How to Make Moon Cake

Name: Joyce Chen

Instructor: Jill Boyles

Course: ENG110

Date: 6 March 2012

How to Make Moon Cake

Every time I find a round moon in the sky at night, it will remind me about a kind of Chinese traditional food-----moon cake. Moon cake is a sort of special Chinese snack for celebrating Mid-autumn festival in China. There are many kinds of moon cakes such as yolk, meat, ham, peanut and so on. Because of its meaning and taste, many people love it. It is not difficult for you to make good moon cakes in nearly three hours if you do the following steps.

First, the most important step is to make the filling. There are variety kinds of stuffing for you to choose because the moon cake is a type of food with stuffing wrapped in the flour. For instance, fruit, syrup, yolk, ham and so on. If you want to make moon cake with ham and syrup, or yolk, you had better prepare the stuffing first-----cut the ham into slices and fry them. After they are cooked, you can pour the syrup on them regularly. The same as the yolk moon cake; you can prepare two or more eggs, and whisk the egg yolks and sugar together in a bowl, then mix them well------yolk filling builds.

Second, we should prepare for the flour. You had better use the flour which made from millet, because it will make the moon cake much softer. Get some flour and water and then mix the powder with enough water to make a smooth paste. If you like, you can also add some honey into the flour----It will make the moon cake more fragrant and sweet. After that you should knead it well, maybe it will take a few minutes.

Next, warp the filling which you have prepared with the flour. Be careful not to use too much flour which will make the moon cake thick and large. When you warp the stuffing with the flour, you can warp it as usual shape or you can put the flour into a particular model in order that you can design what the shape your moon cake will be.

Finally, let’s put the cakes into the oven and bake them in the oven until gold. If your oven has a big power, you can only bake them for one and half an hour. At this moment, the entire thing we can do is to wait the moon cakes baked and remove them outside to cool.

Dear friends, as the Chinese old colloquialism says------ bread is the staff of life. It is important to know what things are worth eating and learn how to cook. After my explanation, I think you may have the ability and methods to make good moon cakes. So, follow the steps above, let’s have a try and make our own delicious moon cake!

Self-reflection questions:

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