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Title: Nuts & Dried Fruit Mooncake - Traditional Taiwan Style
Yield: One 9-Inch Pie.

Ingredients

      1    pastry crust
    100 g  bread flour
    100 g  cake flour
           1/2 t baking powder ,
    100 cc sugar water ( sugar + water)
     60 cc cooking  oil

Instructions

Fillings:

(A) Red Bean Filling
450 g red bean paste

(B) Dried Fruit & Nuts Filling:

100 g pitted black dates
200 cc water
2 Tbsp white grape wine
2 Tbsp wine
2 Tbsp Sugar Syrup*
1 Tbsp flour
1 Tbsp glutinous flour

50 g almond
50 g sugar
60 g toasted sesame
80 g walnut
30 g pine nuts
30 g raisins
20 g oil

Light Color Pastry Shine Oil
1 ea egg yolk
2 tsp cooking wine ,
1/2 tsp milk

Dark Color Pastry Shine Oil
1 ea egg yolk
2 tsp cooking wine
1 x sugar syrup, heated (like caramel sort )

Make filling. Cook the dates with the 200 cc water on low heat until all
the
water is absorbed. Add wines, syrup and flours. Cook to thicken. Remove the
dates and mash . Cut raisins and other fruit and nuts into thin stripes or
little pieces . Mix with the mashed dates . Shape into dough with hands.
Let
cool. Divide into 30 g balls.

Make Pastry crust. Mix both type of flour and baking powder then sift and
place
it into a large bowl. Dig a hole in the middle of dough . Mix the
sugar-water
and oil and pour it into the hole. Slowly mix well. Then knead till the
dough no
longer sticky to hand and is shiny. Don't use too much force to knead.
Divide
dough into 12 portion . Each portion should weight 25g. On each piece of
dough
place the filling--either the red bean paste or the dried fruit/nuts
filling.
Sprinkle flour in mooncake mold. Place the mooncake into the mold and press
into
shape. Get rid of the extra flour on the mold. Then brush the top with the
shine oil. Bake at 190C degree for 15 minutes.

** For red bean paste mooncake the crust is same as the above one.
** If no mold shape in round with hand

Cantonese Style Mooncake ( Red Bean Paste with egg yolk )

Pastry :

(A)2 C cake flour , 1T milk powder , 2/5C fine sugar , 1/8t baking powder

(B ) 1/3 C oil , 1/2t salt , 1/3C honey , 1 egg yolk

Filling: 900g Red bean paste , 20 Salted Egg Yolks

Sieve ingredient (A) on the flour, dig a hole in the middle , add the
(B)
ingredients. Stir them and knead into a very soft dough. Cut into 10
portions.
Divide the red bean paste into 10 portions , wrap 2 egg yolks into each of
the
portion.(before this the yolk may be dip with wine and bake in oven for 5
minutes). Wrap each of the (2) into each of the (1). Press into the
mooncake
mold , tip it out of the mold, apply beaten egg on the surface. Bake in
oven
bake for 20 minutes at 180C degree.

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