[Tomato Recipe] Old Beijing Red Mooncakes - Let’s miss the dim sum taste of old Beijing together

[Tomato Recipe] Old Beijing Red Mooncakes - Let’s miss the dim sum taste of old Beijing together

Overview

Zi Lai Hong and Zi Lai White are both traditional Beijing-style mooncakes, and their names come from their different skin colors. Tomato remembers that the most memorable thing when he was a child was the red mooncake. Everyone would eat it during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is a mooncake with a long history. The homemade red mooncakes do not taste as soft and rich as Cantonese-style mooncakes or Soviet-style mooncakes, but they evoke the childhood memories of children in old Beijing.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. First make the puff pastry. Pour the fine sugar, maltose, and baking soda into the eggbeater

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  2. Pour in boiling water and stir evenly

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  3. After stirring evenly, pour in the corn oil and continue stirring evenly.

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  4. Pour in 200g of flour and knead the flour and other ingredients into a dough

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  5. Then put the dough on the kneading mat and knead vigorously for about 20 minutes until the dough becomes smooth and elastic

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  6. Use a rolling pin to roll the kneaded dough into a rectangular shape

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  7. .After rolling out the dough, fold both sides in half

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  8. Fold the folded dough piece in half again to complete the first quarter fold

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  9. Place the folded dough sheet horizontally on the kneading mat, roll it into a rectangular sheet again, and fold it in four again.

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  10. Repeat this process 2-3 times, making a total of 3-4 quarter folds, until the surface becomes very smooth and flat

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  11. Roll out the folded dough again and roll it into a cylinder

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  12. Roll the dough and cut into 10 small pieces

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  13. Next make the filling. Pour the fine sugar, corn oil, and cooked flour into the egg bowl,

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  14. Then pour in the melon seeds, chopped walnuts, and rock sugar

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  15. Use your hands to mix all the ingredients evenly into the filling,

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  16. Place the stuffing on the chopping board, shape it into a rectangle with your hands, and cut it into 10 equal parts with a knife

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  17. Take a small pastry ball, place it with the cut side facing up on the dough mat, and use a rolling pin to roll it into a round dough,

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  18. Wrap in a portion of filling

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  19. After wrapping, the red mooncakes will take shape. After wrapping all the mooncakes in sequence

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  20. Dip a drink lid into a little red food coloring and print a red circle on the top of the mooncake

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  21. Put the baking sheet into the preheated oven at 200°, middle layer, upper and lower heat, and bake for 25-30 minutes, until the surface of the mooncakes turns brown

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