Fried lotus cake:
Ingredients: 500 grams of flour, 50 grams of lard, appropriate amount of baking soda, pepper and salt, 500 grams of frying oil (actual consumption: 150 grams).
Method:
1. First put 400 grams of flour into a basin, mix in a little baking soda and cooking oil, mix well, then add 250 grams of warm water, mix into a dough, and knead evenly. Afterwards, it is made into dough, which is slightly chewy.
2. Put the lard into the pot and bring to a boil, then remove from the heat, pour in 80 grams of flour, mix well, and let cool until set aside. This is pastry.
3. Roll the dough into 20 small pieces. Mix the cooled pastry with an appropriate amount of pepper and salt. Knead evenly and form into 20 small pieces. Take the small pieces of dough. Put a piece of pastry into a flattened bag, pinch and seal, flatten, gently roll it into a rectangular shape, fold it up and roll it out thinly. Repeat this method three times to form a square dough. Hold both ends with both hands to form a round green body. Use a sharp knife to cross-cut the top three times on the surface of the green body to form six petals to expose the layers and form a lotus shape.
4. Pour in the oil in a pot and heat it up. When the oil temperature reaches 30 to 40% hot, fry the green bodies one by one. When the petals open, take them out. Plate and serve.
Features: beautiful shape, crispy and salty.
Chrysanthemum cake:
Shaking: 500 grams of flour, 125 grams of lard, 50 grams of sugar, a little salt, appropriate amount of red coloring, 400 grams of frying oil (actual consumption: 150 grams) .
Method:
1. Put 350 grams of flour into a basin, stir in 25 grams of cooked lard, then add an appropriate amount of warm water and mix into a water-oil dough, knead evenly, and cover Wet cloth, slightly damp.
2. Add 100 grams of cooked lard to the remaining flour, knead evenly to form a shortbread dough, mix in a little salt, and knead evenly.
3. Divide the water-oil dough and pastry dough into 10 dough pieces, wrap the pastry dough into the water-oil dough pieces one by one, roll it out into a rectangular piece, and fold it into a length of about 2 cm wide. Tiaoer. Use a sharp knife to cut the strip into two small strips in the middle.
4. Flatten the small strips of coconut to the edge of the table, cut several knives along the edge of each strip into a wooden comb-shaped flower knife, coil it up from one end to form a tower shape, and glue the other end with water , made into green body.
5. Pour the oil into the pot. When the oil in the pot is 40% hot, gently lower the green dough into the pot for frying. When you see the layers open up, fry them until the dough turns yellow-white. Remove to a plate, sprinkle with sugar while still hot, and serve.
Features: Looks like a chrysanthemum, beautiful shape, crispy and sweet.