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Recipe: White Cloudy Wine

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A while ago I translated this recipe, and now that I've made it a few times, it's time to give you a readable recipe. Ingredients: Two parts dry glutinous (sticky) rice, divided into two equal parts. 0.1 parts yeast cakes (ideally white cloudy wine yeast cakes, as of yet untranslated) Steps: Thoroughly rinse half the rice, strain it, and put it, uncooked, in your fermenter. Bring 1-2 parts water to a boil, and pour it over the rice until the rice is covered. Cover the fermenter with a clean cloth. The next day, strain out the rice, retaining the liquid. Steam the rice, and spread it to cool. While you steam the rice, take 0.2 parts of the liquid retained from the rice, and boil it down to 0.05 parts.  Cool it, beat it with a whisk until frothy, and put it in your fermenter. Put the cooled rice, and 0.06 parts water in the fermenter. Powder the yeast cakes and put them in the fermenter, and mix. Cover the fermenter with a clean cloth. The next day, strain o