Oqzn 1 year, 11 months ago said:
All of the recipes for butter mochi that I found are very similar. Your recipe complies with the norm with the exception of the amount of butter. We will call that your "secret ingredient". Thank you for sharing your family recipe with us. I should clarify; by cookbook I mean various self-published church, school and community collections of recipes. Of course these are only available locally. The possible exception might be "50th Anniversary. A Collections of our Favorite Recipes, 1946-1996". Published by the Maui Association of Family and Community Education.

Oqzn 1 year, 12 months ago said:
I would not say something like that lightly. I certainly will try the recipe as you say. My wife was raised in Hawaii and has made butter mochi all her life with "1 block" butter. I have consulted several Hawaii cookbooks, they all call for 1/4 lb butter. The variable part seems to be the amount of leavening, which varies from 1 tsp to 2 Tbsp. Also, I found one recipe which calls for 1 cup shredded coconut, which sounds good, but I have never had butter mochi like that. Looking forward to being a 1lb butter convert! We are going to Hawaii for New Year, that will be a good opportunity to try it.