What materials are used to make moon cakes

To make mooncakes to flour, eggs, sugar, food additives, various fillings, additives and so on.

Da Bao pastry pastry method : with the material flour, eggs, sugar, food additives, a variety of fillings, additives to 5 kilograms, each kilogram to make 12 moon cakes. First of all, the skin material into dough. Crust dough 1.6 kilograms, shortening dough 0.775 kilograms. Wrap the shortening into the crust and press with a roller doughnut to form a book skin (0.67 cm). Roll it into a round strip, cut it into 10 pieces with a knife, then fold and pinch the ends of the billet along the incision to the inside, snap it with the palm of your hand to make it into a pancake shape, and then you can wrap it with the filling.

Making the Filling: Mix according to the recipe and knead thoroughly to moisten. The following fillings need to be pre-made into semi-finished products:

Pine nuts date puree: first of all, the black dates to remove the core, washed, steamed and twisted into a crushed puree. Sugar into the pot with water, heat and dissolve into syrup, the concentration of bamboo chopsticks can be picked out of the silk for the right, and then add the date paste, oil, pine nuts, mix well, burned until not sticky hands can be.

Washing sand: 9 kg of red beans, 15 kg of sugar, 1.5 kg of caramel, 2.5 kg of oil, 3 kg of water, the same method and bean paste filling. Lard sand: the bean paste used with the same method of water bean paste. Specific method: the bean paste and sugar, lard, rose, osmanthus can be mixed well.

Packing: first take the bean paste filling press thin on the pastry, and then take the lard, cinnamon and other mixes at the same time wrapped into the pastry. Forming: After wrapping the filling, in the puff pastry seal with the top type of paper, pressed into 1.67 cm thick flat moon cake blanks, 90 grams each, and then in the moon cake billet stamped with various names of the seal.

Baking : moon cake blanks pushed into the oven, the oven temperature is maintained at about 240 ℃, to be the pattern on the moon cake after the appropriate cooling, the upper and lower fire requirements of the same, baked 6 to 7 minutes cooked can be removed from the oven, to be cooled down after the plate.