Fong’s Kitchen Journal

Moon Festival CakeIt is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese calendar. The age-old custom was handed down to later generations and eating moon cakes at the Mid-autumn Festival has develop into an inseparable aspect of the celebrations. Initially, the festival commemorated the 14th century Chinese uprising against the Mongols, in which the rebels spread the word of revolution on pieces of paper that were hidden in cakes. In Singapore , mooncakes comes in all kinds of flavours ranging from the traditional baked ones to the Teochew flaky ones to the soft snowskin.

Maybe you would like to purchase the two mooncake books that are promoting on the shelf at Well known. Inside the xiao yue bing li he (small mooncake gift pack) are are 12 mini mooncakes. The first recipe demonstrated by the instructor was the Peach and Lavender Snowskin with Lemon Cranberry Paste. There are a wide variety of moon cake sorts in terms of production locations and flavors.

Moon Festival or Harvest Moon Festival, since of the celebration’s association with the full moon on this night, as effectively as the traditions of moon worship and moon gazing. In 1986, a chef at the Spring Moon restaurant at the Peninsula hotel developed the custard mooncake, with a golden, flaky crust and a filling equivalent to that in the city’s renowned egg tarts. My white flesh mooncake haf hardened because its been more than a week due to the fact it was produced. A lot of …

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