COLEK TERE
Ketereh@gajus is in the season. This is triggered by Berisman's Blog when he reminisce the old days at his Kampung Beris. I too have memories of the ketereh fruits as it used to be my chore, tailing my grandma to the ketereh 'orchard'.. Haha what a laugh to called the clumps of ketereh plants that grew in the wild as an orchard.
However, the memories were still crystal clear. My granny would bring along a bamboo pole with a spike at the end. You just spot the ripe ones, carefully raised the pole and give it a sharp jab. You can normally stick 3 fruits per spike, then you have to lower it down carefully so as not to drop it. If dropped it would become 'lebu' and no longer nice to eat. The job of collecting the fruits were mine. However latter, I could do the spiking on my own.
The fruit tasted bitter sweet when ripe and its consume is normally characterised by forced coughs called 'berdehem'. The berdehem can be infectious and soon the group will join in ... with ehem here, ehem there. I love it though. With a 'colek' as in the photo, I could finish a small 'bakul' in one seating. A ketereh colek is normally just a concoction of sugar, 'garam buku', chili, vinegar and the compulsory belacan. My wife would go at length to ask for the fruits which is not normally sold now. My in-laws found it amusing to find me so addictive to it. So they normally would watch me eat in fascination.
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this is abah's all time favourite=)
I love the smell more rather than it taste..I wish somebody would turn it into a bottle of fragrance. It must be great
Faeeza,
Looks tasty yes.... but to actually eat, you need membership..hehehe
Long,
Ketereh fragrance???? Hope not in the same league with durian fragrance... Come to think of it, it does have a unique fragrance..
Blue,
The pucuk is one of the best anti-oxidant available.... good... keeps you young.. :-)
can i put up this picture in blog?
I wrote `gajus' isnt it?
Of course you can use the picture anyway you like..