Giong Luong this ancient village of Dai Dien, Thanh Phu district, Ben Tre province. In Giong Luong, from the late 19th century, the ancient house of Huynh Phu unique (Huong Liem) was famous throughout the region. Also during that time, a kind of rustic bread was born and became a specialty: Coconut Cake Giong Luong.
My grandfather's hometown on the sand dunes here. Back then, people selling coconut cake Giong Luong often under carriages, brighter cyclone paddy on the road leading through the village's old house Huong Liem tool. Taciturn image gave me a lifetime impression.
Mr. Huynh Van Tu (Be Tu), indicating Vinh Bac hamlet, commune representatives said: "My family life has four coconut cake. I am now 57 years old. Thus, for the old house, make cookies coconut in Giong Luong appeared even earlier. Hereditary, long time. "
One day in his coconut with bakery Be Tu, I feel all the work of skillful hands and experienced for the coconut cake timeless life.
Be Tu He said: "coconut cake elsewhere, such as the Dong Thap Muoi such contempt, we pack our Coconut Cake with coconut leaves or coconut cake should look not very good. Also in Giong Luong, coffee farmers utilize corn leaves (young leaves of coconut tree parts water) cake cakes correction cycle should look glossy. "
I wondered: "Every cloud has only a few coconut coffee corn, coconut cake that makes it all the year-to-year, cut corn coffee, original shit all nothing?" Be Tu He laughed: "Where coastal rivers, coconut water is immense ... coffee corn and coconut water sprout green leaves still spread ".
Saying so, he immediately embarked on Baby From the beginning coconut cake, coffee that is going to cut corn in backyard canals. He then cut each eggplant stacked corn, brought ashore, cut out leaves.
Then he delivered Pulley leaves his wife and children, took place in each leaf green wire and strips. Green wire in a leaf used to wrap the two swallowing coconut cake, all of which now is so here. Sit under coconut trees, northeast wind drag spring through cool episodes. This stage wife, his daughter made very quickly, eager to escape. Noob like me can not do it ...
Then barreled question. Also with eager hands to escape it, the corn leaf coffee wife barreled problem very quickly. Every now and then saw a basket full of the barrel now.
coconut Cake Giong Luong are two types of human beans (chickpeas, black beans) and banana nut. Be Tu I asked him: "Bread is made from glutinous local specialty?" He said that previously made locally sticky but recently switched to using sticky Thailand, Thai glutinous very flexible.
After finishing the water lines are drawn, then, he gathered all the games starting on the bread package in the industry called "left wheel". At first, she squeezed coconut Wednesday on the cake, but she squeezed slowly. When sticky coconut milk is absorbed, she always remove remaining coconut flesh and mix in a sticky virtuosity. Remove immediately put sticky cake mixed with coconut milk just to each one barrel.
Next is the breaking of the bread. This step is important because the experience is not breaking bread, eyelid leaves are not, do not match, then the water in the autoclave will dilatation (absorbed) into the fold, the cake will be naked or stale quickly, not to be a long day .
Breaking bread finished, move on to the column (optional) Green wire wheels. A thin beam of blue tang and wire to make right toe of a person, that person quickly, took out each green wire wheel column as allowing variables. Column steamed cake is done.
Steamed up to seven hours to nine new wheels are all from outside to inside. So, every day, his family baby woke up at 1 pm Wednesday and began to remove the cake and at 4 hours, then steamed. Steamed to 11 noon, picked up the bread and cake beam. Just a bunch of 12 a cake and bring to the market already.
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Be Tu He recalls: "The war, the army soldiers watch coconut cake dish" make the belly "and the most convenient for coconut cake for a week is not stale; coconut cake for breakfast or when they are in operation are not cooking, take out food every day to hold out. Now Fainter tendon coconut cake always ... ".
After liberation and lasted about 15 years later, still selling coconut cake, his bakery Be Tu 1,600 daily production on the cake. Be Tu I asked him: "And now what?" He said every day he produced only half as fruit cake, but now he is very happy overrun by famed coconut cake Giong Luong not lost. Overseas Vietnamese expatriates to visit the country enjoyed burgers foot rustic countryside and seek to bring to the Vietnamese people in the "party", but it is famous coconut cake Giong Luong.
Giong Luong plastic coconut cake eating, fatty, sticky smell fragrant, coconut smell and odor of coffee corn leaves. Ben Tre Coconut Festival At times I and II, Mr. Be Tu Thanh Phu district representatives are brought to display at the festival coconut cake ... Giong Luong giant, weighing 25 kg. Make the cake with 20 kg of glutinous, cooked to appeal to them, all results must be seasoned skilled workers.
As the successor to his father as coconut cake, his family Baby From fewer than 3 of the land. Thanks to vocational coconut cake, so far he has bought more than 1 acre garden and spacious storage house. And also from this tradition, he had raised 7 children grown into a person, including the 6th son - he Huynh Trung Hau, 27, a lecturer with the University Police at Thu Duc district, the Ho Chi Minh City.
