What is an ice-winged moon cake?

Zhenqida Food Factory innovatively produces Moringa ice-winged moon cakes.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and the moon cakes are coming out. In Anpu town, several pastry factories at the entrance of the market are running at full speed, and the faint aroma of cakes overflows into the street. Take a deep breath, as if you can smell the sweetness in the stuffing. That's the smell of hometown.

In the industrial age, handmade moon cakes are hard to find. Lianxiang Shi Jia Moon Cake Factory is located at the market entrance of Anpu Town. It still retains the operation of making stuffing and kneading cakes by hand, but it is not fully automated. Twenty or thirty workers gathered around the big table, and in a huge square iron basin, a pot of five kernels was filled. With quick hands and feet, the worker quickly grabbed a ball of stuffing, kneaded it into a ball, gave it to the next person to weigh, accurately weighed out 1 18g, pinched off more and filled less, and then put it aside. In a few minutes, Wuren jiaozi was filled with a plate, which looked like a famous dish "Lion Head" just coming out of the pot from a distance.

Handmade dough.

Each dough must be weighed on a weighing instrument.

Cantonese people, especially those in western Guangdong, have a soft spot for big moon cakes. The stuffing of big moon cakes is also twisted into balls, like bowling. The workers took out a large ivory cotton ball from the basin, kneaded it evenly into cakes, and laid it into a warm velvet quilt. Gently cover the dough on the filling, and the workers carefully smooth it with dexterous hands, so that the dough and the filling stick together tightly and pinch tightly like a big steamed stuffed bun.

The crust should be uniform, neither thick nor thin, otherwise the moon cake will be uneven in thickness.

With a muffled sound, the air pressure pushes the piston of the forming machine, and a big moon cake weighing four kilograms is formed. Then the dough was carefully coated with a layer of golden egg liquid, and the moon cakes were sent to the oven, cooked and packaged exquisitely, and entered thousands of households.

Hand-wrapped, and then molded with machine mold equipment.

Pan Zhiqing, the helm of the cake factory, started from making cakes and cakes. It is the third generation to come here. One month before the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, his cake factory begins to produce moon cakes at full capacity. "The farthest is sold to Beijing, but the quantity is not much. People there mainly taste the freshness of Cantonese moon cakes. " Pan Zhiqing said that his cake factory has an annual output value of more than 20 million yuan, and there are more than 70 jobs in the production of moon cakes in one month. Recruited workers are paid by the day. This year's orders are not affected by the epidemic, which is basically the same as last year.

Workers swept the egg paste on the surface of the cake to prepare for baking.

There is a large-scale Zhenqida moon cake factory at the end of the town. Jade Moringa moon cake is a special product of this cake factory. This plant "Moringa oleifera", which is widely planted in Guangdong, can extract high-grade lubricating oil from its seeds, and its young leaves can be used as soup, which is delicious. Fresh spicy leaves can be eaten as vegetables, young leaves can be eaten directly, and older leaves can be roasted into tea after picking. When the pods turn yellow and dry thoroughly, the harvested seeds can be crushed into powder and used to make condiments.

Mooncakes are made with an eggbeater and a tray blender.

"Moringa moon cakes are low in sugar and fat, which can meet the needs of some people who want to eat moon cakes and meet their seasonal needs." Mai Yangming, the head of this bakery, inherited his father's ambition more than ten years ago and began to enter the bakery industry. Last year, he developed Moringa moon cakes, and the response was good. This year, he received many extra orders.

Baked out of the oven.

In Anpu Town, there are many manufacturers of moon cakes and cakes, and there are only five or six in the world. At present, these enterprises have established pastry associations, and more than a dozen enterprises have joined them. It is their common vision to be bigger and stronger and make the brand awareness of Ampu cake.

The moon cake is baked.

Anpu Town is famous for its beautiful arcades and all kinds of delicious food. "On the night of August 15, children set cake bait to squat down as a confession, take gravel to build a tower, burn it with real salary, which means burning the tower, and drinking under the moon means enjoying the moon." The old man in Guzhen said that from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, there was a tradition of burning towers in the Mid-Autumn Festival in front of Anpu Guandi Temple. Now there are more activities in Mid-Autumn Festival, and people are immersed in joy. Festival moon cakes are dazzling in the street.