Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chrysanthemum-shaped chinese pies. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chrysanthemum-Shaped Chinese Pies is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Chrysanthemum-Shaped Chinese Pies is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chrysanthemum-shaped chinese pies using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chrysanthemum-Shaped Chinese Pies:
- Get Outer dough:
- Prepare 75 grams Bread (strong) flour
- Prepare 75 grams Cake flour
- Make ready 55 grams Shortening (softened)
- Prepare 15 grams Sugar
- Take 70 ml Water
- Prepare Inner dough:
- Make ready 110 grams Cake flour
- Prepare 40 grams Shortening (softened)
- Make ready Filling:
- Make ready 300 grams Tsubu-an (store-bought)
- Take 3 pieces Dried apricot (finely chopped)
Chrysanthemums shaped in Chang's seismograph Hangzhou white chrysanthemum tea. Where to see it in China? The chrysanthemum blooms in the cold autumn air and foretells the coming of winter, which symbolizes the virtue to withstand all adversities. The chrysanthemum is one of the Four Gentlemen (四君子), along with the plum, the orchid, and the bamboo.
Steps to make Chrysanthemum-Shaped Chinese Pies:
- Make the outer dough. Place the ingredients into a bowl. Add water and mix together. Knead well with your hands until smooth. Place the dough on a cloth and let it sit.
- Make the inner dough. Place the ingredients into a bowl and combine. Knead until the dough is smooth and no longer sticky.
- Divide both the outer and inner dough into 15 portions each. Wrap the outer dough around the inner dough. Tightly seal the seam.
- Place the seam on the bottom and use a rolling pin to roll into an oval.
- Roll starting from the point farthest away to the point closest to you.
- Turn it so that it faces sideways and roll it out one more time starting from the rolled end.
- Roll.
- Roll it out one more time from the rolled end.
- Fold into 3 layers. This completes the cake dough.
- Finish making the cakes. Roll the dough out into a circle. Fill with the tsubu-an and wrap it up.
- Place the seam on the bottom and tightly seal it closed. Flatten it out and roll it into a circle. Use scissors to make 7-8 cuts in the top. Twist the slits so the the cut ends face upwards.
- Place a piece of dried apricot in the centers and then line them up on a baking sheet. Bake in a preheated 200°C oven for 15 minutes.
- Done.
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