Steamed date cake, with cold or hot water? Teach you a few tricks, the flower cake shape is good to look at the filling. Hello, everyone, I'm Chef Jiang Yizhou. It's time to share your meal with you again, are you ready?
It is almost the end of the year, and there is a traditional custom in our northern side. Every time it is almost the New Year, every family will make some steamed date flower cakes at home. Jujube cake means to prosper day by day, and the career layer is higher than the other. Of course, this year is no exception, and my family has also begun to prepare to make jujube cakes.
So when steaming jujube flower cake, should it be cold or hot water? Many friends do not understand, some friends at home to make the jujube cake outside the cooked inside, today I will share a few tips of this steamed jujube cake to everyone? After learning it, you no longer have to worry about making bad jujube cakes.
One: Steamed jujube flower cake should pay attention to the noodle making skills
When making steamed date flower cakes at home, pay attention to the noodles as much as steamed steamed buns and steamed buns. Only when the dough is fermented well enough, the steamed date cake is fluffy and soft. When we ferment the dough, in addition to adding 1 yeast to wake up the dough, we also need to add 1 sugar to promote the fermentation of yeast. Because the weather in the north is now relatively cold, most rural households do not have heating. So when making fermented dough at home, remember to use white sugar to promote yeast fermentation.
The amount of sugar is more than twice that of yeast. The yeast is boiled with warm water and the dough is then stirred into a flocculent shape. Knead into a smooth dough and let rise at room temperature for 5 to 6 hours. Wake up to 1.5 times larger.
Two: Steamed flower cake, with cold water or with hot water?
Many friends are struggling with whether to steam the steamed flower cake at home with cold water or hot water to steam. Here I would like to tell you that in fact, both methods can be used.
In addition to the need for a single awakening when making a flower cake and noodles, it also requires a second awakening when making a flower cake embryo. If you don't want to wake up for the second time, you can directly steam in cold water. Bring the steamer to a boil on high heat, then turn to medium heat and steam for 45 minutes. If the flower cake has been eaten for the second time, it can be steamed directly in hot water for 35 minutes.
The time to steam steamed steamed steam Therefore, the steaming time should also be slightly longer. This is why everyone encounters the phenomenon of sandwiching when steaming flower cakes.
Three: After the flower cake is steamed, simmer for five minutes.
Whether you use the home pot or use the natural gas at home to make steamed flower cakes, it is best not to open the lid immediately in the future. We turn off the heat and simmer with a lid for five minutes. Let the temperature inside the steamer slowly drop, so that you can avoid the phenomenon of thermal expansion and contraction, and the date cake made is fluffy and soft and does not collapse.
Well, here are three tips for steaming date cakes. How about, friends who like to eat flower cakes, have you learned? The last thing to share with you is that when making date cakes at home, remember to knead the dough of the flower cakes slightly harder, so that the bottom of the flower cake is stronger. And the shape is better.
Do you have a different approach to this? Welcome to share with me in the comments section no. I don't know if there is a custom of making steamed flower cakes in the south? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area. Like this article remember to collect and forward Oh. We'll see you next time.