Mooncakes come in many flavors, but the most classic one is egg yolk filling. The dark base filling and yellow egg yolk look like the moon in the night sky. This is called a true mooncake. ! Many friends may not know it yet, but the egg yolks in mooncakes are usually made from salted duck eggs, so you will find them very fragrant!

Egg yolk mooncakes

Egg yolk mooncakes are one of the traditional Chinese pastries and a type of mooncake. They are 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, and clear corners; the edge is ivory, and the bottom is brownish red; the taste is sweet, soft and crispy.

Their factory mainly deals in various products made from duck eggs as raw materials! The main ones are: preserved eggs, salted duck eggs, and egg yolks! During the Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother’s factory will have some Mid-Autumn benefits, which are moon cakes! But of course this mooncake has the characteristics of the egg factory, salted duck egg yolk mooncake. I think it should be similar to the egg yolk mooncake mentioned by the poster! I eat them every year, but I have never paid attention to the brand of mooncakes after eating them for so many years! Since the Mid-Autumn Festival is not here yet this year, I can’t take any pictures!

Egg yolk mooncakes

Back to the question, the egg yolks in the mooncakes! The egg yolks in this mooncake are sold to the mooncake factory from the egg factory. After they are made into mooncakes, the mooncake factory will send part of them to the egg factory as a return gift for cooperation! The poster is wondering why there is no egg white in the mooncakes, right? In fact, mooncakes only contain egg yolks and not egg whites from the beginning! Where did the egg whites go? The answer is dumped!

Egg Yolk Mooncakes

The egg factory will have certain damage when pickling the salted duck eggs. Once damaged, the salted duck eggs cannot be steamed and sold because they are It will explode in the process! So after washing the pickled salted duck eggs, there is a process to check the integrity of the eggs under strong light! Pick out all the ones that are damaged or cracked. The removed portion of the salted duck egg is directly cracked and the yolk is taken out, and the egg white is discarded directly! Everyone knows that the yolk in pickled salted duck eggs will thicken in high-concentration salt water and become solidified! So the broken salted duck egg yolk can be taken out directly! Take it out, dry it and then package it and it’s ready for sale! Here are the egg yolk mooncakes!