Five-Nut Plum Blossom Pastry

Five-Nut Plum Blossom Pastry

　　The Five-Nut Plum Blossom Pastry is made with a filling of pine nuts, olive kernels, peach kernels, almonds, and melon seeds, wrapped in an oily pastry dough and then deep-fried. The pine nuts, olive kernels, almonds, and peach kernels are first blanched in oil until cooked, then cooled and chopped into fine pieces together with melon seeds. Sugar and rendered lard are added and mixed evenly to form the filling. The pastry dough is wrapped around the filling, shaped into a five-pointed star, and each point is cut three times with scissors and pinched into the shape of a plum blossom before being deep-fried over low heat in oil.