Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry

Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry

Overview

Dunfu is an old Beijing palace snack. It is sweet and delicious with the addition of osmanthus. It is soft and yet tough. It is a delicious pasta and can also be eaten as a snack. Adding the palace version will give people the impression that it is very troublesome to make. In fact, it is not difficult to make. Now we will make this old dish new and turn it into our family delicacy. How to make old Beijing palace delicacies at home? Let’s do it step by step

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Add 160 grams of water to rice wine, mix with flour to form a thick paste, and ferment at room temperature until the batter is completely fermented

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 1
  2. Add your own osmanthus sauce

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 2
  3. Add some more sugar and stir evenly.

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 3
  4. Add the remaining flour and add more. Add some yeast powder and mix into a soft and hard dough

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 4
  5. Put the dough into the bread machine and add some olive oil to make the dough moist and sweet

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 5
  6. Use the kneading process to knead the dough into a smooth dough. If you don’t have a bread machine, just knead until smooth.

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 6
  7. Ferment at room temperature until it doubles in size. Poke a hole and it will not deform. The little bits you see in the dough are the osmanthus flowers

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 7
  8. Deflate the fermented dough and let it rest for 15 minutes

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 8
  9. Then shape it into a round mound shape and continue to let it sit for 15 minutes

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 9
  10. Place in a frying pan and fry over low heat

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 10
  11. Fry until both sides are golden brown.

    Old Beijing Guihuadun Pastry step 11