Free Food Recipes

Ingredients

• 450 g (1lb) plain flour
• 225 g (1/2 lb) self-raising flour
• 15 ml (1 tablespoon) sugar
• 5 ml (1 teaspoon) salt
• 10 ml (2 teaspoons) dry active yeast
• 100 g (1/4 lb) sesame seeds
• 300 ml (12 fl oz) lukewarm water
• 15 ml (1 tablespoon) sesame oil

** Free Food Recipes **

Method:

1. Mix the flours together with 10 ml (2 teaspoons) sugar and the salt. Dissolve the yeast in the water, and add gradually to the flour mixture. Knead well (use additional flour to prevent the dough from sticking).

2. Add the sesame oil, and continue to knead for 5 minutes. Form the dough into a 3.75 cm (1 1/2in) diameter toll. Cut segments off at 3.75 cm (1 1/2 in) intervals. Form each segment into a crescent­ shaped cake, like a horse’s shoe.

3. Dissolve 5 ml (1 teaspoon) sugar in 100 ml (4 fl oz) water. Wet or brush one surface of each ‘cake’ with sugared water. Spread the sesame seeds evenly over the surface of a tray. Press the wet surface of each cake against the sesame seeds to take on a layer of seeds.

4. Heat the sesame oil in a large, dry, flat-bottom ftying pan, over a medium heat. Place 2-3 cakes at a time, seed-side down, on the hot surface of the pan. Cook for about 3 minutes, moving the pan around to ensure that it is evenly heated. Use a fish slice to turn the cakes over. Continue, to heat in the same manner for 3-4 minutes.

5. Turn the cakes ever again twice, allowing each side 2 minutes over a low heat, when the surfaces will be brown and aromatic while the inside remains quite soft.

6. These Toasted Hot Cakes are particularly suitable for eating with roast and barbecued meats, a slice is cut horizontally through two-thirds of the cake, and the inside is brushed with a plummy soy-paste sauce and stuffed with the meat together with shredded cucumber and spring onion.

7. These cakes are in effect hot aromatic sandwiches with hot meat inserted inside, and are extremely appealing even to people tasting them for the first time.