What is Anpan?

Anpan is a type of Japanese sweet buns or roles. Bread is not a traditional part of Japanese cuisine and Anpan is one of the few breads that originated in this country; The word "Anpan" refers to both the type of bread and the individual bun. Rolls are soft and somewhat sweet and full of any of the different sweet traps or jams. Anpan is produced with some rice yeasts called Sakedan, which is also used to become a slight alcoholic beverage popular in Japan. Bread was practically unknown in Japan until Anpan was introduced in the 1970s. Around 1870, Kimura Yasubei and his son, residents of Tokyo bakery, opened, offered to the Japanese a new food item: bread. Their first product was a dense loaf, such as the ones that were eaten in most Europe at the time, but when it turned out as unpopular, the Anová has developed much more like refreshments or a dessert object than traditional European bread. Creation cakes with yeasts from Sakedan rice them afterThere was a unique taste and aroma, gently but noticeably different from bread made with conventional baking.

buns were filled with an red paste made of Adzuki beans, which is widely used in Japanese sweet meals, and had poppy seeds or white sesame seeds. When the bakery owners were asked to make their roles for the emperor, they were decorated with Sakura, the salted cherry flowers, and this has become another possibility of taste. For most of the end of the 18th century, Anpan was extremely popular.

Although the interest in Anpan refused somewhat in 1900, they still be offered by the original Kimuraya bakery. In the mid -1970s, many children's books with "Mr. Man" were launched as a hero and popular book Sparked to revitalize Anpan. Other bakeries and businesses began to give them and new varieties of filling were available. Favorite fillings are now the original red beans paste,Paste for red beans with sakura top, sweet chestnut paste, green pea paste, white kidney paste and filling flavored with green tea. Other options include fruit jams, especially strawberries, cream cheese, cream, apple and pumpkin.