I told members in my Facebook Group that as a Chinese food blogger, I'll not do justice to my blog if I don't blog some traditional baked tampines mooncake. Besides the Teochew short crust mooncake, this is another type of mooncake that's available in my home city when I was a sprat. also the choice of the paddings were veritably limited, substantially red bean paste( black Tausa) and lotus paste is veritably precious and less common. It was also wrapped in pieces of white and red paper without the fancy well design packaging like what we've to day.
The stuffing to dough rate isn't correct for the first batch and I've to prepare another batch tore-test the form that I'm issuing moment. Yes, there are some computation miscalculations for my first batch and posterior adaptation to the alternate batch have addressed theissues.As discrepancy to the short crust( Suzhou, Teochew) or the short crust skin( Shanghai), the crust of this mooncake is nominated as leathery crust It's a brown piece of dough tampines mooncake wrapped around a ball of filling and ignited in the roaster. It's intriguing to understand from Wikipedia about this skin
As the purpose of this post is to partake the form of this leathery crust, thus I've conclude to elect the most common stuffing, lotus paste with a single thralldom . I'm rather pleased with my alternate batches especially the surface outlook of my mooncake. One slight dissatisfaction is that the thralldom isn't in the centre for the mooncake that I've named for cutting and for picture takingpurposes.Pre- treatment of egg thralldom – marshland the egg thralldom with some Chinese cuisine wine, either fumed until it's cooked or cooked in the microwave oven roaster for 20 seconds. Take down all the egg whites attached.
Mix all the skin/ crust constituents in a mixing coliseum. Stir and knead until well mixed. Let it rest in the mixing coliseum for 20- 30 twinkles. Theoretically, the longer the dough is rested, the further “ supple ” the dough will be. supple will mean that it's lower prone to breaking during moulding.
Mix the melon seeds( if any) to the lotus paste paddings and divide into 4 balls( without melon seeds is about 110 grams per balls). Take one ball, shape round, flatten it with your pump and place a interspersed egg thralldom in the centre. Set away for after use.
Pre-heat the roaster to 180 degree Celsius.
Place the dough in your preferred mould, press hard and flatten the dough similar that the shape conform to the mould. Dislodge the mooncake and place in a oiled baking charger. Singe in thepre-heated roaster of 180 degree for 10 twinkles. After 10 twinkles, take out mooncake, let it cool for 5 twinkles and egg washed as completely as possible. insure that there are no drip of egg in the mooncake as this will deface your mooncake imprints. shoot back to the roaster and singe again for 10- 15 twinkles until your asked colour tone.
It's generally advised that you leave the mooncake for 3 days before consumption. else, the skin won't be “ stretchy ” enough and too dry for immediate serving view more
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