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What materials are moon cakes mainly made of?

Mooncake crust materials: glutinous rice flour 40g, sticky rice flour (rice flour) 30g, corn flour (wheat starch) 30g, milk 180g, sugar 50g, corn oil 15g, mooncake molds and fillings.

First, we should mix flour into dough. In this process, we should add bee syrup, alkaline water and raw oil to the flour.

The combination of moon cakes and local food customs has developed Cantonese cuisine, Jin cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine and Yunnan cuisine, which are deeply loved by people all over the country.

Moon cakes symbolize reunion and should have started in the Ming Dynasty. If we look at the information about moon cakes and Mid-Autumn Festival folk customs in the Ming Dynasty, we should be able to see the historical track of the reunion of moon cakes: after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family will sit together and share moon cakes and fruits (offerings of the moon).