Red and green silk, also called green silk and rose silk, is a commonly used filling for glutinous rice balls, moon cakes, pastries and other food fillings.

There are many raw materials for red and green silk:

The noble version of "red and green silk" - green apricot and rose. The real green silk is the dried silk of green apricot, and the rose silk is rose petals. It is made by soaking in sugar and blending into puree. After all, real blue silk and rose silk are made of natural materials, and their gelatinous texture is not heavy.

Public version of "red and green silk" - orange peel, radish peel. So what is the "red and green silk" we usually eat made of? The most common one on the market is made of orange peel. . The fresh orange peel can be made into green and red silk with orange peel base through processes such as material preparation, shredding, dipping, coloring, candiing, and mixing with powdered sugar.

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Green silk roses are made from orange peels, green plums and rose shreds, plus color and sugar. If kept well, they can last for 20 years. In the past, the green and red shreds in mooncakes were all pickled from radish. Of course, there were also orange peel ones, which had a different taste. The thicker ones were all shredded radish.

Mooncakes are a long-standing traditional snack of the Han nationality and a traditional festival delicacy deeply loved by the Chinese people. The shape of the mooncakes is round and round, and they are eaten by the whole family, so they symbolize reunion and harmony and are popular during the Mid-Autumn Festival. A must eat for this day. In ancient times, mooncakes were eaten as sacrifices during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that the custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty.

Five-nut mooncake is one of the traditional Chinese pastries and a type of Cantonese-style mooncake. It is the most famous among the various mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It has the characteristics of exquisite ingredients, thin skin and rich fillings, delicious taste, not easy to break, and easy to carry. ?This kind of mooncake is drum-shaped, with slightly bulging edges, clear patterns and writing, regular shape, no broken skin, no filling exposed, and clear edges and corners.