Name: Rice Balls (Onigiri)
Ingredients: 2 c Raw short grain (Japanese style such as Calrose or Kokuho Rose); 2 1/4 c Water; Pickled plums (umeboshi); Dried seaweed sheets (called nori); Soy sauce

There is one thing which seldom gets weaker through old age – that is, old Adam; he is as strong in his old age as he is in his young age, just as able to lead us astray when our head is covered with grey hairs, as he was in our youth. We have heard it said that growing in grace will make our corruptions less mighty; but I have seen many of God’s aged saints, and asked them the question, and they have said, “No,” their lusts have been essentially as strong, when they have been many years in their Master’s service, as they were at first, although more subdued by the new principle within. So far from becoming weaker, it is my firm belief that sin increases in power.

C.H. Spurgeon

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains	Japanese		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Raw short grain (Japanese style such as Calrose or Kokuho Rose)
2 1/4	c	Water
		Pickled plums (umeboshi)
		Dried seaweed sheets (called nori)
		Soy sauce

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Wash rice until water is clear, drain for 1 hour. Add water and bring to
boil, then turn down heat to low and steam for 1/2 hour, then turn off heat
and steam for another 1/2 hour. (This is the standard way to make Japanese
style rice. A rice cooker is very convenient since all you do is add the
water and push a button.)
2. Take a pickled plum and about 1/2 c. rice (about a fistful) and shape
into an oval (like an egg) with the plum in the center. Cut a strip of
seaweed about 5" x 1.5" and wrap around the rice ball. Use a dab of water
to keep the ends of the seaweed together. Serve with soy sauce. Dip the
ball into the soy sauce and eat!
3. Other fillings include dried gourd strips (kanpyo), dried fish, etc.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 27 Feb 97 by Midori Yenari
<yenari@leland.Stanford.EDU> on Feb 27, 1997.

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