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First Rank Longevity Peach

Lu-style Yi Pin Shou Tao (First-Rank Longevity Peach) dessert: Featuring a red date paste filling wrapped in a silky yam paste casing, this sweet is steamed then finished with a glossy sweet starch glaze. Shaped to mimic a celestial peach, it has a fragrant, sweet, and delicious flavor.

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First Rank Longevity Peach

Ingredients

Long red dates (washed, boiled until soft, peeled and pitted, made into date paste) 150g
Chinese yam (washed, steamed until soft, peeled, spots removed, mashed into fine paste) 50g
Hawthorn cake (cut into long strips) 30g
Red preserved fruit shreds (finely minced) 20g
Green plum (finely minced, placed on the peach stem) 20g
Cooked lard (for sautéing the date paste filling) 20g
White sugar (for cooking the filling and thickening) 20g
Starch (wet starch for thickening) 50g
Green preserved fruit shreds (for outlining the leaf veins) As needed
Water (for dissolving the white sugar) As needed

Instructions

1

Prepare the date paste filling

Wash the long red dates, boil until soft, peel and remove the pits to make date paste. Place into a wok, add cooked lard and white sugar, and cook down into a date paste filling.

2

Prepare the yam paste

Wash the Chinese yam, steam until soft, peel and remove any spots, then mash into a fine paste with a knife.

3

Prepare the ingredients

Cut the hawthorn cake into long strips. Finely mince the red preserved fruit shreds and green plums.

4

Shape the peach

Take a large plate, place the date paste in the center, and cover with yam paste to form a peach shape with two leaves. Smooth the surface, use green preserved fruit shreds to outline the leaf veins. On the peach body, arrange hawthorn cake strips to form the character "寿" (longevity). Garnish the top tip and lower half with minced red preserved fruit shreds, and place the green plum on the peach stem.

5

Steam

Steam in a steamer for 5 minutes, then remove.

6

Pour the sauce

In a soup pot, add water and white sugar, dissolve over medium heat, thicken with wet starch to make a thin sauce, and gently pour over the longevity peach. Serve.