How to Make Puto Pao

Puto Pao (Puto-siopao) is a small bun with fillings. It is a great snack that is easy to sell wether you start with your neighborhood and friends or sell it by order online. It is easy to make and requires a small capital as well. Here's how to make it:

Materials:
bowls
ladle
wooden ladle or whip
spatula
measuring spoons and cups
kitchen weighing scale
serving tray
pressure cooker or casserole
wok or skillet
steamer
knives
gas stove.
Ingredients:
For the puto you will need the following
1/2 kg all-purpose flour
250 g white sugar
1/4 cup baking powder
2-1/2 cup water
3 tbsp or 30g melted butter

For the filling:
1/2 kg of ground lean pork
1 piece laurel leaf
1 piece star anise
1/2 cup or 112ml of soy sauce
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup or 125g of white sugar
1tsp or 2g cornstarch
2 cloves garlic

Procedure:
Start by cooking the asado. While preheating the pan or a skillet over low heat, mince the garlic. Once the pan is hot enough, put all the ingredients together. Mix them to a good blend. Continue mixing until the meat is cooked and becomes tender. Discard the star anise and the laurel once the meat gets tender. (The star anise and laurel leaf are only meant to give a savory aroma to your dish.)

So the meat won’t become crispy, don’t sauté or braise it. Cook it only in water and soy sauce. Let the meat absorb all the liquid until it dries out. After that, turn off the stove and set the cooked meat or asado aside. This asado can fill four sets of your bun recipe. Let it cool and start doing the buns.

Get all the dry ingredients and mix them in a bowl. Then add water. Using a wooden ladle or whip, dissolve all the ingredients. Continue mixing them until you achieve a smooth texture. Make sure all the lumps are dissolved. Then add the melted butter (you could also use cooking oil as an alternative). Mix. You’ll know when the mix is ready for steaming when there are no lumps left.

Afterwards, get the ounce-size molds. Pour in the mixture until each mold is three fourths full. Then put one teaspoon of the asado on top. If you want to make it a filling, then fill the mold a quarter full and put one teaspoon of asado. Then pour in the mixture until it’s almost full. Arrange the molds in the steamer, which should contain enough water. Steam for 30 minutes in boiling temperature.

Make sure there’s enough water to steam your puto-paos. After 30 minutes, take off the puto-paos from the molds. Your yield for this set should be 48 pieces, which by then should be ready to be served with other merienda treats.
Josie de Jesus, lecturer at the baking division of Ultima Entrepinoy Forum Center, advises that you shouldn’t re-steam puto-paos repeatedly. Once re-steamed, they should be consumed at once, she says. Otherwise, the quality and taste of the putopao deteriorates and it becomes prone to spoilage.

How to make your own perfume

You can start your own perfume-making business with just P1500.00
There are a lot of perfume refilling business you can see in malls, but you will notice that this one is still a lot more cheaper.

To start, you will need the following laboratory equipment:

• 10kg weighing scale or kitchen scale
• plastic cups, a stirring rod
• small beaker
  
• 1,000ml beaker
• volumetric flask with cover.

Raw Materials (prices may vary)

• 70g triple deodorized alcohol (TDOH) at about P200 per liter

• 15g fragrance at P500 per 100g

• 5g muscol (MCL) at P400 per 100g

• 5g moisturizer (propylene glycol or PPG) at P250 per liter

• 5g distilled water at P10 per 300 ml.

For packaging, you may use either an atomizer bottle (spray) with a net content of 5 ml (P15 per bottle) or roll-on glass bottles with a net content of 10 ml (P16 per bottle). These are available at the Divisoria Market in Manila.

Procedures:

Step 1:

To start, put all the raw materials-except the alcohol-in small plastic containers or beakers for weighing. The alcohol needs to be weighed last because it easily evaporates when exposed to air.

For accuracy, all of the ingredients must be weighed in grams. Barangan says that getting the exact weight is crucial: "If you bungle the measurements, you'll bungle the formulation."

First, weigh the beaker or the plastic cups on the weighing scale. Make sure to adjust the scale to zero before taking your measurements. While on top of the scale, fill the beaker or the plastic cups with the ingredients and weigh.

Step 2:

When the materials are ready, pour the MCL into the beaker containing the alcohol. To make sure that the container of the MCL is thoroughly emptied of the MCL, rinse it with the weighed alcohol, mix the resulting solution with a stirring rod, then add the thoroughly mixed solution to the MCL in the beaker. Stir the contents of the beaker until the MCL is fully dispersed in the alcohol

Step 3:

Add the PPG to the mixture and stir. Always stir each time you add another ingredient, and make sure to completely disperse the substance before adding another ingredient to the mixture.

Step 4:

Finally, add the distilled water. To completely clean the empty container of the remainder of its contents, rinse it with water and add the resulting solution to the mixture in the beaker.

Step 5:

Thoroughly mix all the ingredients in the beaker until the perfume solution becomes homogeneous, then get your bottles and fill them with the perfume. Label and package your perfumes as desired, based on where you intend to sell them.

This formulation for 100 grams of perfume yields 12 to 13 roll-on bottles. To compute your production cost , take the sum of the following costs:

70g triple deodorized alcohol @ P14.00

15g fragrance @ P75.00

5g muscol (MCL) @ P20.00

5g moisturizer (propylene glycol or PPG) @ P1.25

5g distilled water @ P0.17

Your production cost will be P110.42. You can mark up anywhere from 100 to 300 percent.

Your fragrances and perfumes must be kept in dry, cool, and dark places because light can adversely affect their chemical properties. . As much as possible, use dark-color bottles for storage and packaging.

Each time you need to get some of your raw fragrances, transfer them into smaller bottles. This is to minimize their contact with air, which may adversely interact with them. By using a volumetric flask with cover, you can keep your perfume intact and well-sealed until you are ready to package it

The perfume can be sold to friends, families and co-workers; you may also use them as giveaways for weddings and other special occasions. If you are marketing the products to teenagers, it's better to put your perfume in spray bottles. If you are targeting office workers, however, putting the perfume in roll-on bottles would be a better option. Avoid using plastic as packaging material; they have dioxins that may mix or interact with your perfume.

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