A mooncake is a dense, round pastry — a thin, golden-brown crust pressed into an ornate mold and filled with a thick, sweet paste, most traditionally lotus seed or red bean, often with a whole salted duck egg yolk at the center. The yolk is the moon. That is not metaphor — it is the […]

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Nazook is a rolled pastry — a sour cream and yeast dough stretched thin, spread with a filling called khoriz made from flour, butter, sugar, and vanilla cooked into a dry, sandy streusel, rolled tightly into a log, sliced into individual pieces, and baked until the outside is golden and crisp and the layers inside […]

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