Wife cake, why not a wife? I often hear friends ask such questions. This is the same as the fact that there is no husband and wife in the lung slices of the husband and wife, there is no fish in the fish and meat shreds, and there is no lion head in the braised lion's head. Why ask why? But although the wife cake can't eat the wife, you can eat a bite of crisp to the bottom of your heart.
The first time I heard about this wife cake, I knew it was a snack with a story, like the "Margaret Cookies" I wrote some time ago. Behind the "wife cake" is also hidden a beautiful love story. One day the father was seriously ill and the family had no money for medical treatment, so the wife had to sell herself into the landlord's house to earn money to treat her father. The husband who lost his wife did not fall because of this, studied hard at home, and finally developed a cake with a strange taste, and finally redeemed his wife by selling bread to make money and live a happy life again. After this delicacy spread, it was called wife cake.
About this wife cake, there is actually another name "Chaozhou wife cake", the reason is that this dim sum originated in Chaozhou, Guangdong. It is said that a Teochew man went to Guangzhou to be a dim sum chef, once he went back to his hometown to visit his relatives, he brought all kinds of signature refreshments from the store home for his wife to eat, and he did not expect that his wife ate the snacks he brought back not only did not praise, but also said with disgust: "The dim sum in the tea house is just like this, I tasted so much but nothing compared to my mother's dim sum winter melon corner!" After listening to the Chaozhou master, he was naturally unconvinced, so he let his wife make some winter melon horns for him to eat, but he did not expect that after tasting it, he praised it continuously!
After the visit, he asked his wife to make a large bag of winter melon horns and bring them to Guangzhou for other masters to taste. Unexpectedly, after everyone ate it, they were full of praise, so they asked who made the dim sum in which tea house? The master said that it was made by the Chaozhou wife, so everyone called it "Chaozhou Wife Cake". Later, after some improvement by them, this wife cake became a famous snack in Guangzhou. The traditional Teochew "wife cake" is also called "winter mushroom cake" because it is wrapped in winter melon mushrooms.
The characteristic of the wife cake is the combination of the skin embryo of the Su-style dough and the filling of the southern style, the skin is as thin as cotton paper, layered, the filling is sweet but not greasy, moist and soft. So today I will bring this delicious "wife cake" to everyone, interested friends continue to look down!
Oil skin: 150 g flour, 15 g caster sugar, 40 g lard, 80 g water
Pastry: 100 g flour, 50 g lard
Filling: 500 grams of winter melon, 50 grams of sugar, 10 grams of vegetable oil, 10 grams of cooked glutinous rice flour
Other ingredients: 1 egg, white sesame seeds to taste
Specifics
(1) First, let's make water and oil skin. Put 150 grams of flour on the board, then make a nest in the middle, and add 40 grams of lard, 15 grams of caster sugar, and 80 grams of water in turn.
tips: At room temperature, the lard is white and solid, and the puff pastry in Chinese pastries is mostly made of lard, which is characterized by convenient shaping, multiple layers, good crispness, white color, and easy to make. So lard is preferred, followed by butter, and then vegetable oil.
(2) Then use the strength of the palm root to rub the flour back and forth until the flour is fully integrated with water and lard, at this time the surface of the dough is still very rough, then it is now necessary to use the alternating kneading method of the hands to knead the dough to the surface of the smooth, soft, and with the hand to open a film.
ttips: The method of kneading the dough in this way is to make the dough blend better with water and oil; another reason is to make the gluten network inside the dough neatly arranged, which is what we usually call gluten, so that when the back operation, whether it is the flexibility or ductility of the dough, it will be very good, which is conducive to the next operation.
(3) Then round the dough, cover it with plastic wrap and set it aside to relax.
Tips: The main purpose of dough slack is to give the gluten chain time to adapt to the new length and shape, which makes it easier to roll round and shape, and not easy to shrink when baking.
(4) Next, make the puff pastry. Put 100 grams of flour and 50 grams of lard on the board, and knead back and forth with the root of the palm of your hand until the flour is fused with the lard ingredients, and the dry flour is completely invisible.
