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- Title:
- Native Cooking by 1610 (Part C)
- Description:
- Another mystery of the era is QUIPING. It is the local synonym for “hojaldre” that already meant puff pastry in Spain of the 1500s and 1600s. But “hoja” means leaf. And quiping is leaf-shaped. Known today as kiping it is the leitmotif of the Pahiyas Fiesta in Lukban and Sariaya, Quezon. In 1880 PINAIS was described very similarly to the KIPING of Pahiyas: The dough which is very thin, is poured out on banana leaves and cooked in a pan; then the leaves are taken off and the biscuits are exposed to the sun for a couple of days, after which they are fried in lard or coconut oil. These biscuits… are colored indigo, red, brown, yellow, green, etc. by adding dyeing matter to the dough. The color green is obtained from the leaves of the sweet potato; the indigo from the indigo plant; the red color from the seeds of the annatto tree.” By 1880 Philippine culinary ingredients included some introduced from Europe and the Americas. Casubha in 1609 was used by Spanish as the substitute for saffron. Casubha flowers were soaked in water and the colored water used to make food yellow or a fine red. Whether Filipinos were already using it as a food color before the colonial era is unknown. The Pahiyas fiesta honours St. Isidore the Laborer, patron of farmers. He was beautified in 1619 and canonised in 1622. Our written evidence for quiping as a pastry is from 1609. Philippine food using insular Southeast Asian ingredients is foundational. As Hispanic Empire ingredients presented themselves, Filipinos decided if any of them would be used in native cooking antedating foreign presence.
- Subjects:
- Quiping (kiping) Pahiyas Fasts and feasts
- Exhibition:
- 100 Philippine Food
- Source:
- Tagalog common men. From the Boxer Codex dated to the 1590s when food words were being discovered by missionaries. Vibal Foundation edition.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Native Cooking by 1610 (Part C)", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll134.html