I tried to make Konpeitō, candy from 460 years ago
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- #FXPartner Inspired by the new series, FX's Shōgun, I made Japanese candy called Konpeitō (こんぺい糖)! FX’s Shōgun premieres Feb. 27 on Hulu, New Episode every Tuesday! @FXNetworks
I was inspired by FX's Shōgun series to make Konpeitō, the candy that is believed to have been brought by Portuguese missionaries around the Sengoku era, about 460 years ago, the same time period in which Shōgun takes place. If you want to try making it yourself, here's the recipe.
Konpeitō
Ingredients :
20-30 Sugar crystals
150g sugar
100ml water
Food dye
Equipment
Non-stick pan
Matcha whisk
1. Make syrup. In a small pot, add water and sugar. Simmer over medium heat until the sugar has completely melted. Set aside
2. In a non-stick pan, add sugar crystals to the sides of the pan. Heat the pan over medium heat, then add 2 tablespoons of the syrup to the middle of the pan. Once the liquid comes to a simmer, coat the sugar crystals with it using a matcha whisk. Stir constantly until the syrup crystallizes.
3. Repeat this process until the candy reaches the size of a pea.
4. Add food dye to the remaining syrup and coat the candy evenly for coloring
Hope you enjoy this episode! 
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Great to see you, Rie-san! ^^ I find it very interesting how we can find Portuguese words in Japanese cuisine. Growing up in Brazil, I used to think that my Japanese grandparents were just 'japanizing' Portuguese words like 'pan' (pão) and 'conpeito' (confeito) haha but no, Japanese really did incorporate those words into their vocabulary!
Thank you for watching 😊It's so interesting to discover that we have a lot of Portuguese-influenced items! I didn't know konpeitō was one of them until I made this video!
Don't forget tempura.
i was recently curious on the naming of persimmons in my language (malay) bc its called pisang kaki which literally translates to foot banana but i saw caqui is also used in portuguese (cmiiw) and kaki from japanese!
Oh I thought the only portugese or spanish word in japan is Kasutera (Castella). The word confeito sounds so latin that I think about it as a general european word for sweets 😅
Although some words might sound like they could've come from any Latin based European language, they were first introduced to the Japanese by the Portuguese. ☺ You can find a very extensive list of words here on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Japanese_words_of_Portuguese_origin
Omg its the spirited away candy for the dust spirits!
They're also a plot point in the Sailor Moon S movie. I think the 2000 dub called them "sugar stars".
They were also in the Pokemon anime
and starbits
And hamtaro 🥹
@@eternalelipsis omg Hamtaro! What a throwback
I love the tone-shift of watching a bunch of samurai fighting, to tiny flowery candies
I miss her so much!!! Im glad she seems to be doing well. Make it fancy 🫰 💫
I love the experiment-vibes of this video. It was a roller coaster just following through Rie’s mixed emotions of “can i do it?” is it over yet?” “Ok good enough” 😂
If it was brought over by the Portuguese, then the word may be derived from the Portuguese confeito (confection in English). In the West its a word that describes any sugary treat. Its fascinating how much of my native language has become a normal part of a conutry thats so far away and a culture thats so vastly different from mine.
I love konpeito and have tried to look up a recipe but couldn’t find one anywhere. Thanks for this video!
Interesting since confietos is the plural of confete which is the Portuguese word for the Italian confetto meaning ‘sweet meat’ in Italian the plural being ‘confetti’, which English borrowed directly. Italians would throw small colorful candies (confetti) to children at parades and festivals and the concept soon caught on in the rest of Europe and is now a world wide practice. Now I wonder how confetti went from being candy to being paper.
@@rebeccaanne9863 People still toss candy at parades but it was likely a recent change (turn of the 20th century) once paper was being mass produces and thus it's cost was drastically reduced. THe paper was likely easier to clean up and a lot cheaper to just toss around
@@SilvaDreams true, but I still wonder when the change happened in English and some other languages that changed confetti from meaning the candy thrown at celebrations to meaning tiny bits of colorful paper meant to be tossed at a celebration.