(5) Then sort out the shape, wrap it in plastic wrap and set aside.
tip: The softness and hardness of our puff pastry should be the same as the softness and hardness of the water and oil skin, if your pastry is too hard, you can knead it for a while, because the temperature of the hand is very high, after a long time of kneading, the lard will soften. If your pastry is soft, let it sit aside for a while and the lard will solidify. Feel the softness and hardness of the last puff pastry, depending on the situation!
(6) Then make the filling. Prepare 500 grams of winter melon, remove the middle urn, and peel it again. Rub into a fine mushroom with a rub, such as the state shown in the image below.
(7) Rub the fine mushroom to filter the juice inside, which can save the boiling time.
(8) Then pour into the pot, add 50 grams of sugar, 10 grams of vegetable oil, first turn on the medium heat and stir non-stop, to prevent the paste pot, about 5 minutes to start boiling, turn the heat to low and continue stirring.
(9) After about 10 minutes, the moisture becomes less, and continue to stir non-stop. Until it becomes viscous and the spatula can't get up, it's ok, turn off the heat and pour in 10 grams of cooked glutinous rice flour, stir well, and then put it out of the pan and put it on a plate and let it cool.
Tips: If there is no tool for wiping mushrooms at home, here is a simple way to teach you: first cut the winter melon into thin slices, steam it in cold water until it is soft, then mash it, and then pour it into the pot and start boiling, the effect is the same. Cooked glutinous rice flour is added to increase the viscosity of the filling, making it easier to form balls and facilitate operation when making snacks.
(10) Let's start wrapping the wife cake. Remove the loose water and oil skin, put it on the board and roll it directly into long strips and divide it into evenly sized dough seeds. Then arrange all the dough into a circle from the inside out and arrange it in order. The skin of water and oil is easily dried when exposed to air, so it is necessary to cover it with plastic wrap.
(11) Take out the puff pastry, knead the same long strips, and divide into evenly sized dough dough seeds. Roll into a circle, arrange in order, cover with plastic wrap and set aside.
(12) Starting from the first water and oil skin dough, first press flat, put on the puff pastry, close it with the tiger's mouth, pinch the seal, sort out the shape, and cover it with plastic wrap. Make all the dough seeds in turn.
(13) After all the wrapping, take the first wrapped dough without the dumplings, roll out long strips, roll them up from one end, put them aside, cover with plastic wrap and set aside. Make all the dough seeds in turn.
(14) After all the rolls are finished, take the first rolled dough, roll out a long strip, roll it up from one end, put it aside, cover it with plastic wrap and set aside. Make all the dough seeds in turn.
(15) After all the rolls are finished, take the first rolled dough, press flat first, roll out into a large round slice, put on the cold winter melon filling, wrap it up like a bun, tighten the mouth, and remove the excess dough. Tidy up the shape and put aside plastic wrap. Make all the dough seeds in turn.
Tips: In short, remember that after each step of the operation, you must cover it with plastic wrap to prevent the skin from drying and hardening.
(16) Take out the first dough dough and press flat or roll it with a rolling pin. Use a knife to make two cuts on it, and this mouth should be cut through.
Tips: The purpose of the stroke: one is to make the heat fully enter the cake, so that the filling in the middle can be fully baked. Another reason is that the cake will expand when it is heated during baking, and after a few cuts, the cake will expand along the scratched mouth, so that there will be no additional cracks. The last reason is the beauty, many breads or pastries will be scratched, and the scratch style is changeable.
(17) Put it in a baking dish, brush it evenly with a layer of egg mixture, and sprinkle with white sesame seeds to add flavor. The oven is preheated for 10 minutes in advance at 180 degrees, and baked in the middle layer at 180 degrees for 35 minutes, depending on the coloring.
When the time comes, our "wife cake" is ready, the skin is particularly crispy, the hand touches the slag, the winter melon filling inside is delicate and sweet, every bite can taste the honey-like taste, want to eat the little partner hurry up to try it! #战疫必胜 #
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