Jujube Flower Cake, New Year Cake and Jujube Mantou
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Prepare ingredients. Ordinary flour: 800g, yeast: 6g, aluminum-free baking powder: 2g
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Jujube: moderate amount. After washing, put it in cold water and start cooking. After the water is boiled, immediately remove the controlled dry water. Don't cook it too high, and steam it later to avoid overheating.
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Red yeast rice: appropriate amount; cocoa powder: appropriate amount; food coloring: appropriate amount
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Press the red yeast rice into a powder, add water to boil, filter out the residue with gauze, leave the red yeast rice water, and leave it to warm for later use. You can also buy ready-made red yeast rice noodles for direct mixing. I think the red yeast rice water made by myself is more at ease.
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Mix the yeast and baking powder into the flour and mix well. Take two small amounts of flour from it, and use cocoa powder and red yeast rice water to form a two-color dough to prepare plum blossoms and tree trunks.
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Put the red dough and the coffee-colored dough in separate containers, cover with a moist cloth, and ferment separately in a warm place.
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Mix most of the remaining flour with warm water to form a white dough, cover the dough with a moist cloth, and ferment in a warm place.
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When the dough has risen to 1.5 to 2 times its original size, it can be added. Cut a few small agents to make the rim of the flower cake, not too big.
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Roll the medicine into small strips.
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Take a jujube and wrap the kneaded noodles outside the jujube that is placed upright.
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Pinch the ends of the noodles tightly to form a drop-shaped shape.
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Pinch out a few of these shapes and use them as a side of the flower cake.
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Take a piece of dough and use a rolling pin to roll out a round dough piece as a base, the thickness is moderate, not too thin.
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.Round the edge of the flower cake made into a circle according to the arc of the round base. The center of the circle is filled with jujube.
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Roll out another dough sheet to cover the area covered with jujube in the center of the circle.
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Spread a piece of dough larger than step 15 as the top cover of the flower cake.
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Knead the coffee-colored dough into slender strips, arranging the shape of the plum tree trunk as you like.
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Knead the red dough into small balls, which are the embryonic form of plum petals.
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Pinch the small ball into a petal shape, connect the petals, and pinch the bottom of the petals.
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One more petal.
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Five petals form a group to form a plum blossom.
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.Put the petals together so that the petals gather toward the center.
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Use a toothpick to take a small amount of white noodles to make stamens, and fix the stamens in the middle of the flowers. One plum blossom is done, according to this method, make several plum blossoms.
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Take a small piece of white dough and knead it into a long strip to make a magpie.
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Knot the noodles.
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Stretch both ends of the knotted noodles outwards, making one end the head of a magpie, and the other end as the tail.
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Flatten the tail of the magpie and shape it. Use a knife to cut out the texture of the tail feathers, just cut out the knife mark, don't cut it.
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.Pinch out a small pointed mouth on the head of the magpie.
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Use two red beans or mung beans to make the eyes of a magpie. After fixing, press the beans tightly.
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Place plum blossoms and magpies on the top cover of the flower cake. After all are fixed, the secondary fermentation is carried out.
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Observe that the volume of the flower cake becomes larger and the surface of the dough is in a fluffy and fluffy state, steam it in a pot, and cook it in 20 minutes after SAIC.
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Dip chopsticks in food coloring and decorate according to personal preference. (END)
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Flower cake means that life is booming, and it gets higher year by year. It has a variety of shapes and can be made into auspicious ornaments with different meanings.
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Chinese folk regard the magpie as a symbol of auspiciousness, symbolizing good luck and good fortune; plum, also known as "primrose" in ancient times, is said to have four virtues and symbolize five blessings, namely happiness, happiness, longevity, smoothness and peace. "The magpie climbs to the plum blossoms" has a happy eyebrow, meaning good luck.
Tips:
1. Using jujube, the flower cake will be more delicate and beautiful.
2. The noodles should be a little harder to make it easier to shape.
3. Don't throw away the residue from the red yeast rice water. You can wrap it in gauze stewed meat, eggs, etc. The color of the stewed food is bright red and more nutritious.
4. After turning off the fire, let it cool for 3-5 minutes and then lift the lid to prevent the finished product from collapsing due to rapid cooling.
