Sunday 24 October 2010

FOOTBALL FRUITS( BUAH KEPAYANG)

 



FAMILI: Flacourtiaceae,Pangium Edule.


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Nick Name:Football fruits nuts
Tree sized: 25meter tall
Fruits sized:medium

Does anyone knows this tropical fruit? This fruit is known as "buah kepayang"(Malay) and the scientific name is ,
Pagium Edule, Flacourtiaceae,known as Black nuts.The skin looks Grey brown and the texture of the skin is  slightly rough and sandy. The seed is hard as stone and it can be eaten after it has been boiled. 

The leaves of this tropical fruit can be use to kill parasite worm. The acids "hydroscyanic" can cause death to humans and animals. This unique fruit needs to be cautious when it comes to cooking, if it's done in the wrong way it will cause death. For those who don"t know how to cook this fruit, get an expert or traditional expert to teach you the methods of cooking.

Methods on how to cook this unique fruit. 
1. Firstly open the fruit and removed the seeds out from the yellow flesh..
2. Rinse the seeds trough the running water.
3. Fill the pot with fresh clean water and fill a bucket of  black nut into the pot and boiled about 1 hour until you see the black nuts have a big crack and the water turn black.
4.Turn the stove off and rinse the seeds out from the pot and use a knife to open the seeds to take the nuts out from the shells. 
 (Reminder:) Some nuts are hard to open so in order to take the nuts from the shells easily, use a hammer or something that is able to break, to make abit crack on the shells and use knife  to pull the brown nuts out.
5.Then place the nut in to the net  rinse the nuts and soak the nut into the running water. It is advisable to soak the nuts in the flowing river because the flow of the running river able to wash away the bitterness of the fruit instantly rather than you soaked the nuts under the tap water as the bitterness will not be fully gone.
6.Soak the nuts about 3 to 4days and enjoy delicious creamy nuts whenever your belly is ready to eat the nuts. Following these methods, you will definitely be safe. Enjoy Trying!

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