Sugar-coated preserves - sugar winter melon, snow strips

【Sugar winter melon】 is a sugar product of fresh winter melon strips. The strips are very solid, the color is green and white, slightly transparent, the bite is sweet and sticky, and it has the fragrant flavor of winter melon, which is a popular Cantonese traditional product, and is also the main filling in the Cantonese and Chao-style mooncakes "Winter Rong" and "Wife Cake", and can be used as other cake fillings.

It is made of melon-shaped long round, green skin, weighing about 15 kilograms of fresh winter melon from Guangdong, and is made by the following production processes:

Shaving - beating sections - cutting strips - lime water hardening - rinsing - sugar pickling - sugar boiling - sugar staining - sugar boiling (back to sand) - cooling - finished product

Quality requirements: the shape is 10x10x50 (mm) rectangular strip, the strip is straight, the appearance is dry, the frosting is panned, the color is light green with white, translucent, the sugar liquid penetrates well, the tissue is full, the meat is slightly crisp, sweet and refreshing, and it has the flavor of this product. There is no obvious coarse fiber when eating, and individual strips are allowed to be missing edges, concave stomachs, etc., without bonding, concatenation, debris, impurities. Contains 75 % sugar , 21 % moisture.

For example, the winter melon is cut into triangular blocks, and the preparation method is the same as above, and the name is "sugar melon horn".

【Snow Strips】 is a sugar product of fresh long radish strips. It is an 8x8x5.0 (mm) rectangular strip with a white color, a firm strip, full of tissue and a sweet taste. The system is made of fresh white radish with dense and tender tissue, no hollowness, no black heart, no coarse fiber, and no deformity. The shape and production process are basically the same as the sugar winter melon strips, that is, the finished product has the flavor of the radish of this product, the meat is harder, the eating mouth is rougher, and there is a slightly slagd feeling.

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November 6, 2021