Step 1

Put Beiliu sugar into a bowl, add 200 grams of hot water, steam over high heat for about 40 minutes, take it out, and stir with chopsticks to form sugar juice. .

Step 2

2 Add 500 grams of water into the basin, knead the yeast dough into pieces and put it in, pour in the flour and mix evenly, and let it ferment naturally.

Step 3

Sprinkle a layer of dry flour on the chopping board and let the dough rise until 70%

Step 4

Pour it onto the chopping board. Add alkali and caramel, and knead until smooth

Step 5

Put it into a basin, spread the dough with your hands, add refined salt, five-spice powder, white sugar and water 150 g, rotate and stir, and pour Beiliu sugar juice in batches at the same time. When the dough and sugar juice are completely integrated and there are no lumps, add 150 grams of cooked lard and mix repeatedly.

Step 6

Put a wooden board inside the steamer so that a small corner of the steamer leaks out as an air hole. Place a piece of white cloth on it (the cloth should be washed and flattened, and cannot cover the air hole). Slowly pour the fabric into the cage, let it rest for about 10 minutes, and steam for about 1 hour.

Step 7

Put clean lotus leaves on the chopping board, remove the basket, flip the cake onto the lotus leaves, and brush with 50 grams of cooked lard

Step 8

After cooling, use a knife to cut into diamond or triangular pieces.