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How to make five kernel mooncake?

The five-kernel mooncake is one of the traditional Han Chinese pastries, belonging to a kind of Cantonese mooncake, which is the most famous among the various mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is characterized by elaborate ingredients, thin skin with a lot of filling, delicious taste, unbreakable, easy to carry and so on. This mooncake, drum-shaped, slightly bulging out of the side, pattern and writing clear, the shape of the correct, not broken skin, do not reveal the filling, the corners are clear; the edge of the ivory color, the bottom of the brownish-red; taste sweet, soft with crispy, with a variety of nutty aroma.

Five-kernel mooncake is the most famous mooncake, because of the filling of almonds, walnuts, olives, sesame seeds, melon seeds

and named. It is characterized by sophisticated ingredients, thin skin with a lot of filling, delicious taste, unbreakable, easy to carry and so on.

The five-kernel mooncake belongs to the Cantonese mooncake, which was introduced to Yunnan in 1939 with the establishment of Kunming Guanshengyuan. The five-kernel mooncake produced by Kunming Guanshengyuan is an improvement on the traditional Cantonese five-kernel mooncake recipe, so that the product not only retains the original style of Cantonese mooncake, but also carries the local flavor of Yunnan.

The ingredients used to make the mooncakes are: standard flour, top quality white sugar, cooked vegetable oil, lard, eggs, rose sugar, syrup, cooked standard powder, walnuts kernels, peanuts, pine nuts, hemp kernels, winter melon preserves, white wine, large alkali, orange peel sugar. Remove the traditional recipe of south almonds, melon seeds kernel, olive kernel, sugar orange cake, cooked glutinous rice flour (replaced by cooked flour), and increase the amount of winter melon preserves. The production process is to prepare syrup, make dough for the skin, make filling, wrap and mold the filling, plate and bake, and cool and box the finished product.

Compared with the hundred fruit mooncake, mooncake is drum-shaped, slightly bulging out the side, pattern and handwriting is clear, the shape is correct, not broken skin, not exposed filling, corners are clear; the surface of the golden-yellow, no white spots, color uniformity, with grease luster, the edge of the ivory, the bottom surface of the brownish-red. The taste is sweet, soft and crispy, with a variety of nutty aroma.

The filling of the mooncake with 100 fruits is usually assorted dried fruits, walnuts, red and green silk and sesame seeds.