In life, sugar is indispensable, and everyone is no stranger.
In the popular "Flavor of the World", there is also an episode dedicated to sugar!
Then if you play baking for a while, you will find that there are many kinds of sugar, coarse sugar, fine sugar, baby sugar, powdered sugar, icing sugar, etc., many terms. Of course, some are synonymous, and some are not.
Today I would like to talk about one of them - powdered sugar.
Anyone who plays baking knows that if you search for the price online, the price of powdered sugar is at least twice as expensive as the price of ordinary sugar, and even several times more expensive.
In fact, I never buy powdered sugar, I do it myself, directly the cheapest crude sugar to do, don't spend money wrongly! The cost is half cheaper!
So, what the hell is powdered sugar?
Icing Sugar, the English name of icing Sugar, is a white powdery sugar, the particles are very fine, and the purchased powdered sugar is about 3 to 10% of the starch mixture (generally corn flour), which has the effect of moisture-proof and preventing sugar particles from tangling.
Powdered sugar is generally used to make cookies or cakes, etc., more often used to decorate pastries, and can also be used to make frosting or cream fillings.
There is not much difference between the powdered sugar and sugar ingredients, but the physical shape is slightly different.
So, if that's the case, why bother to spend 2 times the price to buy such an expensive thing!
All it takes is a blender, or a wall breaker, or a meat grinder, or even a juicer, all of which can turn grit sugar into powdered sugar.
You see, I used a mini wall breaker to play, remember to use the "fruit and vegetable" button, hit once for up to 2 minutes, of course, if you need, you can also stop halfway.
You see the brown sugar powder I hit.
After beating and mixing with flour, you can make brown sugar filling;
Mix with sesame seeds, that is, brown sugar sesame filling;
It can also be used to make brown sugar cakes, brown sugar biscuits, etc., otherwise the lumped brown sugar will be directly made into cakes, which will be full of holes, just like having endured a rain of bullets.
Let's look at my powdered sugar again.
Because I am using it now, I don't need to add starch to prevent moisture, and it is all powdered sugar, and I can use it.
If you want to beat more at a time like you bought, then add about 3% cornstarch to beat together, you can put it a little longer!
In fact, many things can be replaced, do not have to buy ah!
For example, low gluten flour, making biscuits and cakes, you can also make your own;
For example, breadcrumbs, fried flour, can also be made by yourself;
For example, if there is no baking powder, what can be replaced?
Without eggs, what can be replaced?
What do you most want to know? Comment in the comments section below, I tell you!