woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Eating pounded rice cakes is a part of the New Year's thing here. You can buy machine made ones, but I go out to a friend's old house in the mountains and we party with a bunch of people and make the cakes in the traditional way. The special rice gets steamed in three tired boxes over a water urn above an open fire. Then each box of rice when ready gets dumped into a big log that has had the top hollowed out and everybody takes turns pounding the rice into soft elastic type cakes that get used in various dishes over days and weeks because it doesn't spoil. Lots of smoke and steam and people enjoying the spirits in a glass and wherever else they might find them. Old traditional ways are good to keep alive. Being way out in the countryside seems to enhance the enjoyment. Adults and kids, a good time is had by all. We pounded 18 buckets pf rice, had the fire burning for ten hours. Lots of people went home with their mochi.
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