From my weekend plans I managed to make kuih kapit, cleaned, polished and vacuumed my car, washed Chester’s cloth and toys and watched MU vs Liv match. Wohoooo! 3 pats on my back.
Now to my main agenda; The Making Of Kuih Kapit aka Love Letter. The love letter recipe was provided by my dear grandma. We started to prepare the batter at about 11am on Saturday morning.
I only explain how to make the batter as I guess the rest of the procedures are quite simple. All you need is the love letter mould. We bought 4 moulds at RM5 each recently.
Love Letter Batter:
First, add water to the grated old coconut (we bought 4 old coconuts coz that f**king shop don’t wanna sell 3½; why need old coconut ? old coconut are more oily).
Then, pressed the grated old coconut into a bowl. That’s the first batch of coconut milk aka santan. You will need that ‘thing’ that my sister was holding in the picture below. Repeat by adding water again to the coconut. Make 3 batches of coconut milk with the first batch containing the thickest coconut milk and so forth.
Next sift plain flour(600g) and rice flour(3 spoonfuls) into a bowl. Add in granulated sugar(600g) into the bowl as well. Slowly stir while adding 4 eggs(egg yolk only) + 8 eggs ~ well beaten. Afterthat add in the first batch of coconut milk and stir slowly with “HAND!!!” until well blended.«« My sis and grandma asked me twice whether I can cope with the stiring as we need to stir for quite some time. FYI, I’m known as a lazy bone at home. »»
Right pict: Poor Chester can only smell and watch from afar. Kekekeke. Eventually we gave him some ‘mess up’ love letter. Mess up mean folding the love letter too slow until we cannot fold it into a fan shape because it cools down already.
At one point I was asking my sis…(the batter nearly finish)me: sis, are you done ? let’s stop now.sis: hey I just had a deja vu.
me: what ? that I told you to stop and you stop and we all clean up ?
sis: no. that you told me to stop but I said I wanna go on until the batter is finish.
me: so you wanna stop now ?
sis: no. i wanna go on.
me *in my mind*: shit!
We finished our batter nearly reaching the 11 hour mark. Fhewwwwww! Umphhh actually we didn’t finished all the batter. There were some left(about HALF cup full). Alas sis didn’t managed to make her 1 last love letter as the charcoal had cooled down. huhuhuhu…
Lessons of the day:
1. Pick/buy more comfortable stools as 3 butts ended up pain till the ass.
2. Wear gloves as all our hands were red and battered.
3. Always make 1 round of batter is enough like this time(just for ourself). Many years ago we make 3 round of batters for ourself and cousins. We didn’t sleep that night.
p/s: 600g = 1kati
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Mei Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 12:47 pmVisit Mei
One tip I would like to share – dunno if it’ll work for you as it did for me – after umpteen years of practice, long nails always come in handy be it folding or peeling those little buggers off.
Btw, how come some are a bit tad too white eh??? ^_~
Che-Cheh Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 1:07 pmVisit Che-Cheh
Mei, thanks for the tip. I shall keep that in mind. We used knife to fold and peel the love letter.
Hehehe yeah some a bit too white, some too dark…:D
Mei Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 2:02 pmVisit Mei
Ohyeah…don’t give Chester too much kueh kapit. The last time my grandaunt did that, her doggie died. ~_~
AIYA…now I feel like making kueh kapit leh. =.=
Beer Brat Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 2:20 pmVisit Beer Brat
Hmmm….. one of my fav CNY food.. kuih kapit … yum yum…..
Fly in some for me……pls.
Che-Cheh Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 3:31 pmVisit Che-Cheh
Mei, ohmygod really??? I wonder what ingredient that causes this. sorry to hear that.
Make lah…still got alot of time.
Beer Brat, aiyo malulah. My kuih kapit won’t be parading in the cookie jar coz too horrible looking. Kekekeke
Jeremy C Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 4:38 pmVisit Jeremy C
yum yum, looks yummy! and chester looks sooooooo cutie-pie in that photo, LOL.
btw, yeah 3 pats on your back for an eventful weekend
Che-Cheh Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 5:34 pmVisit Che-Cheh
Jeremy C, Thank you. Chester was growling all the way…telling us to feed him. Kekekekeke
Wu Ching Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 6:54 pmVisit Wu Ching
i want some love letters too!
jellyfish Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 7:35 pmVisit jellyfish
i like kuih kapit too… its just yummy
CNY is just around the corner
hehehe….
dreamcatcher Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 7:48 pmVisit dreamcatcher
awwwwwww, all the while i thought collecting dust inside the car is one of your unique acquired hobby!
