Hup To Soh

Hup To Soh is a very delicious biscuit. It was a very popular biscuit in my younger days. We always buy it from shops specialised in selling biscuits. Some were very crunchy while others melted in the mouth. Nowadays we can seldom find it. So we have to make it ourselves to enjoy it. It is very easy to make this biscuit. We just need flour, sugar, sesame seeds walnut, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, peanut oil and eggs to make it. However, those sold in the shop do not contain walnuts and sesame seeds.

Ingredients:

• 300 g all-purpose flour
• 50 g toasted sesame seeds
• 100 g toasted walnut and crushed
• 75 g sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 egg yolks
• 50 g butter, softened
• 125 g peanut oil
• 1 egg (for egg wash)

Method:

• Add flour, sesame seeds, walnut, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda to a mixing bowl. Stir to mix them up.

• Beat egg yolks and add to the flour mixture. Stir to mix them up.

• Add butter to the bowl. Stir to incorporate the butter into the flour mixture.

• Add peanut oil to the bowl. Stir.

• Mix up all the ingredients till you achieve a smooth dough.

• Line your baking tray with parchment paper.

• Take a dollop of the dough.

• Weigh it to get 25 g. (You can make it either smaller or bigger. Those sold in the shops are much bigger.)

• Roll it into a ball.

• Place the dough ball onto the baking tray.

• Press dough ball down to flatten it and to have some nice cracks along the sides.

• Repeat till all the dough has been used up. I manage to get 30 pieces out of the above ingredients.

• Immediately heat up your oven to 170 deg C for 10 minutes.

• Egg wash your flattened dough.

• Bake them in the oven for 30 minutes to get a nice golden colour for your biscuits. Shorten your baking time if you would like a lighter colour.

• Wait for your biscuits to completely cool down before you store them in a bottle.