Medium gluten flour for making moon cakes. Using low-gluten flour will make moon cakes as soft and waxy as cakes. Using high-gluten flour, moon cakes will become too tough. Therefore, medium gluten flour is the most suitable. Ordinary flour that is not specially marked in supermarkets or shops is medium gluten flour. Both high gluten flour and low gluten flour are specially marked. Usually, high gluten flour bags will be marked with high gluten flour or bread flour, while low gluten flour will be marked with low gluten flour, cake flour or pastry flour.

Historical origin:

Sacrificing the moon is a very old custom in our country. Moon cakes are the offerings to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival, and they are also the seasonal food of Mid-Autumn Festival. In ancient times, the moon was sacrificed every mid-autumn night. Set up a big incense table and place sacrifices such as moon cakes and fruits. Under the moon, put the moon statue in the direction of the moon, and the red candle burns high. The whole family worships the moon in turn, and then the housewife cuts up the reunion moon cake.