Why does Wuren moon cake taste bad?
According to legend, after the Weaver Girl was taken away by the Queen Mother, the Cowherd stayed at Lacrimosa's home every day. The old cow told the cowherd that he could make shoes out of cowhide and put them on when he died.
After the death of the old cow, the cowherd tied his cowhide shoelaces and took two children to heaven to find the Weaver Girl. The weaver girl was very happy to see the cowherd and the two children, so she made a moon cake with five kinds of nuts given to her by Chang 'e, and named it Wuren moon cake!
Legend is beautiful, but modern people don't buy it. Wuren moon cakes are all black.
Wuren moon cake tastes bad on the stuffing, but its stuffing is more like careful design and preparation. Five kinds of nuts are specially selected and mixed together in a certain proportion. Different kinds of nuts are treated in different ways. It seems that the inventor of Wuren moon cake is looking for uses other than taste.
Wuren moon cake was called "the aristocrat in the cake" in ancient times because of its exquisite materials. In the seventy-sixth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, it was written that only the head of the family, Jia Mu, could eat "moon cakes with melon seeds and pine nuts". The so-called "made in-house" refers to the dim sum made by Dachai Imperial Restaurant, and the "melon seeds and pine nuts moon cake" is a kind of five-kernel moon cake, which is made of pine nuts, walnuts, melon seeds and other nuts mixed with rock sugar and lard.
Whether it's delicious or not, at least it's extremely distinguished.
What really makes Wuren moon cakes unpalatable may be the mass production of the factory. In order to mass-produce Wuren moon cakes, we have to compromise on raw materials and processing procedures, thus making this exquisite cake more and more simple.
What does Wuren moon cake imply?
Wuren moon cake means happy reunion, and its significance is far greater than taste. All kinds of nuts indicate fruitful, harmonious and inclusive.
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The reason why Wuren moon cakes have this meaning is because they are generally more expensive, and some businesses make raw materials unclean. Lotus seed paste can be made of potatoes and essence, bean paste can be made of coffee grounds and essence, coconut paste can be made of raw fruit grounds and coffee grounds, and all kinds of raw moon cakes can be made of pumpkin and essence. Even black sesame moon cakes can't be guaranteed to be undyed sesame seeds.
What's even more frightening is that the Beipai Wuren moon cake must add green and red silk. This kind of thing is tasteless. It is not clear whether it is made of orange peel, papaya or wax gourd. So Wuren moon cakes will be rejected by some young people.
Although Wuren moon cake is traditional, it has no heart. As long as it is Wuren moon cake, melon seeds are melon seeds, peanuts are peanuts, walnuts are walnuts, and rock sugar is rock sugar. Just open it and see. Wuren moon cake is not sweet or salty, and it is very dry in the mouth, which really has nothing to do with delicious food.
Shopping skills of wuren moon cake
Look at the appearance
First of all, the block size of moon cakes is even and full. Cantonese-style moon cakes are light brown on the surface and creamy yellow on the vertical wall. The egg paste is evenly spread, and the pattern is marked with the name of the factory and the stuffing. Beijing-style moon cakes have no designs and names, such as the red skin invited by nature, which is brown, not only bald, uncooked, not paste, not sugar or stuffing.
The second smell
Fresh and high-quality moon cakes can give off the unique tangy smell of moon cakes. Because the raw materials are different, the smell of leather stuffing is different. If moon cakes are made of inferior raw materials or stored for a long time, they will smell a peculiar smell or stink.
The third is tasting.
Generally, Cantonese-style moon cakes are thin and stuffed, with pure taste and soft and refreshing taste. The fillings are mainly lotus seed paste, coconut paste, egg yolk, fruit and all kinds of meat stuffing, which are moderately sweet and salty. The skin stuffing of Beijing moon cakes is elaborate and complicated. There are four kinds of mooncake skins: oily skin, crispy skin, clear skin and jingguang skin. Stuffing is divided into three categories: refined stuffing, fried stuffing and kneaded stuffing. The stuffing contains a lot of fruit. After cutting, you can see peach kernels, melon seeds, hemp seeds, sweet-scented osmanthus, green red silk and various fruit materials. Purple red moon cakes also contain rock sugar, which is crisp and delicious, soft and delicate. Poor quality moon cakes are not only hard but also bitter.
Shelf life of Wuren moon cake
According to the national standards for moon cakes, boxed moon cakes can be kept for 60 days at frozen state and 25 days at normal temperature, while bulk moon cakes can only be kept for 10 day.
Generally, the packaging of moon cakes will indicate the shelf life, such as 40 days, some marked 60 days, and some moon cakes with relatively simple packaging simply do not indicate the shelf life.
The shelf life indicated on the package of mooncakes is the period during which mooncakes can be eaten under certain external conditions.
For example, the storage temperature is about 25 degrees Celsius, and it is stored in a dry and cool place. During the transportation, storage and sale of moon cakes, they may be placed in a high temperature environment, the packaging may be damaged, and the moon cakes may bump, thus shortening the shelf life of moon cakes. Therefore, eating moon cakes should not blindly believe the shelf life indicated on the package.