China

Lao Po Bing

Name: Lao Po Bing
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 8 pieces
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 250 g Wheat flour; 200 g Candied wintermelon; 50 g Glutinous rice flour; 80 g Lard or butter; 60 g Sugar; some of each Sesame & egg

Cantonese wintermelon wife cake

Lao po bing, the wife cake, is a flat Cantonese pastry with a filling of candied wintermelon.

A tender, flaky shell encloses the sweet paste; the cake is a traditional gift and tea pastry.

Servings8 pieces

Time60 min

LevelAdvanced

Ingredients

Wheat flour250 g
Candied wintermelon200 g
Glutinous rice flour50 g
Lard or butter80 g
Sugar60 g
Sesame & eggsome of each

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Work the wintermelon with sugar and rice flour into a paste.
Make a water dough and a fat dough separately.
Fold both doughs into a flaky shell.
Fill with paste and press flat.
Brush with egg, scatter sesame, bake golden.

Make it original

Glutinous rice flour for lao po bing is in the Asia Boutique.

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