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- Title:
- INGREDIENTS 2 continued
- Date Created:
- 2021-09-22
- Description:
- Some foreign ingredients had established themselves enough to have become part of Tagalog in 1754: CAMATIS (tomato brought in during the first century); PASITI (a minute chili that grew wild and that is likely today’s LABUYO; labuyo means “wild”). There were CONDOL, an Asian gourd; OPO, a gourd that may have originated in Asia; PATOLA an Asian luffa. CONDOL was also known in Tagalog as SICOT and TIBYAYONG. Spanish classified the Asian gourds as CALABASA, squash. ALIBANGBANG and SIBUG leaves were used in lieu of vinegar, meaning they gave desired sourness. MAGSIBUG was to add SIBUG to what one was cooking. CALITCALIT, DAMPALIT, and LIBATO [alugbati] were other “yerbas” or CULINARY herbs. PACO continues appearing since the 1600s; its 18th century description says it was eaten with dried fish. PACQUILING leaves flavoured rice [during cooking by lining the pot]. SAMPALOC remained on the list as the native word for tamarind meaning Indian Date in Arabic. Seeds of TALISAY trees were edible and reminded of pine nuts. There were AMPALAYA bittermelon, TALONG eggplant, and the wild eggplant called TARAMPOLA. Noceda-Sanlucar include GILAY: a genus of edible herbs. Francisco San Antonio’s GULAY in his Tagalog dictionary of 1624 are herbs such as BERSAS (collard greens or probably their likeness), NABOS (turnips), etc. that are tossed into a pot that has meat in it. His definition of GILAY is edible herbs. Dictionary compilers were becoming increasingly familiar with native ingredients just as foreign new botanicals were finding new homes in the Philippines.
- Subjects:
- Beans Vegetables Herbs Herb Vegetable Bean Eating Food Cooking
- Exhibition:
- Tagalog 1754
- Source:
- Sesuvium portulacastrum called purslane in English, dampalit in Tagalog, bilang and bilangbilang in Visayan. Wikimedia.commons
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "INGREDIENTS 2 continued", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll283.html