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KUKI REKA KANI

Kuki Reka Kani Matariki Cookie Cutter

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Matariki is the Māori name for the Pleiades star cluster.
According to Māori mythology, Matariki is the mother surrounded by her six daughters. However, there are nine stars in the cluster that represent different aspects of the natural world and are associated with various deities and guardians.
Matariki and her daughters travel across the sky each year to visit Papatūānuku, the Earth Mother. This journey signals it is time to celebrate the Māori New Year, a time to honour the past, celebrate the present, and plan for the future.

Matariki is the Māori name for the Pleiades star cluster.
According to Māori mythology, Matariki is the mother surrounded by her six daughters. However, there are nine stars in the cluster that represent different aspects of the natural world and are associated with various deities and guardians.
Matariki and her daughters travel across the sky each year to visit Papatūānuku, the Earth Mother. This journey signals it is time to celebrate the Māori New Year, a time to honour the past, celebrate the present, and plan for the future.

Dimensions: W79mm x L79mm x H64mm D10mm

Kuki Reka Kani: Kaumātua Inspired Cookie Cutters

The Kuki Reka Kani are unique cookie cutters, inspired, developed and named by our lovely  Kaumātua at Rauawaawa Kaumātua Charitable Trust. The cutters were initiated to help Kaumātua  with dementia, to engage in cooking therapy that promoted Te Ao Māori, cultural heritage, and  whakapapa in a social and fun way. Cooking therapy stimulates smell, taste and touch senses in dementia patients which can bring back memories from decades ago.

Several hui were held with groups of Kaumātua to help identify the most appropriate Māori designs for use in kai. The chefs at Rauawaawa helped shape the development of the designs to ensure the cutters worked easily with people from Kaumātua engaged in cooking therapy, tamariki in schools, rangatahi in home economics classes, home cooks and their whānau and professional chefs.

The cutters are designed to cut through the dough and leave a pattern imprinted on the dough in one easy push. This makes them gentle on both elderly hands as well as providing a large grip for children to hold. The patterns reflect the look of a chiseled whakairo rākau (wood carving), an important aspect in Māori culture.

Designed and manufactured in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Made from food-grade polypropylene.
Aluminium dowel insert.
 

Dishwasher safe on top drawer.
We recommend washing your cookie cutter prior to use.
Allow cookie cutter to cool completely prior to use when washed at high-temperatures.
Dry thoroughly before using on cookie dough.
 

The pop-starch packaging fill is made from corn starch.
It is sustainable, renewable, compostable and will dissolve in water.
Be kind to the environment, please recycle this cardboard packaging. 

Rauawaawa Kaumātua Charitable Trust 

Hei Manaaki Ngā Kaumātua.
He Korowai Oranga Hei Tau Awhi I Ngā Kaumātua.

Rauawaawa Kaumātua Charitable Trust is a non-profit charity, established and led by Kaumātua which services the needs of Kaumātua based in Hamilton, Waikato with its vision:

Hei Manaaki Ngā Kaumātua Enhancing the quality of life and wellbeing of Kaumātua.

For more information about the Rauawaaawa Kaumātua Charitable Trust, please visit: www.rauawaawa.co.nz

 

REKA: Our Social Enterprise

REKA, Rauawaawa Enterprise for Kaumātua Aspirations: is part of our social enterprise  journey to help enable Kaumātua Aspirations with the first one being agreed by Rauawaaawa Kaumātua as creating a safer, warmer and better age friendly facility for the Kaumātua  of today and tomorrow. Keeping in mind the facility was opened in 1941, Rauawaawa needed  a method to generate an income to help Kaumātua and to upgrade the 1941 facilities, so  Kaumātua at Rauawaawa developed and inspired the Kuki Reka Kani as part of our social  enterprise, REKA.

 

The cutters and cookies made, packaged and sold locally, nationally and internationally,  provides a huge sense of success for Kaumātua belonging to the Rauawaawa community are often described as inspirational for what can be achieved by other Kaumātua roopu 
throughout Aotearoa. After the pandemic, the Kaumātua of Rauawaawa wanted to support the local community. All cutters and packaging for the cutters are therefore created and manufactured in the Waikato.

 

 

 

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