Coconut Sugar
Coconut sugar or better known as brown sugar or Java sugar may already be familiar, especially for the Java community, coconut sugar is widely used for various food and beverages daily.
The utilization of coconut sugar as one of raw material for food production is not only at household level, but coconut sugar is also widely used as industrial raw material such as soy sauce factory and dodol (indonesia cake) industry.
The abundance of coconut-based foods is due to the distinctive aroma and flavor of caramel palm is perfect for adding flavors to food, caramel and paste taste in palm sugar can not be replaced with other types of sugar such as cane sugar.
In addition to the utilization of coconut sugar as printing sugar, coconut sugar is now also used in powder form or better known as organic ant or sugar sugar crystal.
Named sugar ants because of its shape that resembles the ant nest in the ground. Sugar ants also have some advantages over the general printing sugar, which can be durable stored in a period of up to two years without experiencing changes in color and taste if wrapped in a tight place, this is because the water content contained in the sugar ants ranging from 2- 3 percent.
How to Make Sugar Ants from Coconut Sugar
To produce sugar ants with good quality, how to select a good palm sugar, the sign of sugar if it got hot little melted easily, if that remains hard, be careful, it usually already use chemical drugs, because the manufacture of sugar ants are less satisfactory results.
Chop Coconut Sugar it with a machine of Sugar Sucker, try to thin it thinly. This is meant to facilitate the process of drying and destruction of ant sugar
Oven or dry Sugar of the chopped result, until it reaches 5% moisture content.
Perform a siege / chopping of the result of the staining of the sugar.
Sorting or sifting the result of the siege which then becomes a crystal of sugar coconut sugar
Conclusion
How to make ant sugar using coconut sugar basic ingredients. The quality of palm sugar affects all parameters analyzed, while the cooking end-point temperature has no effect only on the ash content of ant sugar produced. Sugar ants other than as a sugar substitute are also more practical, both the use and storage. So much information making of sugar ants with basic ingredients of coconut sugar. Good luck.
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