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Instead of being baked, this sponge cake is steamed. The texture is significantly different if this is baked in an oven.

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Plumper Daisies

Over the course of just a few years, daisies’ petals have grown plumper, and their yellow hearts have shrunk. These days, when you take a long walk outdoors to enjoy the scents of nature, there is always a somewhat brothy quality to the air. Uncooked, these daisies taste rather grassy, but steamed, they are as good as any dumplings prepared by a great chef. The only unpleasant aspect lies in their texture: at the centre of each dumpling, there’s a hard, leafy core that you can’t help but spit out, as if in their evolutionary process, the daisies have somehow mistaken dumplings for fortune cookies. Rather than a sentence or a string of numbers, there are small, dark lines on these paper-like slips which somewhat resemble arrows, or motion lines in a comic book. Several people have been known to get up and follow the direction of these lines, certain that they would find a treasure or at the very least some grand truth about the universe. If they have, they haven’t made it public.

I don’t think it’s in the nature of daisies to set up grand schemes, anyway. They’re much more likely to remember the days when they were connected into chains for no other reason than relaxation. If you ask me, these dumplings still want to be given to someone you like and simply enjoyed.

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[Image description: Eight round dumplings with little orange dots at the top lie on a piece of lining paper on the bottom half of a bamboo steamer basket. Next to this on the wooden table there’s a small, dark blue bowl with two red chopsticks balanced on top of it.]