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Elaine sent me a message yesterday asking me if I know how to make "horse bean jello." I've never made it before, but I found her a recipe. It was a hot day yesterday, so I went ahead and made some (using another recipe). I didn't have any coconut milk or any yellow split peas, so i replaced the coconut milk with additional evaporated milk, and the yellow split peas with shelled mung beans. I'm not sure if it's because the the coconut milk replacement or the split peas replacement, but the "jello" didn't set. It set a little bit, but it's more like pudding. It's not all pudding though, it's somewhat dense and it requires some kind of chewing (not melt-in-your-mouth).
But it's supposed to look like this...
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100g Yellow Split Peas (replaced w/ 200g Mung Beans...I LOVE Mung Beans)
160g Evaporated Milk
280g Sugar
400g Coconut Milk (replaced w/ 400g of Evaporated Milk)
170g Corn Starch
5 Cups Water
Directions:
1. Clean yellow split peas. Place clean split peas in small saucepan, cover with water. Boil until split peas are tender. Drain & set aside.
2. Combine corn starch, evaporated milk and coconut milk.
3. Bring the 5 cups of water to a boil, dissolve sugar in boiling water. Add corn starch mixture to sugar water, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil.
4. Add split peas, mix well.
5. Pour mixture into a lasagna pan and let cool. Once cooled, place in refrigerator to cool completely.
Steven has been asking me to make the 馬拉糕 for a while now. I felt that the one last time was a little bit dense, so I changed from All-Purpose Flour to Cake Flour (the original recipe just stated "Flour"), separated the egg whites from the egg yolks and whipped the whites first. It is MUCH fluffier!!! I like it much more this time!!
Ingredients:
240g Cake Flour
60g Custard Powder
2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
6 Egg Whites
6 Egg Yolks
360g Brown Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
160g Butter, Melted
Directions:
1. Sift together flour, custard powder, baking powder and baking soda, twice.
2. Whisk egg whites in large bowl until soft peaks are formed. Gradually add in brown sugar and whisk until stiff. Fold in Egg Yolks.
3. Add flour mixture 1/3 at a time, mix well after each addition. .
4. Fold butter and vanilla extract into batter, quickly. .
5. Grease and sugar-coat 9" Springform Pan, and pour in batter.
6. Steam on high heat for 50 minutes, until cooked.
But it's supposed to look like this...
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