Sweet Rice-Malt Drink

Nutrition
Calories: 263 kcalCarbohydrates: 61 gProtein: 6 gFat: 2 gSaturated Fat: 2 gSodium: 6 mgFiber: 4 gSugar: 22 gVitamin A: 0.175 IUCalcium: 19 mgIron: 4 mg
Ingredients
- 16 oz malt flour
- 1 cup rice
- 1 cup sugar
Instructions
- Combine 1 gallon of water with the malt flour. Remove the particles of floating malt using a fine-mesh strainer, or by cupping it with your hand, and discard. Allow the malt to soak in the water until the water gets cloudy, 5 to 6 hours. Use a fine-mesh strainer to separate the malt flour from the water. Save the cloudy water to make the drink but discard the malt.
- Using a rice cooker, combine rice with 3/4 cup of water and cook. After 25 to 30 minutes, the rice should be cooked.
- Gently pour the malt water into the rice cooker with the cooked rice. If there are any more floating particles of malt, discard them. Stir 2 tablespoons of sugar into the malt water and rice in the rice cooker. Leave the contents on "warm" for 5 hours in the rice cooker. By now the body of the rice grain should be dissolved and the rice bits should appear in flat pieces.
- Transfer the contents in the rice cooker to a pot and boil once with the rest of the sugar mixed in. Chill. Garnish with pine nuts before serving.