Chinese Chews

Name: Chinese Chews
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: Chinese, Asian
Ingredients: 177 milliliters all purpose flour; 237 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 0 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters chopped dates; 237 milliliters chopped walnuts; 3 eggs, well-beaten; 1 serving Confectioners sugar, for topping

Chinese Chews takes approximately approximately 45 minutes from beginning to end. One portion of this dish contains around 1g of protein, 3g of fat, and a total of 70 calories. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 36. This recipe is typical of Chinese cuisine. If you have dates, salt, eggs, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free and lacto ovo vegetarian diet. Many people really liked this hor d'oeuvre. Users who liked this recipe also liked Emma Willard’s Chinese Chews, Marmalade Chews, and Chocolate Chews.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 300° F. Grease and flour an 8 x 12-inch pan – if you use a smaller pan, the baking time will be longer. Note: If you grease the pan, but don’t flour it, the squares will stick to the pan and be difficult to remove after baking.

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All Purpose Flour

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Oven

Frying Pan

Combine flour, sugar (not confectioners sugar), baking powder and salt. Sift with a sifter or fine mesh sieve into a medium sized mixing bowl. If you don’t have a sifter, whisk dry ingredients together well to combine.

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Powdered Sugar

Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Mixing Bowl

Sifter

Sieve

Whisk

3 Stir the dates, nuts and well-beaten eggs (I beat the eggs separately with a hand mixer for about 1 minute until fluffy before adding them), into the dry ingredients.

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Dates

Egg

Nuts

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Hand Mixer

It is not necessary to beat the eggs with a mixer, you can beat them by hand with a fork. Make sure ingredients are well combined – the batter will be sticky.

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Egg

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Blender

Spread the batter out as thinly as possible into the prepared pan.

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Spread

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Frying Pan

Bake for 30 minutes, or until top is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center of the pan comes out clean.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Frying Pan

Let cool completely, and cut into 1 to 1 1/2-inch squares. Note: Many recipes call for cutting the squares while still warm. In my experience, they are much easier to cut after they’ve cooled.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar, using sifter or sieve, as desired.

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Powdered Sugar

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Sifter

Sieve