The use of lard to make shortening, basically with the hands of the oil and flour rubbed together and then use the skin surface to open the pastry, but different ratios to make different varieties, such as sugar shortcake and white puff pastry, although both are using lard to make shortening. Oil skin part: using the folding method, with the heel of the palm layer forward to push and wipe, wipe a layer and then roll back, and then repeat the previous action, wipe until no particles, flour and grease fully adhesion into a ball. Mix all ingredients together and knead until a smooth dough forms, cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 20 minutes.

For the pastry and oil crust, take two equal portions of flour and put only lard in one portion to make the pastry, then knead it until it forms a ball. The other flour put a small amount of lard, lard is about one half of the shortcrust, put a little salt.

Making biscuits: take the shortening and wrap it into the skin (4:6 ratio), use a small roller to stretch it into a long, rolled up and then folded (triple folded) into a ball, take 50 grams of semi-products of lotus seed paste filling and wrap it into the shortening, seal it and then press it flat to form a biscuit. If you want to make a patterned round edges, you can pinch the lace cake like making lace.

Put the shortening after the equivalent of the effect of layers, so that we eat a delicious dessert with lasagna and crispy texture. After half an hour of rising, we brush a layer of cooking oil on the top of the board to knead the dough more evenly on the board, and then we roll the dough into a large cake shape.

Pepper and shortening: 20 grams of flour, 40 grams of oil, 2 grams of salt, 3 grams of pepper, you can also put the right amount of pepper, cumin powder, cumin powder, and so on, according to personal taste.

Vegetable oil shortening: generally used in lasagna and scallion pancakes, it is a common household shortening, but it is generally thin and not suitable for large-scale, batch production of short-crust pastry.

Before frying the shortcake in the oil into the onion, ginger, dashi, sesame leaves, anise, cinnamon and so on these, the oil first fried incense, and then used to scald the words, so that the shortcake made out of the cake will be more rich in flavor.