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Fa Gao: A Taiwanese New Year Dessert
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Description
Fa Gao is a Taiwanese new year dessert that we will usually eat or use to pray to Buddha and hope he will bring us a good year. This dessert in Chinese is called “發糕 Fa-Gao”. It means “promotion” so we believe if you eat this cake you will receive a promotion this year.
Ingredients
- ⅔ pounds, ⅝ ounces, weight Rice Flour
- 3-⅝ ounces, weight Plain Flour
- 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
- 6-⅜ ounces, weight Brown Sugar Or Caster Sugar
- ¾ pounds, ¾ ounces, weight Water
- 1 bunch Dried Berries
- 1 Tablespoon Strawberry Jam
- 1 teaspoon Red Food Colouring
Preparation
1. Mix all the ingredients together evenly and leave it aside for 20 minutes.
2. Place 4 or 5 small bowls in a steamer and steam it with full gas power for 5–8 minutes.
3. Place cupcake paper in the small bowls and fill the cupcake paper until 90% full with the mixture.
4. Steam it for 30 minutes and don’t open the cover or lid or they won’t rise up.
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lorelei on 2.8.2011
Weird. I’ve never seen a berry version of this before! I’ll have to give it a try. It certainly is pretty!
PamFromNY on 2.8.2011
I MUST make this for my Taiwanese friends, thank you so much for sharing!