Legend has it that there was once a loving couple, and the daughter-in-law was willing to sell herself to treat the elderly. Undaunted, the husband who lost his wife worked hard to develop a delicious cake, and finally redeemed his wife by selling the cake and lived a happy life again. This gourmet recipe has been called "old woman cake" since its inception. I didn't expect this little cake to contain such a touching love story.

Another legend about the old lady's cake comes from the Lotus Tea House in Guangzhou. Anyone who has been to Guangzhou knows that Lotus Fragrant Tea House is a famous shop in Guangzhou, and Chaozhou granny cake is its housekeeping snack. At the end of Qing Dynasty, Lianxianglou hired a Chaozhou master. One year, he went home to visit relatives and brought many snacks from Lianxianglou to his family. Who knows that his wife was greatly dissatisfied after eating snacks: "The snacks in Lianxianglou are not as good as the wax gourd horns fried by my family." After listening to his wife's words, the pastry chef was unconvinced: "Then make the melon horn of your mother's house and compare it with the snacks in Lianxianglou!" The next day, my wife prepared a pot of wax gourd, made of white sugar and flour as stuffing, then wrapped it in flour into small corners and fried it in an oil pan until golden brown. The pastry chef took a sip and repeatedly praised it. After returning to Guangzhou, he took the melon horn made by his wife to the masters of the teahouse to taste. What kind of snacks has the master of Lianxianglou never seen? However, after they ate the melon horn, they were full of praise. The owner of Lianxianglou knew about it and came to taste one. The boss said, "Well, it's delicious! Where is this famous point? What's its name? " Master Chaozhou couldn't answer for a moment, so one of the masters said, "This is made by master Chaozhou's wife, so we call it' Chaozhou old woman cake'."

interestingly, there is another kind of cake called "husband cake" corresponding to "old woman cake", which is slightly different in shape and tastes unique. The "old woman cake" is small in shape and delicate in taste. After eating sesame seeds, it still feels fragrant, and it is really as meticulous and thoughtful as a little woman. The "husband cake" is slightly larger in shape, tastes a little similar to bread, but it is a bit like a careless big man.

old woman cake

Ingredients: flour, glutinous rice flour, butter, white sugar, wolfberry fruit, raisins, egg liquid (yolk liquid) and water.

Method:

1. Put 511g of medium gluten flour, 81g of crude oil and 211g of water into a dough basin. Take it out, put it on the chopping board, knead it evenly, cover it with a wet cloth and wake it up for 11 minutes.

2. knead 511g of medium gluten flour and 251g of crude oil repeatedly on the chopping board to form dough.

3. Wrap 1 in 2, roll it for 3 times, then roll it into long strips, and add the medicine (divide it into small portions).

4. Make stuffing with glutinous rice flour, sugar, butter, wolfberry fruit and raisins.

5. Roll the powder (divided into 3 small portions) into leather, wrap it with stuffing, make it into a round shape, press it into a flat round cake by hand, put it on the plate, stick a small hole with a toothpick, and brush it with egg liquid.

6. Bake the green body in an oven at 181 degrees.

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Ingredients: 511g of flour, 211g of lard, 125g of water and 51g of cooked noodles.

Method:

1. Mix cooked flour, sugar, fat granules, peanut kernels, sesame kernels, pork chops, medlar, preserved fruit, 51 grams of lard and essence into stuffing.

2. Rub 251 grams of flour with 1.25 grams of lard into dry pastry; Add water to 25 grams of lard and knead the remaining flour into an oily dough.

3. wrap the dry pastry in the water-oil dough and roll it into rectangular thin slices. Roll it up along the length, press two pieces of flour for every 51g, pack the flour into sugar-free stuffing in a flat way, and roll it into a round cake with a diameter of about 5cm, brush the surface with egg liquid, and stick a small hole with a toothpick.

4. put the cake blank into the baking tray and bake it in the oven with slow fire until the cake bulges and the surface is golden yellow.

characteristics: the product is golden yellow, crisp and sweet, and has high nutritional value.

note: press the round cake lightly to avoid squeezing the stuffing out. The product has moderate sweetness, bulky taste and good elasticity.