Pumpkin and Red Date Hair Cake

Pumpkin and Red Date Hair Cake

1. After the water is boiled, steam the chopped pumpkin on a tray (about 20 minutes)

2. Mash the pumpkin while it is hot and let cool

3. Dissolve the yeast powder in warm water and set aside (forgot to take pictures at this step)

4. Stir the white flour and the cool pumpkin paste, add yeast water (knead while adding). The water content of each pumpkin is different, so you need to adjust it a little when adding flour. Pumpkin is very sweet, so I didn't add sugar.

5. Knead the dough into a smooth and soft ball, cover it with plastic wrap and wait for it to ferment

6. Wash and cook the red dates for 5 minutes, remove the pits and cut them. Boiled red dates can have a better aroma

7. When the dough has been fermented to twice its size, bring the steamer to a boil, soak the cloth in water until it is slightly dry, and spread it on the cloth. Pour the dried dough into the cloth and spread it out. Press gently to make it flat. Add the boiled jujube. Cover the dough loosely

8. Steam on high heat for 20 minutes, then turn to medium heat and steam for 20 minutes, then let it cool for a while and it’s OK.

9. The delicious pudding beckons you

Tips:

1. The big pumpkin with sweet noodles for pumpkins. The second half of the pumpkin I use has no seeds and the noodles are big and sweet. I used about 1/4 pumpkin butt and added two and a half bowls of flour. The amount depends on personal feeling and experience; 2. Don’t ferment too long, otherwise it will become sour. I spent about two hours. After all, Qingdao is cold. You know; 3. If you want to make the rice cake soft, you can add more flour to reduce the proportion of pumpkin. There is no need to add water, because the pumpkin paste is very thin; 4. You must add more water to the steamer, otherwise you don’t scold me when it gets stuck. 5. Use it when steaming. Tibu, use Tibu, use Tibu... the important thing is said three times! The tradition left by the ancestors is the essence, don't use plastic wrap or other substitutes, the drawer cloth is placed directly on the drawer. That's it, I hope you are satisfied