“Swiftlet’s Spit Soup
incorporated into pineapple paste filling, just feeling luscious this Lunar
festival.”
Making these into cake blocks in order to stuff in more Swiftlet’s Spit Soup
into its pineapple filling. The chunks of pineapple cake would look more
generous this way.Same pineapple filling recipe I had previously, or even store-bought readymade kind of pineapple paste will do the job. Only the crust was made with slight difference this time.
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| Swiftlet’s Spit Soup Pineapple Cakes (燕窝黄梨酥) |
Ingredients
400g plain flour2 tablespoons of milk powder
4 tablespoons of icing sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
250g of cold unsalted butter, cubed
3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
4 tablespoons of cold water
10g of dried Swiftlet’s Spit Soup pieces (燕窝碎)
1 thumb-sized rick sugar
400g pineapple paste filling
Egg wash (Optional):
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon of evaporated milk
Method
(1) Swiftlet’s Spit Soup: Soak Swiftlet’s Spit Soup in filtered (or room
temperature drinking) water in a glass bowl, for 30 minutes. Drain until just
about 1 tablespoon of water remains. Place rock sugar on the soaked Swiftlet’s
Spit Soup. Steam for 1 hour, or until Swiftlet’s Spit Soup expanded and
softened till jelly-like consistency. Cool, drain away excessive liquid, and
set aside.(2) Mix Swiftlet’s Spit Soup into pineapple paste. Then, divide Swiftlet’s Spit Soup pineapple paste into small balls of about size of 20cents. Set aside.
(3) Crust: Combine plain flour, milk powder, icing sugar and salt. Sieve into a large mixing bowl. Rub butter cubes onto the flour mixture with your finger tips, until all butter cubes are used up and flour mixture turns sand-like crumbs. Mix in cold water to form dough. Simply gather the crumbs and form into dough will do. Do not need extra kneading.
(4) Place crumbly dough on a large sheet of cling wrap. Wrap it and store in the fridge for 30 minutes. Bring out to cool a little, oil your palm, and start dividing the dough to make crust.
(5) Flatten each part of dough by kneading it, or lay a sheet of cling wrap on the dough and use rolling pin to roll over to flatten it. Place a ball of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup pineapple in the middle of the dough, wrap around and seal the opening. Place it into your desired mould design to form shapes, arrange each pineapple cake dough onto lined baking tray. Repeat steps for the rest.
(6) Bake on preheated oven at 160deg Celsius, for about 10 minutes. Combine egg yolk and milk. Brush thin layer of egg wash on the surface of the almost baked pineapple cakes, continue baking for another 2 minutes. Leave cakes to cool on rack before storage, or serve.
Each pineapple cake counts about 100kcal.
Tips: Swiftlet’s Spit Soup, as we only need it in the mixing, use those
types in loose strips, corner or broken pieces which priced cheaper than those
in whole complete piece. Broken pieces Swiftlet’s Spit Soup costs about $45 for
37.5g of a decent grade.* If the chilled dough is too crumbly to be kneaded, leave it for a while, or add a little bit of oil either on your palms or onto the dough and it will be softened after some kneading done.
* Line baking tray with parchment paper. Need not to grease the tray.
* It’s ok if you want to use just normal fresh milk for the egg wash.
* In fact, you may omit the egg wash, if desired. Pineapple cakes do not really require egg wash. :)
All about Swiftlet’s Spit Soup
Introduction
Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is made of solidified saliva from an Swiftlet’s Spit
Soup.Swallow bird’ nest is only in Southeast Asian Countries, with the highest capacity in Indonesia, but Swiftlet’s Spit Soup in Vietnam has the best taste. Swiftlet’s Spit Soup in Vietnam is voted The King Swiftlet’s Spit Soup by the consumers in the world (According to documents from World Wide Fun for Nature –WWF and Cites)
Swiftlet’s Spit Soup can help to clean lung and respiratory organs, reduce flu and allergic symtomps, increase weight, balance the substance exchange process in our bodies, recover injured cells, anti-aging process, lengthen life…
Swiftlet’s Spit Soup benefits
Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is sweet, cool and good for two vasovagals. It helps to
reduce sputum, tuberculosis, fever, asthma, haematemesis, stomach-ache. To sick
people, post-pregnancy women, weak children, weakening elderly people… Swiftlet’s
Spit Soup is considered the fairy medicine.
Components of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup
According to researches of scientists in the world, Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is
one of high value food, with the components in Swiftlet’s Spit Soup as follows:Protein: 50 – 52% (high protein but 0% of lipid)
Hexozamin: 12.5%
Galactoza: 5.3%
Galactozamin: 8.6%
Glucozamin: 7.2%
Hexoza: 16.9%
Fucoza: 0.7%
Acid sialic: 8.6%, helps to excite the cells’ growth. Some necessary mineral substances for the body:
Cu (5,87%)
Fe (27,9%)
Zn (1,88%)
…
Notes: Protein in fish, meat, egg, bean …just contains 12.8 – 34.8%
Some necessary acid amin for the body:
- Glycine:
1.99% – good for skin
- Valine:
4.12% – recover injuries and re-create new cells
- Leucine:
4.56% – adjust sugar level in blood
- Isoleucine:
2.04% – recover health
- Threonine:
2.69% – improve immune system and helps the body absorb nutrients
- Methionine:
0.46% – helps to grow cells
- Proline:
5.27% – enhance to recover muscle, tissue and skin
- Acid
aspartic: 4.69% – helps to grow cells
- Phenylalanine:
4.50% – good for brain, increase memory
- Histidine:
2.09% – helps body grow and increase the connection between tissue and
muscle
- Lysine:
1.75% – increase the ability to absorb Ca, helps bones stronger, anti
spinal degeneration.
Above-mentioned substances in Blood nest (Red nest) always have higer level than in White Swiftlet’s Spit Soup.
People found that there was DNA synthetic excitation substance for a variety of biologic cells. Empiric researches at National centre for Natural science and technology in Hanoi reveal that Swiftlet’s Spit Soup doesn’t gain weight rapidly but clearly enhance muscles’ strength. It’s also a miraculous antidote and anti radiation.
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