How to Make Moon Cakes

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Figure 1 Figure 1 This manual is going to teach you how to make moon cakes and lanterns for the Mid Autumn Festival, or the New Year. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival that celebrates the moon goddess and all that she has done to help them, on the 15th day of the 8th month. Some farmers celebrate the ending of the summer harvest season. There are decorative lanterns and games for the children to play with. At this festival moon cakes and Pummeloes are eaten to give thanks to the goddess. A moon cake is a very rich, dense, and heavy pastry mainly eaten during the mid autumn festival. A moon cake can be in any shape that you like, but they are traditionally shaped in circles to represent the full moon. (Figure 1) To make this delicacy you will need flour, water, golden syrup, fresh pig lard, lotus seed paste, salted eggs, meiguilu jiu, egg yolks, and egg whites. For the design on the moon cake you will need wood molds, two Ming bowls (Figure 2). STEP 1: Get a rather large Ming bowl and mix together: * .20 jin of flour, * .12 jin of golden syrup * ½ spoon full of water * Figure 2 Figure 2 0.06 jin of lard Try not to over-stir the ingredients, by over-stirring you will make the dough tough and hard to work with. When the dough is finished roll it into a log. STEP 2: Make sure your egg yolks are already pre salted. In another Ming bowl, mix your salted egg yolks with 1 spoon full of meiguilu jiu. The more you mix your yolks in the wine; you will not be able to be seeing through anymore. This is telling you that the eggs yolks are done. Take a cloth and dry off the yolks then cut them in half, and set them to the side. Roll your lotus seed paste into a log. Cut the lotus paste into 12 equal pieces, with each piece being around 0.07 jin, and

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