Red Mooncakes in Old Beijing
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The main ingredient is to make mooncake crust, and the auxiliary ingredient is to make mooncake filling. First, prepare some things in advance:
Prepare the required materials. I made 20 self-made red moon cakes with these materials. Walnut kernels are chopped, but don’t cut into momo rock candy and peanut kernels are chopped.
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Fry in a 100g pan with cooked flour until slightly yellow, and the finished product is about 80g
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First make the skin of the mooncake, first put the sugar, maltose and baking soda into the basin
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After the water is heated, melt it with hot water and stir evenly
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Then add the sesame oil and salad oil and stir slightly
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Add the flour and mix into a dough. I use the bread maker's kneading function to make the mixing more even.
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Put the dough in a bowl and let stand at room temperature for 1 hour
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Next, make the filling, add white sugar, sesame oil and sweet-scented osmanthus sugar to the bowl and mix well
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Then add chopped walnut rock sugar, peanut kernels and cooked flour, and mix well
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It looks like this after stirring, not a clump, but rather fragmented. But it can be clumped together
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After that, the fillings are weighed, divided into 20 portions evenly, and formed into a ball for later use. The filling is approximately equal to 20 grams/piece
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Weigh the dough that has been allowed to stand for one hour, divide it into 20 portions, and knead it for later use. The dough is approximately equal to 38 grams/piece
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After that, I started to prepare red moon cakes, the same steps as Cantonese moon cakes.
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First take a dough, knead it into a circle, press it into a round cake, and place it in the palm of your right hand
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Put a filling into the dough
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Place the dough on the mouth of your hand, press the filling down with the thumb of your left hand, fold it up with your right hand, close the mouth tightly, and then round it.
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Wrap all the dough and fillings, put them in a baking tray, brush the red pigment on the cap of the cola bottle with a brush, and buckle a circle on the tap red
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Brush the red pigment on the cap of the cola bottle with a brush
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Button a circle on the tap red
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Put the baking tray in the preheated oven
Fire up and down at 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes. The taste of this mooncake is more obvious. It tastes like crushed rock sugar and crushed peanuts, which makes it awkward to chew. So it’s better not to eat it if the mouth is not good
Tips:
Zi Lai Hong is a very famous Beijing-style moon cake. I am from Beijing and I love this very much, from snacks to big ones. I feel that this place is full of memories, carrying the characteristics of old Beijing. The taste of this mooncake is very obvious. It is hard to bite and has a very strong fragrance. The filling contains rock sugar and walnut and peanut particles, so it tastes very chewy, and it feels very chewy. The mouth is not good. It's best to eat less.
The red circle on the self-made red moon cake is actually not food coloring. It is a syrup made from white sugar and maltose. It is called "water poke", but it is more troublesome and I make less of it, so I just The red pigment used doesn't make any difference to eat, because it only serves as a decoration.
