I remember as a teenage kid that there was a large glass jar, like the old fashioned ones for sweets, full of pink rice in a clear liquid. It used to be nice warmed up as some kind of alcoholic dessert.
So, now as an adult of far too many years to mention, I thought I would give it a go. I bought a bag of glutinous rice, rice cake yeast and red rice yeast. I steamed the rice and let it cool overnight. I ground the yeasts in a pestle and mortar. Hard work and it didn’t end up too fine neither.
I rolled balls of rice into the yeast mixture and them dropped into a glass jar. Even finding shop that sells large enough glass jars was a pain. I topped it up with some cooled boiled water and now it is time to stick it into a dark cupboard and wait a couple of days before stirring.
I have already found out I have made a mistake. I rolled balls of the stuff into the yeast mixture when I should have taken a ball of rice and then squished more and more powder into it, before dropping into the jar. Now I have a lot of rice inside that has no been coated as such. I will just have to break them down when I do the stirring.
Anyway, fingers crossed.