4 head refers to 125g, a catty 500g, each mooncake 125g, can do exactly 4 mooncakes, so called 4 head.

The mooncake molds vary in grams, common specifications are: 50g, 65g, 85g, 100g, 125g. also commonly known as: yuan 10 head, yuan 8 head, yuan 6 head, yuan 5 head, yuan 4 head.

If you make a 125g mooncake, you can follow the ratio of crust: filling = 4:6, take 50g of crust, take 75g of filling, then wrap the filling with the crust, put it into the mold and press it, and then press out a 125g mooncake.

Expanded Information

Mooncake molds can be traced back to the Song Dynasty, but most mooncake molds handed down to the present day are from the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republic of China.

The museum's oldest mooncake mold is from the Yuan Dynasty, made of pear wood, with a rectangular shape and a round hole in the middle, the size of a mooncake is comparable to that of today's mooncakes, and is carved with a simple pattern.

Mooncakes first originated in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, the Han Dynasty, called "Hu cake", the Tang Dynasty renamed "moon cake", the Yuan Dynasty, the formation of the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat the custom of mooncakes. May be influenced by the rough style of the "horse nation", the Yuan Dynasty period of the moon cake mold is not too regular, more simple.

Ming Dynasty, mooncake molds began to appear peach, carp, lotus and other patterns, the overall style of simplicity, focusing on the beauty of the lines.

By the Qing Dynasty, eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn became a common custom, and the production skills became increasingly sophisticated.

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