Put the milk and vanilla bean paste in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and bring to a gentle simmer, stirring often.

The local diet of bread, margarine and 'saltless bean paste' palls.

Others will find reading it about as exciting as eating the saltless bean paste its characters subsist on.

Or try miso, a salty, fermented soy bean paste (which can also include barley and rice).

It was some kind of pudding based on red bean paste.