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How to make Alkaline for Mooncake

Alkaline water is a traditional auxiliary ingredient commonly used in pastry, which can also be called edible alkaline water.

In the past, people used to boil water with wood ash to get an alkaline solution from the supernatant, and used this solution to make pastries, which is the predecessor of the alkaline water. The main components of wood ash are potassium carbonate and sodium carbonate, so nowadays the alkaline mixture is prepared according to the principle of wood ash, using potassium carbonate and sodium carbonate as the main raw materials, adding some nitrates or polymerized phosphates.