{"id":2406,"date":"2021-09-13T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2022-11-25T21:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T02:49:15","slug":"mooncakes-for-the-fall-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/13\/mooncakes-for-the-fall-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooncakes for the fall equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Friend A who I went to grad school with (also likes cheap\/free food, has been climbing with us recently) gave us some <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mooncake\">mooncakes<\/a> she made! :&#8217;) They were presumably for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mid-Autumn_Festival\">Mid-Autumn Festival<\/a>, which happens around the autumn equinox and is coming up! The days are definitely getting shorter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mookcakes are actually the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snow_skin_mooncake\">snow skin<\/a>&#8221; version (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_OyZZcija5Q\">recipe<\/a> that Friend A used), which uses a mochi-esque wrapper. Apparently snow skin mooncakes are easier to make than the traditional baked kind, so a better choice for at-home creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"931\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210912_160338185.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210912_160338185.jpg 931w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210912_160338185-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210912_160338185-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"931\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210912_160631841.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210912_160631841.jpg 931w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210912_160631841-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210912_160631841-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>The inside is coconut milk , sugar, cheese, and salted egg yolk, the middle layer is coconut milk, sugar, butter, flour, egg, and salted egg yolk, and the outside is rice flour with milk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend A who I went to grad school with (also likes cheap\/free food, has been climbing with us recently) gave us some mooncakes she made! :&#8217;) They were presumably for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which happens around the autumn equinox and is coming up! The days are definitely getting shorter. The mookcakes are actually the &#8220;snow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/13\/mooncakes-for-the-fall-equinox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mooncakes for the fall equinox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}