glenn tips
- Sometimes he brushes konashi with mitsu before serving to make it glossy.
Recipe
EDIT: As of 2024-12-27, the recipe at the bottom (with the joshinko, the 2023-10-13 one) is the correct one! See Kinton.
I can’t remember where this particular recipe comes from. I should look.
Ingredients
- 200g Shiro-an
- 25g cake flour (e.g. Swan’s Down)
- Mitsu for hands (simple syrup)
Steps
- Combine shiro-an and cake flour until the mixture is uniform.
- Split the dough into 100g chunks.
- In a steamer basket lined with sarashi, steam on high heat for 15 minutes.
- After it is finished steaming, knead with a wet sarashi until reaching the desired texture, adding mitsu as needed for desired texture / sweetness.
Steaming / heating
When I made sweets for Teaching-2023-09-23, I used medium-high heat for 15 minutes, and that did not cook it sufficiently. It came out still wet, and it did not come together to form a dough. Probably, it needs to be on ripping high heat, not medium-high heat.
If it comes out of the steamer not yet done, you must continue steaming right away. If you knead it (thereby cooling it down) then put it back in the steamer, the internal temperature will not get high enough to start re-cooking. If this happens, put it in the microwave for ~30 seconds at a time. Surprisingly, that works pretty well.
Refrigeration
Konashi keeps rather well. I have used konashi from the freezer after ~6 months, and it still tastes great.
Other tries
2023-10-13
Used a different recipe:
- 200g shiro-an
- 15g cake flour
- 5g joshinko
(joshinko is supposed to be joyoko).
Put on mostly high heat (5.5, big flame) for 16 minutes. Better than last time, but still not enough. Probably needs literally ripping hot heat for 18 minutes.
2024-02-02
Tried the recipe above, moving to ripping hot heat for 18 minutes. Made a larger batch (380g), but split into 3 equal balls before steaming and lined the steamer with parchment paper.
18 minutes at literal full heat was not quite enough. Try 20 minutes next time. (It was still workable, just a little softer than it should be. Fine for kinton, maybe not great for more hand-carved stuff).