{"id":3,"date":"2011-05-07T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T07:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk:\/studiodiary\/?p=3"},"modified":"2018-01-22T16:23:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:23:23","slug":"home-cooking-nori-rice-paste-for-japanese-woodblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Home Cooking: Nori Rice Paste for Japanese Woodblock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rice paste, called nori, is an essential part of water based woodblock printmaking. In Japan nori is a pretty universal substance used in all sorts of ways from laundry starch to safe glue for infants (eating glue must be a common problem, I certainly ate glue at my kindergarten – it tasted of almonds, yum). It can be bought everywhere and is dirt cheap.<\/p>\n

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applying white nori to the block for printing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Imagine my dismay when I came home to find that here nori is a rare and expensive thing. It was like blundering into the the fifties and finding that olive oil was back in Boots in 4oz bottles. Concerned and mean, I looked for alternatives.<\/p>\n

The traditional recipe involves a lot of soaking, grinding and pushing of reluctant gloop through muslin. About 10% made it into my nori pot and seemingly 150% splattered the kitchen. Then I found a recipe suggesting rice starch – taa daa! Five minutes on the internet and I had a kilo and a half of fine milled white rice flour (turns out I bought enough flour to keep Hokusai’s print shop in business for a year, but it was so very cheap)<\/p>\n

The recipe follows, it’s dead easy, takes about ten minutes and you can wean a baby along with printing if you wish. It’s only rice and water so has no preservative. I’ve done the experiments and can tell you that it doesn’t freeze (turns into water and a lump of something very odd). It’ll keep for about four days at British warm for spring temperature before going watery, at five days it’s got a fur coat. In the fridge it will last a week.<\/p>\n

Mix 20g rice flour with 100ml of cold water
\nStir until smooth and milky
\nBring 150ml water almost to the boil in a pan
\nAdd the paste mix in a smooth ribbon and stir
\nBring to the boil and keep stirring constantly until the mix goes translucent (about five mins)
\nCool, stirring from time to time<\/p>\n

This excellent recipe comes from ‘The Art and Craft of Woodblock Printmaking’ ISBN 951-558-085-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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