How to make mooncakes without additives

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  1. Boil sugar in water Syrup: This step requires boiling the white sugar into syrup color, and it also needs to be boiled, which is quite tedious.You can first fry a part of the white sugar until it turns into a sugar color, add a small bowl of water and put the remaining white sugar into it and boil it over high heat.This way the syrup will be relatively lumpy.Pour the syrup down with a spoon until it forms a straight line.Let the syrup cool down.

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  2. Prepare the filling: Soak the red beans overnight, simmer in a pot until dissolved, and grind in a blender (If you don’t have a mixer, you can mash it with a spoon), add some oil to the wok (you can also leave it out, according to personal taste), put the red bean filling in and stir-fry until most of the water dries out and becomes a paste.(If you have time and trouble, you can bake it in the oven until it becomes pureed)

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  3.Dough dough: syrup Add oil (ratio 3:1) and beat by hand until the oil dissolves in the syrup.Add flour (normally used for making bread) and pound into a puree.It should not be too dry.If it is too dry, it will be difficult to stuff.

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  4. Divide the stuffing: No scale: It can be divided according to the mooncake mold (the fillings add up) As long as it can fit into the mold), the ratio of stuffing to dough is 7:3.

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  5. To make moon cakes: spread out the dough, slowly wrap the filling with your hands and round it.The size of each dough ball should be almost the same, so that the baking time can be controlled.

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  6.Molding: Sprinkle some dry flour into the mold, place the dough ball inside and press it.Remove from the mold.

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  7.Excellent mooncakes.

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  8. Baked mooncakes: Arrange the over-molded mooncakes, sprinkle some water, and bake at 180 degrees 8 Minutes (I made 50 grams, so the baking time is relatively short), take it out, brush it with oil and bake it for 3 minutes, take it out and brush it with oil, wait for it to cool, and brush the pattern with egg wash.Repeat the operation 2 times.(You need to brush the egg wash 3 times so that it looks beautiful.)