In a few days, the Mid-Autumn Festival will soon usher in, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Festival of Chinese folk, and everyone knows that every time this time is to eat mooncakes. So why eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival? What does it stand for? How to make mooncakes!
1. Why should I eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival? What does it stand for?
Mooncakes have many names, in many places mooncakes are also known as small cakes, reunion cakes, moon cakes, palace cakes, hu cakes, etc., they are mainly used to worship the moon god during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Later, slowly spread to the present, there is a custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, because the Mid-Autumn Festival is a very important traditional festival in China, on this day, the moon in the sky will be round, large and bright, and the mooncakes happen to be round, symbolizing reunion, representing people's good wishes for family reunion. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, people have pinned their lovesickness on the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, looking forward to the good wishes of relatives and friends getting together.
Second, the preparation method steps of mooncakes
1. Mooncake skin making
(1) Method for making large bags of puff pastry
First, the skin is mixed into a dough, making 1.6 kg of dough and 0.775 kg of puff pastry dough. Wrap the puff pastry in the crust and press it into a book with a drum dough pin, about 0.67 cm. Roll into round strips, then cut into 10 pieces with a knife, fold the ends of the small billet along the incision to the inside, and flatten it into a pancake shape with the palm of your hand, which can be used to wrap the filling.
(2) Method for making small packets of puff pastry
The method of making dough and puff pastry is the same as that of large puff pastry, dividing the skin and puff pastry into 10 small pieces each, wrapping the puff pastry into the skin one by one, flattening it with a dough stick and rolling it into a ball, and then flattening it into a pancake shape with the palm of your hand to wrap the filling.
2. Mooncake filling
(1) Pine nut jujube puree: first pitt, wash, steam and grind the black dates into a crushed puree. Add water to the pot, heat and dissolve into syrup, the concentration is moderate to use bamboo chopsticks to pick out the silk, and then add the date paste, oil, pine nuts, mix well, and burn until non-stick hands can be.
(2) Wash sand with water: 9 kg of red beans, 15 kg of granulated sugar, 1.5 kg of caramel, 2.5 kg of raw oil, 3 kg of water, the preparation method is the same as the bean paste filling.
(3) Lard sandwich sand: the bean paste used is the same as the method of washing sand with clean water. Specific preparation method: Mix the bean paste with sugar, diced lard, roses and osmanthus flowers.
3. Filling and forming
The bean paste filling is thinly placed on the puff pastry, and the mixture such as diced lard and osmanthus is wrapped in the puff pastry at the same time, and then the top of the paddle paper is attached to the puff pastry seal, and pressed into a 1.67 cm thick flat mooncake blank, at which time the mooncake blank can be stamped with various names.
4. Bake out of the oven
Mooncake raw blank pushed into the furnace, the furnace temperature is maintained at about 240 ° C, to be properly cooled after the pattern on the mooncake is fixed, the upper and lower fire requirements are consistent, baked for 6-7 minutes to cook thoroughly can be baked, to be cooled after the dish.
In addition, there are many kinds of mooncakes, such as egg yolk lotus trap, bean paste filling, black sesame trap, chestnut paste filling, etc., here for everyone to share the method of bean paste moon cake, other trap moon cake method is similar, I believe that everyone can also make their own delicious moon cake after reading.