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| <WRAP info>A difficult, but important category. They are steamed buns and ranked highest in tea sweets hierarchy.</ | <WRAP info>A difficult, but important category. They are steamed buns and ranked highest in tea sweets hierarchy.</ | ||
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| + | I was once invited to a 茶事 in winter where the host arrived with a steaming basket before 八寸 (that had some unsteamed 饅頭 in it), put it on the 釜 and had the buns steam while we ate. It didn't quite work because the fire was too weak, but even so it was a fantastic feeling! | ||
| ====Plain 薯蕷饅頭==== | ====Plain 薯蕷饅頭==== | ||
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| Grind up the 大和芋, adding sugar in thirds (= すり芋). Take the resulting dough and pop into the flour, folding in all of it from the sides. Using more rice (or potato starch) flour to keep hands from sticking, wrap around the 中餡. Put on baking sheet in steamer, spray with vinegar and steam on high for 9'. Fan once finished to give a glossy surface. | Grind up the 大和芋, adding sugar in thirds (= すり芋). Take the resulting dough and pop into the flour, folding in all of it from the sides. Using more rice (or potato starch) flour to keep hands from sticking, wrap around the 中餡. Put on baking sheet in steamer, spray with vinegar and steam on high for 9'. Fan once finished to give a glossy surface. | ||
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| Some recipes say to let the dough sit for 15' after mixing in the rice flour. | Some recipes say to let the dough sit for 15' after mixing in the rice flour. | ||
| - | I was once invited to a 茶事 in winter where the host arrived with a steaming basket before 八寸 (that had some unsteamed 饅頭 in it), put it on the 釜 and had the buns steam while we ate. It didn't quite work because the fire was too weak, but even so it was a fantastic feeling! | ||
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| Replace the 70 gr of 上新粉 by 45 gr 上新粉 and 25 gr buckwheat flour. When they' | Replace the 70 gr of 上新粉 by 45 gr 上新粉 and 25 gr buckwheat flour. When they' | ||
| - | 🌸 Those pair very nicely with some [[an|桜餡]], | + | 🌸 Those pair very nicely with some [[an|leafy 桜餡]], in which case they could be brandied and called 夜桜, for example. |
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