Wife Biscuits/Lao Po Bing

Today I am baking one of my love, wife biscuits, lao po bing. This is a Chinese pastry with a combination of crispy flaky crust and sweet chewy filling. There are a few stories about this pastry so I'm not sure which is real except this pastry is for the "wife".🤣 The husband bought it for the wife? Made it for the wife? Or the wife made it?🤔🤣🤣

I am trying out a new recipe I found on YouTube again speaking in Mandarin but lucky there is subtitles. 😅

I think I did pretty good as the pastry is very flaky and yummy. I love candied winter melon in the biscuit so I added extra!😋 I will definitely use this recipe again and add in more fillings next time!

Makes 15-16 biscuits
Recipe by Chef Zhu Limi Foodvideo

Water Dough:

200g all purpose flour
10g maltose
60g lard
110g hot water (used boiling hot)

Use flour make a well, place lard and maltose in center. Slowly add in the hot water and knead together.  Hot water helps melt maltose and lard into flour. Use rub and pull method to make dough elastic. Throw dough on counter a couple times to help develop gluten. Cover let it rest

Oil Dough:

120g all purpose flour
60g lard

Use hand knead flour and lard into dough.

Filling:

80g fried glutinous rice flour gaofun
30g sugar
110g water
13g lard (can sub with 1 tbsp vegetable oil)
85g candied winter melon chopped (or 100g)
30g sesame seeds (lightly roast)
15g desiccated coconut

Heat a pan. Add in water, sugar and oil. Turn on low once it boiled. Add in flour and mix well with the water. (Add in little more water if too dry) Then add in sesame, coconut and chopped candied melon. Mix well. Leave to cool and divide into 15-16 about 20g each.

Method:

Use water dough and wrap the oil dough. Flatten. Roll it thin and evenly into a rectangular shape about 11x20 inches. Then roll it up from long side to the other end. By rolling it will give layers for crust. (See video)

Flatten each piece and wrap in filling. Then use rolling pin to flatten into round shape biscuit.

Brush with egg wash (1 egg beaten+1 tsp milk). Use sharp knife to cut 2-3 lines in center all the way through. Sprinkle sesame seeds.

Bake in preheated oven at 390F or 200C for about 20 minutes until golden.

Let cool before serving. Extremely crispy crumbly when hot!