What kinds of sugar are there?

Milk candy, hard candy, soft candy, crisp candy, sandwich candy.

1, sandwich candy

Sandwich candy is made of hard candy, and there are various fillings in it. Different fillings have different tastes. Sandwich candy has two kinds of fillings: soft filling and crisp filling. Soft stuffing mostly uses various jams or marshmallows, and also uses high-grade wine as stuffing. The filling in the crisp stuffing is made of various nuts, heated to about 43℃ in water, and then put into the peel.

2.fudge

Soft candy is a kind of soft and slightly elastic candy, which is transparent and translucent. The moisture content of soft candy is relatively high, generally 10%-20%. Most of the soft sweets are made into fruit flavor, and some are made into milk flavor and cold flavor. The shapes are divided into rectangular or irregular shapes, and the molding process is different.

3. Hard candy

Hard candy is candy cooked at high temperature. The dry solid content is very high, about 97% or more. Sugar is hard and brittle, so it is called hard candy. It belongs to amorphous structure. The specific gravity is between 1.4 ~ 1.5 and the reducing sugar content is between 10 ~ 18%. The entrance melts slowly and chewy. Sugar bodies are transparent, translucent and opaque, and some are pulled into mercerization.

4. Toffee

Milk candy can be divided into colloidal milk candy and sand milk candy. Colloidal toffee, including toffee and caramel. There are many colloids, and the sugar body has strong toughness and elasticity and is relatively hard. Most of them are cylindrical in shape, with high reducing sugar content ranging from 18 to 25%. There are many varieties and different raw materials.

5. Crispy sugar

Crispy sugar is one of the traditional famous cakes with China characteristics, and it is a timely pastry during the Spring Festival, with a long history of production. Crispy sugar consists of bread crumbs and maltose bones. Bread crumb is the basic raw material of crisp sugar, which is made of flour, soft sugar, cooked sesame and osmanthus. Maltose bone is brewed from maltose.