More Steampunk Fun

Happy 2005!

Patrick.com reader Adam, who was recently in Japan, sent in a picture of another steampunk kasutera machine. He writes:

This is probably the same kind of steampunk cookie machine you saw but a different variety—rather than rings that the operator manually removes, the mold was attached to the machine and split in half, so one half is filled with dough, red bean paste, and more dough, then the other half flips over the top, it cooks and the whole thing flips over halfway through, then the operator empties it at the end. Oh, and the cakes were shaped like ducks. On the same street (in front of Senso-Ji) we saw people making the same duck cookies by hand in little molds.

Duck-shaped cookies!