DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Wife cake
Also known as: 老婆餅
A Cantonese flaky pastry filled with sweetened candied winter melon and often fragrant sesame and glutinous rice ingredients.
About Wife cake
A Cantonese flaky pastry filled with sweetened candied winter melon and often fragrant sesame and glutinous rice ingredients.
Ingredients in Wife cake
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- Wheat flourbase
- Winter melonfilling
- Glutinous Rice Flourbinder
- Sesame Seedseasoning
- Vegetable Oilcooking medium
- Sugarsweetener
- Sesamefilling
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
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