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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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