Mid Autumn Festival

Time flies pretty fast. Last month we just celebrated Hari Raya and this month we are celebrating Chinese Mid Autumn Festival. We can see the lantern these days are more in plastic form operated with batteries. There is little chance to see paper lantern with small little candles hang around the house. Moreover, I can’t find any neighbors’ kids play the lantern and walking around the housing area with the lantern just like what we did when we were young. One of the factors might due to our country have too much criminal case and we are scared of being one of the victim.

Anyway, I still play the paper lanterns at the car porch with my kid. You can see the lantern is in old fashion. Yes, I kept it since 5 years ago. Some of them have burnt bottom. :P

I made the snow skin mooncakes for the first time and did not try after this. My family members dislike eating mooncakes. So, I stopped making mooncake then.

The recipe is modified from Alan Ooi’s 花前月下.

Snow Skin Mooncakes

Mould: 50g Mooncake mould

Yield: 15 Mooncakes

Ingredients:

(A)

100g    Cooked Glutinous Rice Flour (Koh Fun)

130g    Icing Sugar

(B)

26g      Shortening

(C)

97g      Cold Water

Fillings

375g    Lotus Seed Paste

Method:

1. Snow Skin: Sift ingredients (A), add ingredient (B) and mix well. Add ingredient (C), mix into dough. Divide into 25g each. Roll into balls.
2. Fillings: Divide lotus seed paste into 23g each. Roll into balls. Set aside.
3. Flatten snow skin, and wrap the filling with snow skin. Press it into a mooncake mould. Tap lightly to let the mooncake comes out from the mould.