Chinese traditional food - moon cakes

 

Moon cake as the full moon, are traditional Chinese snacks for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which occurs when the Moon is the lightest on the fifteenth day of the 8th Chinese lunar month (located near the beginning of October). Chinese families are usually together that night and eating moon cakes with fruit and wine. As you enjoy the beauty of full moon, you remember the Moon Goddess, Chang's. This Festival is similar to the American Thanksgiving.

Ingredients:

1.5 Pound flour

6.5 Ounces butter

1/2 Cup water

3/4 Cup sugar

6.5 TBSP peanut oil

2 Ounce peanut kernel

5 Oz SESAM

1 Egg, beaten

1 Oz salt and pepper powder mix

Directions:

Dough:

1. Cut 6 oz butter in 0.5 pound flour to make "buttered dough". Split into 10 parts.

2. Melt 0.5 ounces of butter and 1/2 cup water. Stir in an another 0.5 pound flour to make "Water oil dough." Split into 10 parts.

Filling:

1. Steam last 0.5 pounds flour 15 minutes and let cool in a bowl. It should be slightly darker, to seek a rough texture and slightly hardened, but the lump should be easy to break.

2. SESAM, salt, sugar, peanut oil, peanut kernels and pepper powder, steamed flour and mix evenly. Divide the filling into 10 parts.

Ask the moon cake:

1. Flatten each piece of water oil dough into a circle, make a "wrapper".

2. Wrap a piece of dough reduce buttered each water oil dough circle and then again in a new circle (wrapper).

3. Distribute the filling under the wrappers, and each press molds, 3 or 4 inches in diameter in a floured pattern to bake a cake.

4. Brush the cake with the beaten egg. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until lightly browned at 180 ° C. Halfway through baking, turn the cake and brush the other side with the egg.