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- Title:
- BRAZIERS.
- Date Created:
- 2021-07-28
- Description:
- To contain an open fire, thereby directing its heat upwards, a cooking fire can be made within the space central to three stones. A cooking vessel can sit on the tripod. In Pampanga of the 1700s TUNGCO was the three stones. So it was too in Tagalog that spelled it TONGCÔ in the early 1600s. Tagalog in 1613 had already also incorporated the word CALÁN, an earthenware brazier used in cooking by the natives. Bergaño lists CALANG as an earthenware stove in the 1700s. He describes it as having “three feet” similar to a tungco. The kalan shape has varied over time. Its advantages are that it is portable and keeps cooking coals contained and off the ground. The kalan came in many sizes. Its solid base or feet raise the part holding hot coals or firewood thereby protecting any flooring beneath it, such as a boat’s. Arsenio Manuel suggests the kalan like the kawa and its small version the kawali (the affix LI implying small) are Chinese in origin.
- Subjects:
- Arsenio Manuel Fire
- Exhibition:
- Pampaga 1732
- Source:
- Detail showing a kalan a century after Bergaño published the first Pampanga dictionary. From a larger work by Jose Lozano. 1867
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "BRAZIERS.", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll241.html