In this era, candy is both a rare commodity and an indispensable necessity.

You buy candies when you socialize with people, when you celebrate weddings and birthdays, and during festivals.

A small piece of candy carries the childhood of thousands of children.

Currently, the candies on the market are mainly milk candies, crispy candies and fruit-flavored hard candies. There are also soft candies, such as nougat, lard candy, orange candy, and corn candy. Apart from these, there are almost no other fruit soft candies on the market.

At least, not in Fengcheng.

She is confident that with what she has learned and is capable of forty years later, she will be able to carve out a place in the candy market.

This is just the first step of her plan.

After the apple gummy candies successfully open up the market, she will continue to develop more snacks using apples as raw materials, and then gradually open up sales channels for these snacks and promote them nationwide, thereby increasing the income of local fruit farmers.

Although she is just an ordinary woman, she tries her best to do something extraordinary.

The process of making fruit gummies is not complicated and the ingredients are also simple, only sugar, lemon and edible pectin are needed.

There are many kinds of sugars used to make candy, including sucrose, glucose, rock sugar, maltose, white sugar and so on.

But these sugars are not used to make candies, but starch syrup is used instead.

Compared with sucrose and maltose, starch syrup has a milder sweetness, a certain viscosity and moisturizing properties, and more importantly, it is very cheap, which can greatly reduce production costs.

It is impossible to buy fresh lemons in the current season, but citric acid can be used instead.

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Everyone has different opinions about Shen Mingzhu's concepts and ideas.

Pei Yang naturally supported her unconditionally.

Du Juan and Shen Chaobei were not against her making apple candy, but they felt that since a new product had already been released this month, she should first make a profit from the potato chips before considering developing new products.

Shen Hongmei remained neutral, neither opposing nor supporting.

Shen Mingzhu also explained why she was anxious to make new products. "There is still a month before the Spring Festival. If we act quickly, we may be able to launch it before the Spring Festival. You all know how popular candies are during the Spring Festival, don't I need to tell you, right?"

"Just think about it. When we go back to the village for the New Year, the villagers will eat apple candies produced by our food factory. That's something to be proud of."

It has to be said that Shen Mingzhu accurately grasped the pain points of the couple's "returning home in glory".

Du Juan and her husband were persuaded and agreed to Shen Mingzhu's idea.

Now that we have reached a consensus, the next step is to take action.

In addition to the raw materials needed to make fruit gummies, you also need a commercial wall-breaking machine, called a grinder in this era, a stainless steel pot for boiling sugar, candy block molds, etc.

When buying materials and equipment, everything involves money.

All the funds on the books have been invested in the production of potato chips. The money for the goods sold has not yet been received, and there is less than one hundred yuan left on the books.

There is still more than 3,000 yuan in savings at home, and I can move some of it over for use.

After asking Pei Yang's opinion, Shen Mingzhu borrowed one thousand yuan from him in the name of the legal person for the production of the food factory.

With the money, everyone took action under Shen Mingzhu's arrangement.

Pei Yang went to the sugar factory to purchase starch syrup and fine sugar, and Du Juan went to the food market to buy edible pectin, citric acid and preservatives.

Unlike hard candies, soft candies have a high water content and can easily go bad if proper preservatives are not added.

Shen Mingzhu went to the equipment factory to buy a juicer, and went to the steel factory to customize stainless steel pots and molds.

Stainless steel pots and molds require a certain amount of time to make. Before the equipment arrived, Shen Mingzhu tried several times with different ratios. After determining the final formula, she began to train the sugar-making workers.

Including her, there are three people in total. Shen Chaobei can come and help when he is free. Let's produce the first batch of apple candies first.

If the response is good, it won’t be too late to recruit more people.

Apples need to be peeled and seeded before juicing.

Peeled apples are easy to oxidize. Before peeling, soak the apples in light salt water for 5 to 10 minutes. This way, the peeled apples can be stored for a long time without being oxidized.

Use a blender to grind the peeled apple pieces into puree, pour them into the pot and boil them. After the puree in the pot boils, add starch syrup, citric acid and pectin in turn and continue boiling.

This step is very critical. Shen Mingzhu tried many times before she finally grasped the melting point boundary.

After the fruit puree and sugar in the pot are perfectly blended into a gelatinous state, pour it into a rectangular stainless steel plate, flatten it, and wait until it solidifies to a certain degree, then use a mold to press it into a beautiful shape.

Finally, stir with fine sugar powder and cool, and the apple candy is ready.

Shen Mingzhu was not in a hurry to sell or continue production. Instead, she picked a few bags of samples and sent them to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau for filing and to a third-party agency for testing.

This is a necessary procedure for adding new products.

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Both filing and testing require a certain amount of time, and Shen Mingzhu was not idle during the waiting period.

I gave some apple candies to my relatives and friends, asking them to taste them and help promote the product.

She first made an appointment with Zhong Qing, but Zhong Qing seemed to be busy these two days and would not have time to see her until next week.

Shen Mingzhu decided to send it to Li Bing first.

Li Bing was also an open-minded person. After learning her intention, he directly asked her to deliver the candy to the nurse's duty room.

"Sister Bing, thank you so much. You are always the first one to help me whenever I need something."

Li Bing waved his hands. "Why thank me? I've taken advantage of you a lot. Every time you release a new product, I eat for free. It's only natural that I can help you a little."

"Okay, give me the stuff. There are a lot of people in the duty room right now. I'll carry the stuff in and share it with them. Then everyone will know about your new product, right?"

Shen Mingzhu nodded gratefully and handed over the two paper bags in her hand.

"Sister Bing, both bags weigh three kilograms each. Take one bag home and take the other bag to the duty room for distribution."

Li Bing looked at the two large bags of candies and felt embarrassed. "Oh, why did you bring so many? I'm afraid we won't be able to finish them even before the New Year."

"If you can't finish it, just eat it slowly. It's just right for the New Year to save money on buying candy."

"Okay, thank you."

Shen Mingzhu was about to say "You're welcome" when a familiar voice suddenly rang in her ears.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Shen Mingzhu turned her head and saw Yan Yi a few steps away, with a look of surprise on her face.

Li Bing hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Professor Yan, are you here for the lecture today?"

When Shen Mingzhu heard Li Bing's address, a look of surprise flashed across her face.

On second thought, if Yan Yi could become the chief expert in psychology, how could his academic qualifications be low?

From this we can see that Yan Yi originally formed a study group for another purpose.

Yan Yi nodded in response to Li Bing's greeting, then glanced at the two paper bags Li Bing was carrying with a smile, and said to Shen Mingzhu: "I saw you guys talking happily from afar, do you have any good stuff? Do you mind if I share it?"

Second update~