What are the steps for making crescent moon cakes?

Go to Nanjing, go to Beijing, and have a good fried sesame seed cake in Tongdufu (now Dali County). Eat crispy hot, crispy cold and sesame oil layer by layer.

There is an old saying in Guanzhong, Shaanxi, Dali is strange, and most of them sell fried biscuits. Most of the cakes sold here are golden in color, like a crescent moon, hollow and round, crisp and fragrant, and people call them crescent cakes.

Crescent moon cake is a traditional food in Dali, which is famous for its crescent shape. The raw materials are wheat flour, salt, edible alkali, white sesame, fennel and edible oil, which are made by three technological processes: kneading dough, blank making and baking. Features: crispy skin, loose and soft inner pulp, both hot and cold. When eating mutton in a basin, you can put this cake in beef, which is delicious.

"A long time ago, there was a young man selling cakes in the same city. His name is Wang Weicheng. He is honest, diligent and kind-hearted. He lost his mother when he was a child and followed his father to sell baked wheat cakes. It was not long before he died. He sells cakes alone and leads a hard life. One day, the fairy in the moon palace turned into a poor old lady and rushed outside the furnace of the Acropolis. Seeing that the old man was starving, Cheng Wei helped him sit down, baked soft hot cakes and served fresh noodles. A few days ago, the old man taught him the craft of baking crescent cakes. His business is booming, and crescent cakes are still very popular. " This is a happy legend. It is also a compliment to the delicious and beautiful crescent cakes, and it is also a compliment to hardworking and sincere ordinary people.

Making crescent cakes is not just about waking up. You need to knead a small amount of animal oil in the batter, which is also an important factor to make the crescent cake fragrant, soft and mellow. Many times, animal oil is not so scary. In many China snacks and dishes, animal oil is a delicious killer. You can pick out the fat you usually buy and save it together, then put it in a non-stick pot without adding some oil and slowly boil it into animal oil with slow fire.

How to make the actual crescent moon cake? Let me introduce you to the method of making crescent cakes:

Food list:

Wheat flour 250g, warm water 100ml, baking powder 5g, salt 1 2 tbsp, sugar 1 tbsp, animal oil 1 tbsp, vegetable oil1tbsp.

Practice process:

1. Stir the salt, sugar and wheat flour evenly, pour the baking powder into warm water (about 40 degrees, which is not suitable for fingers to put in), let it stand for 5 minutes, then pour the yeast water into the wheat flour for the second time, knead it into a uniform batter, cover it with a plastic film, let it age for 30 minutes, then knead it evenly, split it in two, and take half of the batter for use.

2. Knead the two kinds of fermented batter separately, and after discharging the water vapor inside, knead them into strips and divide them into batter with symmetrical size;

3. Knead the batter with animal oil, roll out the batter without animal oil, wrap the batter inside and seal it tightly;

4. Seal the packaged batter upward, roll it into an oval cake, brush some vegetable oil on the upward side, wrap it like a steamed stuffed bun, and roll it into an oval long cake.

5. Don't add oil to the pot. Stir-fry the cake in a wok until it is warm, then turn it over and bake it on the other side. When the two sides fade, tap gently with a shovel to make a squeaking sound effect. Cut the baked cake from the inside and it becomes a crescent cake.

Production skills:

1. When making this Chinese dim sum, high-gluten wheat flour can make the finished product taste malleable.

2. Adding sugar to the dough can make the batter more mellow, and a small amount of sugar can arouse the fragrance.

Be careful when spreading pancakes. Burn slowly with slow fire. Don't rush to turn it over. I may have done it roughly. It takes six minutes to bake one side.

It's best to take advantage of the heat when cutting crescent cakes. When it's cold, the wound doesn't look good. After cutting, you can use a knife to make a slight stroke in the cake and it becomes a bag-shaped crescent cake.

Crescent moon cakes are generally eaten in a pot with mutton, accompanied by shredded pepper and garlic, with the simplicity and boldness of Guanzhong Plain and unique taste.