In certain holiday moments such as New Year, without realizing my tears dripping and my feelings were anxiously combined to miss the graceful leaves of leaves star fruit in the middle of the rain. My heart seemed to scream like a broken ridge that would embrace the tree tightly.
live in another city, this heart really missed mother and her cooking. Moreover asam keueung, just imagine it trembling taste this tongue.
Tonight, tickling the wet breeze that made me hungry, really made my saliva as if to flow because it was back to mind mother-made, asam keueung.
But never mind, I'm sure mother must take good care of starfruit tree in front of the house.
Oh yes, steemians, I also want to tell you about starfruit (belimbing wuluh). It's not just about me and mom.
In the Big Indonesian Dictionary (KBBI) offline, belimbing wuluh is a small fruit starfruit with a very sour taste, also called the term Averrhoa belimbi. Belimbing and sweet starfruit (Averrhoa carambola) are two plants that belong to Oxalidaceae tribe. In Aceh, let alone people who like my mother frugality, star fruit not just to be vegetables, mothers are still fond of chewing / eating fresh flowers to treat canker sores / ulcers on the inside of the mouth and lips. He reasoned that sick was not a disease that would kill him. Mother said one day passes Hp, "Flower starfruit can heal wounds under my molars, kid, you do not need to grieve."
Not only that, in Aceh starfruit (belimbing wuluh) also processed into a kitchen spice, called asam boh limeeng (starfruit acids). The trick is very simple, belimbing wuluh that has been ripe sown or smeared salt evenly, and then dried in the sun to reduce water content. This is done until the starfruit wuluh dries with the color turned into brownish. Then sprinkled and smeared salt to make it more durable and not easily moldy.
The last task is to clean the tip of the fruit stalk. After that, starfruit acids ready to strengthen the character of the typical flavor of various dishes of Aceh, not only asam keueung but also like kuwah leumak and others food.
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