Mooncake - using HK flour

ttp://auntyyochana.blogspot.com/2006/08/traditional-moon-cake_19.htmlFor Mooncake pastry:

350 gm. Hong Kong flour
90 gm. oil
200 gm. Moon cake syrup (Moon cake syrup recipe is in my blog too)
1 1/4 tsp. alkaline water

This paste yields about 18 nos. of mooncakes

Method:


(1) Mix the above ingredients together and rest for at least 1 hour [best 3 hours] before moulding it with lotus paste.
(2) Mix 30 gm.of roasted olive seeds and 30 gm. of roasted melon seeds into the lotus paste. weigh the lotus paste and wrap in salted egg yolk.
(3) Wrap with about 45 gm. of pastry and press into mooncake mould. Knock out from the mould and bake the mooncakes for 10 mins at 200 deg., cool slightly then brush with egg glaze , then re-bake again for another 10 mins at 175 deg C. or till golden brown. [do not overbake]