[Sca-cooks] RE: Chinese Redactions as promised :)

[Chirhart Blackstar]

Hiya Drake ... Could ya -would ya send  were ya got the rice balls . Thanks
Chirhart
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Jones." <craig.jones at airservices.gov.au>


> >Where would you get rice wine lees?
>
> Ah, that's my advantage.  I'm known in Lochac as a brewer rather than
> as a cook, so making rice wine for me is not a big deal.
>
> While picking up foxnuts and wolfthorn berries last weekend, I found
> some white balls labelled Wine East.  I'm betting that this is Koji,
> aspergillius oryzae infected rice balls.  You add them to cooked sake
> rice and they convert the starch in the rice to sugars.  You then
> ferment the resulting sweet, ricey goo to make rice wine.  I do have
> to do a little more research before actually doing it though...
>
> Drake.
>