The green silk is made of preserved apricot, which is cut into filaments, sweet and sour. Red silk, on the other hand, is made of candied rose, which is cut into fine threads, sweet and fragrant. Use this Zhong Qinghong silk to decorate snacks, which can add color and flavor, and kill two birds with one stone.

Nowadays, the most common green and red silk is actually made of orange peel. The orange peel is washed, bleached and shredded, soaked in sugar water, dyed with red or green colorants (carmine, lemon yellow, gardenia blue, etc.), added with a certain amount of preservatives, and dried in the sun. It is the product standard of GB/T 10782 General Rules for Preserved Fruits.

This substitute has nothing to do with the eight poles of green apricot and rose preserves, and it can be said that there is no * * * in common except for the similar color and appearance.

The purchase of Wuren moon cake

Look at the appearance

First of all, the block size of moon cakes is even and full. The surface of Cantonese-style moon cake is light brown, the vertical wall is milky yellow, the egg paste is evenly spread, and the pattern is marked with the name of the factory and the stuffing. Beijing-style moon cakes have no patterns and names, such as naturally-invited red skin, which is brown and yellow, not only bald, not raw, not paste, not sugar and not stuffing.

Second smell

Fresh quality moon cakes can give off a unique tangy smell of moon cakes. Because of different raw materials, the skin stuffing has different smells. If the moon cakes are made of inferior raw materials or stored for a long time, they will smell a peculiar smell or smell.

The third is tasting.

Generally, Cantonese-style moon cakes are thin-skinned and stuffed, with pure taste and soft and refreshing taste. The stuffing is mainly lotus seed paste, coconut paste, egg yolk, fruit and various kinds of meat stuffing, which is moderately sweet and salty. The skin stuffing of Beijing-style moon cakes is elaborate and complicated. There are four kinds of mooncake skins: oily skin, crispy skin, clear skin and Jingguang skin. The stuffing is divided into three categories: refined stuffing, fried stuffing and rubbed stuffing. The stuffing contains more fruit materials. After cutting, you can see peach kernel, melon kernel, hemp seed, sweet-scented osmanthus, green silk and various fruit materials.