Sha Ch’i Ma

Name: Sha Ch’i Ma (Sha ch’i ma)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 6 oz. maltose (or brown sugar); 6 oz. maltose (or brown sugar); 1 cup water; 1-½ cup sugar; 10 cups oil; 2 tablespoons raisins; 1 tablespoon sesame seeds; 3 eggs; 2-½ cups flour (cake flour); 2-½ cups flour (cake flour); 2 teaspoons baking powder

Sha ch’i ma

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

3 eggs
2-½ cups flour (cake flour)
2 teaspoons

Asia
Taiwan
Snack
Vegetarian

Method

Sift flour and baking powder on the pastry board. Spread to form a hollow in the center. Add eggs. Blend the flour and eggs with fingers. Then knead the dough thoroughly until it is smooth.
Roll the dough again and again with a rolling pin until it is like a big round thin pancake (about ⅙” thick). Then cut it into 2” long thin strips. Dust the thin strips with