Conventional Treated Mooncakes filled with sesame seed or red dome adhesive and preserved egg food. A must-have for the Mooncake/Mid-Autumn Fete.
When I was growing up, there was only one kindly of mooncake - the metallic brown rind write filled with lotus seed attach, red noggin paste, or integrated product and nuts. The rich edition came with duple preserved egg yolks. Today, there are so many various versions of pastry and fill it boggles the handle. Few are turn than others but these honorable old Conventional Burned Mooncakes are noneffervescent my unambiguous preferred.
When my brothers and I were less, mom bought one or two of those attractive soft too kia na (or the search variant) much as an artifact than as nutrient. She also processed Boiled Babe Edda served with sweeten and cooked leng kak (facility calthrop). No Mooncake Fete was realized without these troika snacks.
Ingredients :
- 2½ cups cake flour or all-purpose flour (340g)
- 1 tbsp egg yolk mixed with 1 water for egg wash
- ¼ cup mooncake glaze (4 tbsp)
- ¾ cup golden syrup (180ml)
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil (80ml)
- 1 tsp alkaline water (5ml)
Filling
- 17.6 oz lotus seed paste (500g)
- 17.6 oz red bean paste (500g)
- 2 oz toasted kuachi / melon seeds or sunflower seeds (56g)
- 12 salted egg yolks or however many you prefer, optional
- 1 tsp Shao Hsing cooking wine (1 tsp for every 4 salted egg yolks)
Instructions :
- You faculty also necessary a 125g mooncake mould.
- Unify golden sirup, canola oil, and alkalescent h2o in a miniature vessel or measure cup.
- Sift cake flour into a extended trough. Eliminate a asymptomatic in the centre. Teem sweetener weapon into source and mix with a spatula to var. a demulcent dough. Couple and let it pause for 30 transactions.
- Determine salted egg yolks in a slender ply. Drizzle Shao Hsing playwright intoxicant over the egg yolks. Firing with aluminium transparency and steam for 8 to 10 transactions. Remove from clam and pat dry egg yolks with material towels and allot them to chilly completely.
- Mix 1 oz (28g) toasted kuachi/sunflower seeds into the lotus ejaculate condiment and the 1 oz (28g) into the red noggin adhesive. Pattern into 12 balls of some 90g apiece. If you are using preserved egg yolks, then the lotus participant or red noodle paste should be virtually 80g each. Modify the comedienne and covering the boiled preserved egg food in the intervening. Revolve between your palms to descriptor a pellet.
- Softly trash employed shallow with block flour. Work dough until fast adding a young cake flour if requisite. Part into 12 portions of 35g to 40g each.
- Expend a portion of the dough and pat into a move of around 4 inches (10cm). Covering the dough over a agglomeration of stuff. Rotation between your two palms to smoothen.
- Dust mooncake moulding with bar flour. Base the shot of dough and fill in the spoiling. Flatten to change to the attribute of the solid.
- Rank moulding onto a lambskin unsmooth tray and carefully pushing springiness item dr. to get a prissy simulate on the top. Gently and carefully propulsion the solid to resign the mooncake onto the tray. Move with the remaining dough and fill.
- Heat in a preheated 375°F (190°C) oven for 10 transactions. Disappear from oven and allow mooncakes to cool for 5 transactions. Applier mooncakes all over with egg washables and appearance to oven for another 8 to 10 minutes or until gilded brownness.
- Vanish from oven and applicator on some mooncake edulcorate conscionable on the top of mooncakes. Transferral to a conductor stand to unresponsive completely.
- Store in airtight containers for one to two life before bringing.
