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| | The Asia Rice Foundation: Japan Rice Articles |
 | | Before then, dry sweets, fresh sweets, rice cakes smothered with bean jam and even salty rice crackers, were all simply known as kashi of one kind or another. |
 | | With growing prosperity in the Edo Period (1603-1867), commoners could also enjoy the occasional treat, and sweets such as taiyaki wafers, in lucky shapes such as fish, and filled with bean jam, were eaten piping hot from festival stalls. |
 | | I tried a rich "fondant" which combines the flavors of two classic beans, azuki and cocoa, and also sampled a beautiful "azuki tea kanten jelly." The glimmering jelly is served on a circle of two azuki-bean sauces: one half is caramel-dark, the other half is pearly white. |
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