あくまき

noun

akumaki; glutinous rice cake wrapped in bamboo leaf and soaked in lye

A traditional sweet from Kagoshima and other regions, made by wrapping glutinous rice in bamboo leaves and boiling in lye water. The lye gives it a distinctive texture and preservative quality.

• 鹿か児ご島しまでは、端たん午ごの節せっ句くにあくまきを食たべる習しゅう慣かんがあります。

  In Kagoshima, there is a custom of eating akumaki during the Boys' Festival.

• あくまきは、もち米ごめを竹たけの皮かわで包つつみ、灰汁あくで煮に込こんで作つくられます。

  Akumaki is made by wrapping glutinous rice in bamboo leaves and boiling it in lye.