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- Title:
- Bashee Goats
- Date Created:
- 2021-04-24
- Description:
- August winds pushed the pirates to Bashee, the northern island cluster of Batanes. Islanders sold them goats but asked the paunches (intestines) be returned. A Batanes dish was made by cooking in a pot over a fire all the grass and whatever else was in the paunches. Only salt was added. As it boiled, it released a strong, fermented odor. The stew was eaten mixed with the raw flesh of 2 or 3 small fish, bones removed and minced very fine. The “dung in the maw” looked like boiled herbs chopped very small. Islanders were not interested in pork paunches. But they would take goat skin, singe off the hair, then lay the skin over coal until they felt it could be chewed and swallowed. (More about Batanes food of 1687 on Wednesday.)
- Subjects:
- Batanes (Philippines) Exchange Cooking -- Batanes (Philippines)
- Exhibition:
- Dampier 1686
- Source:
- The late Florentino Hornedo, Ph.D. (author of book shown) will always be a hero of a cultural worker to me. He brought continuing education to his home province of Batanes, building up a doctoral degree program for residents, especially teachers. Their research centered on their locale.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
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Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Bashee Goats", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll206.html