How to Cook Sugar Water to Make Moon Cakes

Middle sugar sugar cake is divided into two types: sugar water for baking and sugar for making plastic cake. This is an extremely important material that determines the quality and form of moon cake.

Sugar water baked moon cake baked.

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• 1kg of brown sugar or yellow sugar.
• 600 ml of water
• 1 yellow lemon (or green lemon)
• 30ml malt
• 5ml of ash water (may or may not be)

You should use brown sugar or yellow sugar so that when stirring, sugar water will have a nice color. If not, you can replace it with white lines.

Lime will help sugar water taste better and a very nice aroma.

Malt will help make sugar more comparable. It is recommended to use light yellow malt, not glue-like solid. You can skip the malt ingredients if not found.

Ship ash water helps to make the sugar water a beautiful golden brown color. You can find ash water at bakeries.

How to cook sugar water for baking.

Step 1:

• You squeeze lemon juice, notice the seeds.
• Dilute the ash water with a little water.

Step 2:

• Add sugar and water to the pot, stir the sugar and then boil for 20 minutes.
• If the sugar water floats white foam, you should skim off the sugar to make it clearer.

Step 3:

• After 20 minutes of boiling sugar, turn down the heat and add lemon juice to simmer for 30-40 minutes.
• Then add the malt and ash water, heat for 20 minutes and turn off the stove, let it cool.

Note during the process of boiling sugar water on the stove, you should not use chopsticks or spoonful of water in the pot, if not after cooking the sugar will appear tiny sugar particles, when making the cake, your cake will be soft shell, for a long time the cake will be wet like steam on the surface.

Satisfactory sugar water is comparable water, with beautiful golden brown color. When you drop a drop of sugar in a bowl of water, the sugar water will fall to the bottom and slowly spread around.

Wait for the sugar water to cool, put it in a clean jar for storage. The longer the sugar is, the more beautiful the cake will be and the longer it will stay. If you use fresh sugar water to make cakes, the cake will be moldy and not down to beautiful yellow brown.

Water sugar making moon cake is flexible.

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• 500 grams of white sugar
• 500 ml of water
• ½ yellow lemon

If, in the recipe for sugarcane juice, you use brown sugar or yellow sugar, then you have to use white sugar to make sticky rice cake, so that later it will have a nice white color. If you use yellow sugar, the cake will be ivory white.

If you don't like sweet food, you can increase the amount of water or reduce the amount of sugar at will. But the more sweet the cake is, the longer it will last.

How to cook sugar water as a flexible cake.

Step 1:

• Squeeze lemon juice, remove seeds

Step 2:

• Bring the water to a boil and drop the sugar in, the sugar will dissolve so you don't need to stir.
• Similar to sugar water to make baked goods, if you stir, you will get tiny particles of sugar.
• When the water boils, you turn down the fire, cutting off the white foam.

Step 3:

• After boiling for 30 minutes, add lemon juice and continue boiling for another 10 minutes.
• Wait for the sugar water to cool down, you can use it without having to wait for a while like sugar juice to make baked goods.

Too thin sugar water will make cake dough, hard to create. But if the sugar is too thick, the crust will harden. That's why you need to pay close attention in preparing sugar to get perfect moon cakes.

Good luck!

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