[Sca-cooks] SWEETENED RED BEAN PASTE

[Barbara Nostrand]

Noble Cousins!

Greetings from Solveig!

>It ends up in several steamed buns, a sweet fried wonton variant, and in
>a pinch I suppose could be mixed with crushed ice for a sort of Asian
>snow-cone/slurpee.

Actually, you should use shaved ice and not crushed ice. As I recall,
shaved ice appears in the Sarashina diary and dates from at least the
Heian period in Japan.

>My own experience has been with sweet _black_ bean paste in those fried
>sesame balls, but I don't see why red couldn't be used.

You may also expect to see a variant on omochi in such confections.

If you are interested, there are who books on Japanese confectionary
out there. They are of course in Japanese. I have one that I have not
seen for a couple of years now. I hope that I will run across it
during the next couple of months.

					Your Humble Servant
					Solveig Throndardottir
					Amateur Scholar

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