In Norway, we have the word "konfekt", but it is mostly used for chocolates (the fancy, often filled, little chocolates in a fancy box)
I was also curious how to make these at home but when i saw how they actually get made i just gave up 😂 yours are def the closest it can get without special machinery! In fact a few years ago i couldnt even find proper youtube videos on how they were made only relatively recently did i find a few…
I recommend having a thicker sugar syrup concentration where you have more sugar in that water then the amount used. A 3 to 1 sugar to water ratio, does help in making rock candy crystals, and the thought is that it would help here also, in making konpeitoo. I've not tested this though.
I love konpeito and have tried to look up a recipe but couldn’t find one anywhere. Thanks for this video!
Oh my goodness Rie! Your baby photos are sooo cute!! What an adorable little girl you were... ❤❤❤
wow as always Rie is so patient! the homemade candy looks beautiful 🩷
Oh nooooo they're so cute 🥹🥹 I always wondered how they were made, thank you for sharing! Amazing how the candy process takes something as simple as sugar and ✨️makes it fancy🫰✨️
I lived in Ibaraki for a while, so I got to try many seasonal Japanese sweets and snacks. I liked konpeitō, but my favorite was Hina Arare. I'm only familiar with the Kanto version. I hope to try other versions next time I go back to Japan during that time of the year
So happy to see a new upload on the channel. Hope you’re doing well!
Thank you! I should make more videos for RUclips! You guys are the best 🥰
@@RieMcClenny Both you and us subscribers give off good energy so we’re all the best lol
I was just watching a bunch of your videos, love the content and love your energy♡
Oohh I've always been interested in making these! Thanks for the video
You are one of my favorite chefs and I look up to you so much! I can't wait to try another wonderful recipes with your help!!
Always a great pleasure to watch your videos, we missed you 🫶
It's wonderful to see you, Rie. I have really missed you ❣️
These are my favorite candy!!! Absolutely perfect for satisfying a sweet tooth.
Just bought your cookbook and it's excellent!
I've always wanted to try Konpeitō, it looks so good!!
Omg I want to try this candy so bad it looks so good 😭❤️
I loved the Richard Chamberlain version of Shogun
If you liked Shogun, you should try Centennial. It also has Chamberlain in it. One of my all time fav movies!
Just subbed, this was fascinating!
I love your videos Rie! :)
I remember eating those candies as a child.
Love the food and Japanese history crossover!!!
Perfect snacks for the premiere 🤩
So cool!! I’ve seen this before and didn’t know what it was or why it was so expensive. Now I’m going to go back and try some. Thank you!
they're so cute! are those the little star candies that susuwatari eat?
The Konpenitō plate looked fab 👏🏽
Missed your videos!
“This is good for streaming. Like… just watch me suffer.” RIE 😂
Hey Rei, you taught me how to bake moist cakes... my cakes have come out so well since you explained it all. Thank you!
What a great promo tie-in! Great partnership choice FX!
I always enjoy seeing Rie and her Japanese cuisine makes it even better! :)
Totally gonna go watch this now I learned so much from watching this!
I was obsessed with these since I was young, watching Hamtaro🥹 thank you Rie for making this video.
these are my favourite!!
I love that candy!!
3:55 is such a great thought to ponder upon, didnt expect that in a candy cooking video
Mrs Rie you are one of my favorite cooks ever. It looks so complicated despite the simple ingredients, but I knew if anyone could do it it was you.
I've read the book and looking forward to the series. Also if you can't do it and you are an amazing cook, there is no hope for me lol
Happy to see you, Rie! Hope you're doing well!
The shape of the store bought Konpeito reminds me of the rock sugar candy on a stick (I've most often seen in gift shops and specialty candy stores). The process of making them is quite different though!
Her English always sounds great, l love it, keep it up, miss! Greetings miss, great to see you again! This candy reminds me of sweeties and I've never try it before.
Wow you have patience! I think you did pretty well for the first time! It basically resembles the commercially made one.
Great job
Lavender sounds delicious! I would make jasmine flavored ones. ^.^
RIE!!! I MISSSSSED U SO MUCHHHHHH. GLAD U POPPED UP ON MY FEED
Got a few bags of this candy from a small mom and pop shop in Kyoto. This candy so pretty and everyone I've given it to likes how pretty it looks lol! As a candy not my favorite but it truly is lovely to look at 😍
Yay!!!! I missed your videos
Thank you 🥰
Miss you Rie!! Please keep making videos! I’m so sad Tasty isn’t doing long form content! You were my favourite anyways.
