Mom made these mini mooncakes. Brought some back to work to share with colleagues. They were quite a hit. I was surprised how well they liked the mooncakes, even the ones with salted egg yolk. Well... afterall the mooncakes are sweet. People here like all kinds of sweet stuff anyway.
I helped make the lotus paste. It was quite time consuming. First melt the sugar in a wok of hot oil. The oil can't be too hot otherwise the sugar will become charcoal. Then add the cooked groundup lotus seeds. Keep stirring untill everything's mixed together. The longer you stir... the thicker the paste becomes, and the harder it is to stir.
If you realize the amount of oil that goes into a mooncake... you probably will not want to eat it again. But heck with the cholesterol... it tastes sooooooo good.
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4 comments:
wow! i have never seen someone who actually made moon-cake from scratch!!! that's so amazing!!!
btw, good luck on the sunday service duty! i am sure you will do good ... ;)
you want some? they taste really good.
my mom is making "icy-coating" mooncake... haha... and her teacher said for tranditional mooncake one should put some "rose wine" (mou gwan low) and steam it a while - to get rid of the "sang" smell of the egg yolk!?
Seems like you like cooking quite a bit - well, i used to be, but i'm more into being my mom's "lab-white-mouse" these days *LOL*
thanks for the tip... I'll tell my mom.
See... the salted eggs we made don't smell "sang" at all, except for the ones that were cracked ("sang" and too salty). I was really surprised how good they turned out.
I do like cooking. how can I not? had to cook while living by myself all these years...
Nice to be a lab rat sometimes. Gotta be sensitve about comments though. I am not... and I got into a lot of trouble. Hahahaha...
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