roasted millet or rice cake used to make okoshi
Specifically the puffed grain cake that serves as the base ingredient for the traditional Japanese sweet okoshi.
See also: おこし
We make okoshi by binding roasted millet cakes with starch syrup.
Standard kanji spelling for this term.
Rare kanji spelling using 粔籹 for おこし; not commonly used.
Compound of おこし (okoshi, a traditional Japanese sweet) and 種 (たね, 'seed' or 'base ingredient'). The exact origin of おこし is uncertain.