I often think about the brave brave man that first decided to eat really fermented foods like 100 year eggs, or stinky tofu. Heck even something like yogurt.
I remember eating these as a kid when my teacher would hand them out so when I first saw the title I was scared I somehow traveled 460 years into the future
It's always a good day to see Rie on my feed
Hi!! nice to see you agaian!
3:58 Reminds me of Tamagoyaki with the repetition of an ingredient
4:33 Omg imagining you in your Twitch Era. You’d be brilliant
I grew up always wanting to try konpeito, and finally got to when my partner and i found some in a shop. They really liked them, and so now i get them for my partner for special occasions.
I feel like you might have been able to do it a bit faster if you had a separate pot of simple sugar already up to temp, and ladle it onto the cores directly from the heated pot. Youd need a candy thermometer to keep it the right temperature but it would get rid of the time spent heating up each ladle of syrup every time.
The konpeitō looks so yummy!😍 I wish I could be a soot sprite after watching this lol 😂
Woah these look so much like a real life version of the super Mario Galaxy star bits
For hard candies, you need candy oils, otherwise you have to flavor all the syrup. I feel like if you had given yourself more time, they would have been perfect! If you started with colored syrup, i get you would get a very rich, bright color
Spirited away!!
Konpeitō reminds me of our Nokuldana which is not flavoured but is a big ball of sugar.
I used to eat this in Spain 25 years ago. my grandma gave them to me
Wow, you really stuck with that! Interesting but I bet not too many people will want to try it 🤣🤣🤣 You were a very cute little girl, love your videos.
I also thought, 'What did I sign up for?'"😅
Mhm crunchy. 🍬☺️
Ah, like making candied peanuts. But much smaller with sesame seed as a core.
Omg Rie has returned!
Oh wow
I mostly wonder who was the first person to use milk, because you gotta be a special kind of hungry to look at a goat or a cow and say "maybe I can drink baby food for a bovine" for the first time
I think about this all the time lol but more about cooking the things. Like did they accidentally drop stuff into a fire they first built for warmth?
@@drivethrupoetnot as interesting as who was the first person to discover other animal milk was safe for humans😂😂
@@theinquisitivecritter we nurse our own babies and they were watching animals nurse theirs
@@drivethrupoet well no duh but still
1:29 AWWWWWW so cute
This candy tastes like nothing even though it's so colorful and I feel lied to.
I forgot how good her humour is
If i keep doing this in three days
I THINK I HAVE SEEN THIS IN SPIRITED AWAY
It is the candy the soot sprites eat in spirited away!!
Making candy IS hard. It’s the hardest thing to cook for me, it’s hot and it’s so sensitive to so many different things.
It good see you again.
Ive had these once! I havnt been able to find them since then tho 😫
This is my favorite candy of all tiiiiiiiime
We have this sorta sugar in india given in temples 😅 this is nostalgic.
omg i loved this candy on hamtaro!!
I wanna try this with nuts
This candy are very common in India , we offer these to gods as prasad and these are commonly calld as nakuldana or elaichidana and are really cheap.
You can only find the white ones , flavoured ones are not found here
Wonderful video, but the music is much too loud. I want to hear Rie explain her process!
Great video! I have konpeito in my tattoo
I remember collecting these in Super Mario Galaxy
Being honest, just from a historical standpoint the sengoku jidai and alot of historical Japanese politics can be very interesting
When I googled konpeito, i read it takes over a week to make
Would you be able to do an episode or talk about this thin crunch curved half dipped in chocolate cookie from Kyoto I tried it 20+ years ago when I was a kid when my aunt brought it as a souvenir and I treasured each piece in its little tin until I finished it then recently I visited Japan and found out it is izutsu yatsuhashi and brought a box home of the traditional cinnamon ones.
Baby Rie. I just can't.
"just like... watch me suffer" LMAO
ooooh they look just like the candy from bee and puppycat!
コンペイトウ懐かしい😊
Called Tilgul in India (Goa and Maharashtra) :))
I feel like I recognize Konpeito from a Ghibli movie, but I can't remember which one offhand.
That was a labor intensive task
This is really interesting, I always wonder how they got the flavoring into Konpeito, I guess it's a trade secret!