Monday, November 22, 2010

Huat Kuih

My Amah (grandma) always made huat kuih when we pray for our ancestors among other food.  Huat kuih, a steam cake flavored with brown sugar was one of my favorite.  My grandma always made sure she saved a portion of the cake for me to take home.  That is one of the sweetest memories I had growing up in Malaysia.

Yesterday, I suddenly felt like eating huat kuih.  I haven't had it for so long, it was making me drool just thinking of the sweet fragrant of the chewy cake.  I dug out the stack of recipes I had been compiling in pieces of papers.  I had been meaning to organize it, but of course I had told myself I will do that later.

Anyway, I finally found the recipe for huat kuih scribbled on a piece of scrap paper.  I was just glad I didn't loose it.  It was the recipe my grandma had used given by my aunt a few years back.

Immediately I set to work together with my daughter, measuring the ingredients and melting the coconut sugar to substitute for the brown sugar.  When I finally mixed all the ingredients together, the batter was somewhat like pancake batter.  I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be like that.  I regretted not watching or even learning from my grandma.  I guess when I was a kid, I was only interested in eating not the actual work itself.

Anyway, since I had already come this far.  I decided to continue to the very end. When the timer on the alarm beep signaling the completion of the steaming.  I rushed to see how the cake looked like.  To my satisfaction, it bloomed like morning glory greeting the morning sun, like it was supposed to be.  I was feeling rather proud.

However, it was still too hot for trying.  So, I am going to be patient and wait till the next morning before eating it.

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