Moon cakes, also known as moon cakes, cookies, harvest cakes, reunion cakes, etc., are one of the traditional foods of Mid-Autumn Festival in China.
Moon cakes are often filled with plant seeds, such as walnut kernel, almond, sesame kernel, melon seeds, hawthorn, lotus seed, adzuki bean and jujube paste, which have certain health care effects on human body.
Plant seeds contain high unsaturated fatty acids, mainly oleic acid and linoleic acid; Contains minerals, which is beneficial to improve immunity and prevent zinc deficiency and iron deficiency in children; Lotus seeds, adzuki beans and sesame seeds are high in potassium, and sodium salts in replacement cells are discharged to nourish myocardium; Some raw materials are mostly warm and have the effect of calming the nerves, and some seeds are rich in vitamin E, which can resist aging, nourish skin and blacken hair.
Production method
1. Method of making big-package crispy pastry: The materials are calculated as 5kg, and each kilogram is made into 12 moon cakes. First, mix the leather into dough. Leather dough 1.6 kg, pastry dough 0.775 kg. Wrap the pastry in leather and press it into thin leather (0.67 cm) with a roller stick. Roll it into round strips, cut it into 10 pieces with a knife, then fold the two ends of the small blank inward along the incision, and flatten it into a pancake shape with the palm of your hand to wrap the stuffing.
Key points: After the pastry is wrapped in the skin, it should not be rolled too short or too narrow when it is thin with a flour pin, so as to avoid uneven pastry and affect the quality.
2. Small package pastry method: the dough and pastry method are the same as the big package pastry method. Divide the leather and pastry into 10 small pieces, wrap the pastry into the leather one by one, flatten it with a flour stick, roll it into a ball, and flatten it into a pancake shape with the palm of your hand to wrap the stuffing.
3. Stuffing: Mix well according to the formula and knead thoroughly. The following fillings need to be prefabricated into semi-finished products:
(1) Pine nuts and jujube paste: first, remove the core of black dates, wash them, steam them and grind them into pieces. Add water to the sugar in the pot, heat and dissolve it into syrup, and the concentration is appropriate to pick out the silk with bamboo chopsticks. Then add jujube paste, oil and pine nuts, mix well and burn until it doesn't stick to your hands.
(2) Clear water sand washing: 9 kg of red beans, 0/5 kg of sugar/kloc-0, 5 kg of maltose/kloc-0, 2.5 kg of crude oil and 3 kg of water. The preparation method is the same as that of bean paste stuffing.
(3) Lard mixed with sand: The method of using bean paste is the same as that of washing sand with clear water. Specific preparation method: Mix the bean paste with sugar, diced lard, rose and osmanthus.
4. Stuffing: First, the bean paste stuffing is thinly pressed on the pastry, and then the mixture of diced lard and osmanthus flowers is wrapped in the pastry at the same time.
5. Molding: After the stuffing is wrapped, paste the top-type pad paper on the pastry seal, press it into a flat moon cake blank with a thickness of 1.67 cm, 90g each, and then stamp the moon cake blank with various names.
6. Baking: push the moon cake green body into the furnace, and keep the furnace temperature at about 240℃. After the pattern on the moon cake is set, the temperature will be lowered appropriately, and the requirements for upper and lower fires are consistent. Bake for 6 to 7 minutes until it is cooked thoroughly, and then take it out.