Culinary Tours : Cimplung
Cimplung term must be a lot of people who do not know what the name actually? Name of the village once, or a container made of coconut shell or lazy dunno guess. Yes indeed cimplung foreign names, especially for the name of a typical food of a region. Compared with Geplak, lanting, fried or bapia gethuk pathok, cimplung fame was losing far less likely to arise even among the local specialty-by.
I do not know the first and tend to strange to hear the name called cimplung food. Starting 4 years ago, when it also fit my Lebaran forth in whom a trip to a country which I forget his name, which must still include the Ajibarang - Purwokwerto. At that time I visited a friend's house in the area, and as my friend that I thought the food served at the time strange. Boiled cassava wrapped with a similar liquid sugar. Slowly it tasted good, too, sweet as sugar together with cassava. Four years passed, for some reason during Lebaran forth this year I remember the food was cimplung name. Because I said simply want cimplung want cimplung, then on the third day after Idul Fitri took my wife to an area which is cimplung makers. I eagerly and his wife and son went to a village called Sudimara. A village located in the hills between the city and Purwokerto Ajibarang. These areas are regions of many coconut trees grow.
Happened to relatives who live there, so we can see how and from what materials it cimplung foods. Now I know why these foods can not be distinguished as food by-by others, because cimplung was never mass-produced to be marketed. Food is just a distraction cimplung local residents who work to make palm sugar. The men in the village early in the morning leave for coconut plantations to nderes, which takes water from the coconut flower or aren called by placing a piece of bamboo to accommodate the sugar water. They are very agile in climbing coconut, it may have become a habit. After noon the bamboo palm containing water is collected and under the home.
Turn up at home moms or the girls in charge cooking sugar water into palm sugar. Well at the time of this palm sugar cooking process cimplung included. It turned out to be made that not only cimplung cassava, but there are also banana, coconut, taro and many more. Manufacturing process is also easy, at the time of sugar water boiled in a place like a frying pan but the middle is more concave, after looking hot materials that will be entered cimplung. Old boiling depends cimplung's materials. usually when cassava cooking long time.
Cimplung ready while waiting for our first walk ya to the palm sugar production is bigger, if not here because cimplung make this place a home industry of making palm sugar. From the sugar boil until thickened to half the sugar palm, bamboo and then printed with a short cut. After about an hour palm sugar is already frozen in the mold and then removed ready for sale. It is time we return to the place that makes cimplung brother, had to imagine the joy ya palm sugar is absorbed into the cassava or coconut. Cimplung a typical food villages around Purwokerto which is still hidden pleasures, just for people who want to enjoy the pristine food. Food where someone wants to enjoy the simplicity of the farmers with palm sugar is always a friendly smile to accept guests who visit. A simplicity without beautiful poems.
I do not know the first and tend to strange to hear the name called cimplung food. Starting 4 years ago, when it also fit my Lebaran forth in whom a trip to a country which I forget his name, which must still include the Ajibarang - Purwokwerto. At that time I visited a friend's house in the area, and as my friend that I thought the food served at the time strange. Boiled cassava wrapped with a similar liquid sugar. Slowly it tasted good, too, sweet as sugar together with cassava. Four years passed, for some reason during Lebaran forth this year I remember the food was cimplung name. Because I said simply want cimplung want cimplung, then on the third day after Idul Fitri took my wife to an area which is cimplung makers. I eagerly and his wife and son went to a village called Sudimara. A village located in the hills between the city and Purwokerto Ajibarang. These areas are regions of many coconut trees grow.
Happened to relatives who live there, so we can see how and from what materials it cimplung foods. Now I know why these foods can not be distinguished as food by-by others, because cimplung was never mass-produced to be marketed. Food is just a distraction cimplung local residents who work to make palm sugar. The men in the village early in the morning leave for coconut plantations to nderes, which takes water from the coconut flower or aren called by placing a piece of bamboo to accommodate the sugar water. They are very agile in climbing coconut, it may have become a habit. After noon the bamboo palm containing water is collected and under the home.
Turn up at home moms or the girls in charge cooking sugar water into palm sugar. Well at the time of this palm sugar cooking process cimplung included. It turned out to be made that not only cimplung cassava, but there are also banana, coconut, taro and many more. Manufacturing process is also easy, at the time of sugar water boiled in a place like a frying pan but the middle is more concave, after looking hot materials that will be entered cimplung. Old boiling depends cimplung's materials. usually when cassava cooking long time.
Cimplung ready while waiting for our first walk ya to the palm sugar production is bigger, if not here because cimplung make this place a home industry of making palm sugar. From the sugar boil until thickened to half the sugar palm, bamboo and then printed with a short cut. After about an hour palm sugar is already frozen in the mold and then removed ready for sale. It is time we return to the place that makes cimplung brother, had to imagine the joy ya palm sugar is absorbed into the cassava or coconut. Cimplung a typical food villages around Purwokerto which is still hidden pleasures, just for people who want to enjoy the pristine food. Food where someone wants to enjoy the simplicity of the farmers with palm sugar is always a friendly smile to accept guests who visit. A simplicity without beautiful poems.
