when you eat it. "

"That's it!"

Zhao Jinmai seemed to understand but half understood.

The sheep was also surprised: "Is it because of this reason? I have only heard that invert syrup is used 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 was heavy, and when it was placed on the table, a piece of the metal table was directly dented.

Taking a knife to cut the tape, Li Yi opened the lid of the box, revealing an irregular dark yellow object inside.

It's shaped like a mushroom umbrella cut in half, but it's the size of half a car tire, covered with a hexagonal grid-like texture.

"Eh?"

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

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

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

Seeing the huge beehive, the live broadcast room was full of bullet screens, and the audience was also amazed.

"Fuck! Such a big hive!"

"Is this a real wild beehive? Impossible? Can there still be such a good thing now?"

"Nine times out of ten it is fake. I have bought fake honey."

"Brother Yi bought the same one, it's probably 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, and asked, "What is this honey for?"

Zhao Jinmai asked curiously.

"Make mooncakes!"

Li Yi clapped his hands, turned around and opened the steamer, and explained: "The most traditional Cantonese mooncake skins are made of honey and maltose, but pure honey will crystallize, like this one.

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

So we have to keep pace with the times, combine old and new technologies, mix honey with syrup, and neutralize the advantages, so that we can better adapt to the times! "

With that said, Li Yi took out a bone cutter, chiseled the honeycomb with the end of the knife, and chopped it into small pieces.

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

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

"Brother Yi is going to make Cantonese mooncakes."

Sheep explained to them.

Hearing her words, several audience guests ran over immediately.

"My store is selling mooncakes!"

"I can make! Cantonese mooncakes are my best!"

A girl with a ball head came up and volunteered: "Brother Yi, I can help, my family sells mooncakes."

Seeing this, Li Yi told her, "Bring the gauze, wrap the honeycomb, put it on a tray, and steam it in the steamer."

"good."

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

While wrapping, she couldn't help asking curiously: "Brother Yi, what are you going to do with this honey? Do you mix it with stuffing?"

"Half of it is for stuffing, and the other half is for mooncake skin." Li Yi explained casually.

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

She reminded: "Using syrup is the same as making it with honey, and the cost of syrup is lower."

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."

"..."

The ball-headed girl was a little embarrassed when she heard the words, and didn't know what to say for a while.

She realized that she seemed to have said the wrong thing, and she was a little nervous for a while.

Now there are millions of viewers watching, and 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 want to make it and sell it on the show, I would also use syrup, which is convenient and effective.

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

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

I use wild honey to make it, mainly for the potpourri fragrance in the honey, which can add flavor to the mooncakes. "

Hearing what he said, the ball-headed girl breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded in agreement: "That's right, local honey is hard to buy, and there is no way to use local honey when opening a store.

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

The sheep was listening, and couldn't help but said: "It is really difficult to buy real pure honey now, most of the market is fake.

Some of the so-called real local honey are also fake.

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

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

"Real wild honey is very scarce. Unless you go to the place of origin to collect it, it is difficult to buy real honey."

Li Yi finished cutting the honeycomb, wrapped it with gauze, and explained in his mouth: "If it is usually eaten as a dessert, there is no need to buy wild honey. The taste of ordinary farmed honey is not bad, as long as you don't buy fake honey. good."

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