It is difficult to imagine confectionery without the use of powdered sugar. With its help, various cakes, cakes, bakery products are decorated, mastic is made, from which decorative elements are then molded. Powdered sugar can be bought at any store, although it is easy to make at home.
Pick your recipe
Powdered sugar is simply indispensable if you are going to create another confectionery masterpiece. From it you can cook icing, mastic, or you can just sprinkle a chocolate muffin. In any case, it will turn out delicious. It is interesting how to obtain powdered sugar on an industrial scale and how it can be prepared at home.
Production
Sugar (cane or obtained from sugar beets), ground to a state of uniform dust - this is powdered sugar. Its production in factories is carried out on specialized equipment, or rather, on a shock-reflective mill. There are several varieties of powdered sugar. The smallest powder (the size of one particle is less than 100 microns), which is known to everyone, is sold in retail chains, but the other two (coarser) are used for the production of bread and confectionery (whipping cream, making glaze). The equipment used is very powerful, in one hour it produces about 0.25 tons of powdered sugar.