A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

The prototype of fried rice cakes is a dry food made by folks who collect the rice crackers and wet rice, dry them in the sun, or fry them until they are browned, and then grind them into powder and mix them with sugar.

It does not use rare ingredients, and the simplest method only uses fried rice noodles and sugar.

But even so, it is still one of the most representative traditional dim sum in the minds of countless Cantonese people.

The most important raw material for fried rice cakes is fried rice noodles.

There are two ways to make it, one is to stir-fry with washed raw rice, and the other is to stir-fry with boiled cooked rice.

The taste of these two kinds of rice noodles is different, and the taste of fried rice cakes is also different.

Fried rice cakes made from raw rice fried and ground into powder will be harder, and if eaten too hot, they will easily get angry.

The powder made from fried and ground cooked rice should be softer, and it won't be too uncomfortable if you eat too much.

But cooked rice has to go through a process, and it has to be dried and fried, which is too time-consuming and labor-intensive, so even the folks will not steam the rice before frying it, but use soaked raw rice for frying .

The earliest fried rice cakes were made only with rice flour and sugar water.

Later, some people will add some dried fruits to it to increase the aroma and taste, mainly sesame and peanuts.

Li Yi's fried rice cakes naturally don't only use sesame and peanuts.

Liu Yifei baked dried fruits ready-made, Li Yi called Wu Lei who had finished grinding the powder, and asked him to put all the dried fruits into a stone mortar and pound them into crumbs with a stone pestle.

While he was pounding the dried fruit, Li Yi took out a bag of sorbet sugar from the storage room, put it in the pot, and boiled the sugar water.

"what is this?"

Wu Lei was holding the dried fruit, and seeing Li Yi putting something into the pot again, he couldn't help being curious.

"Snowflakes."

Li Yi explained casually, while pushing the water in the pot with a spoon, he cut rock sugar with the edge of the spoon, and smashed it little by little.

"What kind of sugar is rock sugar? I haven't seen it before."

Wu Lei looked curiously.

"It's eaten a lot in Guangdong Province. You should eat refined sugar like granulated sugar and rock sugar."

While boiling sugar water, Li Yi explained: "To make fried rice cakes, you need to use sugar water to mix fried rice noodles, and this sugar water must be boiled with borneol sugar.

Rock sugar is when making rock sugar, the remaining rock sugar crystallization mother liquor, to put it bluntly, is not very pure sugar residue.

However, although it is not pure, this kind of rock sugar is more delicious and nutritious than pure rock sugar, and it is a good thing. "

Wu Lei looked curiously at the rock sugar in the pot, and said thoughtfully, "That is to say, this kind of sugar is the kind that precipitates when making rock sugar, right?"

"right."

Li Yi nodded: "It mainly contains sucrose, and there are also some fine fibrous tissues of sugarcane, and various trace elements are much more than pure rock sugar, so this kind of sugar can also be used as medicine."

"sharp."

Wu Lei couldn't help admiring: "Following you, I really saw a lot of food that I haven't seen before. It's a lot of experience."

As he said that, he asked again: "My hometown in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai also eats a lot of candy. Why haven't I seen this kind of candy?"

"Because in the past, this kind of sugar came from low-end products."

Li Yi explained: "In the past, this kind of sugar residue was cheaper than pure rock sugar, so ordinary people in the ancient Guangdong Province bought this kind of sugar to eat.

This kind of sugar can't be sold at a high price, so what profit is there in transporting it all the way to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai? So it's all digested locally. "

"All right."

Wu Lei took a look at the packaging bag on the side: "It's called rock sugar, right? I'll buy some for my family to taste. This should be similar to brown sugar, right?"

"no the same."

Li Yi reminded: "This kind still belongs to the category of rock sugar. Rock sugar is cold in nature. Eating it can clear away heat and detoxify, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, but brown sugar is warm in nature. It is mainly used to warm the spleen and stomach, warm the meridians and relieve pain. clear."

"ok, I get it."

Wu Lei nodded: "Then I'll buy some for my dad to drink and help him quit smoking."

Li Yi smiled, and looked at the barrage in the live broadcast room, only to find that the audience was all posting barrage.

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When the audience in the live broadcast room was busy, the rock sugar in the pot had already melted.

Seeing that the borneol sugar had completely melted and the sugar water was slightly boiling, Li Yi turned off the fire.

The sugar water used for fried rice cakes does not need to be transformed, it just needs to be cooled and can be used directly.

After taking the sugar water away and putting it in the freezer to freeze, Li Yi heard Yang Shaoyue's excited shouts coming from the oven.

He looked back, only to find that they had sent the first batch of wrapped five-nut mooncakes into the oven for five minutes, and they were pulling out the mooncake tray and brushing the top of the mooncakes with egg wash.

Cantonese-style mooncakes are brushed with egg wash to create an attractive burnt-yellow color.

Even though it was far away, Li Yi could smell the unique aroma of Cantonese five-nut mooncakes.

But this is only the first time to brush with egg wash, and it will take two more egg washes before the five-nut mooncake is fully baked.

Brush the egg wash once every five minutes, wait until the egg wash is finished three times, and after baking for another ten minutes, the mooncakes are completely baked.

This time, the cheers of Yang Shaoyue and the others almost knocked the roof off.

"Wow! So beautiful!"

"It's so beautiful! This is the most perfect mooncake!"

"We are awesome!"

"Let me take a picture! I want to post it on Moments!"

The girls were very excited. They wrapped it with their own hands, pressed it with mooncake molds, and then baked it in the oven.

Except that Li Yi did the mixing of skin and stuffing, they did all other work by themselves.

Therefore, these mooncakes are rounded up, which means they made them, and they are full of sense of accomplishment.

First, they took hundreds of photos with the moon cakes, and then, they all held their mobile phones and edited the pictures.

Huang Xiaoming silently took the mooncakes out of the tray, found a knife, cut them into small pieces, and said, "Come and taste it! Be careful it's hot!"

When the girls heard this, they immediately came over and each picked up a small piece of mooncake, and then they all turned on the selfie mode, taking pictures of various poses with the mooncake.

Seeing this, Huang Xiaoming shook his head and reached out to pick up a piece of moon cake.

Just as he was about to put it in his mouth, he hesitated for a moment, and sneakily took out his phone.

Holding the phone in front of his face, he brought the moon cake to his mouth with one hand, he grinned, and snapped a picture with the camera.

Clicking on the scarf, he uploaded the photo with a paragraph of text: "Looking back suddenly, the five-nut moon cake is still the classic."

After clicking send, he looked at the words that the upload was successful, and put the mooncake into his mouth.

As soon as he took a bite, his attention was instantly drawn back.

The five-nut stuffing mixed with the unique aroma of terminal nuts is like an aroma bomb. Every time you chew it, it will cause a wave of intense aroma explosion.

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