The practice of Tanabata Qiaoguo

Ingredients:

Main ingredients: 250 grams of flour

Accessories: 25 grams of sugar, 125 grams of milk, 2 grams of yeast

Directions:

1. Mix the flour, sugar, yeast, and add milk

2.

2. Knead the dough well to form a smooth dough

3. Ferment for half an hour, then knead well, expel air bubbles, roll out long strips, cut small doses

4. Put small doses of dough into the mold, press firmly

5. Inverted the mold, tapping, gouge out the coquettish billet

6. Pan placed on the fire on a low flame heating, the billet from the edge of the edge of the beginning of the swing into, cooking until the color of both sides evenly. Both sides of the color evenly can be

7. Finished product

Expansion:

Tanabata Festival to eat Qiaojiao origin

1, according to legend, a long time ago, there is a girl named Qiaoqiao, she is very sympathetic to the Cowherd and the Weaver's poignant love, and so in the night of Tanabata every year, Qiaoqiao will make a kind of exquisite So every year on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month, Xiaoqiao would make a kind of exquisite snacks, burn incense and offer them to the God of the earth, hoping that the cowherd and the weaving maiden would meet in the sky. The local land lord was touched by Xiao Qiao's sincerity and reported the matter to the Heavenly Court. The Jade Emperor was unable to pardon the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden due to the rules of heaven, but he was very grateful for Xiao Qiao's sincerity. The Jade Emperor was unable to pardon the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden due to the rules of heaven, but he was very grateful to Xiao Qiao for her sincerity, so he asked the Moon Lord to arrange a match between Xiao Qiao and her lover. Since then, Xiao Qiao and her lover have been together for a lifetime, and the couple has been envied by all. Many girls also learn from Xiaoqiao, in the annual Tanabata to make different traits of small snacks, praying for a happy marriage, happy life, this snack is also known as "Qiaoguo", which has been passed down to the present day.

2, Tanabata made cakes such as fingers and mouth and tongue-like, called "coquettish food", women and children with colorful thread strands through the "coquettish food" thrown back of the house, said to let the magpies to go to the bridge, the night ferry Cowherd, the Weaving Maiden over the Milky Way to meet.

3, coquettish fruit is the tears of the Seven Fairies sprinkled, put on the babies, girls will be handy, more and more beautiful.

The Tanabata Valentine's Day coquettish fruit introduction

Tanabata festive food, to coquettish fruit is the most famous. Qiaoguo is also known as "begging for coquettish fruits", and there are many styles of Qiaoguo. The main ingredient of Qiaoguo is oil, flour and molasses. In Tokyo Dreaming Records, it is called "Laughing Aura" and "Fruit and Food Patterns", and the patterns include "Pressing Fragrance" and "Fang Sheng". Song Dynasty, the city streets have been Tanabata coquettish fruits for sale. If you buy a catty coquettish fruit, there will be a pair of armor, such as the god of the door dolls, called "fruit food general". Qiaoguo practice is: first sugar in a pot melted into syrup, and then and into the flour, sesame, mix well and then spread on the case of the defining thin, cooled with a knife and cut into rectangles, sin You folded for the pike-shaped surface Qiao embryo, into the oil deep-fried to a golden brown into. Handy women, but also pinch molded a variety of legends related to the Tanabata pattern.

In addition, begging for coincidence with the melon can also be a variety of changes. Or the melon fruit carved into exotic flowers and birds, or in the melon skin surface relief pattern. Known as "flower melon" coquettish fruit and flower melon is the most common Tanabata food. In the history of the dynasties have different food customs. For example, the Wei Dynasty was popular on July 7 to set the soup cake. Tang Dynasty festival food, including the seventh of July into the hacking cake, and booking the seventh of July for the sunshine book festival, three provinces, six ministries below, each given a number of gold to prepare for the feast, known as the "sunshine book will be". Tanabata is also a suitable day for dispensing medicine. It is said to be a secret formula using pine and cypress as medicinal materials, and this magical pill is synthesized by blending dew on the seventh day of the seventh month, and taking one pill can extend life by ten years, and taking two pills can extend life by twenty years. In addition, there are also bait pine solid, serving cypress seeds, folding lotus leaves, etc., are known as immortal medicine of immortality.

The production method of the Tanabata Festival coquettish fruit

420 grams of flour, 60 grams of sugar, 4 eggs, 25 grams of peanut oil, 8 grams of fresh yeast, salt 1/4 tsp. Ingredients in the egg, yeast, sugar, cooking oil and flour together to knead into a dough to be sent to double the size of the dough to be re-kneaded, cut into large pieces, and then press a few rounds of the dough with a The dough is then cut into large pieces and pressed with a pasta press a few times to make the dough tighter and smoother, no pasta press can be used to knead the mixture by hand.

Knead again, with a knife from the center of all the two halves, one of the long roll, in accordance with the size of the model pulled into a small dose, mold sprinkles, will be a small dose of mold in the palm of your hand, compact, the excess part of the scissors cut off, and then finishing smooth, hand-held molds flip one end, gently knocked, seven coins on the fruit came out.

Knocked out of the tangram pattern face up, arranged into the baking dish, the oven 180 degrees middle layer baked for about 20 minutes, see the color on the good. If it is a pan or electric pie pan will be patterned side down covered with a lid to cook until both sides are yellow shells, cooked until.

Baked coquettish on the cover curtain to cool. It's better to let it dry for a few more days.

Tips:

1, first of all, the hair surface must be a little hard, not hard, the card mold is not good to get, too soft surface sticking up, knocking not out.

2, the traditional coquettish is placed in a special pot to cook out, so the oven to do easy to grasp the temperature and time, do not have to go back and forth constantly flipping, saving time and effort.

3, do a good job of coquettish must be naturally dry, dry a good preservation, a long time will not be bad, and the texture is crunchy and more delicious.

4, the amount of sugar can be mastered on their own, can be more or less, I personally feel that the amount of sugar I eat sweetness is just right.