Mooncakes with fresh meat are a special food in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

Suzhou-style moon cakes, the traditional authentic skills are kept in Suzhou. The basic contents of this technology include: selecting materials, primary processing, stuffing rubbing, making skin, making crisp, wrapping crisp, stuffing, forming, stamping, baking, packaging and so on. There are no molds in the production process, and the instruments used are relatively simple, such as scraper, glossy paper, baking tray, charcoal-based Chinese fir box and so on.

Fresh meat moon cake is a traditional food in the south of the Yangtze River, not unique to Suzhou, but also found in Shanghai and Zhejiang. However, as a representative of Suzhou-style cakes, Suzhou fresh meat moon cake can be called a must.

characteristics of fresh meat moon cakes

fresh meat moon cakes, as the name implies, are made of fresh pork with stuffing, and the outer skin is wrapped by layers of handmade pastry.

there are three or four kinds of production methods, and each method is different, but some basic steps and rough materials are indispensable. Generally, the materials used are minced meat, ginger, garlic, chopped green onion, starch, maltose, honey, ghee, lard, sesame oil, cooking wine and pepper, and the shape of moon cakes is mostly similar: the top is round and the bottom is flat, even and round. Pork with juice is tough and not greasy.

Good moon cakes with fresh meat, with clean smell, no greasy smell, full skin and shiny lard, should not be bought if they are black and dirty. If the stuffing in the fresh meat moon cake is not tight, it will run away from the stuffing and oil with a little bite, giving off a bitter and old taste, which is a poor product, and it is better to discard it immediately.

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