
Japanese Anemone
Apart from Grape Mochi the sweet I have created for my September Japanese sweet. I used a perennial flower called Japanese Anemone as the inspiration for this time. Japanese Anemone get lots of flowers around this time of a year which has either pink or white petals with a greenish yellow round centre. When the flower’s gone this round part stays and it looks like small a pom-pom on a stick sticking out from the plant.
Japanese Anemone
I chose Japanese Anemone as the design for this month’s sweet not just because it is a very seasonal flower in gardens right at the moment but also it has the word ‘Japanese’ in its name. What else is more suitable for this occasion than that.
I made this Japanese Anemone with traditional Japanese sweet ‘Nerikiri’.
Nerikiri is made of White Bean, Sugar and a little bit of Rice Flour. It has such a simple three ingredients but it gets a marzipan like texture and can be made into any complicated shapes.
The centre of the sweet is soft and smooth ‘Koshi-an’ sweet Aduki (Azuki) bean paste.
It is free from Gluten, Egg, Dairy & Oil.
This sweet is served at Wasoukan Café (Notting Hill, London) until the end of this month.
They look beautiful!
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Thank you very much. 😊
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So cute and pretty!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Beautiful. How do you write the name in Japanese?
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You mean this plant? It is ‘秋明菊 (しゅうめいぎく / シュウメイギク)’. 🙂
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とても綺麗です!どうしたら こういう和菓子の作り方を学びましたか。
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Thank you very much!😊 When I find some beautiful flower or interesting object I try to imagine how I can recreate the shape in my head. However, the best way to learn I think is just make anything you think it would work and make mistakes and try again! “Failure is the best teacher”. That’s true!! 😉.
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すごいです!むつみさんの素敵な和菓子、次々と見たいです。頑張ってください!
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どうもありがと~う。😊Thank you!!
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