Exclusive Chinese Valentine's Day Tradition [Qixi Qiaoguo]

In China, there are moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are zongzi dumplings on Qixi Festival, Qiaoguo is also known as Qiaoqiaoguo, the legend of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is China's exclusive Valentine's Day, we Qingdao local called 'Glutinous Flowers', the seventh day of the seventh month of July, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, the old man told the children ~ under the grape trellis can hear their whispers ~ Every year on the seventh day of the seventh day of the seventh month of the summer vacation ~ Every family in the village began to make Qiaoguo, each family has a different mold, and will exchange various patterns and patterns of molds with each other to make the Qiaoguo in memory, string it with red thread, and then string it into a string with a smaller one and hang it around the neck, The interval between using sorghum stalks in the middle is long, and the noodles are very hard~ Take a bite and chew it in the mouth, but it is dry and sweet, and now the standard of living has improved, milk, eggs, peanut oil/lard will be added to the noodles, and milk, eggs, peanut oil/lard will also be burned from the original big iron pot to the current oven, but the taste of childhood ~ can only remain in my memory~ It's going to be Tanabata soon~ Let's make traditional Qiaoguo together!

Ingredients

Flour 250 g

Water 120 g

Sugar 25 g(slightlysweet)

Yeast 3 g

Cooking Instructions

I used to do it
with my mom, but now I do it with my daughter
Add sugar, yeast and water to plain flour
Stir with chopsticks until flocculent
Knead the dough by hand into a coarse dough
and cover it with plastic wrap to rise twice as large
Leavened dough
Knead well and let rise slightly for 10 minutes
Knead into long strips
and cut into agents (cut according to the size of the mold)
Put it in the
mold, sprinkle a layer of flour on the mold in advance and pour it out to prevent sticking
Compact it by hand, not too thick, about nine points full
Buckle upside down
There is no need to proofing
again when everything is done (because the previous work has already been proofed in the process of doing it)
In a frying pan,
turn on medium-low heat to low heat
, first searing the front, and then the back
Burn the sides over a small fire
All of them are
seared and soft
, but they are firm
There are old Qiaoguo molds......