Japanese traditional practices of Japanese cakes and snacks

I believe everyone will be familiar with the snacks in the picture above-and fruits, which are not only small and exquisite, but also various; But in fact, harmony fruit generally refers to traditional Japanese snacks, which can be divided into two major themes: raw fruit and dried fruit.

Introduction to origin

Raw fruit, also known as main fruit, ascending fruit or morning fruit, refers to fresh cakes made in the morning. Because the shelf life is short, it can only be kept for about two days, so eat it while it is hot. Compared with other kinds of fruit, eating raw fruit pays more attention to the change of shape, so it has become the protagonist of Japanese gift giving.

Compared with the fresh food requirements of raw fruits, candied dried fruits are much sweeter for long-term preservation, and are mainly pressed into various shapes with sugar and soybean powder. In Japan, harmony fruit is basically a by-product of the tea ceremony, that is, tea is used instead of tea. Japanese people drink matcha, the fruit is sweet and greasy, which is more or less meaningful to health, because sugar can offset the effect of scraping the stomach and removing oil from raw tea.

Traditional practice

Known for its variety and exquisite shape, adzuki bean is deeply favored by people at any time, and adzuki bean is its main raw material. The traditional practice is to cook adzuki beans to make sweet bean stuffing, and then mix sweet sugar with soft glutinous rice paste to make various exquisite snacks.

The types include jiaozi, Masha, Dafu, Mutton Soup, Steamed Bread, Tongluo Roast, Turtle Roast, Japanese Pancake, and Medium. The traditional and fruity red bean stuffing and white bean paste stuffing are the main fillings, but with the change of people's taste, matcha stuffing is also found to be invaginated, and the seasonal fillings are chestnuts, sweet potatoes and persimmons. Add flour and rice to make various changes.

The difference between the two

At this time, some people will ask questions and think: glutinous rice cake? Sweet again. Why does it sound so like a ciba? Yes, there are some similarities in raw materials, but the sources and practices are quite different. Compared with the traditional Ciba in southern China, Japanese harmonious fruit is more delicate and rich in invagination.

However, traditional Ciba mostly uses peanut powder and brown sugar as seasoning dipping points, occasionally fried, and most of the time there is no invagination. The biggest difference between the two is here.

Let's introduce traditional kinds of fruits ~

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Daifuku

Dafu selects the best quality glutinous rice and sweet and delicious bean powder, and the crispy skin is carefully made. The stuffing is top-grade, and the overall taste is improved by more than one grade!

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Straw cake (potato)

Made of the best quality glutinous rice and just right wormwood, it is fragrant with Q skin and a touch of grass fragrance, and the top grade mung bean stuffing is used as the stuffing. Smooth fillings and crispy skin with auspicious symbols give the tasters a fresh feeling.

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Continuous cutting

Because of its exquisite appearance, it is the main representative of the fruit of tea ceremony, which is very ornamental and has the name of fruit art. In the Edo period, Japan began to establish specialized shops. It is made of fertilizer and white bean paste by heating and stirring, including chrysanthemum, red leaves and calamus.

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Bean flour cake

Monk's dishes spread from China to Japan. Because monks are forbidden to eat meat, they steam it with red beans, flour and kudzu powder to make it solidify and look like mutton soup. There are xiaocang mutton soup, chestnut mutton soup, water mutton soup, matcha mutton soup, steamed mutton soup and so on.

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Maruko three brothers

The elastic peel, three different colors express three different connotations, and unique fillings are used, including red mung bean stuffing, white red bean stuffing and green matcha stuffing, which symbolize cherry blossoms, people and the green earth, and also represent everything in the world.

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In fact, whether it is fruit or Ciba, it has its own unique traditional charm, spreading food and promoting the different cultures it represents ~