Fukushima Tea Rice Cake Shop to Preserve the Traditional Process of Completely Handmade Tea Rice Cakes Crowdfunding reaches 100% of goal! Continuing to Seek Supporters through January 31!

2025.01.17 11:00

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Honke Chamochiya (located in Kawamata-machi, Date-gun, Fukushima Prefecture; Representative: Kohei Sato), a producer and seller of rice cakes, announces that on the crowdfunding site "CAMPFIRE" the project "We want to create a new food culture called Chamochi while continuing to make rice cakes using the traditional method. The project has reached 100% of its goal on January 11, 2025 (Saturday). This project will continue until 23:59 on January 31, 2025 (Fri.) in order to let more people know the taste and aroma of rice cakes made with the traditional method.

Crowdfunding site "CAMPFIRE

https://camp-fire.jp/projects/792007/view?utm_campaign=cp_po_share_c_msg_mypage_projects_show

1/31まで支援募集中

Now accepting support until 1/31

■Background of Development

A Japanese tea instructor, a farmer, was researching various food products using tea and wondered if I could create a food product that could make more use of the taste and aroma of tea. Since I also liked rice cakes, I thought that I could do that by creating a food product using only glutinous rice and tea, so I developed this product. It took about six years to produce something I was satisfied with, so I commercialized it. With this tea rice cake, I would like to let people know about the traditional method of making completely handmade rice cakes, and would like to connect it to the future.

以前製造した高級茶餅セット

Previously produced high quality tea cake set

■Features

An unlikely food culture

Tea and rice cakes have both been a part of our country's food culture since ancient times, but until now there have been very few tea rice cakes that combine the two. According to our research on books and the Internet, there are a few tea rice cake makers in Japan, but none of them seem to have a food culture of their own. (According to our research)

*Endangered manufacturing method

Until recently, it was common practice for farmers everywhere to make rice cakes by steaming them in an oven(Kamado) and pounding them by hand. Today, however, most farmers use electric rice pounding machines, and this method is almost no longer available in the market.

* Going against the times

Today, efficiency is considered a good thing, but this method is very labor-intensive and inefficient. It is thought that the production method is almost the same as it was a hundred years ago, and in fact, the mortar is the same as it was a hundred years ago and has been in use for over a hundred years.

However, we feel that only this method can bring out the true flavor and aroma of mochi(rice cake), so we dare to continue the "old" method to preserve it for the future.

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