Basic Savory Mochi (Age Mochi)

Glutinous rice cakes, called mochi, are used throughout Japanese cuisine. Try your hand at making your own with this straightforward recipe.

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Goes well with any single or double crust pie.

Yeasted dough, layered with butter, ground cardamom, and nutmeg.

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Just a thought. I think a sharp-edged scraper would be good for pinching dough apart. My OXO is like that. My King Arthur Flour scraper is square and blunt. It wouldn’t cut a thing. I would us a wet slicer style of knife....

A bench scraper can also be a handy tool when dealing with wet dough. I use one and just keep moving... fast. The other posters note about letting the dough sit for a few minutes is a key point.

dense. It will be a bit sticky. I knead with one hand, and have a dough scraper in the other to scrape it up each time. Next don’t worry about kneading forever. I’ve found that a few minutes of kneading is usually...

amounts of flour as you go. (A pastry scraper is handy at this point in letting you pick up the dough and slam it back down on the counter keeping one hand out of the way, doing most of the kneading with one hand.) When the dough...

and what is your favorite dough? The easier the better. I won’t even get into fillings because there are endless variations and it’s a matter of preference as well. I’ll quote Cole Porter here and say...

That’s one of the benefits to using a dough hook. You have to add too much flour to knead comfortably by hand. In a mixer it can stay sticky, which is good. Then you can just use a dough scraper to scrape it out of the...

the dough from sticking to my hands and the countertop. I also find that a bench scraper is an invaluable tool for manipulating sticky dough, and getting every last bit of it scraped up. Hope this helps.