Cooked ice meat
I wonder if ice meat can be regarded as the soul of traditional mooncakes. Guess it's true. In some traditional mooncake filling ingredients, ice meat accounts for a large proportion. And there is a kind of moon cake called sweet meat, which has the largest amount of ice meat that you can see. In fact, I didn’t like ice meat in the past. In the early days when I only ate mooncakes, whenever I bit into/saw the shiny pieces of fat in the mooncakes, I would hurriedly spit them out/pick them out. Because fat = fat = greasy = gain weight. When I first made mooncakes, I wanted to give up the ice meat. I thought this would not only save trouble but also reduce calories. However, in order to replicate the pure taste of mooncakes, it was the first time that ice meat was marinated. At that time, raw fat meat was used. White fat, greasy feeling. There is subconscious resistance in my heart. However, it is surprising that under the influence of sugar, wine and time, the white fat meat turned shiny, the greasy feeling disappeared, and it also exuded an ester aroma. No wonder it is called ice meat - crystal clear like ice. Although I later used it to make a lot of mooncakes, I didn't feel that it was very important. I just added it according to the recipe. Until one time, when I was not making fillings for mooncakes, I was always dissatisfied with the taste of the fillings. It seemed that something was missing. Suddenly I remembered the last bit of ice meat. This is where a miracle happens: the filling after adding the ice meat suddenly becomes full of flavor. It turns out that ice meat is really not an optional thing. Later, I no longer resisted ice meat. It’s almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, and when preparing ingredients for mooncakes, iced meat is naturally indispensable. This time, switch to cooked fat to see if there is any difference in the effect of raw and cooked rice. . .
Mid-Autumn Festival
Mooncakes
