Another few days is the Mid Autumn Festival. It's a day for family reunion to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. Moon cake, which means beautiful and reunion, has a long history and tradition in China, and has become one of the long-standing characteristics of the Chinese nation. Moon cakes are delicious, but they are also skillful in preservation. Do you know how to preserve moon cakes?
Shelf life of moon cake
Generally speaking, the shelf life of unopened mooncakes is 20-90 days.
The preservation time of mooncakes is closely related to the filling. The moon cake with fruit filling can only be preserved for about one month, while the sweet sugar filling with bean paste and red dates is slightly longer. The preservation time of ice skin moon cake is the shortest. It can only be preserved for two hours under normal temperature, and about 15 days if it is frozen.
Sharing of moon cake preservation skills in Mid Autumn Festival
1. How to store at room temperature
Mooncakes should be stored at low temperature, ventilated, cool and dry place, and should be stored separately to avoid rapid corruption. And the moon cake is a very sweet food, in the preservation, we must prevent mice, cockroaches and other small animals.
2. How to keep refrigerators
Some mooncakes can't be stored directly at room temperature and are easy to rot. they need to be kept in the refrigerator, such as ice skin mooncakes and fresh meat mooncakes. Moreover, they need to be packaged with fresh-keeping film to control the temperature of the refrigerator, which can't be too low, or it will affect the taste.
Note that in addition to the special moon cake properties such as ice skin moon cake and fresh meat filling moon cake, other kinds of moon cakes are not easy to deteriorate when placed in the refrigerator, but because at low temperature, starch will become aging, making the moon cake hard and taste worse. Generally, the refrigeration time should not exceed 10 days.
As far as possible, Soviet style moon cakes should not be placed in the refrigerator for too long, or they will easily turn damp and deteriorate, affecting the taste.