In this activity, students learn about the Chinese Moon Festival and make 'moon cakes'.
Materials background information about the Moon Festival, see below homemade dough or tubes of 'ready to use' dough rolling pin 1 small jar of grape jam or bean paste oven round cookie cutter (2") knife fork spatula spoon cookie sheet plate napkins cooling rack oven mitts Procedure Explain to students that 'moon cakes' are a traditional Chinese recipe made to celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival. The Moon Festival celebrates the brightest full or harvest moon of the year. Read the Legend of Chang-O and enjoy 'moon cakes'! If using home made dough, roll out to about 1/4" thickness. Cut into rounds with a cookie cutter. If using prepared dough from the tube, roll 1/4" thin and shape or cut into 2" rounds. Place the rounds on a cookie sheet and let rest for a few minutes. Prick the rounds with a fork to prevent puffing while cooking. Have an adult bake the rounds or 'moon cakes' until puffed, light golden in color and cooked through. The adult should carefully remove the sheet from the oven to a cooling rack with oven mitts. Let cool. With a spatula, remove the 'moon cakes' to a plate. Spread jam or bean paste on one moon cake and top it with another moon cake. If the moon cakes are thick, split them in half then spread jam or bean paste inside. Celebrate! http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/china__dim_sum__moon_festi.html -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from www.doramail.com with 30 Megs of disk space in webhosting and e-mail storage! Powered by Outblaze ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/QXMplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAKE-RECIPE/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
