Old Beijing Mooncakes-zi Lai Hong

Name: Old Beijing Mooncakes-zi Lai Hong
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 200g Flour; 10g White sugar; 10g maltose; 90g Corn oil; 1g baking soda; 80g boiling water; 80g granulated sugar; 28g sesame oil; 40g Cooked noodles; Some Dried osmanthus; 10g crystal sugar; 30g Melon seeds; 30g Peach kernel

by Zerry's mother

5.0 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

10m

Serving

2

As one of the ancient Beijing-style mooncakes, the Red Mooncake is very different from the popular Cantonese-style mooncakes and Soviet-style mooncakes. The self-made red moon cake has a crisp texture, a sweet taste, and a strong scent of osmanthus. Many grandparents of the older generation still like red moon cakes.
When many traditional dim sums were gradually replaced by pastries and gradually faded out of our sight, the self-made red moon cakes still persisted in a tenacious posture. Nowadays, they can often be seen in supermarkets and dim sum stores in Beijing. Silhouette.
In fact, Zilaihong also has another name, "Fengshouhong", which means that people's good expectations for life are embodied in this piece of moon cakes, which symbolizes reunion and harvest...
You see, the red and round ink stamps on the moon cakes symbolize the prosperity of reunion, don't they? "

Old Beijing Mooncakes-zi Lai Hong

1. Pastry ingredients: flour, vegetable oil, baking soda, sugar, maltose.

Old Beijing Mooncakes-zi Lai Hong recipe

2. Pour the white sugar, maltose, and baking soda into a bowl (the daughter helped me by crushing the rose rowan and putting it in the sugar, and finally had to sift it with flour)

3. Pour in boiling water, stir well and then pour in vegetable oil.

4. Stir and pour in 200 grams of flour.

5. Knead the flour and other ingredients into a dough. Put the dough on the cutting board and knead the dough vigorously until the dough becomes very smooth and elastic.

6. Roll the kneaded dough into a rectangular piece with a rolling pin.

7. Roll out the dough, fold the two sides toward the middle

8. Fold in half after folding.

9. Place the stacked dough sheet on the cutting board horizontally, and roll out the rectangular dough sheet again. And again 40% off. Repeat the process of 6-8, 3-4 times for a total of four folds

10. Roll out the folded dough again and roll it into a cylinder

11. Rolled dough, cut into 10 small doses

12. Next, make the filling: 80 grams of white sugar, 28 grams of sesame oil, 40 grams of cooked flour, 1/2 tablespoon of sweet-scented osmanthus, 10 grams of rock sugar, 10 grams of melon seeds, 30 grams of walnut kernels

13. Put all the ingredients needed for the filling into a large bowl.

14. Grab all the materials evenly with your hands.

15. The filling is also divided into 10 portions

16. Take a portion of the pastry paste, roll it into a round shape, and pack a portion of the filling.

17. After the filling is wrapped, the red moon cake is formed. Place the wrapped mooncakes on the baking tray with the mouth facing down

18. After wrapping all the mooncakes one by one, dip a little red food coloring on the cap of the drink bottle, and print a red circle on the top of the mooncake.

19. Put the baking tray into the preheated oven, 200 degrees, medium level, upper and lower fire, bake for 25-30 minutes, until the surface of the mooncake turns brownish red