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haiyoooo… i’m gonna have hand nightmares. why didnt you use a spoon or a ladle or whate’er instead of ur hands?!! i’m filled with agitation now! MOST SINCERELY n TRULY HOPE u washed ur hands well.. urghhh!
any chance someone else stirred instead of u?? heh!heh!
Che-Cheh Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 8:32 pmVisit Che-Cheh
Wu Ching, I will send to you via FedEx…just for u
Jellyfish, Yum-yum…I guess it’s everyone’s fav cookies.
Dreamcatcher, can only use hand because while stirring the batter we had to ‘picit’ the flour. And NOPE only my right hand. But you don’t have to worry coz tak halal I guess. The bowl we used NG la. No new bowl.
9T9 Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 1:19 amVisit 9T9
Whoa, your grandma goes online nowadays huh
glamour you.
Poor Chester, he always gets the reject one… Erm, not advisable right, remember with his prob tht day.
Che-cheh, if all this halal can we pre order it for hari raya hehehehe. Anyway practice make perfect right huhuhu.
Che-Cheh Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 7:33 amVisit Che-Cheh
9T9, Kekekeke
Don’t bother about my love letter. Like I tell u, it doesn’t look nice.
dreamcatcher Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 1:11 pmVisit dreamcatcher
bugger u!!!! x 3… temptin’ my interest towards that kuih n now ur tellin’ they’re ng?! apalaa….
anyway, making k.kapit is very time consuming, no?! 12 hrs… that’s a very long time! :]
Yvy Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 4:05 pmVisit Yvy
ooooooooooo!! my fav!!!
i used to help my ah ma make it too. but now she’s too old liow – dont think she’s making any this year. damn, burnt my fingers n all when i help her out. i was th ‘folder’.
narrowband Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 11:59 pmVisit narrowband
They’re delicious!! My grandma used to make them too, and I helped out no more than 5 times. Mainly helped with ‘folding’ the hot pieces of kuih kapit, before they became too cold and hardened up. Poor my skin.. Really took a lil getting used to. I remember I watched my grandma folded those hot kuih kapit with great admiration…!
Che-Cheh Says:
January 26th, 2006 at 10:13 amVisit Che-Cheh
Dreamcatcher, did I tempt u ?
umphh not exactly 12hrs…we did stop for awhile after the batter making and baking.
Yvy, yeah! I like to be the ‘folder’ too.
Narrowband, Hahahaha. My grandma was ‘oohhh ahhhing’ when she folds the kuih kapit. LOL
9T9 Says:
January 27th, 2006 at 12:48 amVisit 9T9
Beside to fold it… maybe you can also roll it just like a cigar. You can try it nxt year.
Che-Cheh Says:
January 27th, 2006 at 7:23 amVisit Che-Cheh
9Y9, ohh yeah. Good Idea!
hoo choon lye Says:
October 13th, 2006 at 3:03 pmVisit hoo choon lye
Please tell me from where did you buy the kuih kapit moulds. I would like to get some for myself. Thanks.
Che-Cheh Says:
October 13th, 2006 at 8:36 pmVisit Che-Cheh
Hoo Chon Lye, hello there. I bought mine at a shop near my house. You can go to Giant/Tesco/Carrefour (forget which one is selling) or search for shop that sells plastic and plates or baking supplies shop. Most probably they will sell kuih kapit moulds too. Hope this help.
Yung Says:
December 29th, 2006 at 6:51 amVisit Yung
OK, I have to ask ‘cos I’m desperate. Any idea where or how I can get kuih kapit mould here in the US?? It’s been way too long since I’ve had kuih kapit and I’m dying for some.
Che-Cheh Says:
December 29th, 2006 at 7:50 amVisit Che-Cheh
Yung, hello! I’m sorry I’m unable to help you as I’m not from the States. But I can give you some suggestion. You can try out those shop at Chinatown selling cake/bakery supplies or those shops that sell kitchenware.
Lily Says:
January 30th, 2007 at 12:00 pmVisit Lily
Pls help me to ask yr grandma, why when my mum bake the kuih kapit, it turns out harden very fast until we could’t manage to fold. thank you.
Che-Cheh Says:
January 30th, 2007 at 9:39 pmVisit Che-Cheh
Lily, my grandma said maybe your mom put too many egg whites. Maybe only…Not too sure ya.
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