Mizumanjū 水まんじゅう

History and Origins

The "water carpet" is a bowl of cloth made of dust and ground flour and a bowl of cold water in well water. It was not until the Meiji era, but in the Great Wall, called the Water City, there were plenty of underground water to cool the vegetables and fruits, and in each home, there were "the wells" that used them to cool down and use them as refrigerators. In the meantime, the whole area of water was developed as "Clean sweets that can be eaten in summer." It is said that the initial development was using dust only, but the dust melts easily into water and cools cool down with water.

When It Is Eaten

In the water tank in the grocery store's head, the water bowl in which it is cooled is a sort of poem telling the water's capital of the Great Wall about summer's visit. The sales period varies from April to September, although each store has a different distribution period.

How It Is Eaten

To cool it down in cold underground water, mix the dust with a strong sieve for water, and mix the dough in a softly boiled dough, wrap it in a clay pot, and then make it solid.

Recipe

Ingredients

• 90 g waste
• 12 g strawstone
• 180 g sugar
• 720 g water
• 170 g（17 g） bean paste

Method

1. Put dust and powder into the water and melt well.
2. Put sugar in, put it in the fire, keep it in slowly, and stop when it becomes translucent paste.
3. Put the dough in half the size of a piece, put the garlic in the middle and then put the dough in until it fills up.
4. It will evaporate (until it becomes transparent for about ten minutes).
5. After the heat has gone out, we'll take it out in well water. The above is a representative recipe and varies according to the store. The waste and the powder that you use in the recipes mentioned above can change your sense of food and stuff.

More About Mizumanjū

The water bed is the head of the sea bed, which was used as a fabric. It's known as Gifu Prefecture Yoichi City.

Overview

Japanese sweets, representing Ogaki City. The way you pour a soft basin of water into the sink and sell it cold in a water tank called a well boat is a summer wind poem by the Great Fabulous.

The sales period is about April to September. The best sellers of old are known to have been the gold butterfly's founders, who were successful in their business in 1898.

The head with the same condensation has a conch head, but the water carpet is different in that it is mixed with a dough that is strong for water. This makes the carpet as soft and thick as the head. The blending of flour and dough with flour is different from the food content of each store. The Japanese candy store's "Food and Food Set" is sold at the Great Fukuoka Company, held every July at Ogishi City.

In the Nara Prefecture City of Tokyo, from June 16th to summer, the festival of Omiya's will be celebrated, and the cold water bowls are sold in the local candy shop.

History

It is thought that about the 30th year of Akira, Odaji Koda of the Japanese sweet shop invented a form of connoisseur, and improved it so that it wouldn't flow when it was soaked in water.

In 1995, Yamasaki bread applied to the patent office for a commercial sign of "Wake on Water." The Fukuoka Shoe Association, who decided that the tourist resources would be lost if the trading signs were recognized, set up a task force to collect certificates of the "Big Land" and issue a complaint. The result was approved, and the application was denied by the patent agency.

Text adapted and translated from the Japanese Wikipedia article 水まんじゅう by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dish data: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), “Uchi no Kyodo Ryori” (Our Regional Cuisines) database, used under the Public Data License (PDL1.0); translated and adapted from the Japanese original.