- March 11,2023
Hello friends! It's time for daily Hokkien cooking lessons. The dish I'm going to show you today is called Thousand Page Cake.
Thousand Pages is a famous and characteristic local Fuzhou pastry that looks like a thousand layers of peaks, fragrant and soft, melting in your mouth. Thousand-layer cakes are often chosen as a dessert for banquets, especially Fuzhou-style thousand-page cakes. They are fatty and do not contain slag, do not stick to teeth. Fatty meat contains a variety of fatty acids, which can provide extremely high calorie content, and also contains protein, B vitamins, vitamin E, vitamin A, calcium, iron, phosphorus, selenium and other nutrients, which nourish kidneys, nourish Yin. moisture and dryness.
Ingredient selection:
【Main Ingredients】pork fat, fine flour; 【Accessories】 yeast, plum tongue;
Seasoning: Sugar
How to do it:
Step 1. Cut pork fat into thin slices, cut it and put in a container, add a little boiling water, blanch for a while, mix gently with chopsticks so that boiling water flows out;
Second step: add sugar to filtered fatty meat, mix evenly and leave to marinate for more than 12 hours;
Third step: take appropriate amount of flour and put it on a cutting board, add required amount of sugar, yeast and water, mix well, knead dough, cover it with cheesecloth and let it rise. for 10 minutes;
Step 4. Knead wake-up dough into long strips, roll out a thin rectangular peel, put fatty meat in middle of dough, sprinkle with a small amount of plum tongue, bend both sides inward and lightly press it with a rolling pin, put lard on middle part of rolled out dough, sprinkle with plum tongue, bend inward on both sides and lightly press with a rolling pin. Repeat four times until thousand-sheet cake is covered with filling;
Step 5. Using a toothpick, poke small holes into wrapped 1,000-page cake to make it easier to steam.
Step 6. Place 1,000-page cake in steamer for 30 minutes and let rise to 1.5 times its original size.
Step 7: Add required amount of water to pot and boil, put steamer on fire and steam for 30 minutes;
Step 8. Remove thousand page cake after it is ready, cut it into long strips, then cut into small pieces diagonally and place on a plate. Here is such a fragrant, sweet and tasty Thousand Pages cake is ready.
A thousand-page cake, layer upon layer, buttery and soft, dotted with red dots, it's really interesting and breathtaking. Taste it while it's hot, it melts in your mouth, sweetness is most easily perceived flavor, and it blossoms in your taste buds as soon as you put it in your mouth. It's sweet and delicious, mild and flavorful, yet clean and pure. not sticky.
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