The old lady's cake is a kind of pastry and snack, which has festive significance in our place. Do you know how to make the old lady's cake? Next, let me introduce you to the practice of old lady cake.

preparation of ingredients for baking old lady's cakes

How to bake old lady's cakes

1. First, make glutinous rice stuffing and prepare the ingredients.

1g of glutinous rice flour, 3g of fine sugar, 18g of wax gourd, 3g of walnut kernel and 2g of lard.

2. Cut the wax gourd into small pieces and put it into the seasoning machine.

3. break the wax gourd into water powder.

4. Pour the water-like wax gourd, fine sugar and lard into the pot and turn on medium heat.

5. Wait for the sugar and oil to completely melt, and turn to low heat.

6. Sift in all the glutinous rice flour at once and mix well quickly.

7. Mix glutinous rice flour and water completely to form a sticky stuffing, and let it cool for later use.

note: the glutinous rice stuffing just made is sticky, so it is easy to operate when it is completely cold.

8. Bake and fry the walnuts in the original pot until they are brown.

9. Next, make the water-oil skin, and pour the flour, sugar, whole egg liquid, lard and water into the basin. Water and oil skin: 11 grams of medium gluten flour, 1 grams of fine sugar, 6 grams of water and 2 grams of lard.

1. Mix them all evenly and knead them into smooth and soft dough; Rest and relax for half an hour * * * To prevent the dough surface from drying out, cover it with plastic wrap or wet cloth when standing * * *.

note: according to the different water absorption of flour, the amount of water needs to be adjusted as appropriate, and it must be kneaded into soft dough, not too dry, so as to facilitate the next operation.

11. Then make pastry and mix flour with lard. Crispy: 66 grams of medium gluten flour and 34 grams of lard.

12. Keep kneading until it becomes dough.

13. mix the cold glutinous rice stuffing with the fried and cool walnut kernels and divide them into 16 equal parts.

14. knead the pastry into long strips and divide them into 16 parts, and knead them into balls respectively.

15. Knead the woken dough into long strips and divide it into 16 parts.

16. Take 15 small pieces of water-separated dough and flatten it into a circle;

put 14 small portions of pastry in the center of the pastry.

17. Wrap them one by one and put them on the table.

18. Roll out the wrapped dough into an oval shape with a rolling pin.

19. after rolling, roll it up from top to bottom.

2. The rolled dough is rotated 9 degrees and rolled out again to grow into an oval shape.

21. Roll up from top to bottom again.

22. As shown in the figure, roll all 16 portions of dough, and note that it is dry-proof and covered with wet cloth or plastic wrap.

23. Take a small piece of dough in 22 and roll it into a circle.

put a piece of glutinous rice stuffing in 13 in the center of the dough and wrap it.

24. After wrapping, roll it down into a round cake.

25. Brush a layer of whole egg liquid on the dough surface and sprinkle some white sesame seeds. Note: I forgot to sprinkle sesame seeds, but later I made them up before entering the oven.

26. Make three small cuts on the surface of the dough with a knife, which needs to be cut through the dough.

27. Let it stand for another 15 minutes, then put it in a preheated oven of 2 degrees and bake it for about 18 minutes until the surface is golden.

the history of the old lady's cake

the old lady's cake. Originally a famous product in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, it was introduced to Ganzhou in the 193s. Through long-term improvement, the quality of cakes has been continuously improved, which is loved by customers. In the old days, this cake was specially used by the man as a wedding cake for the woman, so it was called "old woman cake". Baked cakes are golden yellow, with milky white edges. They are fragrant with fat, onion, sesame and fruit, with soft crust and sweet filling, and are refreshing and not greasy. They have also become one of the traditional moon cakes in southern Jiangxi. The crust of the old woman's cake is loose, the stuffing is moist, soft and smooth, and the taste is sweet but not greasy. There is still a touching legend about its origin.

During the early Ming Dynasty, the uprising army led by Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty. In order to facilitate the soldiers to carry dry food, Zhu Yuanzhang's wife Ma Shi came up with something edible, such as wheat and wax gourd, which was mixed together, ground into powder and distributed to the soldiers. It was not only convenient to carry, but also convenient to eat at any time and place, which played a great help in marching and fighting. Because the cakes made from such messy things are unpalatable, smart people update their methods on the basis of this kind of cakes. Finally, people find that the cakes made from sugar wax gourd, wheat flour, cake flour, maltose, sesame seeds and other raw materials are very delicious, sweet and delicious, which is the ancestor of the old lady's cakes.