Last week, I had lunch at a Japanese restaurant that a former classmate at Japanese confectionery making class works for.
Sashimi(刺身:sliced raw fish), Sunomono(酢の物:food in sweetened vinegar), assorted foods and a soup.
Goma-dofu(胡麻豆腐) is mixed with ground-up sesame seeds, kudzu starch and water and is molded. It doesn't contain soybeans.
She served us a confection named Hatsushimo(初霜: the first frost of the season) on a Japanese cedar plate with a wooden fork and a bowl of matcha tea. She usually makes confections for lunch.
We have the first frost of the season in Tokyo around mid-December.
Shimogare(霜枯れ)
These confections represent leaves killed by frost. Japanese confectionery portrays even a dead leaf or earth.
Kirei desu ne! Can you tell me what the exterior of the second Shimogare is made of - some type of an, perhaps?
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ReplyDeleteBoth of Shimogare are ball adzuki bean paste wrapped with nerikiri(練切り) in the shape of leaf.
The first Shimogare is also nerikiri containing aduzki bean paste.
Nerikiri contains gyuhi(求肥) as a thickener for white(or adzuki) bean paste. Gyuhi is made by kneeding a mixture of rice powder, sugar and water on heating.