It is difficult to present confectionery business without use of icing sugar. With its help decorate various cakes, cakes, a bakery goods, do mastic from which then mold decorative elements. Icing sugar can be bought in any shop though it is easy to make it also in house conditions.
Icing sugar is simply irreplaceable in case you were going to create the next confectionery masterpiece. From it it is possible to prepare glaze, mastic, and it is possible just to strew a chocolate cake. Anyway it will turn out tasty. It is interesting how receive icing sugar commercially and as it can be prepared houses.
Production
The granulated sugar (reed or received from a sugar beet) ground to a condition of uniform dust is and there is an icing sugar. Its production at factories is carried out on the specialized equipment, to be exact - on a shock and reflective mill. There are several grades of icing sugar. The smallest powder (the size of one part less than 100 microns) which is known to all, is on sale in retail networks, and here other two (more rough grinding) arrive for production of bread and confectionery (vzbitiye of cream, glaze preparation). The used equipment very powerful, in one hour it produces about 0.25 t of icing sugar.
Icing sugar in house conditions
The first that occurs when it is necessary to make icing sugar of the house – use of household kitchen appliances. Many hostesses use for these purposes of the coffee grinder, but it is necessary to consider that a coffee bean softer, so, you subject the device to the strengthened loadings from which it can become useless. It is better to use the food processor (mini melnichka). It is necessary to grind sugar, at least, three times. The main thing in this case – uniformity therefore every time powder needs to be sifted through a strainer. And how to make icing sugar without coffee grinder? Still our grandmothers prepared powder from the recipes. There are several ways. The first – use of a mortar. If in the house there is a mortar with a heavy pestle, then, having made a few efforts, receive powder necessary to you. If there is no mortar, it is possible to use a simple glass bottle. Put sugar (sugar pieces) on confectionery paper, from above cover with one more leaf, and then begin to roll with the fraying movements. Of course, such method more labor-consuming, but as a result all the same will turn out the necessary product. Of course, if not a large number is necessary, then it makes sense to make her houses. Especially as it isn't difficult to make icing sugar at all.