Comments on: Steamed sweet potato buns

By: food-4tots

food-4tots — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:43:35 +0000

Claire: Thanks!! Instead of 8 buns, I would suggest that you halve the amount. This will yield around 12 buns. Happy trying!

By: Claire

Claire — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:09:28 +0000

I love this recipe but if i’m going to make only around 8 buns, what are the changes for the ingredients?
Thanks in advance

By: food-4tots

food-4tots — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:26:08 +0000

Rachel: It’s my pleasure to share. According to this link (http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/common-ingredient-substitutions/detail.asPX), you can substitute 1 cup of shortening with 1 cup butter OR 1 cup margarine minus 1/2 teaspoon salt from recipe. Your way to form the bun is correct. Happy trying!!!

By: Rachel Lim

Rachel Lim — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 07:26:06 +0000

Thanks for sharing this recipe. I’m wanna try it out soon but I have a few questions.

1) is there any way I can substitute shortening with something else?

2) when I place one slice of white dough on top of one slight of orange dough, seal the sides and pull slightly, I just twist them and finally pull the top end down to meet with the bottom end? Is that correct?

thanks

By: food-4tots

food-4tots — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:08:24 +0000

Priscilla Poh: You’re always welcome!

By: priscilla poh

priscilla poh — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:42:16 +0000

Thanks Food 4 tots for the recipe links.

By: food-4tots

food-4tots — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:14:42 +0000

Priscilla Poh: My friend’s mom had shown me how to make char siew bao using the same dough but I personally haven’t tried or made it myself. However, I would like to share 2 recipes with you:
a) http://en.christinesrecipes.com/2011/01/steamed-pork-buns.html
b) http://rasamalaysia.com/char-siew-bao/

Hope it helps.

By: priscilla poh

priscilla poh — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:50:56 +0000

Good Day Food4tots
Are u able to share recipe on basic dough for chinese steamed bun? I wud like to use dough for pork, char siew buns. I am trying to figure out how to use the dough in your steamed sweet potato bun but I had better not take the risk. I rather request from you just the basic bun dough.

Thanks & rgds
Priscilla Poh

By: food-4tots

food-4tots — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:17:49 +0000

Carolyn Wilkerson: Thanks for your kind suggestion. I will definitely do that if I get a change to visit my friend’s mom again in future. Thanks.

By: Carolyn Wilkerson

Carolyn Wilkerson — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:18:13 +0000

You measure each ingredient next time you go home or she comes to you. We had a family recipe for a sweet chocolate sauce for breakfast over biscuits (Chocolate Gravy) and my sister did that. Measured every little bit she added. We have a better success rate than Mom did as every once in a while her recipe didn’t quite work out as well. Ours works every time because we had her take it out of her head and put it on paper for all the family. Good luck.