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How to paint the color of the moon cake

The color of the moon cake is painted: the general moon cake are earthy yellow it is recommended to paint the yellow and brown mixture of the two, so that the moon cake painted out of the more real some, there is a sense of hierarchy, there is a three-dimensional sense of must also be painted with color.

Characteristics of moon cakes Cantonese moon cakes

Cantonese moon cakes are characterized by thin skin, filling, filling to lotus seed paste, coconut, egg yolk, fruit and various meat fillings, sweet and salty moderately, the surface of the surface luster is prominent, the texture of the fluffy, fine and smooth. Its product name is generally based on the main ingredients of the cake filling, such as five kernels, golden leg, lotus seed paste, bean paste, bean paste, date paste, coconut paste, winter paste, etc.. It has an extremely wide range of ingredients, such as egg yolks, leather eggs, sausages, barbecued pork, shredded chicken, roast duck, mushrooms, milk powder, etc., all of which can be used as raw materials and formulated into a multitude of fancy varieties.

Peking-style mooncakes

The biggest feature of the Peking-style mooncakes is the palace style, the elaborate workmanship, and the complexity of the production procedures, which rank first among the four major mooncake systems in China. Peking-style mooncake material selection procedures are quite complicated, to the mooncake with jujube material, for example, must be selected in the designated month of Miyun small jujube, its core is small, sweet meat, juice honey, and then by screening to pick out the specifications of the same small jujube, and then by the nucleus, peeled, dregs, crude, refined, graded, sorted and other processes can be used.

Su-Style Mooncake

Su-Style mooncake originated in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and neighboring areas, the Tang Dynasty poet Su Shi's poem, "small cakes such as chewing the moon, there are crispy and Yi," said the Su-Style mooncake. Su-style mooncakes are characterized by "crispy", its filling is pressed tightly, with the teeth gently high will be crispy scattered, the filling has five nuts, bean paste, etc., the sweetness is higher than other types of mooncakes.

The Dian-style mooncake

The Dian-style mooncake, also known as the cloud-legged mooncake, is made of Yunnan's specialty Xuanwei ham, plus honey, lard, sugar, etc. for the filling, and baked in Kunming, Chenggong, the purple wheat flour for the skin. Its surface is golden yellow or brownish red, with a layer of hard shell, oily and colorful, thousand layers of pastry wrapped in filling. This kind of moon cake has both the fragrance of the ham, and sweet and salty tempting honey, comfortable in the mouth, eat without getting tired.