Sweet Sticks

Name: Sweet Sticks (Karinfo )
Cuisine: Japan
Ingredients: 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar; ½ cup water; 4 tablespoons warm water; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon honey; Oil for deep frying; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1⅔ cups (all-purpose) flour (plus up to ¼ cup for board); 1 egg, well beaten

Karinfo

Preparation info

Makes about
100
sticks.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

At Home with Japanese Cooking

By Elizabeth Andoh

Published 1986

About

The Japanese eat these sweet sticks as a light snack with numerous cups of hot green tea, though black or cinnamon-and-clove-spiced tea would be nice, too. Served with ice cream or fruit sherbet, these sweet sticks make an interesting dessert for a Western or Oriental meal.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon honey
¼ teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons

Asia
Japan
Dessert
Snack
Vegetarian

Method

Put the honey, salt and warm water into a bowl and stir until well blended. Add the egg and continue to stir until the mixture is well combined.

Combine flour and baking powder and sift it into the egg mixture, a little at a time. Stir to blend well after each addition. When all the flour has been added, form the soft dough into a ball and turn it out on a floured board. Knead the dough