Some people say that a long time ago, there was a poor but very loving couple. Because the father was seriously ill and had no money for medical treatment, the wife sold herself to a landlord's house. The husband who lost his wife was unwilling to do this and worked day and night

Just like there is no fish in fish-flavored shredded pork, there is no wife in wife cake , but why is the popular wife cake called wife cake? There is more than one version of the legend about wife cakes. Some people say that a long time ago, there was a poor but very loving couple. Because their father was seriously ill and they had no money for medical treatment, the wife sold herself to the landlord's house. The husband who lost his wife was unwilling to do this and worked day and night. He developed a variety of delicious cakes to sell, and soon used the money from selling the cakes to redeem his wife, and lived a happy life again!

There is also a saying that a long time ago in a teahouse in Guangzhou, there was a chef in Chaozhou who loved his wife, so he brought home all kinds of cakes in the teahouse for his wife to eat. However, after the wife tasted them, she dismissed them and was satisfied. He said with disgust that it was not as delicious as my mother’s winter mushroom cake! One day, my wife made winter antler cake. When my husband tasted it, he found it really delicious, so he took it to the teahouse. After tasting it, the teahouse owner was full of praises and asked who made it. The guys all said it was made by the Chaozhou master’s wife. Therefore this cake is called wife cake!

The authentic wife cake is filled with winter melon puree, and most of the wife cakes you eat now are stuffed with glutinous rice and sesame seeds. They are wrapped in pastry and filled with soft, glutinous and sweet glutinous rice fillings. The wife cakes are made from The cake has distinct layers and is so crispy! The making of wife cake is very simple. You don’t need to make dough. You just need to follow the steps and you can basically learn it!

[Wife Cake]

Ingredients: Oil crust: 100 grams of all-purpose flour, 20 grams of sugar, 45 grams of water, 15 grams of lard.

Pastry: 80 grams of low-gluten flour, 40 grams of lard.

Filling ingredients: 70 grams of glutinous rice flour, 50 grams of sugar, 100 grams of water, 30 grams of white sesame seeds, and 30 grams of lard. Appropriate amount of egg yolk liquid

[Steps] 1. Pour the water, sugar, lard and glutinous rice flour in the filling into the pot and stir-fry over high heat.

2. Stir-fry until the water is dispersed, add sesame seeds and stir-fry to form a ball. Pour out the fried sesame glutinous rice filling and let cool. It’s best to use a non-stick pan for frying.

3. Knead the oil dough and puff pastry into smooth dough according to the ingredients in the ingredients. If you really don’t want to use lard, you can use butter or cooking oil.

4. Cover the dough and pastry with plastic wrap and let it rest for 30 minutes. The dough that has risen is more malleable to work with. Divide the dough, puff pastry and sesame glutinous rice filling into 15 portions respectively. The wife cake made with this amount is relatively small. So you can also divide it into 10 portions.

5. Use a piece of oil dough, wrap it in a piece of oil dough , and close it.

6. Close the dough, press it flat, and use a rolling pin to roll it into the shape of ox tongue. When rolling out, do it in one go.

7. Roll up the dough from one end. Roll it tighter. Turn the rolled dough sheet with the seam facing up and press it flat.

8. Continue to roll it into a long strip. Roll it back and forth like this, and roll the dough up from one end again, with the edge facing up.

9. Pinch the two ends toward the middle, and then roll it into a round shape, or you can directly use your hands to make a round shape.

10. Wrap it with sesame and glutinous rice filling. Keep your mouth shut. The mouth must be closed here, otherwise the filling will leak out.

11. Make all the pie crusts in sequence. When making them, be sure to use plastic wrap to cover the finished and unfinished dough at any time. The moisture will be distributed on one side and the skin will be dry.

12. Flatten the cake, brush it with a layer of egg yolk liquid, and make two deep cuts on it with a sharp knife. In this way, the cake will not bulge and the filling will not be exposed when baking. Sprinkle some more white sesame seeds.

13. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius and bake for 20 minutes. Pay attention to the coloring.

The very delicious wife cake is ready. It looks like there are many steps, but it is actually very simple to make. You can give it a try! You can also post pictures of your finished wife cake in the comment area!

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