Date Pastry

Overview

Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching in the Jiaodong area, every household will steam jujube dumplings. The so-called jujube dumplings are made by putting red dates on the dumplings. Every time you see the jujube dumplings, you feel the flavor of the New Year. The traditional date dough is harder and chewier, and some lard and sugar are added inside to make it taste particularly sweet. Making jujube dumplings is a laborious job. If you don’t have the energy, just draw a gourd and bake a jujube dumpling bread. Relive the feeling according to the scene... Yuan Fangzi by Love and Freedom.

Tags

• staple food
• baking
• home cooking
• egg liquid
• high gluten flour
• low gluten flour
• red dates
• yeast
• fine sugar
• milk
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Put all the ingredients into the bread bucket and start the "dough kneading" program;

   

2. 2 After the program ends, add softened butter, start the "Kneading" program again, and knead to the expansion stage;

   

3. 3 Roll the dough into a round shape, cover it with plastic wrap and ferment until it doubles in size (insert your fingers into the dough so that the holes do not retract quickly);

   

4. 4 Take out the fermented dough and press to deflate it. Divide it into six parts, roll them into balls one by one, cover them with plastic wrap and let them rest for ten minutes;

   

5. 5 Soak the red dates in water in advance and cut them into the size you like by hand;

   

6. 6 Use the little fingers of both hands to raise the "nose bridge" of the dough and insert the red dates;

   

7. 7 Insert all the red dates one by one;

   

8. 8 Put a bowl of hot water in the oven, add the prepared jujube dumplings, ferment until doubled in size, take it out and brush the surface with egg wash;

   

9. 9 Ostar oven, preheat to 180 degrees, middle and lower racks, 20 minutes (adjust according to individual oven conditions);