1872 Clipper Tea Snowskin Mooncakes with tea- infused Lotus / Apricots

Earl grey infused snowkin with Earl grey/ apricot lotus Mooncakes

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credit: tiffanyyong

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credit: Vickiima

A brillliant bunch of participants @ 1872 Clipper Tea launch of their new blend: Timeless Earl Grey, youngest being 9 years old Dana of Lifetinymiracles. After a 13 mins of watching my demonstration from mixing the ingredients to final moulding of the snowskin mooncake, hands and fingers were all geared up and soon they were in the big mixing bowls kneading the dough away with gleaming faces and in deep concentration. Within an hour and half, they were showcasing their pretty mooncakes and today, you'll find them flashed across Instagram, Facebook , Twitter or their personal blogs. More good reads of the workshop are @ Lifetinymiracles ,Tiffanyyong, Madamechewy, Vickiima, Therantingpanda and Frannywanny blogs. More interestingly on this very afternoon, I was thrusted into the Singapore food reviews blogsphere- unawarely. Us usual, I crafted the class atmosphere to be fun , playful and interactive . May the Lord leads me always.

Workshop in session -  26th September 2015

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Two weeks before the event , preparation works started rolling in my kitchen, first with the arrival of a big DHL bag of five tea blends for the experimental stage.

From the store, I grabbed a packet of Hongkong white lotus paste grade A and several packs of dried tropical fruits. The one kg lotus paste was broken up into 100g balls and each ball was mixed with each softened tea blend. Popped into my mouth a generous pinch of the lotus together with a piece of soaked dried fruit, swirled for a minute or two to determine the best pairing for all. The final selected pairings were all meticuluously thought through, (well these are very fine teas, what's more to it?)

tea blend with lotus

On personal level, my gastronomic pleasure inclines towards the Anti-stress lotus mixed with candied ginger and kiwi , encased with a strawberry flavour snowskin, and the other favourite: Imperial Goji infused snowskin with tropical fruits mix lotus....truly for world-trodden sophisticated palate.

strawberry snowskin with Anti-stress infused lotus/ candied ginger

Imperial Goji infused snowskin mooncakes with tropical fruits mix lotus

food quote:  There is no sincerer love than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw

Cook as to how you like to eat it, join me if we share the same taste.  PaulaCookingFingers

workshops

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London Chillout

走到哪吃到哪
不吃不知 

Summer treats
so sweet and an asesthetic delight even just nosing into the window glass.

Machoism

Ooooo....lobsters or boobs ?

lobsters ya...

late night gobbling a crustacean

food quote:  All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! ~Charles Schulz

Cook as to how you like to eat it, join me if we share the same taste.  PaulaCookingFingers

food gabble

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Asian Bread: Hokkaido buns with Otah

What're u eating? 在吃什么?
吃不饱的. 不想吃饱.

Sated and happy

Hokkaido - a prefecture of massive land and its dairy industry supplying dairy products to half the country's need came no surprise to their famous bread and pastries. This water roux technique (tangzhong) of making softer bread originated in Japan; allows moisture to stay within bun for a couple of days. My first trial of baking such buns was after reading Christine blog.

I did some adjustment to the recipe for easier remembrance and personal taste.

25g bread flour to 125g water gets you going to bake your first batch of tangzhong buns. This amount of roux is sufficient for 300g flour .

Together with the other ingredients, they are kneaded to a smooth dough and set aside to proof for an hour.

Hokkaido milk buns alone are too plain to eat regardless of its superb softness. I chose a packet of Muar fish paste with chunks of bantang fish , a list long of aromatic spices, coconut milk and egg.

A generous scoop of otah on center of flatten dough and seal the edges...there you get a round smooth bun ready to be baked. Egg wash them for a golden finish.

Tangzhong Basic Sweet Dough Ingredients:  adjusted to personal taste

• 100g bread flour
• 200g Top flour + 20g to adjust when necessary
• 3 tsp instant yeast
• 50g tangzhong
• 1 egg 55g size
• 100g milk cream or coconut milk or half-half
• 30g sugar
• 60g salted butter chilled
• 1/4 tsp salt

Bible quote:  Luke 22:19  And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.

Cook as to how you like to eat it, join me if we share the same taste.  PaulaCookingFingers

yeast

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Asian Bread : Coconut Macha Buns with Red Bean Paste

又在吃什么?
吃不饱的.

Gastro-marvels

Pull me apart

Standardisation

food quote:  John 6:33  For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world

Cook as to how you like to eat it, join me if we share the same taste.  PaulaCookingFingers

yeast

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