026 課外授業ようこそ先輩「お菓子は夢のキャンパス

It's the autumn of art. Today's subject is painting. No, no. Even though he's an artist, he's an artist of sweets. I'm going to transform this drawing into a sweet. What kind of lesson will it be? About five minutes walk from Urawa Station in Saitama Prefecture, there is a pastry shop called Sato no Geijutsu in French. Every morning at 5 a.m., cakes are made in the kitchen. The owner of this shop is Mr. Takahashi Kumasaka, a pastry chef. A pastry chef means a pastry chef in French. His job is not just cakes. He makes cookies, chocolate, ice cream, and sweets. Mr. Kumasaka is the first person to work for this pastry shop. The colors, shapes, and flavors of various sweets are lined up in the shop window. More than 120 kinds of sweets are waiting for customers on that day. It's not just a taste. It's amazing to create sweets that you can enjoy with your eyes. It's the same with this rose. Wow! Amazing! Mr. Kumasaka shows his work to his juniors in his hometown. Mr. Kumasaka has been working on sweets every night since he finished his work two weeks before the lesson. In fact, Mr. Kumasaka has won many times in the conference of sweets in France. The technique of making sweets is highly regarded in the world. Sweets are made of sugar, water, and starch. However, when Mr. Kumasaka makes sweets, ordinary sweets are reborn as artworks. It's not just a taste. Sugar can change the shape of flowers and fruits. I think sugar is one of the artistic elements. So I think everyone is an artist. Look! This basket and fruit are all made of candy. Mr. Kumasaka is a sugar artist. What kind of lessons do you give to your juniors? It's fun. It's not just a taste. I like sweets, so I've been making sweets for a long time. It would be great if my juniors could try various things and do what they like. I think there will be many opportunities in the future. I want to tell them that. Ichihasama Town, known as the rice field in the north of Miyagi Prefecture. This town is home to Mr. Kumasaka. Mr. Kumasaka's mother's school, Kaneda Elementary School. It is a historical elementary school that opened in the 6th year of Meiji. There are now 103 students in the school. It is about one-fifth of the number when Mr. Kumasaka was in school. It's been 39 years since Mr. Kumasaka came to the school. He seems to be a little nervous. Today, there are 17 students in the 6th grade. Hello, everyone. My name is Takahashi Kumasaka. That's my name. Have you ever heard the word patissier? No. Patissier means pastry shop in French. This is a pièce montée that I made. I started making it about two weeks ago. I wanted to show it to you, so I spent a lot of time making it. Please have a look. Wow! It's amazing! It's not real! Why do you think this is made? Candy? Yes, it's all candy. It's made of sugar. Wow! If you like, come and see the front. It's made of sugar, water, and carbonated water. It's boiled to about 164 degrees. If you leave it as it is, it will harden. So I heat it up with a high-temperature lamp so that it doesn't harden. I pull it when it doesn't harden. That's why it's pretty hot. Everyone was surprised by the candy. I decided to let them experience it. I spread it out like this and pull it. Are you okay? You don't have to ignore me. Should I stop? Are you okay? In fact, the temperature of the candy has cooled down, but it's over 60 degrees. If you touch it with your unfamiliar hand for a while, it will burn. Nozawa-san will try the rose petals. Are you okay? What did you think when you touched the candy? It was hot. But was it fun? Yes. It's very difficult to learn how to make candy. Because you burn your hands when you touch it for a long time. But if you learn it, you can make a lot of things. You can make animals by inflating them. You can make oranges and lemons. You can make bananas. You can make a lot of flowers. What I want everyone to know is that this is a difficult job. For a candy shop, making candy is a difficult job. But if you do it for a long time, anyone can do it. Even if you think it's difficult, if you keep doing it for a long time, anyone can do it. Mr. Kumasaka was born as the eldest son of three brothers in Ichihasama-cho, Miyagi Prefecture, in the year of Showa 23. He was a quiet child, but he had a strong heart and hated to lose. I love sweets. I love sweet things. My favorite was mochi. I love mochi. My grandmother often told me, Takayaki, you like sweets, so you should be a cashier. After graduating from high school, he worked at a factory. But one day, he saw a cake in front of a candy shop and decided to become a cashier. At the age of 24, he went to France, where he met the charm of candy making. When I first saw it, the white rose was shining. It was like a pearl, like satin or opal. It was shining like a pearl. I was very surprised. I really wanted to try it myself. Mr. Kumasaka worked at a top candy shop in Paris. Mr. Kumasaka practiced candy making every night after work. Mr. Takawa, who now runs a candy shop in Fukuoka, told me about