The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

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Bread machines have to have multiple functions in this country.

This machine can not only bake a nice loaf of bread with a variety of flours (rye, whole wheat, etc.) and yeast (either granulated dry yeast or home-grown varieties), but also make pasta dough and mochi, basically sticky rice paste (sounds inedible?) which is one of typical New Year’s foods.

As the year 2010 is approaching, I decided to test my bread machine to see if it could make nice mochi . ..Uh, to be honest, I just wanted to eat some mochi for lunch.

I placed some glutinous rice and water into the pan.

After around an hour, the job was done.

 I can welcome the New Year at ease, at least in terms of mochi (though there are mountains of jobs to be done before the end of year, and I haven't finished any of them).