Make donkey hide gelatin cake at home

Overview

I saw various donkey-hide gelatin cakes online for only tens to hundreds of dollars per pound, and I thought it was too unreliable. I happen to have someone I know well who can get good donkey-hide gelatin cakes, but good donkey-hide gelatin cakes are not cheap at all. I bought them at an internal subscription price, so I basically never considered buying them online. I decided to make donkey hide gelatin cake at home, let’s take a look at the finished product!

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The first and most important thing is of course to choose a good donkey-hide gelatin block. Well, at the current normal price, a better donkey-hide gelatin block is more than 1,000 per kilogram. If you have some channels, or if you are a fellow from Shandong, you can ask to buy it from the locals. After buying it, look at the outline. If it is a good donkey-hide gelatin block, you can tell from the appearance that its corners are light-emitting. Then you smash it into pieces. The texture of each piece is very clear, and the corners will still be light-emitting.
If you use a mobile phone light to shine it, the light will come through, which will be better.
Choose a larger soup pot, take 500 grams of donkey-hide gelatin cubes, and then add 500 ml of rice wine. What I choose here is the rice wine with watery aroma and national color, because I like to drink this rice wine. Well, you can choose other brands. As long as it is, um, oral grade, it will be ok even if it is not for cooking.
This step is to put the rice wine and donkey-hide gelatin pieces together and leave them like this. They must be placed in a soup pot without seams. In the picture I took, it looked like I had soaked it for ten hours, and the effect was almost half gone. Well, until it's all melted and then, you can move on to the next step. Generally speaking, it takes about two or three days. If you control the heat more accurately, you can heat it directly without this step, but otherwise it will be easier to cause problems and waste it.
Okay, now it's completely melted, and the donkey-hide gelatin blocks are ready to soak. Then we can heat it over medium to low heat first. As long as it is hot, we will stir it over low heat. The stirring process will take about half an hour. When the flag hangs, we can add other auxiliary materials.
One of the ingredients to prepare is 500 grams of black sesame seeds. What I prepared here are cooked black sesame seeds. If you buy raw black sesame seeds, remember to heat them in a pan to make them easy to cook.
The second preparation material is walnut kernels. The ones I bought here are old walnuts. Well, don’t buy the thin-skinned walnuts, which have little nutritional value. You must buy the kind that looks uglier, and the old walnuts are better. Then when you open it, this one is also raw. If you have an oven at home, you can use the oven at 140 degrees for five minutes.
The third ingredient to prepare is wolfberry and red dates, 100 grams each. For red dates here, it is best not to buy the big Hotan dates. They are relatively empty and not easy to preserve. The sweetness is not as sweet as the small ones. I bought small and medium-sized ones. For wolfberry, you can buy larger ones, but larger ones will be better and sweeter.
Be sure to remove the core of the red dates. It is best to cut off the four sides, leaving out the middle, head and tail.
Prepare 120 to 150 grams of rock sugar. I personally don’t like too sweet, so I put 120. If you like something sweeter, you can put 150!
When all the ingredients are ready, just place them on the edge of the pot. Boil the donkey-hide gelatin until the flag hangs and you are ready to add the auxiliary ingredients.
When the donkey-hide gelatin block is about to hang its flag, that is, when it starts to become a little sticky, put all the rock sugar in it.
In this way, the flag is almost hanging, even if a drop drops, it will not fall off for a long time. Now you can start preparing to add other ingredients.
Pour the walnuts, wolfberries, and red dates all at once, and then stir quickly without turning off the heat or setting it to the smallest heat.
After stirring evenly, put down all the black sesame seeds, and then stir quickly.
After all the ingredients have been put in, you can turn off the fire at this time, and then continue stirring until you are ready to put it into the pot.
If you have a non-stick baking pan used in ovens at home, you can directly grease the baking pan with a layer of oil, and then put the prepared donkey-hide gelatin cake directly into it. If not, any pot will do, but if so, you need to add plastic wrap, and then apply a layer of oil on the plastic wrap so that it won't stick to the bottom and won't be wasted.
It's time to clean up the mess. If you use better donkey-hide gelatin blocks, you can soak the pot in cold water and then basically don't need to wash it. It will be very clean after just rinsing it.
Wrap the prepared donkey-hide gelatin cake in a basin with plastic wrap, then take a cylindrical object, I took a cosmetic bottle, and roll it around on it to compact it and flatten it.
Put it in the refrigerator for an hour, then take it out, and the donkey hide gelatin cake is ready.
Take the donkey-hide gelatin cake out of the baking pan, use a flat-angle cooking spatula to take it out, then pour it out, pour it out, and pour it onto the cutting board. The cutting board must be dry, and the knife must also be dry.
You can make it yourself and eat it yourself. It doesn't matter how big or thick you want to cut it.
You can find a dry glass bottle and cut it directly into it. If you have a food bag, you can also put it all inside the bag and seal it.

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