Wife cake is a kind of traditional name made of sugar winter melon, wheat flour, cake powder, caramel, sesame and other ingredients as the main raw materials. It is the most well-known cake in Guangdong Chao-style mooncake with the least ingredients, the simplest workmanship and the most well-known.
Originated from Guangdong Chaozhou dim sum wife cake, the outer skin is baked into a seductive golden brown, the layers of oil crisp inside are as thin as cotton paper, crispy and loose, a bite down the crumbs will fall to the ground, every bite can taste the sweet taste of honey! The wife's cake is favored by the boss!
According to legend, during the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty continued to collect various taxes from the people, the people were oppressed and plundered very seriously, and there was an endless stream of uprisings throughout the country, the most representative of which was the rebel army led by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang's wife Ma Shi was a very clever person, in the early days of the uprising, because there were wars at that time, food was often insufficient, the army also had to run east and west to fight, in order to facilitate the soldiers to carry dry food, so Ma Shi came up with the idea of using wheat, Winter melon and other edible things are ground into powder, made into cakes, and distributed to non-commissioned officers, which are not only convenient to carry, but also can be eaten anytime and anywhere, which has played a great help to the marching army. Because such a mess of things added together to make a cake is more difficult to eat, so smart people on the basis of this cake to update the method, and finally people found that the cake made with sugar winter melon, wheat flour, cake powder, caramel, sesame and other raw materials is very delicious, sweet and delicious, this is the ancestor of the wife cake.
Ingredients: Ingredients for wife cake: fine flour, cake powder, sugar, ghee, honey, hemp seeds, eggs, table salt, sodium dehydroacetate.
Preparation Method:
1. Make winter mushroom filling, use the old winter melon with ash, peel and remove the seeds, steam it in a cage, take out the mixer to beat it into a mushroom, and then wrap it with gauze to squeeze out the water, put it into a hot pot with a little lard, add sugar and stir-fry continuously, and then hook a certain amount of mustard according to the degree of dryness and dilution, so that it is relatively thick, and finally add cooked melon seeds, cooked sesame seeds, etc. and evenly, and then dry it to become a winter mushroom filling. Of course, you can also use winter melon sugar to replace the winter melon mushroom filling, so it is easier to make: stir the winter melon sugar into a mushroom, and then rub it with lard, Teochew powder (fried glutinous rice flour), and finally add cooked melon seeds, cooked sesame seeds and mix well.
2. The crust of the skin-making wife cake belongs to the puff pastry skin, which is composed of oil core and water oil skin. The oil skin is made from 450 grams of low gluten flour, 100 grams of high gluten flour, 7 grams of baking powder, 1 egg, 10 grams of lard, and the right amount of water, while the oil core is made of 450 grams of low gluten flour, 350 grams of cream, and 550 grams of lard.
3. The stuffing baked crust is made by small open crisp method, take a small piece of water oil skin, wrap a small piece of oil core, roll it into a beef tongue shape after pressing the flat, and then roll it into a cylinder from the outside to the inside, press the flat, stack it into three layers, and finally roll it into a round piece, you can wrap the filling into shape. The wrapped cake blank should also be pressed into a flat circle, and two small cuts are made on it with a knife (mainly to avoid breaking the skin due to the swelling of the filling during baking), and then brushed with egg liquid, sprinkled with sesame seeds, baked in the oven for about 10 minutes, and this fragrant wife cake is made.
Notes:
The wonderful taste of "wife cake" comes from the layered, thin as cotton paper puff pastry; to make this layering is quite laborious, first of all, in the material, the water and oil dough and the puff pastry are treated separately, the water and oil bread is added to the puff pastry, opened and folded, and so on twice, using the incompatibility of water and oil to make a crisp and distinct layering.
As for the sweet filling, the traditional Teochew "wife cake" is wrapped in winter melon paste, so it is also called "winter mushroom cake", after being introduced to Taiwan, the sweet filling content is changed to simple sugar, and the sweet aroma is as charming and delicious!