JPH01218562A - Mochi (rice cake) containing pine, bamboo and ume (plum) mixed therein - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a MOCHI (rice cake), suitable as a food or offering in a happy event and having tastes and flavors of a bamboo, UME and pine, by mixing part of one or more plant bodies selected from the bamboo, UME and pine in the rice cake. CONSTITUTION:Part of one or more plant bodies selected from a bamboo, UME and pine are mixed in a rice cake. Bamboo shoots and leaves, UME fruits and leaves, pine needles and nuts, etc., are cited as specific examples of the part of the plant bodies and subjected to suitable pretreatment, such as boiling or shredding, and then mixed in glutinous rice, etc., to prepare the rice cake.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a rice cake in which the main ingredient, polished rice, etc., is mixed with pine, bamboo, and plum plants as an auxiliary ingredient.

[Conventional technology]

As is well known, on auspicious occasions, materials associated with pine, bamboo, and plum are used, and various foods are made with the characters and shapes of these trees. Additionally, mochi has traditionally been used as an offering to the gods, and is an important food in our country both religiously and as pure food. This type of rice cake is made from polished rice, which is steamed and then pounded with a mortar and pestle to make it sticky. For celebratory occasions, a small amount of food coloring is added to the rice cake to make a red and white mochi, but the product is usually made by forming the dough as it is without adding anything else.

Furthermore, when mochi is used as pure food, various auxiliary ingredients are mixed into the main ingredient, such as polished rice, to give it variety. This kind of mochi is made by mixing unhulled rice, soybeans, red beans, etc. with polished rice before or after it is mixed, and then appropriately mixing it into the mochi after forming. Bean mochi etc. are known. Common food products made from pine, bamboo, and plums include pine nuts made from the seeds of the Korean five-young pine, bamboo shoots sprouting from bamboo rhizomes, plum fruits and their processed products such as umeboshi, umeshu, and ume. There are jams etc.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, because mochi is a food whose shape easily changes when it is cooked, it is difficult to form it into a shape that resembles pine, bamboo, or plum, or to write letters on the surface of the mochi. The problem is that it is not possible to express the characteristics of pine, bamboo, and plum in the kasuri used in kasuri. Furthermore, it is thought that there has never been a rice cake mixed with foods that are not normally edible parts of pine, bamboo, and plum, that is, parts of plants such as pine, bamboo, and plum.

[Means to solve the problem]

This invention was made in view of the above circumstances, and its means lies in the fact that parts of plants such as pine, bamboo, and plum are mixed into rice cake.

〔Example〕

In the first embodiment of the present invention, a rice cake mixed with a part of bamboo as a plant is produced in the following manner.

Regarding bamboo as a plant, in addition to bamboo shoots, which are the usual edible parts, bamboo leaves, bamboo trunks, rhizomes, etc. can be used. In this case, the bamboo needs to be pretreated before being mixed into washed, polished rice, steamed and steamed rice, etc. Bamboo leaves, bamboo trunks, underground rhizomes, etc. are collected from young tissues with soft fibers and a good aroma, and after washing with water, they are pretreated in the same way as the commonly used treatment for bamboo shoots. That is, add rice bran to a sufficient amount of hot water, add bamboo, boil it, let it cool, remove the scum, shred it with a knife, etc., and then grind the fibers of the plant using a mortar, grater, cooking mixer, etc. The tissue is crushed or crushed to form powder. Alternatively, the rice may be steamed together with the polished rice after washing and pounded with a pestle, without having to completely crush the rice. After that, it can be shaped into a round shape, rectangular shape, etc. like a regular rice cake.

The second embodiment of the present invention, which is a rice cake mixed with a part of a plum plant, is produced in the following manner.

As a plant, plums include the fruit, which is the normal edible part, as well as petals, leaves, young buds, tree trunks, skin, roots, etc.Normally, they are available as raw materials regardless of the season. The pulp of pickled plums is used because it is easy to use, but in order to give a sense of the season, it is effective to use plum blossoms and take advantage of their scent and light pink color. In addition, plum blossoms, fruits, young buds, etc. can be collected intensively from February to March and preserved by salting, freezing, etc., and used as appropriate. If you want to use the hard parts of the plum tree, such as the trunk, skin, roots, etc., use a wood file or saw to generate powder, or cut the wood pieces into appropriate sizes and boil them. After softening the fibers, use a grater, mortar, etc. to crush the fibrous tissue of the plant into fine pieces. As in the case of the first embodiment described above, such pretreatment is carried out in order to soften and crush the fibers of the plant body and use them in the form of powder or granules. Furthermore, as in the first embodiment, plums as part of the plant are either steamed together with polished rice after washing with water and crushed at the same time as they are pounded with a pestle, or they are crushed separately and steamed, and immediately before being shaped. It may be mixed into rice cakes. When using umeboshi, the pulp is cut into thin pieces using a knife or the like and mixed into the mochi before being formed. Raw plum fruit contains a type of prussic acid and is poisonous, so it is preferable to use the above-mentioned dried plums, but if you must use fresh plums, use plums that have undergone appropriate detoxification treatment. It is desirable to use it.

The third embodiment of the present invention, which is a rice cake mixed with a part of a pine tree, is produced as follows.

Pine as a plant mainly consists of pine nuts and needles, but pine bark, trunk, roots, pine resin, etc. can also be used.

When using pine nuts, commercially available pine nuts may be used as they are, or they may be crushed and mixed into the mochi before being formed.

When using pine needles, collect the pine needles that are as young and fragrant as possible, wash them with water, boil them to soften the fibers, cut them, and grind them into powder in a mortar or the like. Alternatively, an extract containing a green pigment may be prepared by boiling it down and added to the rice cake. Pine resin can be heated and melted and added in minute amounts to mochi. In addition, the hard part of the pine tree mentioned above was pretreated in the same manner as in the first and second embodiments, and the fibers were cut and crushed into powder, which was then mixed into sticky rice. All you have to do is manufacture it.

In addition, in the case of the first to third embodiments described above, the amount of pine, bamboo, and plum mixed into the jumai as plants is determined as long as it matches the color, taste, and aroma desired by the consumer. However, there are no particular limitations. Furthermore, if two of the plants bamboo, plum, and pine are appropriately selected, or all three are mixed in equal amounts or in an appropriate ratio and mixed into polished rice, etc., one mochi can contain two of them. Alternatively, it is possible to contain a combination of three colors, flavors, and aromas, and it is possible to manufacture rice cakes that suit a variety of tastes and provide them to consumers.

(Effects of the Invention) Since the mochi obtained as described above is made by mixing parts of plants such as pine, bamboo, and plum, it is a very suitable food or offering for auspicious occasions. It is now possible to provide consumers with mochi that has the taste and aroma of pine, bamboo, and plum, which has never been seen before.

Claims (7)

[Claims] (1) Mochi mixed with a part of bamboo as a plant (2) Mochi mixed with part of a plum plant (3) Mochi mixed with part of a pine plant (4) Mochi mixed with a part of bamboo as a plant and a part of plum as a plant (5) Mochi mixed with a part of a plum plant and a part of a pine plant (6) Mochi mixed with a part of bamboo as a plant and a part of pine as a plant (7) Mochi mixed with a part of bamboo as a plant, a part of plum as a plant, and a part of pine as a plant