Mr. Kumasaka's work at the time. You have to get as much moisture out of your body as possible. Of course, the same goes for drinks and food. You have to get as much moisture out of your body as possible. You sweat a lot, so you sweat a lot when you pull the candy. But you sweat a lot, so you sweat a lot. You sweat a lot, so you sweat a lot. I think it's amazing that he can pull such a high-temperature candy. I don't know if that's a good way to put it. Mr. Kumasaka, who mastered the art of candy making, also participated in the candy contest. In 1979, he won the Charles Proust Award, a prestigious award in Europe. In the next 80 years, he will win again for his work, Mr. Kumasaka brought the cake to the classroom. Everyone is very interested. This time, I'm going to have everyone eat a chocolate cake. This is a work I made when I won the contest in France. I made a cake like this. The surface is a little different here, but the inside is the same. This contest was aimed at evaluating the taste of cake along with its artistic quality. The theme was Europe. I put the patterns and flowers of European countries around the cake. Mr. Kumasaka's cake, which he made over and over again after many months of failure, became the most memorable thing for him. He tried to combine chocolate. It was a breakthrough in the common sense of European sweets. He took a banana and arranged the cream. It was a series of trial and error until it reached a beautiful taste. Finally, he will taste the cake he is proud of. This is the taste of the winner. Can you guess how many types of cream are in it? Look at it before you eat it. How many types of cream do you use? Three types. You use four types, right? Yes, four types. Try it. It's the best in the world. How is it? Is it good? Yes, it's good. The most important thing in a competition is not to make what everyone else is making. You need to make your own sweets. You can make sweets using materials you don't usually use. Even if you make sweets using materials you don't usually use, it has to be delicious. If it's not delicious, you can't get a good score. When do you eat sweets? On my birthday. You eat it on your birthday, right? When else do you use it? When customers come. On Christmas. On Christmas, too. How do you feel when you eat sweets? I feel happy. Yes, you feel happy. It's fun to make sweets. I'm happy when people say it's delicious. When people make something delicious, both the person eating it and the person making it feel happy. I think there is a message hidden in sweets. When you eat sweets, it's fun to say it's delicious. You feel happy. I want to make sweets that bring people happiness. I want to make sweets that move people. Class is over. It's time for dinner. Thank you for the meal. Is this your first time? You've never eaten Kyushu beef before, right? Is it your first time eating it? Is it delicious? The child is in the fourth grade. It's big. How old do you look? Forty-two? Forty-five? Forty-six? I'm fifty years old now. Fifty. In the afternoon class, they design sweets and decide on a cake for tomorrow. It's a little difficult from now on. Let's think together and decide on a cake for tomorrow. Let's decide on a cake for tomorrow. Can each class decide on a theme? First, they decided on a theme for the cake. Have you decided? This is the third class. They brought out a world map. There are a lot of things. The second class is about food. The third class is about the world. What kind of world is this? How do you describe the world? With a map. With a map? Famous things. The first class is about hometown. The second class is about mountains. The fourth class is about the Olympics. The Olympics are difficult, aren't they? No, they are easy. There are four themes. Let's choose one and make it together. The theme of the cake will be decided by a vote of 17 people. How many people? Raise your hand if you think one is better. How many people? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. It's decided. The theme is decided by a vote of 17 people. On top of one big cake, we decided to express the season for each class. There is a sheet of paper here. Can you draw a picture of the season for each class? The second class is about summer. The first class is... The second class is... The third class is... The fourth class is... The fifth class is... The sixth class is... Today, we are going to make sweets with you. This is a mixture of ingredients. It's written as dough. Please look for custard cream. If you have any questions, please ask me. Let's get started. The first class is about art. The fourth class is about winter. We are going to make Christmas tree with small cream puffs. First, we are going to make custard cream. Oh, it's gone. We are going to make custard cream. Isn't that sugar? It's not thick enough. We are going to put Magipan on the table. We are going to put different colors. Magipan is a mixture of almonds and sugar. It's like clay. We are going to make dolls with it. What are you going to make? How? I'm