[Explanation] When the Mid-Autumn Festival is full again, mooncakes on the market become the "protagonist".
In recent years, although moon cakes with new fillings and new flavors on the market have been updated rapidly, the popularity of handmade traditional old moon cakes has gradually "recovered" and has become more and more popular with consumers.
Ma Ronglin, a veteran from Lanzhou, insisted on making purely hand-made mooncakes from childhood for 41 years. Recently, the reporter saw in his dessert shop that everything from filling, dough, kneading, pressing, and finally brushing with egg whites and baking. It is manual operation, and each process is taken seriously.
When you break the moon cake, you can see all kinds of fillings such as sesame, peanut, rose butter, etc. It is sweet but not greasy and full of mellow taste.
[Concurrent] Ma Ronglin, a handmade mooncake maker in Lanzhou, Gansu
Traditionally, it is the skin and surface filling of our moon cakes. Until the work is done, it is in accordance with the old tradition, without any additives or preservatives.
(In the filling) There are rock sugar, sesame seeds, osmanthus, walnuts, honey, mainly flax oil. It has a special flavor and a strong taste.
If I pack it in an hour, it is about 180 to 250. Customers mainly sell it on the same day, make it in the morning, and sell it out in the evening. There is no other flavor in it, nothing.
[Explanation] The fragrance of sesame, sweet-scented osmanthus, dough...Ma Ronglin's handmade mooncake workshop smells fragrant.
After a long time, Ma Ronglin knew how much filling to use in his hand, and evenly wrapped the five-core filling in the dough with the dough, pushed back and forth with his fingers and pinched, a moon cake prototype was formed, and then put it in In the mold, the mooncakes brushed with egg liquid are opened in the plate, and then they are baked in the oven.
[Concurrent] Ma Ronglin, a handmade mooncake maker in Lanzhou, Gansu
The filling of our moon cake is 25 grams, the skin surface is 25 to 30 grams, and 10 per catty is exactly 530 to 550 grams. Our shop gets up one morning to the afternoon, and we produce about 200 catties, 200 catties. After around, no production will be done.
[Concurrent] Li Chengdi Diner
I have lived here for eleven years, and I have bought it for ten years. It eats less oil, and is sweet, and the sweetness is appropriate. Anyway, it tastes good, just like the taste of Sanhe Palace or halal food factory when I was a child.
[Explanation] Ma Ronglin said that every year, mid-autumn moon cakes are prepared more than 20 days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. There are two flavors of five-nut and bean paste.
get off work started at 8 in the morning, ready to sell, and mooncakes were sold out every day before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
He said that although a variety of new mooncakes with new "values" are on the market every year, they still do not affect people's love for old mooncakes. From the crust to the filling, it is not only the traditional taste, but also the childhood memory. The "human touch" of Mid-Autumn Festival.
Gao Ying Gao Kangdi reports from Lanzhou, Gansu
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]