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- Title:
- READY TO COOK
- Date Created:
- 2021-07-31
- Description:
- Among the preparations in Pampanga cooking recorded in the 1700s is MANADTAD, to mince or cut into small pieces. TIDTAD was the dish made with minced meat. Until a meat grinder was invented, mincing was the technique around the world to make the tiniest pieces of meat. There likely was the use of eggs beaten till foamy because MANYBUL from the root word SABUL means to raise a foam, such as when beating eggs. What used beaten egg? Another example from Bergaño is the foam in water made by rowing. Proof that spit roasting was done are the words MANLAID and LAIRAN that mean to baste meat on a spit. A feather or a brush was used to baste, to apply lard. LEIRAN was that being basted. Lechon means the spit-roasted fiesta pig, but it is also used nowadays to mean anything cooked on a spit, such as chicken. DALDAC is to pound or crush something into pieces, such as in a mortar or vat. The term could apply to garlic used in cooking. GATA is coconut milk. MANGGATTA is to extract the milk by squeezing wet coconut gratings. The serrated scraper is used all over the former Austronesian migration and trade region and is an efficient improvement on simply scraping off coconut meat with a blade. When the “kabayo” version of the serrated scraper attached to a seat evolved still needs dating. APIÂ is to draw out juice by pressing or squeezing. It can apply to citrus and other fruits. An intriguing term, as translated by Samson, is TANGCAP, meaning embellished, dressed, seasoned, “neatly” cleaned or finished... thus making things MANANGCAP, ready for cooking. The word “neatly”expresses a quality aspired for that one hopes will never leave Pampangan cuisine.
- Subjects:
- Preparation Mince
- Exhibition:
- Pampaga 1732
- Source:
- Squeezing out coconut milk. dreamstime.com
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "READY TO COOK", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll242.html
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- Rights:
- public domain