going to make a doll. You want to make a doll? What do you want to make? I want to make a person. A person? There is a sample over there. Can I? Yes, you can. Can you make it while looking at the doll? The main ingredients are Magipan. You don't have to sift the granulated sugar. Is it powder? It's not sugar. It's hard. It's Magipan. Did you make a mistake? It's not Magipan. Two hours have passed. We are going to bake the skin of custard cream. It's hard. Magipan. In this way... You want to bake the pointy part. Please stick it together. We are going to make a blue jelly. After that, they cool it down and it's done. The whales make a shape like a sculpture by putting the baked sponge cake on top of it. Did you make it? No. What? I can't make it. You can't make it? Well, you can make it lower. It will be like this. Mr. Tsumazaka helps them because it's an important game. They cover the sponge cake with a thinly spread marzipan and pour the melted chocolate on it. Okay, everyone, come here. It's dangerous. This is a spring bread. They are going to make a cherry blossom with candy. It's dangerous over there. I'm going to make a lot of this. They are going to make a full-bloomed cherry blossom with the melted candy. Take it like this. Make it a cherry blossom. Put it in here. Make it round. Make it bigger. They are coloring the sponge cake with marzipan. At last, they decorate it with dolls and trees made with marzipan. They are taking it out. They put eyes and mouth on it. The whale is completed. This is the last finishing touch. They make a Christmas tree by piling up choux cream with white chocolate. They put marzipan Santa and snowman on it. They decorate it with trees. It became a snow world in the middle of winter. Who fell on the whale? About four hours after they started to make it, the sweets of their dreams were completed. Spring Summer Winter Our sweets are completed. Please tell us what you wanted to make and what you wanted to express. The general work is spring. They expressed the scene of cherry blossom viewing with sweets. Did you make it as well as we did? I couldn't make it well. I couldn't make the cherry blossoms well. There is a time limit. Sometimes it doesn't go well. It was fun to make flowers and people with marzipan. Thank you. It's beautiful. There is one regrettable thing. This doll is looking at flowers. It would have been better if it was a little more forward. If this is the surface, it will be the opposite. But I think it was beautiful from the doll and the candy. Thank you for your hard work. The second half is summer. On top of the blue jelly sea, whales made with sponge cake and chocolate. Marzipan island and pink dolphins are floating. I'm glad the whales were made well. I agree. The jelly looks like a wave. I'm glad it was made beautifully like a wave. It really looks like a wave. It's beautiful. I think this uniform was made according to the image. Thank you very much. It is a camp at the foot of the mountain. Fine work is done on the people and trees made with marzipan. I'm glad I was able to express autumn better than I thought. I was a little worried about the color of the mountain. But when I mixed the colors, it became an autumn color, so I thought it was good. I think the mountains are well done. The color of the mountains is good, and the trees and tents are well done. Thank you very much. The last is number four. The snowman and Santa Claus made with marzipan are displayed on the Christmas tree made of cream puffs. It was difficult to put the cream puffs on the Christmas tree, but I'm glad I was able to do it well. I'm glad I was able to make something beautiful like winter. It's very hot today, so I think it's more than 30 degrees Celsius. The chocolate with salt on it doesn't harden at 30 degrees Celsius. There may be some points where it didn't go well, but it's a very beautiful work. Thank you very much. I made sweets with everyone. It looks easy to make sweets, but I think you can see that it's quite difficult. You can make sweets in any way you want. You can make your own taste. It's one of the sweets that is free, imaginative, and has a lot of infinite possibilities. I hope I can make sweets that will move people who eat them. If you have a chance in the future, please make sweets from time to time. This is the end of my class. What are you going to do with this? If you're going to eat it, you have to eat it quickly. What should I do? I'll eat it. Do you want to eat it? Yes. It was fun. It was difficult because the sweets were sticky and soft. It was like a dream to make the picture we drew into real sweets. I made sweets and tried to convey my passionate feelings to the children. I don't know if it was conveyed, but I'm sure it was conveyed. On the contrary, I feel like I got passionate feelings from the children. Everyone was sweating and smiling. I don't know if we can make sweets with that face, but we can't do it at work. We decided to show the trees in Kumasaka's local area. As a thank-you for the class.