Morning cooking today!

17th March 2021 Shepherd’s pie for dinner later, experimenting with lemon flavoured Hong Kong Paper wrapped Sponge and Mediterranean Scones. All took about 2.5 hours including cleaning up. The lemon HK sponge needs a bit of tweeking, this time I used: 20g sugar with 3 large egg whites 40g sugar with 3 large egg yolks …

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Cook day 3rd Mar 21

Today I made: 3 Cornish Pasties 6 Bor Lor Bao 6 Gai Mai Baos 3 HK sausage rolls 1 “wool” bread Notes: I used my go to Hokkaido bread recipe: https://www.britishbornchinesefood.co.uk/hokkaido-bread/ I used 375g flour plus TZ to make this wool bread https://www.britishbornchinesefood.co.uk/hokkaido-wool-bread/#more-552 I used 560g flour plus 217g TZ to make 6 Bor Lor …

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CNY 2021

CNY during lockdown 2. I made; Mandarin Steamed Bao’s Crispy Belly Pork Yau Kwok – peanut puffs Lor Bat Go – Turnip cake Taro croquettes (made from cassava) Vegetable Ho Fun Mai jai