Step 1: Wash and dry red dates, longan pulp, black sesame seeds and medlar. Second, the red dates need to be cut into strips. Ejiao must be ground into powder in advance. Mash the rock sugar. Bake the walnut kernel in the oven for five to ten minutes, turn it over in the middle, cut the longan into strips, fry the sesame seeds, pour the yellow wine with gelatin powder and rock sugar into a porcelain pot, stir well, and heat the water in the pot. Stew the porcelain pot containing yellow wine and donkey-hide gelatin in water, with the lid of the porcelain pot covered, and then cover the lid of another pot to avoid water infiltration, and heat for about 30 minutes. After half an hour, stir with a wooden spoon, add longan meat and stew for about 15 minutes. Add walnuts, cover and stew 15 minutes. Add red dates, stir evenly and heat for 30 minutes, add black sesame seeds and medlar and heat for 30 minutes. In the last step, add honey and mix well, spread plastic wrap and sesame oil in the container, pour Ejiao until there is no bubble in the middle, and refrigerate for 24 hours, and it will be successful.

How to make Ejiao cake by yourself

Ejiao cake has a long tradition of enriching blood and nourishing skin. It is made of donkey-hide gelatin, red dates, walnuts, black sesame seeds and crystal sugar. One of the most important ingredients, Ejiao, has the effect of nourishing blood and caring skin. Women who have eaten Ejiao cake for many years have dark hair, luster, few wrinkles, elasticity and looks radiant. Hand-made Ejiao cake does not contain a drop of water and does not contain additives. Soft and sweet, super delicious. So how do you make natural donkey-hide gelatin cakes without additives?

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Tool materials:

Main ingredients:

Colla Corii Asini (250g), Walnut (250g), Jujube (200g), Sesame (180g), Lycium barbarum (50g), yellow wine (250g) and crystal sugar (50g).

Kitchenware:

Pressure cooker, non-stick cooker.

operational approach

0 1

Pour the crushed donkey-hide gelatin into the pot, and pour in Jimo old yellow wine. Then stir evenly and brew for 24 hours.

02

After soaking for 24 hours, pour the powdered rock sugar into the pot and stir well.

03

Turn the fire on and turn it down.

04

The fire simmered until the flag was hoisted. This step is particularly important for the production of Ejiao cake, which is related to whether the yellow wine is fully volatilized. If this step is not done well, it will easily lead to the softening of Ejiao cake.

05

Adjust the electromagnetic oven to keep warm, add the walnut kernel, jujube, medlar and almond weighed in advance, and stir well. (Note: Do not add black sesame seeds at this time, otherwise it will be difficult to stir.

06

Add the weighed black sesame seeds in advance, but pay attention to the fact that there are many black sesame seeds, and add them twice to reduce the difficulty of stirring.

07

After fully stirring, you can put it into the prepared dish (the square dish is covered with a prepared thick plastic film, which must be thick! And put a layer of vegetable oil on the plastic film in advance, which is convenient for the Ejiao cake to be taken off after drying.

08

Flatten the donkey-hide gelatin cake while it is hot (no matter what tool is used to flatten the donkey-hide gelatin cake, put a little cold water on the tool, otherwise the donkey-hide gelatin cake will stick to the tool and will not disperse by itself), then spread a film on the donkey-hide gelatin cake to keep it hygienic, and then put it in a dark and cool place to let it solidify by itself. (usually three days and three nights)

09

Cut the prepared donkey-hide gelatin cake into pieces and package it with a professional vacuum packaging machine to keep the efficacy of the donkey-hide gelatin cake.

Special tips

Ejiao and polycrystalline rock candy need to be powdered in advance, and Hetian jujube needs to be cut in half with scissors, otherwise it will be too big. Hotan jujube and Yunnan walnut kernel need to be baked in advance (not too dry, baking is to enhance fragrance).

In the process of cooking, be sure to keep stirring with a spoon to avoid sticking to the pot.