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Ingredients(Pastry)
3 cups plain flour, 185g lard, 5 tablespoons hot water, pinch of salt
Ingredients (Custard)
2 eggs, ½ cup sugar, 1½ cup milk, few drops of yellow food coloring
Method
To make the pastry, sift flour and salt into bowl. Rub lard into the flour until mixture resembles fine bread-crumbs.
Mix in hot water to make a firm dough. Knead gently on thinly floured surface.
Roll out to about 3mm thickness, cut out with an 8cm fluted cutter then put it into greased patty tins.
Beat eggs and sugar together, add milk gradually and mix in the food coloring. Pour custard carefully into the pastry cases and bake in hot oven for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to moderate and bake further for another 12 minurtes until custard is set.
Note: oven temperature – 250-260ºC (hot) 220-230º(moderate)
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Ingredients
2 cups of red bean
1 small piece of dried Chinese orange peel
400 g rock sugar
200 g lotus seeds (soak for 10 minutes and remove the green bitter shoot)
6 cups of water
Method
Wash red beans and place in a deep sauce pan. Add lotus seeds, orange peel and 6 cups of water. Bring to a boil and continue to simmer for 30 minutes until red beans are half cooked. Add rock sugar and continue to simmer for another 15 minutes until red beans are well cooked and soften. Serve hot.

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