Ice Flower Pastry

Ice Flower Pastry

　　    Beijing specialty—Ice Flower Pastry, is a traditional Beijing snack. It features a crispy texture without impurities, evenly coated sugar, a sweet and flaky taste, and a rich osmanthus fragrance.

　　         Specialty culture: Mix water, ammonium bicarbonate, maltose, and eggs until uniform, then add raw oil, osmanthus, and flour and continue mixing (do not mix too long to prevent the gluten from developing), divide the dough into pieces, roll into 8mm-thick rectangular sheets, press into raw shapes using oval and peach-shaped molds, coat the surface of the raw pieces with white sugar, place them on a tray, pipe golden cake topping on top, spray red on the peach tips, then bake until done.

　　         (1) Dough making: Extract 1.25 kg of dough to make the pastry layer, then take 1 kg from the oil to mix into the skin dough to make the outer layer. Add 25g salt, 3 kg water, and 500g eggs into the skin dough.

　　         (2) Oil mixing: Place 1.25 kg of flour into the oil, add the remaining salt, and blend until evenly mixed.

　　         (3) Laminating: Roll the mixed dough thinly around the edges, place the mixed pastry layer on top, fold the edges over to enclose the pastry layer, then roll it out. First fold into three, then roll out and fold into four, repeat once more (the numbers three and four refer to the number of dough layers). To make Ice Flower Pastry, add 250g of auxiliary sugar.

　　         Shaping: Roll the dough thin, cut into shape using an oval mold, place in a tray lined with a damp cloth to moisten, then dip into a tray of sugar to coat one side, then arrange evenly in the tray and bake.

　　         Specialty benefits: Flour is rich in protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium. It nourishes the heart and kidneys, strengthens the spleen and intestines, clears heat and quenches thirst. It treats conditions such as emotional distress, feverishness, diabetes, diarrhea, abscesses, external injuries and bleeding, and scalds. In addition, vegetables also contain many vitamins and are highly nutritious.

　　         Eggs are rich in protein, fat, vitamins, and essential minerals such as iron, calcium, and potassium. The protein is high-quality and helps repair liver tissue damage. Eggs are rich in DHA, lecithin, and egg yolk factor, which benefit the nervous system and physical development, enhance brain function and memory, and promote liver cell regeneration. Eggs also contain a good amount of vitamin B and other trace elements that can break down and oxidize carcinogens in the body, offering anti-cancer benefits.