White flour fried cake is a relatively traditional local snack. Many places will make white flour fried cake during festivals or temple fairs. Because it usually appears on more formal occasions, the production process is also relatively complicated. It generally requires several steps: kneading and ironing the dough, preparing brown sugar and sesame filling, wrapping and frying the green cake. The following is a detailed introduction to how to make white noodles and fried cakes.
1. The process of making hot dough:
Prepare 250 grams of wheat flour and 300 grams of cold water. Put the prepared cold water in the pot and heat it over high heat until the edges of the water are slightly simmering. Bring to a boil and pour in the prepared flour;
Use a rolling pin to stir in one direction to completely combine the flour and water to form a wet hot dough without dry flour and excess water;
Use Grab a piece of dough and roll it back and forth in your hand. The dough will not touch your hands. Turn the hot dough upside down on the chopping board. Dip the palm of your hand into some cold water and spread the hot dough;
Use a knife to cut the hot dough. Divide the dough into several pieces in order to allow the heat in the dough to dissipate as quickly as possible, which is called "deflating". Blanch the dough and let it cool until it is no longer hot. Add 50 grams of dry flour in two batches and knead it repeatedly with your hands;
Knead the dough until the surface is smooth, cover it with a piece of plastic wrap and set it aside to bake for 1 to 2 hours in hot weather and 7 to 8 hours in cool weather.
2. Preparation process of brown sugar and sesame filling:
Prepare 75 grams of brown sugar and 20 grams of raw white sesame seeds (no need to fry if they are cooked white sesame seeds);
Put the white sesame seeds in a wok, turn on medium-low heat and stir-fry with a spatula until the sesame seeds are fragrant and the surface turns a light yellow color and splashes in the pan, turn off the heat;
Fried Place the white sesame seeds on the chopping board, roll them out repeatedly with a rolling pin, and crush the outer shell of the sesame seeds;
Prepare 20 grams of wheat flour and put it in the pot, stir-fry with a spatula over medium-low heat until the flour turns yellow , turn off the heat, move the pot away from the fire to cool the flour;
Put the cooled cooked flour and sesame powder into the brown sugar, and stir evenly with your hands. If there are agglomerations in the brown sugar, stir with Break up the brown sugar cubes with your hands.
3. The process of wrapping the raw oil cake:
Apply a small amount of vegetable oil on the palms of both hands, pick a piece of dough weighing about 30 grams, and knead it into a ball;
Press the round ball into a flat ball with your hands, pinch the center of the flat ball with the thumb of your left hand, and press the other four fingers on the center of the back of the flat ball;
Pinch the edge of the flat round pill with the thumb of your right hand, and press the other four fingers on the edge behind the flat round pill. Taking the center of the flat round pill as the center, move along the circumferential direction of the flat round pill. To increase the movement speed, make a circular motion with your right hand on the edge of the flat round cake, and shape the edge into a pie crust that is slightly thinner on the edge and thicker in the middle;
Place the round pie crust in the palm of your left hand. Put 1 spoonful of prepared brown sugar and sesame filling in the center of the pie crust. Use your right hand to close the edge of the pie crust like a bun, and pinch the closing edge with the palm of your hand to form a cone shape'
Use a large Press the top of the cone down with your thumbs, and tap it back and forth with the palms of your hands a few times to form a round cake. One oil cake is ready, and you can finish the rest in sequence.
4. The process of frying the raw oil cake:
Put enough vegetable oil into the pot, heat it over high heat to increase the oil temperature, use chopsticks to insert into the oil pot and around the chopsticks The oily flowers quickly roll flatly around;
Put five or six prepared oil cake green bodies into the oil pan. If the oil temperature is suitable, the moment the oil cake green body enters the pan, A spectacular sight of rolling oil will appear;
Fry over medium heat, and use chopsticks to constantly turn the oil cake. Fry until the oil cake swells and becomes golden brown on the surface, then the oil cake is cooked. , remove the oil from the oil cake.