Edo Kintsuba

...By this time, the skin was probably already made of wheat flour, and it was a square type made with high-quality bean paste. In Osaka, around the Tenpo period (1830-44), a shop called Asadaya near Koraibashi was famous, and there was also one called "Edo Kintsuba." The Asadaya type was made by cutting the bean paste into a circle using a wooden mold, coating it with a solution of wheat flour and baking it, and "when viewed from the side, it looks like a thick bean paste," according to "Naniwa Hyakujidan."...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Edo Kintsuba" is listed below.

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…このころはすでに小麦粉の皮になっていたと思われ，みめよりは上質のあんを使った方形のものであった。大坂では天保(1830‐44)ごろ高麗橋近くの浅田屋という店のものが有名で，ほかに〈江戸金鍔〉と呼ばれるものがあった。浅田屋のそれはあんを木型で円形に抜き，小麦粉の水溶きをつけて焼くもので，〈横より見れば固詰あん見ゆる物なり〉と《浪華百事談》は記している。…

※「江戸金鍔」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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