I love Japanese sweets soooo much!!
Specifically I love the sweets using Azuki!!!
Today, I would like to write
about my favourite Japanese sweets.
My favourite sweet...
It is "Oshiruko"!!
This is amazingly delicious and sweet.
Especially, I love Oshiruko which my mother makes.
My mother is very good at cooking as I said before.
I guess it is because of my grandmother, mom's mom.
She was also good at cooking,
and every season of Obon (=the festivals of souls),
she made Oshiruko or Ohagi to present.
When the new year festival,
she also make Osechi.
It is so surprising thing
because most of the people now in Japan
don't make those food on particular days,
but they buy them instead.
Now my grandmother can't make any food
because of a kind of disease,
but I used to eat it.
Actually, I don't remember those sweets or food
that my grandma made
because I was too little to remember it.
However my mom always talks about it
when she make food which she learned from her mom.
Now, SHE maks them on some festivals.
In addition, she love those sweets as same as me
so she does it not only on the particular day,
but also on the normal days whenever she wants to eat it.
Wow,wow,
the days when I can eat lovery sweets are increased!!
When I was a kindergarten child,
my mom made Shiratama, a kind of rice cake,
with soybean curd instead of water.
She says that I love it so much.
Unfortunately, I remember nothing about it...,
but I begun to eat it when I heard that stroy,
so I made it!!
The taste did't change but a little bit less of sticky texture,
So it is good for elderly people
because there is less worry about sticking in their throat.
Additionally, it is healthy for you!
I don't like the commercial Oshiruko.
It is too sweet.
If I make it in my house,
I can adjust the taste as much as I like.
Adding the salt is the seacret of making it delicious.
The taste of mom's meals is the same as her mom.
Then grandma's taste was taught by her mom...
It is wonderful circle of tradition.
The studies of my ancestors are living in present.
I know there are a little difference among the tastes,
but we cannot make definitely the same thing.
However I keenly feel that
I will derive those recipes from my mom.
I think that is why
many people cannot forget the taste of their mom.
So do I.
My taste will be similar to mom's taste.
I am so happy
if this cycle lasts for ever.
oh,
I would like to talk a little about red beans (Azuki).
During the war, there are little food in Japan.
It may be the same in all over the world.
So in case of Japanese, they tried to eat beans
that are used in Otedama (like a Juggling ball).
It was Azuki.
Sugar was very expensive things at that time,
so the azuki soup was not so sweet.
After the war,
the food situation changed
and then the present Oshiruko was born.
I cheer our ancestors for making amazing sweets!
