1: 1.5 cups water
   3/4 cups sugar
   1 cup rice flour
   1 tsp. lye solution

Combine sugar, lye and water and bring to a boil. Cool Add to rice flour and
stir until smooth. Pour into kutsinta molds (or any other mold, i guess!) and
steam for 15 minutes. Serve with grated coconut.

*Homemade lye solution-
Burn wood until all turns to ash. Sift and save fine dust. Store in a bottle
until needed. Before use, boil enough ash with an equal part of water and
strain in a double thickness cheesecloth. Use the liquid as lye solution.


2: 1 k. white rice
   1 k. malagkit
   1/2 k. sugar
   3 tbsps. achuete, soaked in water
   3 tbsps. lye water

Wash, then soak together white rice and malagkit 3-4 hours or overnight. Grind
to make rice batter (galapong). Mix together the galapong and sugar, and stir
until smooth. Add achuete water and lye water. Mix well. Fill greased kutsinta
molds or muffin molds to 3/4 full, then steam for about 25 minutes. Serve with
grated coconut.