First time kong makakita ng cacao. It looks strange, noh? First thing I asked my mom (who got it from the tree itself by "going over the bakod" to the undeveloped lot -- I don't want to label it as trespassing, hehehe -- beside our farmita in Laguna) was how can this thing be the source of my beloved chocolate? So she said, tikman ko daw muna. It kinda tastes like santol. Still, where was the chocolate there? Yung seeds daw. I tried to bite the seeds, thinking that it would taste like chocolate already. Pero siyempre, matigas yung mga buto. Hehehe. Turns out kailangan daw ibilad muna daw sa araw para mag-dry. Then dudurugin daw ang seeds. Dun daw nagsisimula ang paggawa ng chocolate. Ah okay. You learn something new everyday. Hehehe.
4 comments:
Oh, cool! I've never seen that before either. So you eat it like santol, too? And are you supposed to save the seeds? (You'd think!)
yup, parang santol talaga. matigas yung balat ng fruit, parang papaya. yun nga, save the seeds. although i don't know if my mom did that. hehehe.
wow! first time i saw one! very enlightening Alice :)
kaso talagang kinagat mo yung buto ha, hahahaha!
eh sabi kasi yung buto daw ang source ng chocolate eh! what would you do if you had it in your mouth already? hahahaha!!!
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