Made a few pineapples cakes from scratch today, and they are not difficult to make as I thought. 🙂 Well…. apart from not having the right size moulds to make them look perfect.
I have adjusted the dough and filling quantities on the recipe, hopefully when I come to make them again, they will turn out just right.
Ingredients:
Methods:
鳳梨 4050g ，糖545g，麥芽糖536g，玉米粉66g
做法:
1. 鳳梨去皮後切半，分別切去中間白心，切成薄片, 然後再切成絲.
2. 切好的鳳梨絲放在大盆裡，先放糖(用細砂或二砂都可以)拌勻，再分次加玉米粉，攪拌均勻到看不到玉米粉的顆粒為止。移入不沾炒鍋中，大火煮滾，放麥芽糖並不停的攪拌至鳳梨餡開始變濃稠就轉小火。轉小火後的鳳梨餡要不斷的拌炒或前後推動，直到鳳梨餡推動的時候是整團的感覺為止.
Reference:
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/minchen0310/22961452
在網上看到這個食譜, 轉摘參考. 等哪天覺得自己的生活需要挑戰時, 再來試做鳳梨酥.
材料： （成品約900g）
鳳梨1個（去皮、去硬核後淨重約1000g），冬瓜（去皮、去籽）約1000g，砂糖350g，麥芽糖（maltose）200g。
工具：
食物調理機(food processor）
做法：
1. 把鳳梨果肉與冬瓜切條、用食物調理機刨成絲狀備用。
2. 炒鍋洗淨擦乾，放入鳳梨與冬瓜絲，連同湯汁一起大火加熱拌炒至熟軟，繼續拌炒至水份炒乾且呈團狀，加入砂糖拌炒至湯汁收乾，最後加入麥芽糖，繼續炒至沒有湯汁、且撈起餡料能出現絲狀纖維即可。
3. 將炒好的鳳梨餡裝入乾淨無油容器中，待涼之後加蓋放入冰箱冷凍保存，可放3個月沒問題。
備注 A：
1. 炒的時間越長，餡料顏色越深，如果想炒出顏色淺黃的效果，可以加入麵粉或玉米粉（corn starch）幫助收乾水分。
2. 放涼之後還會變得較硬，所以不用炒得太乾。如果涼了之後發現太乾硬，可以加入一些涼開水，放進微波爐加熱，取出拌勻，然後再放涼﹔假如發現太濕，也可以回鍋再炒一會兒，然後再放涼。剛炒好的樣子如上圖﹔放涼之後是稍硬的膠固狀。
3. 鳳梨與冬瓜可以用食物調理機或一般的刨絲板刨絲，最好連湯汁一起收集，所以建議刨在一個大鍋裡比較方便。
*用鳳梨罐頭替代的方式:
糖水鳳梨12片(隔去糖水)，糖冬瓜160克，糖30克，油1大匙，糕粉80克，鳳梨香精1/4茶匙
1‧把鳳梨放進攪拌器中，打爤後壓出汁液，取回1/2杯液汁及160克鳳梨茸留用。
2‧糖冬瓜、糖、鳳梨汁及香精等置攪拌器中打成漿。
3‧將以上打好之材料放入盤中，加入鳳梨茸、油及糕粉攪勻便成餡料。
備註 B：
1杯 = 240 c.c. = 240 ml
1大匙 = 1 tablespoon = 15 c.c. = 15 ml
1小匙 = 1 teaspoon = 5 c.c. = 5 ml
* 如果份量標示為“少許”，意即少於1/8小匙 ﹔至於份量可依個人喜好增減或對成品影響不大的，則標示為“適量”。
Ingredients:
2kg pork shoulder
1 rice bowl of light soy sauce
half rice bowl of dried fried garlic (or 1-2 fresh minced garlic)
1/3 rice bowl of sugar
half rice bowl each of Shaoxing rice wine and Michiu rice wine
half rice bowl of flour
2tsp black pepper
2tsp salt
3tsp 5 spice powder
1tsp Sichuan pepper powder
Some sausage casings
Method:
1. Mince the pork shoulder.
2. Mix all ingredients together, refrigerate overnight.
3. Re-hydrate sausage casings, check seasonings of the sausage mixture and adjust accordingly.
4. Make the sausages, use needle to pick out any air pocket. Dry the sausages for at least 2 days. Once ready, either keep the sausages in the fridge or in freezer.
今年的聖誕, 雖是短短一段的假期, 但也是令我覺得灰心的時候. 對於琪兒的自私,冷漠和欺瞞行為感到非常的失望, 覺得自己這一路來對她的教育失敗得很徹底. 對我自己, 我也很失望..我對幾天前還在想的”愛的箴言” 失去了願意進一步履行的意念..
目前的心情? 幾近於 “哀莫大於心死”. 我知道這是很可悲的景況, 但是要求自己堅強樂觀也非易事, 衷心希望在容許自己的短期頹喪之後, 能夠雨過天青, 重新出發.
不知怎的, 突然想到大學修聖經時最喜歡的”愛的箴言”
愛是恆久忍耐，又有恩慈；愛是不嫉妒，愛是不自誇，不張狂，不作害羞的事，不求自己的益處，不輕易發怒，不計算人的惡，不喜歡不義，只喜歡真理； 凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐；愛是永不止息。
在2011年即將落幕的時刻, 不禁得自省到底做到了多少。唉! 想到這兒, 心裡真是慚愧不已.
Hand over date: Friday 6th May 2011.
Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
I watch her go with a surge of that well known sadness and and I have to sit down for a while
the feeling that I’m losing her forever
and without really entering her world
I’m glad whenever I can share her laughter
that funny little girl
Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
the feeling in it slipping through my fingers all the time
do I really see what’s in her mind
each time I think I’m close to knowing
she keeps on growing
slipping through my fingers all the time
Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table
barely awake I let precious time go by
then when she’s gone, there’s that odd melancholy feeling
and a sense of guilt I can’t deny
what happened to the wonderful adventures
the places I had planned for us to go
well, some of that we did, but most we didn’t
and why, I just don’t know
Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
the feeling in it slipping through my fingers all the time
do I really see what’s in her mind
each time I think I’m close to knowing
she keeps on growing slipping through my fingers all the time
sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
and save it from the funny tricks of time(slipping through my fingers)
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
這首歌真是把我的心情描述得淋漓盡致.
