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Scallion pancakes (cong1 you2 bing3)

 

Ingredients:

2 ½ C Whole wheat flour 1 ½ C Flour 2 ¾ C Boiling water some Scallion (or Saung-tsung) Oil Salt

Instructions:

Mix the 5 C of flour with the boiling water to soft dough. Let the dough stand for at least half an hour. Flatten the dough to about 2-3 [...]

Sun cakes

Makes 20

Filling:

2T. honey or maltose or corn syrup

3/4 C. confectioners’ sugar

2 T. butter

3 T. flour

Skin:

A: 2C. flour

4 T. shortening

8 T. water

B: Oil flour:

1 1/2C. flour

6 T. shortening

Filling:

Briefly heat honey or maltose until soft; remove from heat. Sift [...]

Mung Bean Soup

1/2 C mung beans 1/4 C sugar water

1. rinse the mung beans and soak in water overnight 2. pour the beans and the water it had been soaking in into a pot. Cook for 10 minutes. Save the liquid for later. Some of the nutrient maybe destroyed by long cooking, let simmer for [...]

Beef Jerky

2 lbs. lean, boneless chuck steak

A:

3 C. water

3 slices ginger root

2 stalks green onion

½ TBS 5 spices powder

Combined ingredients

B:

1 T. soy sauce

2 t. salt

3 T. sugar

1 T. Rice wine

Mix A with beef; place in a pressure cooker and cook 15 [...]

Sweet New Years Cake (Nian2 Gao1)

Translated as “sticky cake,” nian gao is a traditional Chinese New Year food. Nian, the word for sticky, is also the word for year (same pronunciation, different character) while gao, the word for cake, is also the word for high together meaning “every year, higher and higher” and symbolizes good luck. Continue reading Sweet New Years Cake (Nian2 Gao1)

Moon cakes

Here’s the moon cake recipe from IE.  For 2009, the mid-autumn festival when these are customarily eaten is Oct. 3.

Choose whichever filling you prefer; i.e. make one of the other, not both, for one recipe of dough.

Dough ½ cup sugar 1 cup water ¼ cup sesame oil ¾ cup oil approx. 5 [...]