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     Title: Sweet Shiruko
Categories: Japanese, Dessert
     Yield: 4 Servings

     4    Toasted rice cakes

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     5 oz Adzuki beans
     4 c  Water
     3 c  Sugar
     1 pn Salt
     1 tb Dogtooth starch; dissolved
          -in:
     1 ts Water

 Soak the adzuki beans for half a day. Drain and put fresh water just
 covering the surface of beans. Heat and when it has begun to boil,
 drain the beans, add enough fresh water to cover, and boil it again.
 Repeat the process of draining, adding fresh water, boiling and
 draining two more times. Pour 4 c fresh water over the drained beans
 and simmer over a low heat for 2 hours until the beans become tender.
 Add sugar and salt to taste.

 Heat the Shiruko made one day before. Put dogtooth starch dissolved
 with water in it and stir a little.

 Fill up each bowl with steaming hot Shiruko, put a toasted rice cake
 in the bowl, and serve.

 M's note. I think that dogtooth starch is made out of the corm of some
 lily: you might substitute arrowroot or corn starch.

 Recipe by Hiroaki Katayama

 Recipe FROM: http://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/Hiroshima/Things/61.html

 Posted to NCE 11/1998

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