Blue and red silk

Blue and red silk

Overview

When I was little, I loved eating blue and red silk mooncakes that were more delicious than five-nut mooncakes. Being naughty, I had to break the mooncakes apart and use toothpicks to pick out all the green and red silk. Then I ate the rest depending on the situation. If it was too sweet, I wouldn’t eat it. If it was salty, I would eat it. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, I would beg my mother to buy a lot of green and red silk mooncakes. In fact, I just like to eat blue and red silk mooncakes... Later, there were more and more mooncakes and there were no green and red silk mooncakes anymore, which made me very depressed for several years... When I got to college, I discovered that the rice cakes at school were all covered with green and red threads! So the must-have thing every morning is a piece of steamed cake, and I have to tell the master that I want the one with the most green and red silk. One day, I guess the green and red silk is available, and the master is making steamed cake with candied jujube sticks. I went there again, and the master asked me if I wanted a steamed cake like before. I'll pick the biggest candied date for you! So I am embarrassed to say that in fact, I just prefer eating green and red silk, and I don’t like eating fat cakes that much, it is too sweet...

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Wash the fresh orange peel and cut it into small strips with scissors

    Blue and red silk step 1

  2. Then add lime to the water, take the clear solution above, and soak the orange peels in it for 10 hours

    Blue and red silk step 2

  3. Rinse the soaked orange peel several times until the bitter taste is no longer noticeable, then add a little red pigment to a part of it to dye it red

    Blue and red silk step 3

  4. The rest is dyed green, I only have turquoise dye, I recommend you dye it light green

    Blue and red silk step 4

  5. Add half the weight of orange peel and sugar to the red one

    Blue and red silk step 5

  6. The same goes for the green ones, add half the weight of orange peels in sugar

    Blue and red silk step 6

  7. Then marinate for three days. This is what it will look like after three days. Some of the water will come out and be poured out

    Blue and red silk step 7

  8. Add another normal amount of granulated sugar

    Blue and red silk step 8

  9. The same goes for red ones

    Blue and red silk step 9

  10. Add the other half of the sugar and continue marinating for two days

    Blue and red silk step 10

  11. Then find a nice sunny day and bask in the sun! Just dry it!

    Blue and red silk step 11